Write in the Middle

	Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers Strategies that help teachers create a nurturing, supportive, and engaging environment for young writers
	Workshop 2: Making Writing Meaningful An exploration of how middle level teachers encourage students to connect to writing and understand its power
	Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry Using the immersion technique and other instructional strategies to help students develop as writers and readers of poetry
	Workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing Prewriting strategies that help students understand effective persuasive writing
	Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing Two divergent applications with commentary by Tom Romano, author of Writing With Passion
	Workshop 6: Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student Improving student writing and monitoring progress through formal and informal student/teacher conferences
	Workshop 7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer Strategies for teaching students to respond to each other's writing
	Workshop 8: Teaching the Power of Revision Classroom practices that help even reluctant writers see the power and purpose of revision \| Top \|

What do successful teachers do to help their students become confident and proficient writers?

Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers addresses that question in an eight-part professional development workshop.

Interactive Practice:
Respond to Student Writing
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate student writing and then compare your responses to another teacher's.

Listen to the Experts
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Best Practices in Teaching Writing
Download this list of best practices featured throughout the workshop.