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This experiential, hands-on writing workshop series, hosted in partnership with Eve Becker of Leaf and Pen, is designed to help both you and your students craft prose with voice, authenticity and vitality. Over three sessions, we will explore strategies for finding inspiration, locating meaningful fiction and nonfiction ideas, structuring and developing the story, and sharing work for effective input and revision.
Methods are easily and effectively transferable to the classroom, will strengthen writing skills across genres, encourage writers to go beyond constraining forms and formulas, promote community in the classroom, and draw on diverse interests, backgrounds and experiences. Come ready to write, to reflect on the process, and to gain insights and understandings for best practice application with students. Techniques, tools, experiments and lessons introduced in this workshop are valuable and engaging for educators and students at different levels and of varying abilities, because one approach to writing does not fit all. |
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During the series, each participant will receive handouts, including: an ‘idea lab’ of brainstorming and generative activities; a literary toolbox of craft elements; protocols for discussing and workshopping writing; sample checklists and self-evaluations.
Participants will leave this series with a workshopped draft-in-progress of a short prose piece, beginnings of a variety of other pieces, pedagogical insights from ‘practicing what we preach’ when we teach students to write, and a portfolio of activities, lessons and protocols for every stage of the writing process. Following the series, participants will be able to: 1. Help students brainstorm ideas for a wide variety of prose pieces 2. Harvest rich writing material through critical reading, guided visualization, and other activities 3. Structure and develop writing 4. Share writing and feedback for effective revision 5. Establish best possible conditions for writing within school spaces |
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• Teachers, grades 5-12
• School administrators • ENL teachers • High school or college counselors • Educators who work in community centers, after school programs, and other out-of-school time educational settings |
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Leaf and Pen, founded by Eve Becker, is an organization that provides writing retreats and workshops for educators and students of all ages.
Eve teaches middle school English at The School at Columbia University, and is currently pursuing an Ed.M. at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the winner of a 2012 Pushcart Prize for her essay “Final Concert,” and the author of over thirty published YA novels. Her short fiction and literary nonfiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Our Town, The Huffington Post, and other publications. Prior to becoming a teacher, Eve worked as a freelance writer and editor. She was also Editor in Chief of Her Online, the first commercial website for girls, and Editorial Director of zoggle.com, a teen website. |
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