Leadership Team Meeting

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Welcome

• Leadership Team Meeting
• March 2005

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Purpose

• Engage in collegial discussions to support the
  implementation of standards-based writing
  instruction using culturally relevant pedagogy,
  academic rigor, and strategies to support the
  English Language Learner
• Understand the correlation between the core
  curriculum of OCR and the Writers Workshop
  Design
• Engage in Writers Workshop as adult learners
• Analyze Writers Workshop instruction using a
  video

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Writers Workshop
• Engaging in Writers Workshop as Adult Learners
• The Writers Workshop Design Tree Map Activity
• How do Writers Workshop, OCR Writing, and EL
  SEL Strategies combine to create a
  well-developed,
• standards-based model for writing
  instruction?
• BREAK
• Introduction to LAUSD, LD5 Writers Workshop
  Video - Circle Map Activity
• What do we expect to see in regards to
• Structures of the WW design
• OCR Core Curriculum
• EL Strategies
• Teachers role
• Students role
• Elements of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

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PLANNING FOR LEARNING(Standards-Based
Instruction)
Mini-Lessons/Direct Instruction, The Writing
Process, Authors Chair, Academic Rigor,
Conferring, Scaffolds for EL, CRRE
Standards-Based Writing Instruction
OCR Core Curriculum, Blue Section, Craft Lessons,
Touchstone Texts, Source Books, etc.
Periodic Writing Assessments CA Writing Test
Fourth Grade
Routine of Writers Workshop aligned with the OCR
Units
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Writers Workshop Open Court in Local District 5
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Building a K-10 Writing Bridge
Studio curriculum gr. 6-10
K-6 Writers Workshop
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Writers Workshop for Adult Learners

• Mini-Lesson
• Aunt Sues Stories By Langston Hughes
• OCR Unit 4, Third Grade
• Theme Storytelling
• Genre Personal Narrative
• Writing Time
• Authors Chair

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Aunt Sues Stories
Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.Aunt Sue has
a whole heart full of stories.Summer nights on
the front porchAunt Sue cuddles a brown-faced
child to her bosomAnd tells him stories.Black
slavesWorking in the hot sun,And black
slavesWalking in the dewy night,And black
slavesSinging sorrow songs on the banks of a
mighty riverMingle themselves softlyIn the flow
of old Aunt Sues voice,Mingle themselves
softlyIn the dark shadows that cross and
recrossAunt Sues storiesAnd the dark-faced
child, listening, Knows that Aunt Sues stories
are real storiesHe knows that Aunt SueNever got
her stories out of any book at all,But that they
cameRight out of her own life.And the
dark-faced child is quietOf a summer
nightListening to Aunt Sues stories.
By Langston Hughes
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Mini-Lesson

2.1 Write Narratives 2.2 Write descriptions
that use concrete sensory details to present and
support unified impressions of people
We are going to develop complex Characters by
using descriptions with concrete sensory details
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Character Description Circle Map
Touch
Smell
Descriptive Details about this person
Character
Sight
Sound
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Writers Workshop for Adult Learners

• Mini-Lesson
• Aunt Sues Stories By Langston Hughes
• OCR Unit 4, Third Grade
• Theme Storytelling, Genre Personal Narrative
• Writing Time
• Circle Map Pre-Write/Pair Share
• Quick Right Character Study

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Character Description Circle Map
Touch
Smell
Descriptive Details about this person
Character
Sight
Sound
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Pair Share

• Turn to a partner at your table
• In pairs, share your circle map describing this
  person

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Quick Write Character Study

• Use your Source Books/Writing Journals to write
  about this person in any form you wish
• Challenge yourself to use rich, descriptive
  details in order to help the reader visualize the
  character and get to know this person

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Writers Workshop for Adult Learners

• Mini-Lesson
• Aunt Sues Stories By Langston Hughes
• OCR Unit 4, Third Grade
• Theme Storytelling, Genre Personal Narrative
• Writing Time
• Circle Map Pre-Write/Pair Share
• Quick Right Character Study
• Authors Chair
• I like the part where
• I could visualize
• I made a connection to
• I am curious to know more about

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• I like the part where
• I could visualize
• I made a connection to
• I am curious to know more about

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The Writers Workshop Design Tree Map
Writers Workshop
Mini-Lesson
Writing Time Authors Chair
What are the elements of standards-based writing
instruction within the design of Writers
Workshop?
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BREAK

• Please return in 15 minutes, Thank You

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Video Observation

• What do we expect to see in regards to
• The Writers Workshop Design
• OCR Core Curriculum
• Scaffolding for Second Language Learners
• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
• Academic Rigor

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Making Observations
Writing is a process, not a destination.
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Writers Workshop Video

• Marianna Avenue Elementary School
• Principal, Lee White
• LAUSD, LD5
• Grade Sixth Grade
• Teacher Mr. Martinez
• Unit OCR Unit 3
• Theme Taking a Stand
• Genre Persuasive

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Video Reflection

• Using your observation notes, please discuss the
  elements of writing instruction observed in this
  video.

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Video ReflectionWhole Group Share-Out

• What did we see in regards to
• The Writers Workshop Design
• OCR Core Curriculum
• Scaffolding for Second Language Learners
• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
• Academic Rigor

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Next Steps

• Professional Development
• Leadership Team Meetings
• Reading First Action Seminars
• March 31 Evidence of Schema
• Writing Institutes A B
• School Site
• Video Library, LD5
• Recommendation Form
• Student Permission Slip

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Action Plans

• What elements of writing instruction are already
  taking place at your school site?
• What elements of writing instruction need more
  development?
• How might professional development be implemented
  to address your areas of need in writing
  instruction?
• What elements of todays agenda could you
  implement to support the development of writing
  instruction at your school site?