Center Writing in Your Literacy Instruction to Move ALL Students Forward
Join us for this enlightening presentation exploring the most recent research about effective writing instruction—and what that means for literacy learning. Presenter Dr. Leslie Laud has led multimillion dollar federal research grants designed to find the lightest lift and highest yield approaches for raising not just writing outcomes but overall ELA proficiency.
Dr. Laud will share how prioritizing writing offers the greatest promise in improving the writing and reading skills of our students who struggle the most. She will explain recent findings while illustrating how educators can give writing additional attention in everyday lessons, drawing examples from districts that saw significant gains after using the approaches she will share.
Dr. Laud will discuss:
- High-impact strategies with the strongest evidence of effectiveness
- Tips for how to strengthen the impact of curricular materials you may already have in place
- Encouraging stories of success
- Ways to align writing instruction horizontally and vertically
- Methods that can be applied immediately