I recently had the pleasure of working with individual grade level teams at York Elementary!  Our goal was to develop specific writing units from their scope and sequence.  Although it was my job to facilitate the process, I learned so much from this JOurneY!

#1.  The school year theme for 2017/2018 is superheroes. This was probably suggested by Cindy because she has super powers.

#2.  At the end of each session, teachers were more confident about teaching writing.  Molly, a second-grade teacher,  even said, “We all feel so much better already about teaching writing this coming year. All your tips and tricks are awesome!”  I appreciated this reaction because I knew asking teachers to come in during the summer to work on writing plans might get me escorted out of the building!

#3.  The first-grade team is equal parts crazy fun and task masters!  Thanks, Merrilee!

#4.  The Step Up to Writing informal outline is the perfect tool to help students with TDA questions.

#5.  Thanks to the fourth-grade team there is a tally sheet started to appropriately keep track of important data…the number of times I say, “Does that make sense!”