This month's ELA Newsflash is all about inspiration. Springtime inspires refreshed mindsets, new perspectives, and plans for the future. Dig into the following dynamic articles for inspiration!
Inspiring Reluctant Writers Teacher free-writing? Well, not really, but this article outlines an instructional shift that puts the students in the driver's seat of their own learning. Here's a wonderful article about inspiring reluctant writers. Complete with examples, images, and inspiration, read Almost-free writing: topics, form, process, and publication without a teacher, by Sarah Donovan.
MT Online PLC TODAY! Wednesday, May 11 at 3:45 p.m. Get inspired with hosts Bridgett Paddock and Wendy Tyree as they lead the discussion on writing across the curriculum. This month's article of discussion is a chapter from David and Phyllis Whitein's book Math is Language Too: Talk and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom. The chapter is called Talking, Writing, and Mathematical Thinking. Full citation and article available at the google site for the PLC. Click here! Today features special guest, Glenda McCarthy, IEFA Coordinator for Billings Public Schools!
As always, to be part of the monthly PLC, simply click here on Wednesday, May 11 at 3:45 to join the fun! Upcoming Summer Professional Learning to Inspire You First Folio Shakespeare Teacher Workshops and Student Performances, May 20 and 21 at the University of Montana, Missoula Certificate in Creative and Expository Writing Availabe through MSU-Billings. Click here MBI, Bozeman, June 20-24. Register here. Elk River Writing Project, June 13- July 1, MSU-Billings Yellowstone Writing Project, Advanced Summer Intensive, Bozeman. Email for more info Worlds Apart But Not Strangers, Holocaust education with IEFA, July 31-August 6, Missoula