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Grammar for Teachers
Grades 6-college
Instructor: Nelson Graff
July 13-24, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-noon
UC Berkeley campus
Fee: $300
(2 units of optional credit: $110)

This workshop is for teachers who are interested in learning more about integrating grammar instruction into their teaching of reading and writing. Practical workshop exercises will cover the basics: grammar as rhetoric, parts of speech, the English verb system, joining sentences, expanding sentences, uses and abuses of passive voice, and punctuation with a purpose. Bring your favorite grammar questions and a sample student essay full of errors! Discussion topics include: “grammar myths”; the role of rules; the connection between sentence crafting, style and voice; teaching grammar options without destroying ownership; the ups and downs of writing development, English Learners’ sources of error, and the psychology of correctness.

Yes They Can! Writing and English Learners
Grades K-5
Instructors: Betty Pazmiño, Content Specialist, English Language Arts, K-5, San Francisco USD
Mary Lugton, Dover Elementary School, West Contra Costa USD
August 3–7, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Location: Albany Middle School, Albany
Fee: $300
(2 units of optional credit: $110)

How do English Language Learners come to know themselves as writers?

How do they use their knowledge of language to make sense of writing in English?

What skills, strategies and structures are necessary in developing an effective Writers Workshop with ELLs?

With a focus on what students CAN do, this workshop will address these questions and more as you learn how to assess students’ writing, craft effective mini-lessons, and select and use mentor texts. You will also explore explicit vocabulary instruction, the use of student talk as a bridge to learning, and the specifics of peer conferencing with ELLs. Throughout, we will pay attention to the standards and to the challenges of carving out a dedicated writing block in your teaching.

Teaching Writing in the Secondary Classroom
Grades 6-12
July 27–August 7
Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructors: M. Clare LePell, Castro Valley High School
Katherine Suyeyasu. ASCEND, Grades 6-8, Oakland
Location: UC Berkeley campus
Fee: $400
(3 units of optional credit: $165)

We all want our students to write more and to greater effect, but how do we make this happen? How do we build memorable writing lessons that generate thoughtful content and address the needs of both our best students and our struggling students (without drowning in paper)? What are strategies for helping ELL students and for building students’ skills that meet state standards? What about cultivating academic language in the classroom? In short, how do energize or re-energize ourselves as teachers of writing so that we can engage students in the power of the written word?
Join this two-week class led by veteran educators, M. Clare LePell and Katherine Suyeyasu, where we’ll address these questions and more. In a highly collegial setting...
experience interactive teaching demonstrations that will give you new ideas and greater confidence in your lessons

write frequently and share your writing in small groups

explore questions about the teaching of writing through discussions of selected readings

develop lessons for next fall using your own curriculum and texts

Summer Writing Workshop for Teachers

Workshop I
All grades
August 3–7. Monday–Friday. 9:00 a.m. – noon
Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky
Location: UC Berkeley campus
Fee: $150
(1 unit of optional credit: $55)

This intensive week of writing brings participants together to write for themselves by completing assignments in several genres. Each of the assignments can be taken into writing classrooms at all levels. Read inspiring models, collaborate with response partners and collect ideas and materials for teaching. This seventh year of BAWP’s Summer Writing Workshop for Teachers sits solidly on the belief that teachers become better teachers of writing by writing themselves. Participants contribute to an anthology that we publish at the end of the week.

Workshop II

Advanced Summer Writing Workshop for Teachers
All grades
August 10 -14, Monday–Friday. 9:00 a.m. – noon
Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky
Location: UC Berkeley campus
Fee: $150
(1 unit of optional credit: $55)

We are excited to offer an advanced writing course for teachers who have completed a Summer Writing Workshop for Teachers or who have had extensive experience writing and want to expand their writing to new topics, new genres or seek focused critical feedback on a writing project they’ve already begun. In addition to daily writing assignments, this advanced workshop will feature guest presenters who are successful teacher-writers. Register for this course and immerse yourself in a luxurious week of reading, writing, sharing, thinking. Surround yourself with dedicated, creative, hard-writing people who are ambassadors of BAWP’s vision that good teachers of writing are writers themselves.

THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
All Grades
Instructors: Yumi Matsui (co-instructor TBA)
August 3-7, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Location: Life Academy (former Calvin Simmons Middle School site)
2101 35th Ave., Oakland
Space is limited to 15 participants
Fee: $300
(2 units of optional credit: $110)

Have you ever thought about producing a film? Do you have trouble getting ALL students engaged in a writing activity? Do you want to learn more about integrating technology into your classroom? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the BAWP summer workshop you’re looking for! In one week, you will learn to use iMovie to produce your own digital story (written, narrated, edited, and possibly shot by you). You will learn the scaffolding and skills to create digital stories with your students in your own classroom. You will leave the workshop with a copy of your digital story to share with friends, family and students.

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