The Reusable Office Supply Exchange (ROSE) Program collects gently or never-used office supplies from departments throughout the University of Virginia and makes them available to the community. Teachers: Visit the Recycling Office Warehouse and take whatever supplies you like! The ROSE Program is located in the Recycling building at the end of Leake Drive (map below), and is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Typical materials are pictured below, and additional materials are expected after May 11. If accessing the facility during operating hours is an issue for an interested teacher, contact Lindsay Snoddy (lcsnoddy@k12albemarle.org) with request details. Continue reading
Daily Archives: April 28, 2015
Writing Workshop: A Secondary Pilot
Writing workshop provides an authentic writing experience for students, while allowing teachers to create a method of organizing classroom time that fosters differentiation in composition and feedback. However, it poses several organizational challenges that are not manifest in the more traditional ‘prompt’ model of delivering writing instruction. Several of us at the secondary level undertook to pilot the implementation of an Atwell workshop in varying degrees to wrestle with these challenges, with the hope of raising the efficacy of our writing instruction. Here’s what happened: Continue reading