Featured Programs
GVWP Demonstration Lab: Teaching Writing Through Real-World Modeling & Mentor Texts (K-12)
In these two-week workshops, teachers read professional texts, discuss ideas, and observe expert strategies modeled with real students in our workshop classrooms. Participants will study and collaborate with experienced leadership teams at their own grade spans: K-2, 3-6, 7-9, and 10-12. Course activities will help teachers address California's common Core State Standards with lessons that engage and support interdisciplinary learning. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, the readings and demonstration lessons are built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers. Class sessions are held in Ripon and Lathrop, and children of participating teachers receive free registration at the workshop that accompanies each course! (Course content changes each year, so past participants may return to earn full CSUS credit.)
Ripon
Dates: Weekdays, May 31-June 14, from 8:30am - 12:45pm
Location: Ripon High School
Registration Fee: $50 - Refund for teachers in south SJ and north Stanislaus County!
Materials Fee: $25 materials fee includes the course text
Units: 3 units available for purchase from CSU Stanislaus
Find More Information and/or Register Online:demolabs.eventbrite.com
Download Flyer: DemoLabs13-Flyer
Lathrop
Dates: Weekdays, July 15-26, from 8:30am- 12:45 pm
Location: one.Lathrop School
Registration Fee: $50 - Refund for teachers in south SJ and north Stanislaus County!
Materials Fee: $25 materials fee includes the course text
Units: 3 units available for purchase from CSU Stanislaus
Find More Information and/or Register Online:demolabs.eventbrite.com
Download Flyer: DemoLabs13-Flyer
Summer Mini Institute
The Great Valley Writing Project (GVWP) at CSU Stanislaus sponsors professional development for teachers modeled after the successful Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley. This one-week institute is an introduction to the NWP culture of teachers teaching teachers. Participants will study composition theory and recent research, write extensively, and provide helpful feedback on each other’s writing in small response groups.
This thirty-hour course is open to teachers and administrators from all disciplines in elementary, secondary and post-secondary institutes. Applicants should have an interest in reflecting on their teaching practice and developing their expertise in the teaching of writing.
If interested click on the link below:
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Super Saturday Seminars
Looking for ways to support students mastery of the California Common Core State Standards? Join experienced K-12 teachers on Saturday mornings as they showcase effective approaches to teaching writing in all subjects. All workshops are research-based and feature student samples as a lens into the inquiry of what is effective writing instruction? Participants will be guided and supported to adapt approaches to their classrooms. Click on the link below for more information.