SRSD: Writing to Learn - PD Program
Giving Educators Evidence-Based Tools to Power Student’s Written Expression
Looking for a unique and effective way to unleash writing in even the most reluctant student? You found it! Writing to Learn is an easy to implement program and with impressive research linked to impressive academic achievement. FableVision Learning is pleased to partner with SRSD, to provide Writing To Learn as part of our recommended offerings.
With Writing To Learn, you will access over 30 years of evidence-based essay writing research, boiled down into easy-to-deliver, explicit lessons that motivate students to write. We take all the guesswork out of teaching essay writing.
And the best part? Students in both general AND special education will build confidence and learn to love writing essays.
Writing to Learn is the perfect intervention to layer onto your current curriculum (process writing, Writers' Workshop, Writing Revolution, etc.) or use as your go-to curriculum. Writing to Learn has been researched and designed for general education, English language learners, and special education including dyslexia, ADHD, and other cognitive disabilities.
Built on the researched foundation of self-regulation strategies and proven metacognitive science (SRSD), Writing to Learn inspires students to become aware of their strengths and weaknesses and take ownership of their writing.
It begins with motivational techniques like positive self-talk, goal setting, and creating a collaborative classroom. Here, peers learn to score each other's work while you model your thinking process as you work through the challenges of planning and writing an essay.
Designed for Educators
The online program takes you step-by-step through the teaching process. The instruction is easy to learn, fast to implement and includes all the videos, downloadable activities, lesson plans, and writing tools to share with your students.
Students will learn all about essay writing, including:
Opinion, Argument, Informative, and Narrative genres
Planning, organizing, editing, and revising
Goal setting, self-motivation, generalization, and independence
Need more? Each program includes unlimited expert mentorship with the SRSD team. Meaning you have unlimited access to an expert human every step of the way for calls, emails, and zoom meetings.
About SRSD
SRSD, or Self-Regulated Strategy Development, is a teaching method that gives students the power to own their learning and boost their confidence in writing! This fantastic approach features six progressive stages of instruction, offering students clear tools to master powerful strategies and develop top-notch self-regulation skills throughout the writing adventure.
Created by Dr. Karen Harris, SRSD has received high praise from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) as an ultra-effective writing intervention and best practice. With the biggest effect size of any researched writing instruction method, SRSD is backed by over 120 positive studies and several meta-analyses. One standout meta-analysis published in 2012 showed that SRSD instruction significantly amped up writing quality, fluency, and strategy use.
The essential ingredients of SRSD include fun, recursive writing attributes that tap into metacognitive aspects like positive self-talk, self-assessment, self-motivation, planning, revising, and goal setting. SRSD also weaves in teacher modeling with think-aloud techniques, scaffolding, fading mnemonics, collaboration, and peer feedback.
Dr. Karen R. Harris is the Mary Emily Warner professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She has worked in the field of education for over 40 years, initially as a general education teacher and then as a special education teacher. Throughout her teaching and research career, she has chosen to work in highly diverse schools in low income areas due to her commitment to improving teaching and learning for all students. Her research focuses on informing and improving theory, research, and practice related to writing development among students with high incidence disabilities, students who struggle with writing, and normally achieving students.
Through her groundbreaking work in SRSD, Harris has revolutionized how writing is taught in classrooms nationwide. SRSD addresses the cognitive aspects of writing and integrates crucial self-regulation strategies, enabling students to take control of their own learning and become independent, confident writers. Harris's relentless commitment to evidence-based practices has earned SRSD its place as one of the country's most highly-rated writing instruction programs.