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Triple Track Agenda Track 1 Support your learning here in Lansing Track 2 Transfer learning to your classroom Track 3 Share learning with your colleagues as a literacy leader www. adaptiveschools. com

We come from across our state—Yoopers and Trolls. Some even come from beyond Michigan’s borders. What we share is a love of students and teaching and a desire to learn for the sake of others. At the start of summer, we delay our family outings, postpone sleeping in, hold off on sunscreen, insect repellent, and weeding our gardens, defer biking, hiking, swimming, and down time all in the name of professionalism. Welcome. Your presence alone gives us much to celebrate. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

We are living through a time of great educational change: common state standards, an ever greater emphasis on assessment and evaluation for teachers, administrators, and students, the proliferation of a range of educational choices from both public and private sectors—think home schooling, private and parochial schools, and virtual schooling as a few examples, set against a backdrop of dwindling educational resources, particularly for those most in need. As a result, teaching is more challenging and fraught than ever before. This is no time to teach in isolation. By coming together, our most important educational resources, you, our teachers, can create a network of support that will stretch across cities, districts, and far beyond our classroom doors. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

This summer, we come together to learn ways to improve the teaching of writing and to align instruction to provide a coherent curriculum K-12. After years of school reform one thing we’ve learned is that aligned curriculum across the grades greatly benefits student learning. And if there’s one thing we’re sure of, given the present educational climate, we’re stronger together than apart. www. mielanetwork. weebly. com WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

DONALD GRAVES WAS ASKED, “HOW DO YOU START A WRITING CLASSROOM? ” Just write about anything and share it. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

WRITING INVITATION… Demonstration/Show me: Nancie Atwell talks about her writing territories. One way I think about my writing territories is to think of Firsts in my life. For example, I think of the first time I fell in a lagoon or the first time I rode my two-wheeler all by myself or my first crush. Let me share my first time riding my bicycle on my own. I remember how my dad taught me to balance and how I kept falling, mostly on the grass by our sidewalk. I remember feeling so proud when I finally rode down the sidewalk by myself. I wanted to show off for Jeffrey, the older boy down the street and I called out to him as I rode by. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

Now, let me try again but this time, I’ll try to live in the moment. I’ll try to write it as if I was writing a story. I swung my leg over the bar. With my right foot steady on the sidewalk I carefully placed my left foot on the pedal and pushed down, standing tall, hands gripping the handlebars. The wheels turned. I heard the bike chain tighten. I moved forward slowly, circling the pedals, momentum building. Wobbly, I fought my fear of falling. Circle, circle, feet moving up and down on the rubber pedals, handlebars slippery with sweat. I felt Dad watching from our front lawn. I couldn’t look back. “Jeffrey, Jeffrey! Look! I’m riding!” Wind in my face, blowing pride. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS 1. Your turn. A First Time Try to stay in the moment. Write with small, precise details. 2. Share your writing. Tell your partner what you liked or appreciated. 3. To Think About… How did you feel while sharing? What did you notice? 4. A Shared or Touchstone experience—we’ll refer back to this writing WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MAISA UNITS Once upon a time… WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

HISTORY OF THE UNITS ALIGNED TO THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM http: //www. corestandards. org/

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS The development of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts was lead by § National Governor Association § Council of Chief State School Officers The Standards focus on learning expectations for students, not on how students get there WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

MICHIGAN’S CONTEXT Oakland ISD Superintendent Mandate MAISA Collaboration WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR LITERACY LEADERS Building a K-12 Statewide Network of Support WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

OUR GOALS… • To develop a statewide K-12 ELA Network of Educators • To study and develop capacity around the K-12 ELA MAISA Writing Units WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

Why these units? Why this approach? WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

NAEP CHARTS: BALANCE OF INSTRUCTION WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

2011 NAEP Writing Framework Grade Narrative Explanatory Argumentative 4 35% 30% 8 30% 35% 12 20% 40% WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

OVERARCHING WRITING CONSIDERATIONS: CCSS ELA MAISA Units Text types: Argument: Argument Least understood Informative/Explanatory Claim Narrative Evidence/Support Warrant/Reasoning WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

SETTING THE BAR HIGH! Writing standard 5 describes the writing process, and standard 10 describes the need to write routinely as part of that process. Without these two standards, the other standards will be difficult to achieve. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

UNITS ARE BUILT AROUND A WORKSHOP MODEL: • Students learn by doing • Less telling—more showing • Time to read and write • Emphasis on student independence WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

WRITING PROCESS • Generating through publishing across each unit of study • Includes demonstration, models, and independent practice • Embeds response and revision WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

TODAY’S WRITING PROCESS Collecting Entries Finding a Seed Nurturing the Seed Picking a Genre Picking a Mentor Text Drafting Revising Editing Publishing Main Goal: Build a writerly life and establish a writer's notebook that students value. Main Goal: Identify an important topic to explore and discover through writing. Main Goal: Create a riskfree environment that encourages revisiting and experimentati on to imagine, explore a voice, or discover important ideas. Main Goal: Study a genre or author within a genre to create a product within the "rules" of the genre. Main Goal: Develop curiosity about and appreciation of an author to identify decisions for personal experiments and growth in skill. Main Goal: Conscious ly design a product. Main Goal: Approach revision as study and play, developing rethinking and experimenting behaviors. Main Goal: Develop a standard of excellence for publication and strategies for achievement. Main Goal: Produce a product for an audience. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

TODAY’S WRITING PROCESS Interactive Invitation Read the previous chart for three purposes: 1. Place a check over the columns you instruct on a regular basis. 2. Place a circle over the columns you would like to learn more about and teach with greater frequency. 3. Turn and Talk—Based on your self-assessment, set a realistic goal for your personal learning and teaching this coming year. Plan to explore the units this week with your goal in mind. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION VERSUS ASSIGN AND ASSESS WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

PROCESS & PRODUCT WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

WE STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GREAT WRITERS AND TEACHERS OF WRITING • Experts: Donald Murray, Pulitzer Prize Winner, & Roy Peter Clark, Journalist • Writers: Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver, Anne Lamott, E. B. White • Great Writing Teachers: Peter Elbow, Georgia Heard, Ralph Fletcher, & TCRWP Across K-college, the writing workshop has been the accepted forum for teaching the skills and strategies of effective writing. Pathways to the Common Core, 2012, Calkins, Ehrenworth, Lehman, p. 111 WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

CCSS ALIGNING TO A WRITING PROCESS TRADITION This quality of writing can be achieved by mandating the explicit instruction, opportunities for practice, centrality of feedback, assessmentbased instruction, and spiral curriculum that have all been hallmarks of rigorous writing workshop instruction. Pathways to the Common Core, 2012, Calkins, Ehrenworth, Lehman, p. 112 WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

LESSON TEMPLATE: FROM RESEARCH BASED ON EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION Clear Teaching Points Modeling/Demonstrating Guided Practice Checking for Understanding as summarized by Mike Schmoker 2011 Focus: Elevating the essentials to radically improve student learning. ASCD. 52 -54. WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

Resource s WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

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Atlas Rubicon Oakland Public Site http: //oaklandk 12 -public. rubiconatlas. org/Atlas/ Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) http: //www. smarterbalanced. org/ Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project http: //tc. readingandwritingproject. com/ WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

WRITING WORKSHOP WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

HUNT INSTITUTE CCSS VIDEOS http: //vimeo. com/album/1702025 WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO CLIP What does “writing process/workshop” require of the writer and teacher? Peter Elbow on Writing Process http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=YDUn 1 c 4 ux. UE WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

Writer’s Notebook: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=AZE 3_j 6 a 59 w&feature=re lated WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO CLIPS Classroom routines, relationships, stamina: • Katie Wood Ray: Tips on Building Writing Stamina http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=y 4 KIcb. Oe 5 k. Q&feature=related • Teaching Writing in the Middle- Nancie Atwell http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=7 SRjjb 7 V 4 r. U&NR=1 • Donald Graves: How to get a writing class started http: //www. youtube. com/watch? NR=1&v=c. Z_s. XJKii. SA WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

NANCIE ATWELL ON CONFERRING Nancie Atwell conferring with Middle School Writers http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=y. Hnw. LXdte 4 M WWW. MIELANETWORK. WEEBLY. COM

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