i3 grant: College-Ready Writers

Kickoff Meeting

Monett R-I

August 19, 2013

Introductions

Alphabet Soup

OWP – Ozarks Writing Project NWP – National Writing Project i3 – Investing in Innovation CRWP – College Ready Writers Program SI – Summer Institute PD – Professional Development ELA – English Language Arts

Goals

We will. . .

• introduce the goals of the i3 (Investing in Innovation) grant and the Core Principles of the Writing Project

• provide you with information about the professional development we will offer in the coming year

• present a snapshot of PD content delivered by the Ozarks Writing Project (OWP)

Agenda

• Meet members of OWP team.• Engage in a team builder.• Review the goals of the i3 grant.• View a Pecha Kucha presentation.• Participate in focused writing exercise.• Review details of the grant including

calendar and credit opportunities.• Unpack the strategies used today.• Write a closing statement.

In order to meet our goals we will. .

Purpose/Non-Purpose

Purpose: to introduce the College Ready Writers Program developed with your steering committee and to invite additional teachers to participate

Non-Purpose: to present a course syllabus or

prescribed program

• We appreciate your name tags.

• Please set cell phones to vibrate.

• Feel comfortable stepping outside when necessary.

• Use the “Parking Lot” for your questions

Team Builder

Take off/ Touch down

Steering Committee

Cindy Carden – ELA, Intermediate School Gary Cook – Social Studies, High School Katie Lathem – ELA, Middle School Amy Sampson – ELA, High School April Smith – Foreign language, Middle and High

Schools Katherine Smith – Art, High School

i3 Grant Goals Increasing the amount of time spent on writing

instruction and in the number of extended writing assignments

Increasing the use of research-based instructional strategies for teaching writing in ELA classrooms

Increasing the use of writing-to-learn strategies in other disciplines

Improving the quality of writing assignments and increasing their alignment with college- and career-ready standards

Pecha Kucha

Introduce the work of OWP with a Pecha Kucha presentation—20 slides of 20 seconds each

Presentation is a result of the collaboration of April Smith and Colleen Appel

Format taught to us by Amy Sampson

Focused Freewrite

Prompt: Now that you’ve seen the presentation, where are you in your thinking?

Rules for Freewriting: Keep your hand moving until the time is up. Pay no attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation,

neatness, or style. If you get off the topic or run out of ideas, keep writing

anyway. When the time is up, look over what you've written, and

mark passages that contain ideas or phrases that might be worth sharing or elaborating on later.

Examine the handout with a coding strategy

= squares with my thinking

= I wonder about this

= new information

= important

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+!

Think about it…

How might intentional writing practices benefit your students?

Stand up/ Hand up/ Pair up

Unpack the Strategies

Closure

Consider the contract

Words from member of the steering committee

Exit Slips

From our one hour kick-off, jot down on a post-it one “take away” strategy that you’re willing to use in your classroom.

Place in the parking lot.