Prairie
Lands Writing Project December Activities
Terri McAvoy (St. Joseph,
retired) presented two-days of model
lessons at Pickett Elementary School in St. Joseph on Dec. 5th and 6th
h as part of PLWP’s SEED 2 Professional Development in a High-Need
Elementary School Grant.
As part of our work with the i3 College Ready
Writers Program, McAvoy (with PLWP Director Susan Martens) also facilitated a
debriefing session on Dec. 4 at MWSU with English/Language Arts teachers from
Hamilton who observed PLWP Teacher Consultants Josie Clark, Stacia Studer, and
Tia Fraham in action in their classrooms at Bode Middle School in St. Joseph.
In more i3 news, Tom Pankiewicz (MWSU), Kathy Miller
(Weston), and Valorie Stokes (Platte County) facilitated a professional
development in-service on the Six Traits of writing at Braymer High School on
Dec. 4 and at Breckenridge on Dec. 6.
Also on Dec. 6, a Mini-Conference
was held at Hamilton for K-12 teachers.
PLWP Teacher Consultants Sara Capra (Park Hill),
Lynn Tushaus (Savannah, retired), and Michele Irby (Orrick) presented “Mining
Mentor Texts: Reading as a Reader/Reading as a Writer” and “Writing to Learn in
the Content Areas.”
Finally, on Dec. 9, Pankiewicz led a book study
group at Hamilton for teachers reading Get
It Done! Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen.
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