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Each HGRESA system is allotted 3 registrants.This course will provide you with a range of positive psychology theories, tools and strategies that can be used when coaching teachers. By integrating these ideas into your coaching, you will be better able to support teachers to enhance their practice and look after their wellbeing. After reviewing the key elements of effective coaching, you will be introduced to theories of change, wellbeing theories and positive psychology concepts along with their practical implications. Finally, a new model of “flourishing educators” is presented and you will be asked to consider your own wellbeing as a coach.

Each HGRESA system is allotted 3 registrants.

This course empowers participants with strategies to establish psychological safety, enabling risk-taking, open communication, and idea-sharing. By course end, participants will have a solid understanding of David Rock's SCARF model and be able to apply its principles to help themselves and others cope, gain control, and exercise resilience. Participants will leave with a toolbox of strategies for increasing engagement, building connections, and fostering more effective communication and collaboration.

This material includes guidelines for using Think Alouds and video examples from science and math.

Think-alouds have been described as “eavesdropping on someone’s thinking.” With this strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. During a think-aloud, you read a text aloud while verbalizing thoughts, predictions, questions, connections, and reflections. This helps students understand how to actively engage with the text, make inferences, and monitor their own comprehension.

This material includes reasons to use think-alouds, written directions for implementation, and videos demonstrating whole group and scaffolded think alouds.  Optional materials are linked.

Procedures are given for before, during, and after a lesson.  Examples of Think Aloud lessons are shown for ELA, math, science, and social studies.  

Audience: All Users of Data Warehouse
Expected Duration: 45 Minutes

This is a recording of the session held May 13, 2025.

In this session, educators will discover ways to elevate their students’ literacy skills through a deeper understanding of how the Practices domain informs the Texts, Language, and Foundations domains. Teachers will unpack the Big Ideas and grow in their understanding of how the Practices domain serves as a tool to intentionally strengthen students’ active engagement with text both as consumers and producers. 

This is the PowerPoint presentation used at the face-to-face meeting at HGRESA on September 10, 2025.

In this session, educators will discover ways to elevate their students’ literacy skills through a deeper understanding of how the Practices domain informs the Texts and Language domains. Teachers will unpack the Big Ideas and grow in their understanding of how the Practices domain serves as a tool to intentionally strengthen students’ active engagement with text both as consumers and producers. 

This is the {owerPoint presentation used at the face-to-face session at HGRESA on September 11, 2025.

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  This 6 hour presentation includes dynamic, interactive modeling by the presenter. All participants are encouraged to actively engage during the workshop by providing responses during the modeling segments, asking questions and interacting with others when possible. 

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

  This workshop is geared for any teacher responsible for teaching editing and revising for grades 3-6.  Empowering Writers will provide the “how” for delivering direct instruction in revising and editing. Experience how specific instruction of grammar and mechanics brings clarity to all forms of communication. Come away with so much more than just “skill and drill”! 

  HOW THE DAY BREAKS OUT:

  Participants will:

  • Recognize the movement of skills through grade levels
  • Connect skills to content area topics/themes for powerful applications
  • Understand the parts of speech as the building blocks of language
  • Explore hands-on-activities designed to make learning grammar engaging
  • Learn effective strategies for revising sentences 
  • Utilize student work for authentic application 
  • Build instructional confidence through focused skills
   

  Resource Available:  Editing, Revising & More Teacher Manual with either printed Student Books (Grades 3-4 & 7) or Digital Student Pages (Grades 3-7)

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  Workshop Requirements: 

  Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers' Editing & Revising teacher and student resources (digital or printed).

  • Remember that Empowering Writers’ Editing, Revising and More digital guide includes a school year HUB license that delivers digital teaching resources for an entire school year of editing and revising instruction.  The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Editing & Revising resource, along with a wealth of other done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online and use now all year long.   Teachers love the EW HUB for their writing instruction!

WHEN:  On-Demand, Professional Development Training via this Getting Ready to Write Workshop is available online and on-demand, to watch now, on your own time.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:  Age-appropriate, instructional tools to effectively teach your youngest (K-1) students the foundational skills they need to become strong writers.  You’ll be introduced to the developmental stages of writing, learn to teach your students how to identify genre and author’s purpose, and develop the foundational skills of narrative, informational and opinion writing.  Through this training, you will gain confidence in your writing instruction, and develop the writing/reading connection for your students across all content areas. 

HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection 

• Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
• Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre; inform vs. entertain purpose)
• Summarizing Text
• Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development
  

Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing

• Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
• Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
• Generating Elaborative Detail
• Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?”
• Crafting Suspenseful Segments

Part 3– Foundational Skills of Informational and Opinion Writing

• Sorting Details for Informational Writing
• Creating Diagrams to Inform
• Writing Informational Sentences
• Exploring Opinion Writing
• Summarizing Opinion Pieces
• Recap of Today’s Learning – Foundational Writing Skills for K-1 Students

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  BONUS Training (Recorded) – The Developmental Stages of Writing.  This pre-recorded instructional session features EW’s Master Educators providing you with a deeper dive into the stages of writing.  It also includes a PowerPoint presentation that highlights key aspects of this learning. 

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  WHAT YOU GET: 

  • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction (taught by Master Educators)
  • Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
  • Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 14-days of online access available 
  • Ongoing support from the Empowering Writers’ team to ensure your success through virtual teacher talks, online chat Q&A, webinar trainings and much more!
  • Register Today for immediate online access to this valuable, on-demand writing instruction.

   

  Workshop Requirements: 

  Each participant is required to have the corresponding Empowering Writers’ teaching manual (digital guide or printed manual) for this K-1 writing workshop.  If you don’t have it, don’t worry!  You may add the EW teaching manual (in either digital or printed form) to your registration.  The Printed Manual is available through the bookstore and will be shipped promptly to your location of choice. Printed Activity Cards are also available and can be used to further enhance your K-1 writing instruction and engage your young students.

  • Remember that your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a school year Hub license that delivers digital teaching resources for a year of K-1 writing instruction. The Hub allows for easy, online access to your K-1 guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for an entire year from date of purchase.   Teachers love the EW Hub for their writing instruction!

   

Participants analyze exemplars and district models that demonstrate standards-based lesson planning in action. Through shared problem-solving and scenario-based discussions with district partners, participants strengthen their understanding of how leaders can sustain coherence, alignment, and instructional quality across classrooms.

This was recorded on Nov. 19, 2025.

Participants investigate how the ELA Instructional Framework and the ELA Instructional Framework Companion support intentional lesson planning; design instruction that blends standards across the Practices, Texts, and Language domains; and examine exemplars that illustrate effective and coherent standards integration. Participants engage in guided scenarios to clarify both teacher and leadership roles in implementing the ELA Instructional Framework and supporting redelivery across schools and districts.

This was recorded on Oct. 29, 2025.

Broadcast Date:  January 23, 2026

The goal was  to develop an
understanding of:
• What is measured
• How results are used and how
federal identifications are determined
• Where to find CCRPI resources
• How to utilize data to dig deeper

The recording is also included, as well as the PowerPoint.
• Updates for 2026 CCRPI

In quarter 4, in grades 3-5, we suggest focusing on preparing students to do well on Section 1 of Milestones. In grades 3 and 5, this is the section that features the Writing Task. In grade 4, this is the section that features the Peer Revision Task.

In quarter 4, in grades K-2, we suggest spiraling instruction across all three genres. In the supplement, we provide nine weeks of exercises, three for each genre. We also bring poetry into each of the nine weeks.

In quarter 4, in grades 6-8, we suggest focusing on preparing students to do well on Section 1 of Milestones. In grades 6 and 7, this is the section that features the Peer Revision Task. In grade 8, this is the section that features the Writing Task.

In quarter 4, in grades 9-10, we suggest focusing on preparing students to do well on Section 1 of Milestones. This is the section that features the Writing Task. (We recommend using the grade 10 supplement with grade 9 students to give them practice with what they will see in grade 10 on Section 1.) 

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of
writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding
these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater
accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for
expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes. Each video features the following.
● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of
writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding
these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater
accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for
expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes. Each video features the following.
● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of
writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding
these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater
accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for
expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes. Each video features the following.
● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of
writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding
these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater
accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for
expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes. Each video features the following.
● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes.

                     Each video features the following:

● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.

These CODE courses are designed to illustrate different levels of student progress on three types of
writing: opinion/argumentative (T.T.3.c), expository (T.T.2.d), and narrative (T.T.1.e). Understanding
these different levels is useful in at least two ways. First, it helps us see where students might be at
different time points in the school year. Second, it helps us score our own students’ writing with greater
accuracy and consistency.
For each grade level, there are three CODE courses—one for opinion/argumentative writing, one for
expository writing, and one for narrative writing.
Each of the three courses is a video of approximately 10-15 minutes. Each video features the following.
● A focus on four color-coded student exemplars, each illustrating different levels of progress on
the writing standard. These provide an index of where students might be at different time
points in the school year.
● An application exercise, where you can score three additional exemplars and compare your
scores to scores my team and I provided. This application exercise can be useful in promoting
greater accuracy and consistency in your own scoring.
We also provide a slide deck for each grade level, which includes the exemplars featured in the videos,
as well as links to the rubrics used and a few related instructional resources.
Simply use the links to access these materials.