INFORMAL SCIENCE 
EVERY CHILD A READER & WRITER Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
- Overview
- Resources
Every Child a Reader & Writer (ECRW)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Professional Development Guide: Teacher Induction to Writing Workshop
This instructional guide is intended for use by professional developers leading teachers through an introductory course to writing workshop.
Professional Development Guide: Unit Design Course
This instructional guide is intended for use by professional developers leading second-year implementers of writing workshop through a six-day course in which they design narrative and informational units. Separate courses are included for K-1 and grades 2-5.
Inside Writing: Multimedia Records of Practice
This interactive website features key strategies and teaching practices in four K-5 writing workshop classrooms through the use of video, displays of student work and teaching resources. The website was jointly developed by the Noyce Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation and can be accessed at www.insidewritingworkshop.org.
Video - I Am a Writer
This video provides a comprehensive look at writing workshop. It explains what writing workshop is and provides examples of each of the writing workshop components. The video would be most useful for a practitioner.
CLASSROOM CURRICULUM
Living the Life of a Writer
This unit of study is intended for use at the beginning of the year to introduce or reintroduce students to the writing workshop. There are six separate studies or units, one for each grade from kindergarten through fifth grade.
Genre Study Planning Guide
This guide describes and illustrates the planning process for developing a writing workshop unit of study.
LEADERSHIP
Writing Workshop Implementation Scale (WWIS)
The WWIS is a tool for evaluating or self-assessing classroom implementation of writing workshop.
Instructional Leadership Profile: Promoting Equity in the Writing Workshop
The Instructional Leadership Profile describes components of instructional leadership which support effective implementation of writing workshop. The guide is focused on supporting the work of grade-level teams to do standards-based work, with emphasis on creating effective instruction which is equitable to all students.
Literacy Coaching in Support of Writers Workshop
The purpose of this document is to describe the roles the coach, the principal, the teachers, and the district office must fulfill to support effective school site literacy coaching.
Video - Principal-Coach Leadership Teams: A Practical Example to Support Effective Writing Instruction
This video describes and shows examples of how principals and coaches within a school work together to support teachers to implement writing workshop. Over a several-week span of time, a team works to improve its implementation of a particular aspect of writing workshop. Included are examples from classroom practice, a coaching session, and a grade level meeting with coach and principal to talk about what they have learned.