Hey Everyone!

    I'm having the time of my life working on my portfolio for National Boards. Wheee, this is fun!

    I'm trying to vary what I use for documentation that will prove I am a collaborator and leader with the Oklahoma Writing Project. If you've seen any of my workshops or perhaps your students attended a workshop I did for Write to Win... and you would be willing to jot down a few lines about how that has impacted student learning, I would be eternally grateful. To help your memory, my workshops included: "Getting Students over the Fear of Getting Up Front" (my first one, not in popular demand), "Scaffolding Student Writing for Assessment and Beyond" (we did the Read-Around), "Researchers of the Round Table" (a collaboration with Kelly Courtney-Smith, Sarah West, and last summer, Mindi Dieu), "Writing Workshops" (a collaboration with Claudia Swisher).  My student workshops have been "Powerful Paragraphs" (candy kiss web) and "How to Find a Poem."

   If you can help, please send no more than a paragraph within the next week or so.

   Hope all is well with each of you and your classrooms!

   

Thanks,

Shelly Unsicker