Here’s a professional development idea for you, especially if you’re a teacher of writing. I have blogged about the English Companion website (fabulous!) started by Jim Burke. He just sent me the following email about an online book club/discussion led by the authors of hip English teachery books. (Okay… he sent it to 2999 other people, too.)
Read the email in blue. If you’re interested, let me know. I’ll buy the book/s for you.
(fyi - Visit English Companion at: http://englishcompanion.ning.com)
A message to all members of English Companion
To celebrate hitting three thousand members (in only three months!), I want to announce the start of the English Companion Ning Book Club. EC Ning Book Club books will be:
- short and affordable so people can actually do the reading and participate in the discussion
- invite discussion from everyone regardless of grade level
- related to some aspect of teaching English language arts
- written by an author who is committed to leading and participating in the discussion over the course of the reading
- good reads! Interesting!
Our first book meets all these criteria and is written by someone we have all gotten to know from her many contributions to the EC Ning from its first days. Maja Wilson’s book Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment, recipient of the James Britton Research Award .
How will it work?
- Maja will post something of a frame or opening posting to guide our reading of the book on April 1st.
- I will set up a Group for this and future Book Club books (I have already talked with Kelly Gallagher about making Readicide the next EC Ning Book Club selection).
- Maja will set the reading schedule for us, but the chapters are short and each invites a good discussion, so I would imagine she might suggest a chapter a week.
- Discussion will be through a Group discussion format with the possibility of a final live Chat session if we think that would be useful and fun (and doable).
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