What to expect when you join one of our study groups
Instructors: Jeanne Stevens & Jennie Guy
Classroom Opens: November 5, 2025
Classroom Closes: March 31, 2026
Link to registration page on Frontline (opens soon)
Building on the success of the original best-seller, this new edition of The Writing Revolution adds valuable guidance for teachers seeking a way to bring their students' writing ability up to rigorous state standards. The new edition provides a reorganized sequence of activities and even more student-facing examples, making it easier than ever to bring the method to your classroom.
The Writing Revolution isn't a separate curriculum or program that teachers need to juggle. Rather, it is a method providing strategies and activities that teachers can adapt to their preexisting curriculum and weave into their content instruction. By focusing on specific techniques that match their students' needs and providing them with targeted feedback, The Writing Revolution can turn weak writers into strong and confident communicators. In addition, the method can:
- Identify misconceptions and gaps in knowledge
- Boost reading comprehension and learning
- Improve organizational skills
- Enrich oral language
- Develop analytical abilities
Instructors: Mary Kate Ticknor & Shannon AlmClassroom Opens: November 5, 2025
Classroom Closes: March 31, 2026
Prerequisite: The Writing Revolution 2.0 Book Study (via NYS Teacher Centers) or “A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades”. (offered by the author directly.
Join this group for an opportunity to review, practice, and reflect on the strategies taught in The Writing Revolution 2.0 by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler, the evidence-based Hochman Method of writing.
Participants can expect to:
- Receive guidance from instructors, as well as support from colleagues in the group.
- Review TWR 2.0 book reading reviews and related videos
- Utilize helpful tools, resources, links provided by the book authors.
- Create implementation plans for several strategies in Schoology
- Implement/practice using strategies with students.
- Reflect and discuss teaching experiences and student learning experiences, successes and challenges, and revisions to plan.
- Communicate with instructors and other group members.