Explore both the practical and playful during Summer Study with the Read Write Think team.
Get ahead of the curve on the 2023-2024 school year when you join us for your summer study! We've designed these three consecutive days of study with you in mind! Together, we'll refresh our professional learning lives by grounding the year ahead in a personal, professional study goal that is tethered to your core beliefs and specifically brings joy to your unique, and individual teaching identity.
We'll discuss ideas you can take back to your teaching community that will help decrease variables and increase alignment, agreements, and accountability. We'll also provide time to grow your professional support network by spending time with and learning from educators from across southern California.
Join us for one of our four course offerings as we raise up a generation of readers, writers, and thinkers who are the change agents of today and tomorrow.
Course 1: Harnessing the Power of Play: A Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) Collaborative;
Course 2: How to Teach Young Writers to Write (K-2);
Course 3: How to Teach Emerging Writers to Write (3-8);
Course 4: How to Build Panic-Free Test Prep Into Your Curriculum Year Round
The Accelerated Charter School
3914 South Main Street • Los Angeles, CA 90037
July 25 - 27, 2023
9am - 2pm PST
Sessions from 9am to 1pm
Implementation hour daily (from 1pm to 2pm)
to make and take ideas from the day's session with guidance
Cost (Registration fee includes all materials, light breakfast options): $597
Perfect for:
Educators (TK - 8) who support our youngest students in Transitional Kindergarten through adolescent students in middle school.
Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Instructional & Literacy Coaches
Leadership Team
Preservice Students
Choose your study option:
Harnessing the Power of Play: A Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) Collaobrative led by Kristi Mraz
Calling all Transitional Kinder (TK), Pre-Kinder (PK) educators! Join Kristi Mraz and fellow teachers and leaders on a joyous exploration of practical, playful and powerful developmentally rigorous practices in the Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) initiative.
These three days will be jam-packed with collaboration amongst teachers from across districts as we discuss common challenges and best practices in: room environment, schedule, curriculum, guided play, outdoor play, and more!
Here’s what you’ll learn:
Teachers will build their networks, have time to plan, dig into the California Department of Education’s resources, and have guided playful experiences that build the backbone of their developmentally appropriate practices.
Teachers will be invited to join affinity groups with other educators who are working in similar programs or have similar interests, and, best of all, receive starter kits of materials to explore as a community and bring back to their classrooms.
These days will be all about building broader communities of practice rooted in research based(and California Department of Education backed!) playful practices.
How to Teach Young Writers to Write (K-2)
You’re invited to join us for a three-day institute that will put you in the writer’s seat as you experience the writing process firsthand, so that you will feel empowered to take this experience and translate it into explicit strategies to teach to students.
We’ll walk you through best practices around brainstorming ideas and planning concepts, writing, editing, publishing and celebrating. (You will most likely walk away having improved your OWN writing skills, as well!)
You’ll leave this week with a framework to create your own writing curriculum that includes the three main text types - narrative, informational, and opinion writing - as well as genre study ideas so that students can experience each text type multiple times throughout the year in new and exciting ways. Along with instruction, you’ll create a yearlong plan that includes all text types, genre, and grammar studies and a starter kit of guides to help you plan your curriculum.
This course is especially designed for educators who teach children in kindergarten, first and second grades. This is a wonderful opportunity to network with like-minded professionals.
This course will teach you how to:
Break down writing instruction through a process approach that sets up teachers and students for success
Lead writing instruction from a firsthand experience
Utilize a writer’s teaching toolkit to model strategy instruction in whole group, small group, and individualized teaching
Set up all levels of writing talent for success with appropriate modifications and accommodations
Model teaching points that support students to experience simple success throughout the writing process
Improve your own brainstorming, writing, editing, and publishing process
How to Teach Emerging Writers to Write (3rd - 8th grade)
You’re invited to join us for a three-day institute that will put you in the writer’s seat to experience the writing process firsthand, so that you will feel empowered to take this experience and translate it into explicit strategies to teach to students.
We’ll walk you through best practices around brainstorming ideas and planning concepts, writing, editing, publishing and celebrating. (You will most likely walk away having improved your OWN writing skills, as well!)
You’ll leave this week with a framework to create your own writing curriculum that includes the three main text types - narrative, informational, and opinion (argument) writing - as well as genre study ideas so that students can experience each text type multiple times throughout the year in new and exciting ways. Along with instruction, you’ll create a yearlong plan that includes all text types, genre, and grammar studies and a starter kit of guides to help you plan your curriculum.
This course is especially designed for educators who teach children in third through eighth grades. This is a wonderful opportunity to network with like-minded professionals.
This course will teach you how to:
Break down writing instruction through a process approach that sets up teachers and students for success
Lead writing instruction from a firsthand experience
Utilize a writer’s teaching toolkit to model strategy instruction in whole group, small group, and individualized teaching
Set up all levels of writing talent for success with appropriate modifications and accommodations
Model teaching points that support students to experience simple success throughout the writing process
Improve your own brainstorming, writing, editing, and publishing process
How to Build Panic-Free Test Prep into Your Curriculum Year Round
Prepping for the ‘big test’ year-round?!
What if you could do it in a way that’s easy, effective, and fun for your students - and for YOU?
Join us this summer for an opportunity to learn how to be strategic and effective, building test prep into your year-long curriculum with both implicit and explicit strategies.
This course is designed for teachers who are new to a testing grade, who are tired and burnt out from “skill and drill” test tasks, and who crave a new and practical approach to supporting students in the world of test taking. Take the guesswork out of test taking and join us as we think through well designed test prep boot camps that set students up to experience success like never before.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
Draft a personalized curriculum calendar with implicit and explicit test prep built in from the get-go
Create a fear-free test prep environment for your students and yourself
Utilize subtle test prep teaching techniques that can be taught through various teaching structures
Design and teach through a gradual release model in brief phases.