This will be a good one. Shaped by lots of great work with students and teachers. Hope you all can make it in June. Three different options in terms of dates!

If you’ve never done formal training on developing classroom assessments, you will definitely get a lot out of this one. Hope to see you in June!

Nathan Florence's Impossible Paddle-in Wave at Teahupoo youtu.be/9IPrzmryEfY via YouTube

Free writing assessments (with passages) coming 4/6. I reviewed them today. I think you will love them! Related online professional learning (also free) coming the week of 4/13. More details to follow!

They're ready! Free writing assessments/passages in grades 3 - HS. 3 genres at each grade level, built on common reading passage(s). Related free professional learning the week of 4/13. All here: gca.coe.uga.edu/free-resources/

Summer Professional Learning - Reimagined! Free webinars on: Best practices for building classroom assessments Visible literacy instruction Research-based feedback strategies for students' writing Register and learn more at: gca.coe.uga.edu/pl/

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This is a great option for schools and districts!

A great option for instruction/formative assessment on extended-writing, in any genre. Our team works with yours to ensure strong writing instruction continues to happen in 2020-21, whether face-to-face, digital, or both.

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Like you, our team continues to rethink extended-writing instruction and formative assessments for 2020-21. Early-year collaborations with districts have been so encouraging. We'd love to team up! Info on retooled lessons, formative assessments, and PL: gca.coe.uga.edu/pl/

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This will be a great webinar. Join us!

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If you're in the metro Atlanta area (or can be in June), I promise these will be a good use of your time. Or, I'll buy you a copy of your favorite beach book to compensate! Would love to see you all this summer!

Stop by for a chat at GAEL on 7/11-12. We've expanded our 360Writing frameworks for 2022-23. Lots of new step-by-step features. Tons of flexibility. Tight alignment to the GSE.

Great session CPRESA Communication on 9/22. We focused on exercises for helping students elaborate on textual evidence. Step 1: Pose question(s) about the evidence (see green in picture). Step 2: Answer the question(s), thus elaborating on the evidence more effectively.

Excellent work by K-5 teachers CPRESA Communication on 9/21. We created brief writing activities as a means of teaching the higher-order thinking that select science and social studies standards require. We use writing as a means of teaching content!

Many thanks to Charlton County Schools for stellar collaboration on 9/15 and 9/22. Looking forward to seeing students write top-flight opinion/argumentative pieces in quarter 2!

Lots of great work with students at Len Lastinger in Tift County Schools late last week. We co-constructed the first few parts of a narrative based on a non-fiction text. Students then finished on their own. Experiencing success and confidence by following the writer's process!