Lunch-and-Learn Workshops
Lunch and Learn Sessions are 1-day workshops that are offered to districts and schools in the MSU Writing Project area and are designed to provide teachers across all grades with relevant lessons, resources, and strategies to improve reading and writing instruction. Workshops are held in Starkville and Meridian.
Summer Sessions
Summer sessions offer an in-depth professional development opportunity for teachers from K-University level.
The focus and goals of the one-to-two-week sessions are tailored to meet the needs of the schools and teachers based on collaboration between the MSU Consultant and the schools and districts.
Benefits of Attending Summer Sessions:
- Create and research essential questions surrounding education in the 21st century.
- Access to professional literature and current research.
- Learn relevant approaches to planning and instruction.
- Earn CEU’s.
During Summer Sessions, Teachers Will:
- Write professionally and personally.
- Read and discuss current research and theory on learning and best practices.
- Explore the role of reading and writing across the curriculum.
- Demonstrate their own effective teaching practices
College & Career Readiness
The College and Career Readiness professional development is designed to prepare teachers and administrators in their quest to provide appropriate instruction.
This service is ideal for those interested in implementing literacy strategies in all content areas; deepening reading and writing instruction; and implementing assessment strategies that are aligned with the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards.
Training for each session is designed specifically to the needs of the schools involved and will address questions often posed by teachers who have difficulty meeting the literacy standards.
College, Career, & Community Writers Program
Developed and taught by writing project teachers in multiple states over the past five years, C3WP supports teachers and students in the study of argument writing.
This professional development program provides teachers with instructional resources and assessment tools for the teaching of evidence- based argument writing.
As teachers participate in C3WP over time, they experience high quality support in workshop and classroom settings. Teachers analyze student writing to determine next instructional steps and lead their students toward becoming more informed participants in their school and community through argument writing.