Branson

May 27, 2015 with all ELA teachers


 * Strategy Board 5/27/15:**
 * Writing into the Day: Terry Tempest Williams "Why I Write"
 * Final/Last Word Protocol: a close reading and discussion strategy
 * Text Coding
 * Jigsaw
 * Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Reading Strategy** another close reading strategy
 * Formative Assessment: looking for evidence of what students are attempting based on what they've learned
 * Consensogram: a survey technique in which participants record thoughts on a chart for all to see

What we want other i3 CRWP schools to know
 * Our Posters 5/27/15**

__**Launch Event, July 20-21**__ **See Launch Event Page on this wiki.** Brain Breaks Brain breaks are 1-2 minute mind and body challenges. They are excellent for regaining focus in a meeting or class. Looping: A second round of freewriting generated by an idea found in the first round; term coined by Peter Elbow.

slides we used in the morning session slides for the mentor lesson How to level a text can be found on the Text Sets page. An even easier way can be found at rewordify.com, a free online tool to simplify text. quick responses to primary source documents, videos, cartoons, images, and quotes: __Strategies used today:__ Beth Rimer's Learnist Site with many additional resources for Reality TV mini-unit, including cartoons and infographics Adapted with the elimination of offensive terms and innuendos
 * September 9, 2015** PD in the morning, fishbowl lesson in the afternoon
 * Quick Write to reconnect
 * Mix, Pair, Share to share thoughts
 * Solo Write to establish professional norms
 * Table Talk to condense thoughts
 * Quick Response to Text
 * Reading and coding a resource
 * Brainstorm and chart adaptations
 * Coding a draft for claim and evidence

Is your claim defensible and debatable? A **nuanced claim** is one that is individualized, specific and narrow. When our students make a claim, it should be as individualized as their fingerprints. How is the writer making a claim that is specific to his or her own thinking? The College Ready Writers Program takes us beyond having 25 students with the same claim. The process of layering the text and the writing help students develop their own thinking in individualized and specific ways. Students can peer conference to check on the use of sources. Open the file and create a two page document.
 * October 20, 2015**