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UGA Rivers Crossing View map $150 (includes a copy of the book “Writing and Teaching to Change the World”)

850 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605

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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.

Participants will:

  • Write and experience what it’s like to be a writing student
  • Consider how a culture of writing in the classroom can create a positive and affirming space for all students, especially those who might be vulnerable
  • Realize how a more positive culture of writing will enhance literacy growth and achievement
  • Learn about and experience different categories of mini-lessons to ensure a dynamic and rich instructional plan for teaching writing
  • Learn about integrating children's literature and popular media into meaningful and responsive writing lessons
  • Read and write place narratives and social narratives
  • Read and discuss the writing of classroom teachers who use their teaching to connect with vulnerable students and empower all student writers
  • Create an action plan for the classroom

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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