And
the children shall lead them, kept coming to my mind as a way
of describing the staff development experienced at the Cornerstone
Summer Institute, July 2006. The more I pondered, the more
I realized that the phrase painted a vivid picture of what happened
during this retreat involving representatives from seven school districts
spread across the United States.
By the end of
the third day on a hot July afternoon, 110 educators had experienced
another example of children leading adults that would change their
views of how professional development should be conducted, how traditional
classroom writing instruction and practice should look, and how teacher
preparation for writing instruction must involve and engage teachers
as writers.
After the Summer
Institute, the Cornerstone Staff and Literacy Fellows spent weeks reflecting
on the professional development delivered, reading participants’ feedback,
and dreaming about the upcoming Winter Conference to be held in Stamford,
Connecticut. Now, we offer our reflections on what happened as
participants engaged in staff development sessions based on the writing
and video-taped Lesson Study lead by fourth grade students from Waccamaw
Elementary.
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