Thursday, September 28, 2023 9am to 1pm
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850 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605
This fun and engaging writing workshop is for K-8 teachers, administrators, curriculum directors, literacy coaches, and anyone interested in how to teach writing to children and youth in a way that is empowering, creative, fun, and effective. With many districts moving away from “Units of Study” models of teaching writing and also thinking more deeply about “trauma-informed” teaching, this workshop offers a powerful foundation for approaching the teaching of writing that doesn’t need a curriculum script and is oriented toward the well-being of all students.
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Workshop Facilitator: Stephanie Jones
Jones is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia in the Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research focuses on social class and poverty with an emphasis on creating justice-oriented and classsensitive curriculum, teaching, classrooms, and schools. She is co-director of the Red Clay Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, and is author or co-author of more than 50 publications including books, articles, book chapters, and newspaper editorials. Her most recent co-authored book is Writing and Teaching to Change the World: Connecting With Our Most Vulnerable Students, which she wrote with practicing K-12 teachers in Georgia.
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