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During the third season of Studio, we began testing our hunches about student-centered learning and took greater steps to position kids as teachers within our program. We established mentoring and internship opportunities for writers who expressed an interest in becoming teachers, and all writers assumed responsibility for reflecting on their learning throughout the year and determining how they might use what they learned to teach others. This was the first year that we hosted an Annual Celebration of Writing, where the writers and teachers in our program facilitated conversations and quick workshops on strategies, processes, resources, and discoveries that they made throughout the year.

We also began learning more about the use of high quality learning centers and their role within the writing classroom and the influence of criteria-specific feedback on the growth of the writer.

The posts below showcase the best of the season:

The Underpinnings of Our Work Together:
Studio Middle and High School Curricula 2010-2011

Studio Elementary Curricula 2010-2011

Resources Provided to Teachers During the 2010-2011 Season:
Teacher Resources Text-Based Study on Providing Learners Feedback: Article and Connecting Our Stories Protocol

Literacy Walk Throughs

Designing a Quality Writing Center Organizer Organization Center: Place Your Order Here! Organization Center Resources Provided by [|Writing Fix]: [|Three Meal Weather] Five Sense Centers

Brainstorming Centers

Ideas at Play Centers:

Tools and Protocols that Supported Our Learning and Work Together:
During this season, we began putting a critical eye on our practices as a community. Eager to enhance the ways in which we went about learning and writing together, we began reviewing the quality of our practices and taking steps to refine and improve.We still relied on the protocols and processes that served us well, but we became much more reflective about how we engaged with them and what we were learning as a result. You can read more here:

Portfolio Expectations and Assessment: