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Your time. Your place. Your pace.

Mini-Courses

Got an Hour?

Make Writing: Notebooks

Will you send your students' writers' notebooks home empty again this year? We can fix that.

Got an Afternoon?

Make Writing: Spaces

Ready to transform your writing workshop, studio, or classroom into a makerspace for writers? Unpack three phases of design, and create a master plan between lunch and dinner.

Got a Day?

Make Writing: Launching Your Year

Eager to inspire your students to make writing but uncertain how to start? Complete these six quick modules in a single work day.

Maximize and Customize Your Learning

NEW COURSE!

Make Writing: Supporting Multimodal Composition Up Close and Across the Distance

How might we make writing face-to-face, across the distance, and somewhere in-between? How might we pivot during this unpredictable time? Self-navigate this six session course at your own pace, or wrap customized facilitation around it.

TEN MODULES

Make Writing: Engaging Your Most Print Resistant Kids

How might we use uncommon strategies and a bunch of new tools to begin MAKING writing our students? Why would we want to, anyway? This course will help you answer those questions and shift your curriculum, the way that you document and assess learning, and your instructional practices as well.

TEN MODULES

Managing Your Paper Load and Moving Writers Forward

How heavy is that bag you're toting home each evening? How tall is that stack of papers on your desk right now? Are you sacrificing your free time to provide feedback to writers that's only ignored? You'll find new solutions here.

FOUR MODULES

Scaling Print Barriers: Loose Parts Play in the Writing Workshop

Intrigued by the power of loose parts and how they might make writers of all of your students? Learn more in this course. Four modules. One three step process.

CUSTOMIZED COACHING

Individual and Small Group Coaching

Need something special and just for you? Here's where you'll find it. Coaching sessions are customized to your needs, and they are conducted 1:1 or in small groups.

Face-to-Face Session

#MakeWriting Summer Intensive 2020

K-12 writers AND teachers: Join me in person for one week this summer! There is no better way to learn than to experience and observe these practices in person. I'd love to meet you!

Free Courses for Young Writers

Free Course

Personal Narrative Writing for Middle School Writers

Are you a middle school writer? Let's write a personal narrative together.

Free Course

Personal Narrative Writing for High School Writers

Are you high school writer? Let's write a personal narrative together.

Free Course

Argument Writing for Middle School Writers

Which arguments are worth making? Middle school writers will explore that question here.

Free Course

Argument Writing for High School Writers

Which arguments are worth making? High school writers will explore that question here.

Free Course!

Information Writing for Elementary Writers

Let's make something magnificent together and design DIY guides that help others do the same!