1. Julie Carrera, Elementary Instructional Coach Julie Rodriguez, Elementary Instructional Coach

4. READ ALOUD

6. Richard Allington Carl Anderson Nancie Atwell Jerome Bruner Lucy Calkins Brian Cambourne Mary Ehrenworth Peter Elbow Ralph Fletcher Irene Fountas Donald Graves George Hillocks David Holdzkom Donald Murray Gay Su Pinnell Vicki Spandel Christopher Weaver Katie Wood Ray Lev Vygotsky Workshop Model 40 YEARS OF RESEARCH

8. Diagram developed by Margaret Mooney

9. Key components Predictable

10. mini-lesson share student writing teacher conferencing

12. Architecture of a Mini-Lesson Mini-Lessons video clips

14. An excerpt from Ralph Fletcher’s Writer’s Notebook… “This morning I stopped to buy an iced coffee. When I got home I took out my writer's notebook, the most important tool I have. I think of my notebook as an "idea bank" or "seed farm" where I can collect ideas, or just write for fun. I opened my writer's notebook and jotted this down: "Letters To Young Writers." Ralph Fletcher, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (Sep. 2005) I love an iced coffee, with milk and sugar, on a warm summer's morning. Light and sweet, that's what I tell the woman at the Dunkin' Donuts, and she knows what I mean. When I've got a cup of iced coffee in my hand, so cold beads of condensation are already gathering on the sides, and I'm getting double-jolted by the surge of caffeine plus the lift, provided by those sugar crystals crunching between my teeth, I know beyond doubt it's going to be a great summer day.”

16. Julie Carrera, Elementary Instructional Coach Julie Rodriguez, Elementary Instructional Coach

25. Structure of a Conference Conferring video clips

29. “Most kids experience school as a series of tasks, dittos, assignments, texts- things that are administered to them. Writing workshop turns the table and puts kids in charge. This requires us to engage in responsive teaching.” Ralph Fletcher, Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

30. “Most kids experience school as a series of tasks, dittos, assignments, texts- things that are administered to them. Writing workshop turns the table and puts kids in charge. This requires us to engage in responsive teaching.” Ralph Fletcher, Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

31.  Something I will:  Stop doing…  Continue doing…  Start doing…

32. 1. Accelerate TAKS gains for economically disadvantaged, African American, and Hispanic students to reduce the achievement gap. 2. Increase the percentage of all students reaching the commended level as a means to increase college and career readiness. 3. Increase the percentage of underrepresented minority students enrolled in Advanced Placement, Dual Credit, International Baccalaureate, and Algebra I (middle school) courses. 4. Increase the graduation rate for economically disadvantaged, African American, and Hispanic students. 5. Provide adequate resources for instruction improvement. 6. Develop a plan to increase awareness of existing alternative high school programs and benefits of Success High School. 7. Develop and implement a communication plan to bring awareness to the extensive amount of information available on campus and district Web sites. 8. Fully develop and implement customer service training for all employees.