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Morning Session in Australia: 7:30am (AEST) on Thursday 5 September
Afternoon session in the US: 4:30pm Central on Wednesday 4 September
NATALIE WEXLER
WEBSITE: WWW.NATALIEWEXLER.COM
AUTHOR, THE KNOWLEDGE GAP: THE HIDDEN CAUSE OF AMERICA’S BROKEN EDUCATION SYSTEM—AND HOW TO FIX IT (AVERY, 2019)
CO-AUTHOR (WITH JUDITH C. HOCHMAN), THE WRITING REVOLUTION: A GUIDE TO ADVANCING THINKING THROUGH WRITING IN ALL SUBJECTS AND GRADES (JOSSEY-BASS, 2017); THE WRITING REVOLUTION 2.0 (JOSSEY-BASS, 2024)
How Writing Instruction Can Revolutionize Education
Writing is a potentially powerful lever for deepening knowledge, improving reading comprehension and analytical thinking, and enabling all students to access grade-level material. But it’s also the most difficult thing we ask students to do. To unlock the power of writing instruction, we need to: (1) make writing less overwhelming by starting at the sentence level if that’s what students need; (2) teach grammar and writing conventions in the context of students’ own writing; and (3) embed writing activities in the content of the core curriculum—in any subject and at any grade level. This presentation will provide examples of effective activities.
This event will be facilitated by the Lead Organiser of the Think Forward Educators Writing Network: Jeanette Breen.
➡️Join the Writing Network here.