{"data":{"ID":383,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386685776,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reading Writing Workshop gone Digital","Handle":"Reading_Writing_Workshop_gone_Digital","ShortDescription":"Come hear from SLA students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of adopting a workshop model for English class\u2014including thoughts about how to bring the traditional model into the digital age.","Description":"At the start of this school year, my 10th graders agreed to embark on a grand experiment with me -- to turn our English class into a self-directed workshop for reading and writing. Students pick their own independent reading books, and also decide what they most needed to write, and the lessons would grow organically out of their choices. This model has been described plenty \u2013 notably by Nancie Atwell, whose book \u201cIn the Middle\u201d provided much inspiration \u2013 but at SLA, we are taking the next step by integrating digital tools, as well as scaling the model up for larger class sizes. Come hear from students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of building a class together.  The ideas we have to share about inquiry and self-directed learning apply to any and all disciplines.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Students from the class will be the primary facilitators of this conversation. Discussion will happen both as one group and in breakouts. The session will also provide space for attendees to identify where they could incorporate these practices into their own classroom or school.","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}