i3 grant: College-Ready Writers

1. i3 grant: College-Ready Writers Kickoff Meeting MonettR-I August 19, 2013

2. Introductions

3. 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

4. Goals • We will. . . • introduce the goals of the i3 (Investing in Innovation)grantand 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)

5. Agenda In order to meet our goals we will. . • Meet members of OWP team. • Engage in a team builder. • Review the goals of the i3 grant. • View a PechaKucha 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.

6. 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

7. We appreciate your name tags. • Please set cell phones to vibrate. • Feel comfortable stepping outside when necessary. • Use the “Parking Lot” for your questions

8. Team Builder Take off/ Touch down

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Examine the handoutwith a coding strategy • = squares with my thinking • = I wonder about this • = new information • = important ? + !

14. Think about it… How might intentional writing practices benefit your students? Stand up/ Hand up/ Pair up

15. Unpack the Strategies

16. Closure Consider the contract Words from member of the steering committee

17. 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.