Educational consulting services, professional development, curriculum and educational materials for K-12 educators. ESL, Reading, Writing, and Math. M. L. K. T. R.
Write Up A Storm!® provides support through professional development, demonstration lessons, and coaching for all levels of personnel: district level administrators, principals, leaders, teachers and support staff. Cognitive and reflective coaching are implemented in an effort to increase teacher competence. According to research, “Professional development workshops must be supported by modeling a
nd coaching in order to attain a higher degree of effectiveness.“ Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin; Elmore and Burney; Guskey; Joyce and Showers, 2000. Implementation of practices advocated in staff development workshops is most effective when professional development includes both staff training activities and staff support activities. Guskey notes that few teachers can go from workshop to practice without experimentation, classroom-based modeling, and other follow-up support. Additionally, teachers must be helped to endure and persist past the anxiety of initial failures. Cogan, “Current Issues in the Education of Teachers,” in Teacher Education: Seventy-Fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, ed. Ryan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975). Guskey, Evaluating Proffessional Development (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2000), 16. There is concrete research linking staff development and student achievement. Note that “a growing body of research shows that improving teacher knowledge and teaching skills is essential to raising student performance.”
D. Sparks and S. Hirsh, A National Plan for Improving Professional Development, 2000, 1, ERIC. ED 442779.
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We are so proud of all the hard work the teachers of Gadsden Elementary School District put into utilizing the Write Up A Storm!® program to help their students succeed!
Take a look at this local news story and see our Write Up A Storm!® team in action!
Will you be at ASCD Empower 17 this weekend in Anaheim? WE WILL BE THERE! Come join us at booth 1400 and enter to $$WIN$$ one of several Visa Gift Cards. We will draw new winners each day of the conference. Stop by booth 1400 for more details! !
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