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Dear Colleague,

We are very pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 TCRWP Summer Institutes will be available on our website beginning next Wednesday, February 26th at 9am EST. For more information, please visit the following webpage:

http://readingandwritingproject.org/services/institutes/summer-institutes
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Please keep in mind, past experience shows that thousands will be logging in to apply the first day, which may cause website delays. We recommend using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Please be patient and know that all applications submitted in the first few days will receive equal consideration from our registration team. We hope you will apply to join us this summer!

Best wishes,
The Reading and Writing Project

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer a series of virtual institutes for the Fall-Winter. Applications are available on our website. Please visit the TCRWP website for an updated look at TCRWP''s 2020-2021 professional development offerings.

Nonfiction Reading in the Primary Grades: Grades K-2

Monday, November 16 - Wednesday, November 18, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
One powerful way for students to grow a deeper understanding about the world is to read about it! This past spring taught us that students can and should be doing this through books as well as digital texts. This institute will energize your nonfiction reading units as you learn how to engage primary students in nonfiction reading and learning of new content all at once.

The Nuts and Bolts of Getting Book Clubs Up and Going: Grades 2-5

Monday, November 16 - Wednesday, November 18, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
This institute is designed for educators who are newer to book clubs or for those who want to learn the basic foundations to getting clubs up and going and then maintaining them. We’ll draw on more than three decades of thinking and work in schools to help you learn the structures and routines that underlie successful club work, the role of the whole-class read aloud in supporting book clubs, and how to coach into clubs as they work to keep them growing as readers and club mates.

Shoring Up Kids’ Foundational Essay Writing Skills, with an Emphasis on Literary Essay: Grades 3-5

Wednesday, November 18 - Friday, November 20, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
This institute is geared toward teachers whose students are new (or newish) to writing essays and need a strong foundation in essay writing, especially literary essay writing. You’ll get a first-hand look at teaching practices that help beginning essayists succeed, regardless of grade level. You’ll experience an essay boot camp and learn about the coaching that helps kids get the structure of an essay in their bones.

Equity Institute: Advancing Racial Equity in Education: Grades K-8

Tuesday, December 1 - Thursday, December 3, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
Bettina Love says, “Pedagogy, regardless of its name, is useless without teachers dedicated to challenging systemic oppression with intersectional social justice.” This institute will spotlight the relationship between teaching, literacy, and equity as we galvanize our collective energy to disrupt silences around race and racism in classrooms, curriculum and schools. Presenters will demonstrate how culturally sustaining, antiracist, and critical literacy practices can bring about liberatory educational experiences that help all children thrive.

Argumentation and Flash Debate: Building Talk Structures, Analytical Thinking, and Logical Expression across ELA, S.S., and Science: Grades 6-12

Wednesday, December 9 - Friday, December 11, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
The past few years have been both painful and beautiful for student activism. Tween and teen voices are raised and heard around the country as never before. At this institute, we will establish a vision for how to launch, sustain, and lift the level of argument work in grades 6-12 across all content areas and across students’ lives, so that students learn powerful ways to analyze evidence, compose logical arguments, and use their voices to advocate for change.

How Do You Help Kids Research a Topic and Build Knowledge in Depth, Whether They’re In the Classroom or Learning Remotely?: Grades 3-5

Monday, January 11 - Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
This institute is all about designing literacy-based lessons that help kids build deep knowledge in the content areas. Part of the institute will focus on sharpening research skills of our kids, so that they can use reading and writing to build knowledge about a topic—whether that’s a shared class topic or one they’ve chosen for themselves. We’ll dig into the essential research skills kids need to succeed and the ways those skills develop across grade levels.

SAVE THE DATE: TCRWP''s First-Ever Virtual Saturday Reunion

Saturday, October 17, 2020, 9:00am-1:30pm EST
Opening Keynote Speaker: Grace Lin
We are thrilled to continue our Saturday Reunion tradition, virtually, for the first time ever! Unlike previous Saturday Reunions, we will join together over Zoom, but as in all of the years past, the day will be devoted to learning and sharing together with Project leaders, staff developers, and friends of the TCRWP, at no cost. Stay tuned for a schedule of the day and how to connect virtually.

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer a series of virtual institutes for the Fall. Applications are available on our website. Please visit the TCRWP website for an updated look at TCRWP''s 2020-2021 professional development offerings.

Blending Reading and Writing Instruction with Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Mapping, and Phonics: Grades K-3

Monday, October 5 - Wednesday, October 7, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
Phonics brings phonological skills to print, and reading and writing workshop gives those skills a purpose. This institute will highlight the intersection of these subjects and explore our latest thinking on how to grow proficient, engaged readers and writers.

An Institute on Supporting Students with IEPs: Grades K-8

Wednesday, October 7 - Friday, October 9, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
The presenters at this institute will tap their deep knowledge of the workshop model, and its inherent flexibility and dedication to individualized instruction, and share strategies and plans for applying those methods to support your students with IEPs.

Institute on the Intersection of Dyslexia and the Reading Workshop: Grades K-8

Wednesday, October 14 - Friday, October 16, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
We have all heard the call from parents, policy-makers, and educators to support students with—or at risk of having—dyslexia. educators TCRWP has dedicated significant time to studying dyslexia over the past few years, both internally and with renowned partners such as The Child Mind Institute. This mini-institute will share new learning about how to support students with dyslexia in reading workshop.

Annual Coaching Institute on the Teaching of Reading: Grades K-8

Sunday, October 18 - Wednesday, October 21, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
This coaching institute will provide support in methods of staff development, coaching practice, and giving and receiving on-the-spot feedback. We will not only support participants to help teachers use the Units of Study in Reading, but also help you think about how coaching can take place under any circumstance, be it in person or virtually.

Rethinking the Classroom: Digital Best Practices that Maximize Student Learning in Virtual, In-Person, and Hybrid Environments

Monday, October 26 - Tuesday, October 27, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
The pandemic of 2020 transformed teachers all over the world into digital teachers overnight. This institute is designed to make sure we share that knowledge and also bring these best digital practices into our analog, hybrid, and virtual reading and writing workshops and leverage them for high engagement, access, and transfer.

Teaching Writing in High School: Infusing the Best of Workshop Methods into Secondary ELA: Grades 9-12

Wednesday, October 28 - Friday, October 30, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
Join us to hone your craft as a powerful teacher of writing. We will begin with memoir writing and move from that to essay writing. Inside of these genres, our focus will be on methods—on writing process, demonstration, ways of working with mentor texts, and techniques for giving students intimate and transformational feedback.

Institute to Support High-Leverage Writing Instruction for Students Learning English as a New Language, with a Focus on Stages of Language Acquisition: Grades K-5

Wednesday, November 4 - Friday, November 6, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
This institute will empower you to analyze your students’ writing and design high-leverage instruction that will foster language acquisition and move your writers forward in dramatic ways. 

Dear Colleague,

Teachers and schools around the world have launched their virtual classrooms and are finding that we can teach virtually, and that we can do it well—even, in some moments, spectacularly. TCRWP has been partnering with teachers and schools in order to pivot to virtual learning—researching, innovating, collaborating. To ensure that our teaching is as beautiful, engaging, and as significant as possible, TCRWP is pleased to offer a series of virtual professional development offerings for the upcoming months for educators and families: live 2-3 day institutes, live one-day courses, and pre-recorded courses.

To view the brochure of offerings, please visit the following webpage:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rp44HFD1Hx0qY5TVXQPedIZyzlYC29wa/view 
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We are continuing to share free, robust materials on our website to support virtual teaching and learning, to help you connect with families and with each other, and to help us all increase access and equity. We have open Zoom calls scheduled each night, on different topics, with staff developers who are volunteering their time, as well as videos on our YouTube channel. 

We look forward to learning with you this spring.

Best wishes,
The Reading and Writing Project

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer a sequence of conference days across the year aimed at providing support for teachers, schools, and districts new to Units of Study.  These days are built to support key reading, writing, or Up the Ladder units.

Each conference will support teachers with hard earned wisdom from a TCRWP staff developer at roughly the time of year when you’ll be approaching a new unit of study in grades K-8. You can expect these days to cover:

·  An overview of the unit’s pathway, with attention to ways it supports students’ yearlong journey.
·  Work with the unit’s high leverage goals. What skills deserve to be highlighted? How can students’ progress be assessed, supported and tracked? How does the unit support standards?
·  Guidance with the particular teaching challenges of the unit and support with the methods of teaching that will have particular pay off at this time of the year. 
·  Guidance in adapting the unit to particular contexts, such as providing extra support for below benchmark learners, for Multilingual Learners, for students with IEPs.​ 
·  Support accessing helpful resources (including TCRWP documents and Heinemann online resources).

http://readingandwritingproject.org/services/one-day-events/units-of-study-conference-days 
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Days for each grade level begin in July 2020. Click below to read about this offering in great detail. 

Colleagues,

We’re looking forward to seeing you at our first ever Virtual Saturday Reunion, this Saturday, October 17! We know you’re carrying the weight of the world, and so we’ve tried hard to make today be as helpful as it can be. This is our 98th Saturday Reunion. We trust that it will live up to the tradition set by the 97 previous ones. We hope that it feels like a thank you gift, as that’s what we intend it to be. This day is offered at no cost, and registration is not required.

We’re grateful that the children’s book author Grace Lin will open the day at 9am Eastern Daylight Time. Following her keynote, you’ll see 3 main sessions. Within each, you can either attend a long workshop (50 minutes, highlighted in blue) or several micro workshops (15 minutes each, highlighted in yellow). Follow the times carefully, remembering that they are all Eastern Daylight Time.

You can access the schedule for the day using the button below or by heading to www.readingandwritingproject.org. For your convenience, we''ve also created grade level schedules (K-2, 3-5, and 6-8) to help you more easily find the sessions that are right for you. 

We ask that you join workshops at the start of them, be visible while in them, and stay for the entire workshop. Popping in and out of sessions is disruptive to everyone. We especially encourage you to honor the community of practice by being all-in when you are in a breakout room.  

We will end the day with a closing, led by me, at 12:45pm Eastern Daylight Time, and bonus sessions at 1:20pm Eastern Daylight Time where you can learn about our new Virtual Resources for Teaching Units of Study.

We look forward to (virtually) seeing you there!

All the best, 

Lucy Calkins and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer several new opportunities beginning in August. Applications for institutes and tickets for live and pre-recorded workshops are now available on our website.

Trauma-Informed Teaching within a Writing Workshop for K-5 Teachers

Join Arlène Elizabeth Casimir for a one-day workshop to learn about how trauma-informed teaching within a writing workshop can be a space of healing, joy, liberation, and reciprocity for you and your students - and why it’s more important now than ever. We are offering this workshop several times to accommodate different time zones and keep the groups more intimate.

Friday, August 7 at 8am-11am EDT
Friday, August 7 at 1pm-4pm EDT
Friday, August 14 at 8am-11am EDT
Friday, August 14 at 1pm-4pm EDT

Click here to learn more and purchase. Seats are limited so don''t wait.
Click here to read more from TCRWP staff members on spirited teaching during difficult times.

New! Creating and Curating Digital Libraries Pre-Recorded Course

The research on access to books is clear - students who have access to a well-stocked, well-maintained, current classroom library out read their peers who do not have this access by 50-60%. This course aims to teach you the essentials you need to create and curate digital classroom bins, shelves, and libraries that are brimming with texts your students totally want to read and totally can read.  

Click here to learn more and purchase.

Rising to the Challenge: Teaching Literacy Virtually and with Magic: Grades K-8

Wednesday, August 12 - Thursday, August 13, 11am-4pm EDT
To meet the demands of our moment in time, TCRWP will be hosting the institute, Rising to the Challenge: Teaching Literacy Virtually and with Magic: Grades K-8. This institute will help teachers and literacy coaches with their immediate goals of becoming increasingly graceful and adept at virtual instruction. 

Click here to learn more and apply. 

Click here to watch testimonials from TCRWP partner school leaders speaking about the role TCRWP has played in supporting their schools and especially in helping them rise to the new challenges of today.

Colleagues,

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project will be continuing to share materials on our website to support virtual teaching and learning, to help you connect with families and with each other, and to help us all increase access and equity. We have open zoom calls scheduled each night, on different topics, with staff developers who are volunteering their time, as well as videos on our YouTube channel. For schools and districts who have access to PD funds, we also have upcoming virtual institutes scheduled for in-depth study on specific topics.  

On Our Website:
Find several tabs of resources for flipped teaching, live teaching, recorded and upcoming free workshops and webinars, padlets, and more to support kids at home:
https://readingandwritingproject.org/virtuallearning

Rising to the Challenge: Teaching Literacy Virtually and with Magic: Grades K-8
April 6-8, April 8-10, April 13-15, and April 15-17
Due to high interest, we are offering four more iterations of this institute in the upcoming two weeks. These institutes will help teachers and literacy coaches with their immediate goals of becoming increasingly graceful and adept at virtual instruction. There will be small group instruction with TCRWP staff developers; you''ll study with Lucy Calkins, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Mary Ehrenworth, Shanna Schwartz, Emily Butler Smith, and many others.
Click here to learn more.

Now Is a Time for Engaging Readers and Writers Virtually with Graphic Novels (and Graphic Nonfiction)! A Graphic Novel Virtual Institute: Grades 3-8
Wednesday, April 15 - Friday, May 1, 2020
Wednesday, April 29 - Friday, May 1, 2020
Graphic novels have tremendous power to engage and support even the most reluctant (and distant) readers. During this virtual institute, you will learn how to harness the power of graphic novels through distance learning to keep your kids reading, and turn more of them into readers. You''ll also find out how to coach your kids, either in a unit of study or through independent writing, to create graphic novels, comic books, and nonfiction. Now is the time for intense engagement by tapping the power of this magical genre. 
Click here to learn more.

Coach Digital Readers and Writers: Digital Reading, Writing, and Note-taking Institute: Grades K-8
Monday, May 4 - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
This institute will focus on the Project’s latest thinking around the integration of digital and media literacy with a particular emphasis on reading workshop methods and curriculum to support fiction reading and nonfiction research. As so many of our students are reading and writing digitally during this time of virtual learning, it''s more important than ever to coach students in crucial digital skills. 
Click here to learn more.

Colleagues,

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project will be continuing to share materials on our website to support virtual teaching and learning, to help you connect with families and with each other, and to help us all increase access and equity. We have open zoom calls scheduled each night, on different topics, with staff developers who are volunteering their time, as well as videos on our YouTube channel. For schools and districts who have access to PD funds, we also have upcoming virtual institutes scheduled for in-depth study on specific topics.  

On Our Website:
Find several tabs of resources for flipped teaching, live teaching, recorded and upcoming free workshops and webinars, padlets, and more to support kids at home:
https://readingandwritingproject.org/virtuallearning

Rising to the Challenge: Teaching Literacy Virtually and with Magic: Grades K-8
April 6-8, April 8-10, April 13-15, and April 15-17
Due to high interest, we are offering four more iterations of this institute in the upcoming two weeks. These institutes will help teachers and literacy coaches with their immediate goals of becoming increasingly graceful and adept at virtual instruction. There will be small group instruction with TCRWP staff developers; you''ll study with Lucy Calkins, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Mary Ehrenworth, Shanna Schwartz, Emily Butler Smith, and many others.
Click here to learn more.

Now Is a Time for Engaging Readers and Writers Virtually with Graphic Novels (and Graphic Nonfiction)! A Graphic Novel Virtual Institute: Grades 3-8
Wednesday, April 15 - Friday, May 1, 2020
Wednesday, April 29 - Friday, May 1, 2020
Graphic novels have tremendous power to engage and support even the most reluctant (and distant) readers. During this virtual institute, you will learn how to harness the power of graphic novels through distance learning to keep your kids reading, and turn more of them into readers. You''ll also find out how to coach your kids, either in a unit of study or through independent writing, to create graphic novels, comic books, and nonfiction. Now is the time for intense engagement by tapping the power of this magical genre. 
Click here to learn more.

Coach Digital Readers and Writers: Digital Reading, Writing, and Note-taking Institute: Grades K-8
Monday, May 4 - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
This institute will focus on the Project’s latest thinking around the integration of digital and media literacy with a particular emphasis on reading workshop methods and curriculum to support fiction reading and nonfiction research. As so many of our students are reading and writing digitally during this time of virtual learning, it''s more important than ever to coach students in crucial digital skills. 
Click here to learn more.

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 TCRWP Summer Institutes are now open. For more information and to view the 2020 Summer brochure, please visit the following webpage:

http://readingandwritingproject.org/services/institutes/summer-institutes
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We hope you will apply to join us this summer!

Best wishes,
The Reading and Writing Project

Colleagues,

In these unprecedented times, teachers, principals, coaches, and literacy leaders from across the country and world have joined together on TCRWP''s social media to extend their learning communities and their thinking alongside one another. These channels host over 50,000 educators who discuss and share their best workshop and distance learning practices.

We encourage you to join these groups in order to be part of conversations with thousands of other K-8 teachers. Teachers who teach workshop in reading, writing, and phonics, are sharing their expertise and epiphanies, raising questions, and supporting one another as they grapple with distance learning and aim to support students'' and families'' ongoing learning and connection.

On Facebook:
Units of Study in Writing TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.WUOS/)
Units of Study In Reading TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.RUOS/) 
Units of Study in Middle School: Reading and Writing Workshops TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.MS.UOS/)

On YouTube:
Get immediate tips about distance learning for educators and parents:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TCRWP/ 

On Twitter:
Follow us at https://twitter.com/tcrwp or #TCRWP

Lucy Calkins and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Staff

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer a series of virtual institutes for the school year. Applications are available on our website. All 2020-2021 institutes will be offered virtually through Zoom. Please visit the TCRWP website for an updated look at TCRWP''s 2020-2021 professional development offerings.

January 2021

How Do You Help Kids Research a Topic and Build Knowledge in Depth, Whether They’re In the Classroom or Learning Remotely?: Grades 3-5

Monday, January 11 - Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
This institute is all about designing literacy-based lessons that help kids build deep knowledge in the content areas. We''ll focus on sharpening research skills, so that students use reading and writing to become experts able to analyze information and teach others about a topic—whether that’s a shared class topic or one they’ve chosen for themselves.

Black History IS American History: Grades K-9

Three Saturdays: January 16, 23, and 30, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
Across this institute, we’ll demonstrate how to break the cycle of relying upon reassuring narratives and instead, lean into the unsettling truths about race and racism in America that children are demanding and that help us to forge an antiracist future. We’ll demonstrate the kinds of books and teaching that live beyond the month of February and all year long.

Phonics Institute: Grades K-2

Tuesday, January 19 - Thursday, January 21, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
This institute will support the teaching of TCRWP’s Units of Study in K-2 phonics. You’ll learn about the ways in which the curriculum is grounded in the research on how kids develop phonological awareness and phonics. This year, we’ll offer beginner and advanced sections, based only on whether you’ve previously attended a TCRWP phonics institute.

Studying Characters: An Institute on the Intersection of Comprehension and Compassion: Grades K-2

Three Saturdays: April 10, April 24, and May 1, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
This institute will teach you how to leverage read aloud to teach the skills of empathy that, in turn, garner even deeper comprehension. You’ll learn how to embed your plans with rich, multi-layered prompting that will take students from literal to inferential understanding, engaging students in conversations about friendship, equity, safety, and the like.

NGSS, Science Literacies, and Activism: A Science, Education, and Climate Change Institute: Grades 3-10

Monday, May 17 - Wednesday, May 19, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that all of us can attend to science. This institute will tackle the big challenges of teaching science, including teaching inquiry, analysis, and urgent communication skills. Learn alongside guest presenters Paul Andersen, Dr. Elizabeth Ayana-Johnson, David Wallace-Wells, TedX, and more.

Digital Nonfiction Reading, Writing, and Notetaking Institute: Grades K-8

Wednesday, May 19 to Friday, May 21, 2021, Virtual through Zoom
This is an all-new institute that will bring together the Project’s newest thinking around digital literacy with our latest work on research and nonfiction reading and writing. You’ll learn methods for authentically using digital tools and media within both online teaching and brick-and-mortar environments, to develop digitally literate students who can navigate comfortably between different forms of media.

Colleagues,

To meet the demands of our moment in time, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project will be hosting the institute, Rising to the Challenge: Teaching Literacy Virtually and with Magic: Grades K-8, held from Monday, March 30 - Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The institute will be held online through Zoom, and will run Monday, 3:00-5:00 pm EST, and Tuesday and Wednesday, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm EST.

This institute will help you with your immediate goals of becoming increasingly graceful and adept at virtual instruction.  There will be small group instruction with TCRWP staff developers; you''ll study with Lucy Calkins, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Mary Ehrenworth, Shanna Schwartz, Emily Butler Smith, and many others.  The institute aims to support teachers and literacy coaches. 

Across the three days of the institute, you’ll become ever more confident first with getting started, if that’s what you need most, and then with teaching ‘live’ over remote platforms, with creating vibrant pre-recorded, flipped lessons, read alouds, and messages to families, with running a variety of conferences, clubs, and small groups.  You’ll also learn about content (digital reading skills, peer conferring in writing, for example), that becomes more significant as kids are learning over digital platforms. Together, we’ll harvest the experiences of teachers, coaches, and tech experts who have been digging into this work. 

One main strand of the institute will address connectivity — how to stay connected and create intimate environments for your students, from our youngest readers and writers to our all-too-often lonely pre-teens. You’ll find out about flexible office hours, about one-on-one conferring that makes a difference, and about ways of reaching out to our most vulnerable students and families to work towards greater equity as schools move to online learning during the pandemic. 

Another strand will support you in adapting and innovating curriculum for “when the world hands you a curriculum,” to quote Sara Ahmed.  You’ll learn about kids who are keeping pandemic journals, who are collecting stories, ideas, and information about their experiences in this historic time.  You’ll consider how to connect kids with other young writers across the country and around the globe, so kids can be sharing their experiences. In the same way, you’ll consider the nonfiction curriculum that is the Pandemic, and both how to make that more generative for young students, and comprehensible for older students.  

We’ll also help you teach the most beautiful parts of your units of study and your reading and writing workshop, adapted in thoughtful ways for your new platforms, when you are ready. You can run beautiful book clubs, even if some kids are watching film clips, some kids are listening to audiobooks, some are in apps, and some have print in hand.  You can get kids doing beautiful notebook work, or playing spelling games, or exploring phonics. We’ll help you look ahead to the curriculum in the upcoming months, thinking carefully about what matters most. 

Finally, we’ll support you, in supporting your families. We’ll coach you in supporting multiple literacies, in offering support for students with learning differences, in doing the very best you can to make learning, at least, a bright spot in these months. 

Materials:
You’ll need a device for attendance. We will be instructing via Zoom, but we will also be addressing local platforms such as Google Classroom, See-Saw, FlipGrid, and so on.  The institute is hands-on, and you’ll have opportunities to use your platform as well as the institute Zoom.

Registration:
The cost of this institute is $375 per person. This institute will be offered live and will not be recorded for later distribution. To register, please visit our website for more information or click the link below. For questions about payment and payment options, please email contact@readingandwritingproject.com.

All the best,
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

The Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer the Units of Study in Phonics Institute virtually this Summer 2020. This institute will introduce you to TCRWP’s Units of Study in K-2 phonics. Co-authors will bring you behind the scenes to understand the decisions that informed the curriculum. You’ll learn about the ways in which the curriculum is grounded in the research on how kids develop. You’ll learn, also, about the storyline that undergirds each unit. In one unit, kids solve the mystery of the silent e; in another, they become word collectors and learn to deeply study words. You’ll be given a big-picture overview of the K-2 curriculum. The institute will be held live and virtually, via Zoom. To apply, please visit the following webpage:

http://readingandwritingproject.org/services/institutes/summer-institutes/july-phonics-institute-grades-k-2
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We hope you will apply to join us this July!

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is pleased to offer a series of institutes and conference days for the new school year. Applications for institutes and tickets for live and pre-recorded conference days are available on our website. For an updated look at TCRWP''s 2020-2021 professional development offerings, please visit our website here:

Coaching Institute: Getting Ready for the New Year: Reading and Writing: Grades K-8
Monday, August 17 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
We have designed this institute to support you—and through you, your colleagues—as you rise to the challenge of starting the 2020-21 school year, a year unlike any we’ve ever experienced. By tapping into the talents, resources, experiences, and moral strength of the TCRWP staff and of each other, we’ll grow stronger, becoming the leaders we want to be for our students and school communities. Whether teachers are teaching virtually or in person, you’ll learn ways to help them acknowledge what students have experienced and support healing and growth.
Click here to learn more.

Grade-Specific Support for a Best-Possible Online Launch of 2020-2021: State of the Art Help Teaching Your First Reading/Writing Units Online: Grades K-8
Monday, August 17 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
The institute is designed to offer you not only the curriculum but also the expertise so that you can teach your first unit in a state-of-the-art distance-learning way. The TCRWP staff has worked with hundreds of schools in Spring 2020 and has had time together to sift through, combine, and deepen all that we have learned from that experience.
Click here to learn more.

Mini-Institute Around Teaching in Spanish, Offered in Spanish: Grades K-8
Wednesday, August 19 - Friday, August 21, 2020, Virtual through Zoom
Many schools work to support students’ language identities and growth through a variety of English/Spanish dual language programs. If you are one of the many teachers around the world working to adapt the Units of Study to teach in Spanish, this institute is for you. This institute will explore special considerations for teaching reading and writing workshops in Spanish, whether you’re teaching in person or virtually.
Click here to learn more.

A SUBSCRIPTION TO GRADE-SPECIFIC UNITS OF STUDY CONFERENCES
Click here to learn more.

We have found that teachers benefit from timely, grade-specific PD that supports the instruction those teachers are just about to embark on. TCRWP therefore offers a Calendar of Conference Days for each grade level-—four days offered across the year to help with reading instruction and four to help with writing instruction. These days support teachers in a sequence of units, and also in using data from assessment and in supporting kids’ growth on essential standards.

NEW PRE-RECORDED COURSES
Click here to learn more.
TCRWP is now offering pre-recorded courses, viewable anytime upon enrollment, on these exciting topics:

•  Supporting Digital Reading, Grades 3-9
•  Adapting Fairy Tales: A Super Cool Unit that Captures the Imagination of Kids and Families — Virtually or in Person — and Gets them Reading and Writing Up a Storm, Grades 2-4
•  Planning and Leading Culturally Responsive Read Alouds and Book Talks — Virtually and Face to Face, Grades K-5
•  Tapping the Power of Book Clubs: Lead Virtual Book Clubs on Graphic Novels and Learn TCRWPs Latest Thinking about Supporting High Level Comprehension That Way, Grades 3-9

Dear Colleague,

We are thrilled to let you know that our summer reading and writing institutes will be running virtually and beautifully. The institutes will support you in teaching writing, reading, and phonics in ways that will help you shine in any environment. What you’ve always come to expect from TCRWP institutes—large and small group experiences, support for you as a reader and writer, study of pedagogy, help becoming ever more confident with minilessons, small groups, and conferences, and community through reading and writing—will be, as always, part of this joyful learning experience. 

If you’ve already applied, we have your application. No need to reapply. We have fine-tuned our advanced (returning) sections to reflect the shifting landscape of education in these last months, and to best prepare you for the flexible teaching you’ll need to do in the future. 

If you are applying for the first time, know that we will do our best to respond to your application as soon as possible. We will also keep a waitlist, and will do our very best to get you into one of our offerings this summer. If you have a particularly large group from your school or district applying, consider writing to us (at kathy@tcrwp.org) as well about a virtual homegrown institute.

We look forward to seeing you for this adventure. 

All the best, 
Lucy Calkins and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

Colleagues,

In this time of national and international crisis, teachers, coaches, administrators, staff developers, and families are sharing resources as fast as we can. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is sharing materials to support virtual teaching and learning, to help you connect with families and with each other, and to help us all increase access and equity, which we are deeply concerned about. Much of the material is in the form of videos, which all members of the community are finding among the most accessible and engaging supports. 

On Our Website:
Find several tabs of resources for flipped teaching, live teaching, recorded and upcoming free workshops and webinars, padlets, and more to support kids at home:
https://readingandwritingproject.org/virtuallearning

On Facebook:
Units of Study in Writing TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.WUOS/)
Units of Study In Reading TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.RUOS/) 
Units of Study in Middle School: Reading and Writing Workshops TCRWP (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCRWP.MS.UOS/)

On Twitter:
Follow us at https://twitter.com/tcrwp or #TCRWP

On YouTube:
Get immediate tips about distance learning for educators and parents:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TCRWP/ 

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Staff