Happy Thanksgiving, Moving Writers family! We are especially thankful for you this holiday season — not only your support of our work here, but, more importantly, your constant support of students in the classroom!
As we move full-throttle into the holiday season, we have a number of new PD opportunities, including special options to gift your colleagues (or yourself!) some Moving Writers PD!
Poetry for the Dark Days with Brett
This offering is only available until December 27, 2023!
If this time of the year with its short days, long nights, and troubling news stories feels bleak to you, know that you are not alone. Our students feel it too! Poetry can be the salve we need to carry us through, helping us embrace the beauty of the cold and the dark and to hunker down with some comfort and hope.
This webinar, available on-demand, will introduce you to 10 poems in about 30 minutes, along with a link-library handout where you can find each poem for deeper reading. These are all brand new poetry pause plans that Brett has never published before! Learn how poems can be springboards for all sorts of other writing genres that you need to teach through the winter from reflective essays to narratives to arguments to research.
This is NOT a collection of holiday poems and snow poems to fill time. Each pause affords you and your students the chance to dig deeper into thinking that helps writers grow in all genres, embracing the lessons of the literal and figurative dark days and sustaining our hope for better seasons ahead.
You can purchase this mini-course as an individual ($20) or for a group ($100). For the group price, you will receive a share code that you can share with an unlimited number of friends and colleagues! (What a fantastic English department holiday gift!)
Flash-Drafting with Rebekah
Flash-Drafting is the best way to lure students — even the most hesitant ones — into writing!
In this session, we’ll
- learn a rationale and process for the basics of flash-drafting (and you’ll get to try it)!
- learn strategies for modifying and adding to the flash-draft process to help students embrace revision.
- visualize flash drafting as a series of different learning progressions that can move students toward writing independence
- chat about using flash drafts as a tool for writerly metacognition and identity-building
- see flash drafting as a tool for conferring with students, parents, and other stakeholders
This session will be recorded and sent to participants the next day!
Moving Writers PD Holiday Bundle
Purchase codes for 10 professional development sessions from anywhere in our entire PD catalog! You’ll get coupon cards that can be distributed to friends and colleagues as gifts, or save them for yourself! There is no expiration date for using them!
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