Videos

Various teams who participated in the session, Secondary Core Reading Strategy Instruction, will prepare and share a brief presentation describing and explaining their implementation experience and outcomes. This is followed by supplemental content by Dr. Lana Edwards Santoro. Link to HANDOUTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1quiiOu5bZseqqFUTDWeKDjlVyOb26Vmg?usp=share_link

This session visits the why and the how of questioning techniques as they relate to formative assessment. Learn the importance of cultivating a classroom culture that values errors, rigorous thinking, and a broader base of participation from students. Then get ready to take these proven techniques back to your classroom to implement them. Link to Materials: https://padlet.com/scaparelli/9k5xivt0te0lq4f3

This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support macro-level writing instruction and the writing process at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. Specifically, strategies to help improve the focus, content, organization, and style of student writing will be discussed. Participants who wish to implement a strategy from this session and attend the second session in this series will receive a presentation template. LINK TO HANDOUTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XteDceFKSaJ4DmKvEWGjA8TkOU4YieVl?usp=share_link

Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RIIbYVS5OaOHrefVyijucGWRmfB2cni5 This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support micro-level writing instruction at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. While handwriting, keyboarding, and spelling will be discussed, emphasis will focus on how to explicitly teach sentence analysis and construction using the “Identify-Expand-Combine- and Create” strategy. Other strategies, including the use of grammar building charts and sentence unscrambling, will be presented.

This video presentation by Joan Sedita is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning.

In this session participants will review the stages of the writing process (Think, Plan, Write, Revise), learn suggestions for teaching writing strategies at each stage of the writing process, learn about the role of syntactic knowledge for writing sentences, and learn instructional suggestions for teaching sentence writing and elaboration.

This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning. In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching paragraph structure and writing skills, learn the five patterns of organization and related transition words, review the 3 main types of writing (opinion/argument, informational, narrative), learn instructional practices for teaching the structure of these writing types. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f6xQSsptgpxnRhMDDr37c0Vv87odR0Kx

In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching students how to write summaries, learn instructional strategies for writing in response to prompts using text and other types of sources, review how writing can support content learning, reflect on how the instructional strategies throughout the book can be integrated to support a quality, research-based writing curriculum.

This video highlights several high school students who are involved with the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) to increase graduation rates and decrease dropout rates. They share their challenges and how to overcome them in order graduate. In addition, they note their goals after graduation and a checklist is provided to guide and encourage students to stay on track in order to complete school.