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Programs: Uncommonly Good Professional Learning in Support of the Common Core State Standards
CWP programs are offered year-round in many different formats— one- or two-week summer programs, weekend conferences, school- or district-sponsored workshop series, district workshops followed by school-based PLCs. All CWP sites offer variations of these programs at their host university or with a partner school, district, or county office. Programs are customized for participants and for sponsoring schools and districts.
School or District Partnership Support often includes:
Programs for School Teams or Individuals:
Programs for Youth and Family:
School-year and summer family writing and literacy programs to understand the changes the Common Core State Standards will bring to classroom instruction and state/district assessments.
CWP programs are offered year-round in many different formats— one- or two-week summer programs, weekend conferences, school- or district-sponsored workshop series, district workshops followed by school-based PLCs. All CWP sites offer variations of these programs at their host university or with a partner school, district, or county office. Programs are customized for participants and for sponsoring schools and districts.
School or District Partnership Support often includes:
- Workshops for teachers and paraprofessionals during the school year and/or summer
- Lesson and curriculum development
- Coaching, mentoring, and demonstration teaching
- Leadership development institutes for teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators
- School-year Professional Learning Communities for teachers and administrators
- Teacher research groups
- Writing assessment programs—formative and summative
Programs for School Teams or Individuals:
- Overview of and orientation to the CCSS and the new ELD Standards
- Summer and school-year leadership institutes
- Summer courses (1-2 weeks)
- Saturday seminars
- Mini-institutes and conferences
Programs for Youth and Family:
School-year and summer family writing and literacy programs to understand the changes the Common Core State Standards will bring to classroom instruction and state/district assessments.
CWP Program Examples - For Teachers and Administrators
Northern California | Greater Sacramento Area | Greater Bay Area and San Jose
Central Valley | California Coastal Region | Inland Empire
Greater Los Angeles and Orange County | Greater San Diego Area
Central Valley | California Coastal Region | Inland Empire
Greater Los Angeles and Orange County | Greater San Diego Area
Northern California
Content Area Literacy: Preparing for the Common Core
Northern California Writing Project Mini-Institute
Historical documents. Scientific formulas. Technical diagrams. Students today are asked to read, and respond to, a wide array of texts from across the content areas. In this two-day program, participants will learn about the content-area literacy components of the California Common Core State Standards in English. Presentations from north state content-area teachers will demonstrate lessons that support student reading and writing while maintaining a focus on the core curriculum. Participants will leave the program with ready-to-use reading and writing strategies, and a framework for designing their own content-area lessons with strong literacy components.
Northern California Writing Project Mini-Institute
Historical documents. Scientific formulas. Technical diagrams. Students today are asked to read, and respond to, a wide array of texts from across the content areas. In this two-day program, participants will learn about the content-area literacy components of the California Common Core State Standards in English. Presentations from north state content-area teachers will demonstrate lessons that support student reading and writing while maintaining a focus on the core curriculum. Participants will leave the program with ready-to-use reading and writing strategies, and a framework for designing their own content-area lessons with strong literacy components.
Greater Sacramento Area
Write from the Start: Launching Writers’ Workshop (K-2)
Area 3 Writing Project
Launching Writers’ Workshop takes stamina, courage and patience. Join us as we focus on the first 6 weeks of Writers’ Workshop with our youngest learners. This class will include: creating a writing community, scheduling, building stamina, organizing materials, paper choice, mini-lessons, mentor text, direct instruction in drawing, ideas for sharing student work. Woven through each session will be emphasis on rigor, high expectations, Common Core State Standards, and using work to inform instruction.
Teaching Adolescent Writers (Grades 6-8)
Area 3 Writing Project
In this workshop we will: demonstrate how to utilize the Writer’s Notebook as a powerful teaching tool, teach the text types of the Common Core State Standards (narrative, informational, and argument), focus on strategies to help students in on-demand writing situations, examine effective revision strategies, and explore professional resources.
Area 3 Writing Project
Launching Writers’ Workshop takes stamina, courage and patience. Join us as we focus on the first 6 weeks of Writers’ Workshop with our youngest learners. This class will include: creating a writing community, scheduling, building stamina, organizing materials, paper choice, mini-lessons, mentor text, direct instruction in drawing, ideas for sharing student work. Woven through each session will be emphasis on rigor, high expectations, Common Core State Standards, and using work to inform instruction.
Teaching Adolescent Writers (Grades 6-8)
Area 3 Writing Project
In this workshop we will: demonstrate how to utilize the Writer’s Notebook as a powerful teaching tool, teach the text types of the Common Core State Standards (narrative, informational, and argument), focus on strategies to help students in on-demand writing situations, examine effective revision strategies, and explore professional resources.
Greater Bay Area and San Jose
People, Get Ready:
An ISAW Workshop for Integrating
the Common Core Standards
for College and Career Readiness
San Jose Area Writing Project— For 8–12 Grade Teachers
What we teach in our classrooms about writing and how we teach it will stay with our students when they go off to college—a place where, after years of right/wrong CAHSEE and STAR Test questions—they will suddenly themselves required to "sustain a play of mind upon ideas," and to consider the "contradictions and ambiguities and frailties of text." So what can we do to ensure that when this moment comes, we will have prepared them? This workshop series, presented by two veterans of the California Writing Project's Improving Students’ Analytical Writing inquiry and study group, will use student work, sample assignments, and published materials from the College Board, UC, and CSU to help us sharpen our focus on the problem of college preparation.
Exploring Non–Fiction: "Into and Beyond" the Common Core Standards
San Jose Area Writing Project—For 7–12 Grade Teachers
In this intensive five–day program, we will investigate ways to analyze and imitate models of nonfiction writing. Participants will study a variety of analytic approaches to a text—mythological, sociological, psychological, deconstructive, as well as textual—and learn how to generate effective structure, voice, and writing strategies. Emphasizing alternative approaches to style and grammar, we will explore ways to expand the nonfiction writing curriculum by including memoir, reflective essays, persuasive writing, poetry, setting and character pieces, interview and profile, and academic writing utilizing varied research methods. Participants will receive dozens of student models demonstrating successful ways to teach writing.
Using Readers' and Writers' Workshop to Give Depth to the Common Core Standards
San Jose Writing Project—For 3–6 Grade Teachers
Transform your approach to Readers'/Writers' Workshop by highlighting important critical thinking goals in your mini-lessons. In this workshop you will learn how to integrate mentor texts so that your students will learn from models of clear, analytical, and evaluative thinking. We will also focus on helping students to clarify their thoughts by using specific language and descriptors, identify prominent themes from their literature units/reading workshop, and develop their real-life decision making and problem solving skills based on their analysis of character and plot. This focus on critical thinking skills will give your students an amazing depth of ability to think reflectively and clearly express those thoughts.
Common Core Connections: Saturday Seminar
Bay Area Writing Project
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San Jose Area Writing Project— For 8–12 Grade Teachers
What we teach in our classrooms about writing and how we teach it will stay with our students when they go off to college—a place where, after years of right/wrong CAHSEE and STAR Test questions—they will suddenly themselves required to "sustain a play of mind upon ideas," and to consider the "contradictions and ambiguities and frailties of text." So what can we do to ensure that when this moment comes, we will have prepared them? This workshop series, presented by two veterans of the California Writing Project's Improving Students’ Analytical Writing inquiry and study group, will use student work, sample assignments, and published materials from the College Board, UC, and CSU to help us sharpen our focus on the problem of college preparation.
Exploring Non–Fiction: "Into and Beyond" the Common Core Standards
San Jose Area Writing Project—For 7–12 Grade Teachers
In this intensive five–day program, we will investigate ways to analyze and imitate models of nonfiction writing. Participants will study a variety of analytic approaches to a text—mythological, sociological, psychological, deconstructive, as well as textual—and learn how to generate effective structure, voice, and writing strategies. Emphasizing alternative approaches to style and grammar, we will explore ways to expand the nonfiction writing curriculum by including memoir, reflective essays, persuasive writing, poetry, setting and character pieces, interview and profile, and academic writing utilizing varied research methods. Participants will receive dozens of student models demonstrating successful ways to teach writing.
Using Readers' and Writers' Workshop to Give Depth to the Common Core Standards
San Jose Writing Project—For 3–6 Grade Teachers
Transform your approach to Readers'/Writers' Workshop by highlighting important critical thinking goals in your mini-lessons. In this workshop you will learn how to integrate mentor texts so that your students will learn from models of clear, analytical, and evaluative thinking. We will also focus on helping students to clarify their thoughts by using specific language and descriptors, identify prominent themes from their literature units/reading workshop, and develop their real-life decision making and problem solving skills based on their analysis of character and plot. This focus on critical thinking skills will give your students an amazing depth of ability to think reflectively and clearly express those thoughts.
Common Core Connections: Saturday Seminar
Bay Area Writing Project
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Central Valley
Focus on Analytical Writing and Critical Reading: Implementing the Common Core Standards
UC Merced and Great Valley Writing Projects, in partnership with teachers from Atwater HS, Buhach HS, Golden Valley HS, Livingston HS, Merced HS, Yosemite HS, Turlock HS, Manteca HS, Sierra HS, Ceres HS, Patterson HS, West HS, Kimball HS, Ripon HS, and San Joaquin County Office of Education
Funded by the California Post-Secondary Education Commission through an Improving Teacher Quality grant, this partnership is providing sustained, multi-year professional development focused on developing high school English and social science teachers' knowledge of and ability to teach analytical writing and critical reading in ways that address the Common Core.
UC Merced and Great Valley Writing Projects, in partnership with teachers from Atwater HS, Buhach HS, Golden Valley HS, Livingston HS, Merced HS, Yosemite HS, Turlock HS, Manteca HS, Sierra HS, Ceres HS, Patterson HS, West HS, Kimball HS, Ripon HS, and San Joaquin County Office of Education
Funded by the California Post-Secondary Education Commission through an Improving Teacher Quality grant, this partnership is providing sustained, multi-year professional development focused on developing high school English and social science teachers' knowledge of and ability to teach analytical writing and critical reading in ways that address the Common Core.
California Coastal Region
The Alliance for Language and Literacy Effecting Standards Project (ALLIES)
Central California Writing Project partnership with Pajaro Valley Unified School District, UC Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Funded by the California Post-Secondary Education Commission through an Improving Teacher Quality grant, this partnership is providing sustained, multi-year professional development in three district high schools. The goals of the project: developing teacher knowledge about the addressing the new Common Core State Standards; providing opportunities for teachers to examine, implement, and refine critical reading and analytical writing strategies in their classrooms; giving teachers the tools to use and understand inquiry/formative assessment.
The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy: What Districts and Schools Can Implement Now
South Coast Writing Project — CCSS overview for administrators and school leaders
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Central California Writing Project partnership with Pajaro Valley Unified School District, UC Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Funded by the California Post-Secondary Education Commission through an Improving Teacher Quality grant, this partnership is providing sustained, multi-year professional development in three district high schools. The goals of the project: developing teacher knowledge about the addressing the new Common Core State Standards; providing opportunities for teachers to examine, implement, and refine critical reading and analytical writing strategies in their classrooms; giving teachers the tools to use and understand inquiry/formative assessment.
The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy: What Districts and Schools Can Implement Now
South Coast Writing Project — CCSS overview for administrators and school leaders
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Introducing the Common Core State Standards in English Language Art and Literacy
South Coast Writing Project — Inservice series for K-12 teachers
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South Coast Writing Project — Inservice series for K-12 teachers
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Inland Empire
The Reading/Writing Connections Focus Group
Inland Area Writing Project
Monthly inservice sessions focused on teaching writing and the use of mentor texts to support teachers and students in fourth and fifth grades for one teacher cohort and and 4/5/6 multiage classes for another cohort. CCSS is addressed for each cohort, at every grade level.
Common Core and More: Writing Across the Curriculum
Inland Area Writing Project
A conference focused on the teaching of writing that supports the transition to the Common Core State Standards. For K-12 teachers, instructional coaches, program directors, and administrators.
(Download flyer for more information about program and content)
Inland Area Writing Project
Monthly inservice sessions focused on teaching writing and the use of mentor texts to support teachers and students in fourth and fifth grades for one teacher cohort and and 4/5/6 multiage classes for another cohort. CCSS is addressed for each cohort, at every grade level.
Common Core and More: Writing Across the Curriculum
Inland Area Writing Project
A conference focused on the teaching of writing that supports the transition to the Common Core State Standards. For K-12 teachers, instructional coaches, program directors, and administrators.
(Download flyer for more information about program and content)
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Greater Los Angeles and Orange County
Common Core Saturday Seminar Series
UCLA Writing Project
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UCLA Writing Project
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ucla-common_core_saturday_seminars.pdf | |
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Teaching Writing and the Common Core Standards
UCLA Writing Project
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UCLA Writing Project
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ucla_teaching_writing_and_the_common_core.pdf | |
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Must Unpack to Travel: The Common Core State Standards Shape a Path to Instructional Design
Cal State Northridge Writing Project
An open institute for English/language arts teachers, K-12
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Cal State Northridge Writing Project
An open institute for English/language arts teachers, K-12
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Invigorating Science and Technical Instruction: Strategies That Address the Common Core Standards
Cal State Northridge Writing Project
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Cal State Northridge Writing Project
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California Common Core Standards: ELA Overview
Los Angeles Writing Project
The Common Core Standards are coming! Are you prepared? This overview session introduces participants to the newly adopted Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, and provides a framework for understanding the purpose, organization, and guiding principles of the document. Participants will have an opportunity to explore the CCCS document, comparing and contrasting it to California’s 1997 ELA standards, and begin to consider its impact on student learning.
Los Angeles Writing Project
The Common Core Standards are coming! Are you prepared? This overview session introduces participants to the newly adopted Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, and provides a framework for understanding the purpose, organization, and guiding principles of the document. Participants will have an opportunity to explore the CCCS document, comparing and contrasting it to California’s 1997 ELA standards, and begin to consider its impact on student learning.
Greater San Diego Area
California ELA Common Core State Standards In-service Opportunities—Emphasis: Writing
San Marcos Writing Project
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San Marcos Writing Project
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Teaching Writing with the CA Common Core State Standards (K-8): Creating Meaningful Writing Opportunities for Student Writers
San Diego Area Writing Project
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San Diego Area Writing Project
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Writing with Technology for Change: Teaching Digital Writing and Learning in the 21st Century Classroom (K-12/CCSS)
San Diego Area Writing Project
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San Diego Area Writing Project
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Writing for College and Career Readiness: Fostering Partnerships Among High School
San Diego Area Writing Project
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San Diego Area Writing Project
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san_diego_writing_for_college_and_career.pdf | |
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