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Winter Workshops for Teacher Leaders selected by Administrators

2007's two sessions are outlined below.

Administrators: If you are interested in sending one top-notch
teacher from your school to either training, please contact Corbett Harrison (Charrison@washoe.k12.nv.us) to request a spot.

Corbett Harrison coordinates the Winter Admin/Teacher Leader Workshops.  Corbett has been involved with the NNWP since 1996--as Director, Co-Director, Technology Liaison, and Traits Trainer.  Corbett coordinated the development of the Writing Across the Curriculum Guide and the Going Deeper with the 6 Traits Guide.


Corbett presents on one of his favorite topics:
Writing for Learning
 
Winter 2007, Topic A

Constructed Response:
Summarizing Learning and Assessing Resposes

Fifteen top-notch 3rd - 12th grade teacher leaders from 15 schools will come together on February 21 for a full-day of training on:

  • Creating a meaningful constructed response prompt for Language Arts, math, science, and social studies;

  •  Accurately assessing students' constructed response answers;

  • Teaching students to accurately self-assess their own constructed responses, as well as those of their classmates.

Participants in this one-day training will return to their classrooms and use constructed response techniques during the month of March.  Student samples will be saved.

On April 4, the fifteen teachers will reassemble to talk about their learning, to reflect on their new thinking through writing, and to contribute ideas and resources to the Constructed Response Guide for PLCs that will come out in Fall of 2007.

In exchange for paying for two sub days, schools that send a participating teacher will receive a complimentary school set of the Constructed Response Guide for PLCs.

Workshop: February 21, 2007
Follow-up: April 4, 2007
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Presenter: Kristi Pettengill, Kim Cuevas

 Winter 2007, Topic B

Marzano's Research:
The Compare and Contrast Guide for PLCs

Fifteen top-notch K- 12th grade teacher leaders from 15 schools will come together on February 22 for a full-day workshop on:

  • Looking at new techniques to compare and contrast all content area topics.

  • Exploring interesting and innovative ways to have students write about comparisons and contrasts they have made with different topics from different content areas.

  • Crafting new mini-lessons that incorporate comparison and contrast through writing.

Participants in this one-day training will return to their classrooms and create three writing mini-lessons that require compare/contrast as a pre-writing or pre-thinking tool.  Student samples will be saved.

On April 5, the fifteen teachers will reassemble to talk about their learning, to reflect on their thinking through writing, and to contribute lessons and techniques to the Compare & Contrast Guide for PLCs that will come out in Fall of 2007.

In exchange for paying for two sub days, schools that send a participating teacher will receive a complimentary school set of the Constructed Response Guide for PLCs.

Workshop: February 22, 2007
Follow-up: April 5, 2007
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Presenter: Corbett Harrison & Carol Gebhardt
 
Questions on either workshop may be directed to Corbett Harrison at this e-mail address: charrison@washoe.k12.nv.us
These two workshops are a collaborative project between the Northern Nevada Writing Project and the Northwest Regional Professional Development Program.

Space is limited!  Only fifteen schools per session.
 

Sign-ups must be done on-line at:
TBA
 

How does this Workshop Work?
Principals and Teacher Leaders
designing site-based Professional Development together

The NNWP's philosophy places teachers directly at the center when both receiving and delivering professional development.  Our Annual Winter Trainings for Administrators and Teacher Leaders is a unique format that upholds this philosophy. 

We believe that winter is the perfect time to begin planning a school's professional development focus for the upcoming school year.  Our winter workshop is designed to begin shaping professional development for the upcoming August or September, not to immediately implement a new strategy in a school.  This training helps teachers find their voices about a strategy they actually adapt for their classrooms.

We start small--with only a few teacher leaders who are selected by their administrators.

In February, we present classroom strategies on timely topics related to writing instruction.  We ask the teachers attending to spend February through April implementing the strategies with children, and adapting them to fit the needs of their schools.  We ask the administrator to mentor these teachers as they implement these new strategies.

In April, the teacher leaders come together again to share their adaptations of the strategies.  We help them find a place in the next year's professional development calendar to hear about their discoveries.  The principal agrees to give them time to share, and to challenge the rest of the staff to begin trying the new strategies as well.

  University of Nevada, Reno
Please direct website questions and comments to: charrison@washoe.k12.nv.us
URL of this document: http://www.unr.edu/educ/nnwp/
or http://nnwp.org