The Write Connection: A Differentiated Approach to Writing

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

The National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, a blue-ribbon group made up of university leaders, public school superintendents, teachers, and assisted by an advisory panel of writing experts, calls for a Writing Challenge to the Nation. Chairperson Bob Kerrey said, "From poetry to letters to stories to laws, we must learn to write in order to participate in the range of experiences available to us as human beings." Writing allows students to "connect the dots" in their knowledge and is central to self-expression and civic participation.

In this one or two-day training, participants will:

• Explore strategies and activities that teach the essential components of the writing process
• Learn creative and standard-based approaches to improve student creation of ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and conventions through the writing process
• Discover ways to improve student success with various formats and types of writing

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.