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| Carl Anderson and Matt Glover invite you to join them for a two-day institute that will help you develop the writing curriculum in your international school so that it meets the needs of your students in your school. We have used the word summit in the institute title to reflect the importance of the work we hope to accomplish together during this weekend. We hope that K-8 teachers who want to strengthen their writing curriculums will attend, as well as or the literacy coaches, administrators, and curriculum specialists who support them. We encourage you to come with colleagues from your school so that the institute gives you a shared framework as you think about the thinking you’ll do together to improve your school’s writing curriculum. Why is it time for a “writing curriculum summit”? First, we find that many international schools are in the process of evaluating their instructional approach to teaching writing and are asking about what could enhance their current writing curriculums, or even replace them. Second, many international schools have an issue with instructional time, given the numerous special classes that students attend during the school day. To most efficiently use the time students have with the classroom teacher, they integrate writing with inquiry and/or content area units. While an integrated approach addresses the issue of time and meaningful connected learning, these schools are grappling with these questions: How do we teach students to write well when it’s integrated into inquiry and content area units? What is the writing curriculum in an integrated approach? This institute is designed to give you the support you need to enhance and revise how your school teaches writing. How? We’re going to help you think about how to maximize the conditions for student engagement in writing. Student engagement is the number one goal for an any instructional approach, as research has consistently shown the link between engagement and achievement in any subject. During the institute, we’ll help you think about practical strategies you can use to increase engagement -- and thus achievement -- in writing: We’ll show you how to enhance your current instructional approach by prioritizing methods that are directly linked to student engagement, such as giving students choice of topic and genre, teaching with high-engagement mentor texts, and developing mentor-mentee relationships with students in 1:1 writing conferences. We’ll show you how you can modify your existing instructional approach to increase engagement by swapping out low-engagement stand-alone or integrated writing units for high engagement ones. And we’ll show you how to project a brand-new, high-engagement writing curriculum - whether it contains stand-alone writing units, integrated units, or a combination of both -- to replace the one you’re currently using, if its “engagement potential” is low. The two days will each begin with a keynote, followed by a workshop co-led by Carl and Matt, and then breakout sessions. Our goal is that you’ll leave this institute with a repertoire of strategies you can use to enhance or revise your instructional approach to teaching writing - and that you’ll be ready to initiate school-wide discussions about writing curriculum when you return home. |
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| K- 8 teachers, literacy coaches, administrators, and curriculum specialists. | |||||||||
| CARL ANDERSON | |||||||||
| Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in writing instruction for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world. Carl is the author of numerous books on teaching writing, including the new How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Matt Glover, Fall, 2023), A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts K-5, A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, as well as Assessing Writers and the Strategic Writing Conferences series. | |||||||||
| MATT GLOVER | |||||||||
| Matt Glover has been a teacher, principal, and consultant for over 30 years. Matt’s most recent books are How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Carl Anderson, Fall, 2023), and Craft and Process Studies, which focuses on increasing student engagement through choice of genre. He is also the author and co-author of many titles including I Am Reading, Engaging Young Writers, Projecting Possibilities for Writers, Already Ready, and Watch Katie and Matt … Sit Down and Teach Up, a video-enhanced ebook. Matt was also co-editor with Ellin Oliver Keene of a best-selling collection of essays, The Teacher You Want to Be. | |||||||||
| Venue: Chadwick International School 45 Art center-daero 97beon-gil, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, South Korea Suggested Hotels
Registration at 8:00 am on the 17th of January 2026 |
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