Run eight one-hour professional learning community sessions spread across the school year¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The toolkit organizes professional development over the course of eight one-hour professional learning community (PLC) sessions, with activities to be completed during and between sessions and practices teachers can implement throughout the school year. This distributes writing-instruction learning across the year in short, collaborative meetings rather than a single training event.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A facilitator, the Facilitator's Guide and slides, and Teacher's Guide activities for between-session work

Constraints¶

• Session structure was designed with busy educators in mind and piloted in charter school contexts

Target Learners¶

• Elementary teachers in grades 2 through 4

Target Learning Goals¶

• Evidence-based writing instruction practices

Related Strategies¶

• Sustained teacher professional development with coaching and professional learning communities
• Sustained, needs-based PBIS professional development with in-classroom coaching to build teacher capacity

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• A Toolkit to Support Evidence-Based Writing Instruction in Grades 2 Through 4 (Historical). (2025). What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc