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WELCOME!

Catherine Stoddard, Telescope Network

Early Childhood

Garceline Champagne,

Telescope Network

Secondary

Tonight’s Topic: What explicit teaching moves support our students in becoming engaged and empowered writers?

In the CHAT:

1-2 sentence what do you find most challenging to teach developing writers?

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Welcome! As you’re coming in:

Tell us what you want to talk about today...

Go to the Padlet (link in chat)
Start by reviewing posts made by other attendees to see if your topic has already been suggested.
You can add a session topic under any column or comment on someone else’s topic to contribute to the idea.

Virtual Edcamp: Explicit Writing Instruction in K-12 classrooms

All materials for today at: Virtual Writing Edcamp

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Agenda

Welcome and Intro to Edcamp 5:00 - 5:10 pm

Round 1 Breakout Sessions 5:15 - 5:50 pm

Break 5:50 - 6:00 pm

Round 2 Breakout Sessions 6:00 - 6:40 pm

Closing 6:40-6:50 pm

Exit Ticket 6:50 - 7:00 pm

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What is an Edcamp?

Edcamps are free public events which leverage the knowledge and experiences of attendees to create the topics and discussions of the day. At an Edcamp, educators have the opportunity to identify the topics most important to them, share and gather resources, and network virtually with other educators. Learn more about the Edcamp Community here and from educators in this video.

Today’s EDcamp topic will be: what explicit writing moves support our students in becoming engaged and empowered writers?

All materials for today at: Virtual Writing Edcamp

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Experience, not Experts

Rule of Two Feet/Clicks

Participant-Driven

Edcamp Tenets

Edcamps allow educators to collaboratively determine session topics the day of the event.

Educators participate in sessions by sharing experiences through conversations, not planned presentations.

Edcamps prioritize educators finding sessions that meet their needs to maximize learning.

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Ways to Engage...

How to be a participant in the breakout room, you can:

Share your screen, share a resource
Ask questions
Use the reaction buttons
Put resources in the chat
Volunteer to be a Facilitator or Note-taker

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Facilitator

Note-taker

In the Session...

Starts the conversation
A session can begin with an idea, a question, a story, etc.
Remember you do NOT need to be an expert, just someone that wants to learn.
Note-taking sheet has guiding questions if helpful.

Writes down key information and resources from the breakout room conversation and chatbox on the Google Doc. attached to the Schedule.

Each session needs a volunteer Facilitator and a Note-taker.

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Guiding Questions for your Conversations

Facilitators can use the guiding questions below to get started:

(on the note-taking sheet)

Who’s in the room?

Ask participants to introduce themselves, if the room is larger than 10 people, just have participants introduce themselves in the chat

Why did you pick this topic?
What are you hoping to learn today?
What are you hoping to share today?
What are some challenges or successes you have experienced related to this topic?
What resources, tools, or insight may help others dealing with this topic?

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Zoom Tips

Stay on mute to prevent background noise during conversations
Introduce yourself when you begin speaking
Avoid talking over other people by:

Using reactions to give a quick thumbs up to an answer
Using the chat box to share responses and give the speaker quick cues:

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Breakout Rooms

Breakout rooms is an option in your attendee controls. Hover over a room for the join option to appear.

You can leave and enter any room using this feature. You can come back to the main room by selecting Leave Meeting. Be sure to choose the Leave Breakout Room option so that you do not leave the meeting.

If you do not have access to this feature or need help, please stay in the main room.

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Community Agreements

Be as present as you can be.
Be aware of intent and impact.
Mute your mic when not speaking
Equity of voice - listen to all in the room:

Use the chat for comments/questions.
Use the hand raise to ask a question.
Use reactions (thumbs up, smile, clap).

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Edcamp Mindset

Be open minded: It is human nature to play the comparison game. Instead of thinking, “This would never work for me,” try to reframe as “This might work in my setting if .. . “

Be a collaborator: We all serve Boston students. Sharing ideas and resources with colleagues helps us to desilo and improve learning across BPS.

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Round 1

01

Choose the breakout room for the topic that most interests you for Round 1.

Use Round 1 notetakers!

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Round 2 begins at 6:05pm

Take a few moments for yourself and then head back to the Schedule and see which session you want to go to for the next round.

Take a Break!

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Round 2

02

Join the breakout room with the topic that interests you.

Use round 2 notetakers!

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Closing

Thank you to everyone for your participation and conversations!

Let’s have a few people share out:

What are your takeaways?
What are any insights you gained from your conversations today?

(You can share aloud or put a few words in the chat!)

Please take a few moments to complete our EXIT TICKET

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Connect & Share

Explicit Writing

TBA

Planning Cohort

TBA

Virtual follow ups

SAVE THE DATE!

5/30/24

BPS Educator Symposium

ADD INFO

CONNECT with BPS colleagues

HEAR what’s working

SHARE good ideas

PLAN your goals

EARN PD hours

Events Page:

http://tinyurl.com/telescopeRSVP

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IMPORTANT LINKS FOR TODAY

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Our Co-Hosts:

Keep in Touch!

Telescope Network Team:

Catherine Stoddard
Garcie Champagne

All materials for today at: tinyurl.com/NTDEdcamp2021