This package includes:

• Writing to Learn – Leadership and Learning Live, Volume 2, DVD 3

  How can you leverage the proven power of writing in your school or classroom?  In Writing to Learn, you will discover what nonfiction writing is, what educational research says about its use, and specific ways to apply writing strategies tomorrow.  Our teacher Dr. Angela Peery, creator of The Center’s Writing to Learn seminars and author of the book Writing Matters in Every Classroom, will share compelling research behind employing nonfiction writing and will lead you in activities which illustrate exactly how you can implement writing across the curriculum.  After participating in this interactive learning activity, you will be ready to explore the power of writing, no matter what grade level or subject you teach.  If you’re an administrator or instructional coach, you will be ready to support teachers in their efforts to increase nonfiction writing to enhance academic achievement.

• (10) copies of Writing Matters in Every Classroom

  If increased writing correlates with higher achievement on standardized tests, why aren’t students writing more in their classes?  Why are young adults entering college and the workforce unprepared for the writing they are expected to do?  And . . . what can teachers do to address these problems?

  Compelling evidence, including data from 30 years of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), indicates that student writing is inadequate.  Other provocative research indicates that if students write more frequently across the content areas, they outperform their peers who don't utilize writing.

  In this book, Dr. Angela Peery, creator of The Leadership and Learning Center’s Writing to Learn seminars, explains simple strategies and shares implementation ideas about how writing can be used in every classroom to increase school-wide student success.