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Possibilities over Proscriptions: Understanding What You’re Seeing in Student Writing / A Virtual Mini-Workshop

Presented by Martin Brandt
A 90-minute virtual mini-workshop from 6:30pm to 8:00pm Eastern Time (ET). Please note that this virtual mini-workshop is scheduled for Eastern Time (ET). If you are in a different time zone, please plan your schedule accordingly. When reading our students' writing, we often fall too easily into the trap of noting errors simply to justify a grade, without providing a positive way forward. But if we truly understand what we're seeing at the sentence level, then we are more likely to respond in a way that promotes discussion and development. In this mini-workshop, we will discuss the principles of sentence focus, sentence development, and sentence coherence and how we can apply them to the goal of promoting real growth for our students as writers. Martin Brandt has been teaching English at Independence High School in San Jose, California, for almost thirty years. He has received the California Teachers of English Award for Classroom Excellence and the Carlston Family Foundation Outstanding Teachers of America Award, and he won the 2015 CATE professional essay contest. He also serves as an associate director of the San Jose Area Writing Project. Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers) is his first book. Classroom teachers of grades 6-12, literacy coaches, reading and language arts specialists, curriculum coordinators, and administrators. The cost of this virtual mini-workshop is $40.00 per person. Tuition also includes access to the recorded workshop for 60 days. To support your learning in this workshop, we highly recommend Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers). Registrants will receive multiple emails from Heinemann, including enrollment confirmation, which also serves as your tuition receipt and contains some basic instructions. If you have not received your confirmation email within 48 hours of your registration, please contact us at workshops@heinemann.com or 800-541-2086, ext. 1151. Approximately two days prior to the event date you will receive an email with the PD event's Zoom link and log-in instructions. We highly recommend you test your computer readiness by clicking on this link. If your computer needs any software upgrades, Zoom will walk you through the updates. Note: We encourage group participation; however, we require that each person be registered and provide a unique email address. Our Registration Form is now standardized to be used for any Heinemann PD Services open-enrollment event. Download our new PD Event Registration Form here.Date and Time
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05/03/2021 - Eastern Time, ET
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