Reflection of my week so far: MAISA ELA Conference

Well, it is the end of our second day. I have felt that my district may be farther ahead in the game than I thought. Many of the educators here have worked on only one or two of the published writing units where I have done all of them in the fifth grade. Our faciliators are working hard to keep everyone working and moving on. 

My goal for this conference was to build my toolkit and network with other ELA educators so that I can learn from others at my same level. The discussions have brought out more conversation about classroom structure and strategies that work while in the Personal Narrative and now Literary Essay Units (this afternoon). I hope to be able to bring back to our district a bag full of tricks as we dive into the continually building of Writing Workshops.

Some sources we were introduced to today can be found my account: delicious.com/abklopf

As so, for those of you interested in what are MAISA ELA Units: http://oaklandk12-public.rubiconatlas.org/Atlas/Browse/View/Default