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Greetings Colleague!

We're trying something new. Every week we'll feature a practice or an assignment English teachers will find can make their teaching more effective or meaningful. This week we're featuring engaged classroom conversation strategies. After our icebreaker, we'll discuss the challenges we face in facilitating conversations in class, and join forces in offering our colleagues assistance. You'll leave in a better mindset, and a great strategy or two.

This Thursday, we have three further options:

1) AI misuse is rampant. If you attended my session at CATE, you may have heard me mention the Writing Workshop. It's a methodology allowing you to touch base with each student several times one-on-one during a full-process essay. Students can write focused, coherent -- and original -- essays if they can sit with you at various stages in the writing process. We'll overview a success-oriented process that will keep you and your students moving forward in building their writing skills.

2) Have questions about facilitating classroom conversation? Responding to student writing? We can talk about it.

3) Having other challenges? How about classroom management?

If possible, if you'd like us to focus on any of these or other issues, please message or email me ahead of time, and I'll try to prepare something for you.

We meet Thursdays at 7:30 until we learn another day or time works better for folks who want to join regularly.

After we get acquainted in a fun ice-breaker, we'll share some stories from our classrooms and then break open a discussion about making your job more rewarding or less stressful.

I look forward (where else to look?) --

Sincerely,
John (organizer)

Group Aims:

  • We want to build a place for newer, mid-career and veteran teachers to chat with colleagues who know how it is to teach in today’s mandate-heavy schools.
  • We want to help one another navigate our own surviving and thriving as we support our students’ learning and growth.
  • We want to share approaches and strategies that help teachers guide students to learn beyond standards -- to more fully understand themselves, others and the world.
  • We want to support teachers in asking and researching their own questions about teaching and learning in their classrooms, if it means flying under the radar.

Offerings:
In our conversations, we want to strike a balance among:

  • Troubleshooting classroom challenges with colleagues
  • Sharing helpful strategies and resources
  • Sharing new approaches
  • Providing collegial support

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