1. Teachers College Writing Project
Next Steps for Collaboration and Implementation
-Harding, Kensington Hilltop, Madera, Montalvin, and Peres-

2. Paradigm Shift to the Common Core State Standards
High Leverage Area
Shift for Teachers and Students in terms of:
Depth of Thinking Engagement
Application
Ownership and Autonomy
Writing as a Process
Paradigm Shift to the Common Core State Standards
Why
Writing?
Katherine - Reading and Writing as skills; Eyes on print all day; Necessary for engagement and access; Teachers need to feel at home with reading and writing skills; Instruction needs to be explicit; No one reading skill/strategy/technique/secret of the trade

3. Getting Essentials in Place
School-wide implementation-
Looks different at each site, at the start and now
Montalvin
Kensington
Madera
Harding
All schools started with:
Voluntary implementation
Differentiated materials and peer support
Teacher leadership direction
Katherine - All schools shared:Calendared Collaboration; Teachers in various places in their careers; Contrived Collegiality; Writing as an area of focus

4. What Units of Study Look Like
Components of Program
Linda

5. Our Instructional Leadership
Principals’ Professional Learning Community
“You aren’t what you eat, you are the conversations that you’re in.” Lucy Calkins
Instructional Rounds
Workshop application for principals
Our own work and learning
Judy - Good instruction is a process much like writing as a process. The process has provided, and has been, the big learning. Process of collaboration, study, and building our expertise as educators.

6. Next Steps - Systematic Development for All
Professional Development for Teachers
Teachers College Summer Institutes
Systematic on site support from Teachers College professionals
Professional Development for Principals
Participation in Teachers College work with teachers
Principals PLC with regular Instructional Rounds
All

7. Teacher Led Initiative - Or Your Next Steps
Results for students, teachers, and school communities:
Engagement - teachers and students
Ownership - teachers and students
Both a curriculum and a professional development
self motivated teachers as learners
Authentic Collaboration
Alison