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Digital PD: Writing for STAAR
2025-05-31 - 2026-05-31 | Online at PD.alicenine.net
“Response writing starts with the answer from reading.”
DATES: Any. Fit your schedule. Registration is always OPEN . Although begin/end dates are listed on our calendar, the course will actually begin for you on the day you complete registration, and your enrollment will be until May 31, 2026.
FORMAT: DIGITAL (online) PD, self-paced independent study, work at your convenience, self-paced, independent study

ACCESS: 24/7 from anywhere there’s an internet connection and a device to receive it

ONLINE ADDRESS: Alice Nine Professional Development Center

CERTIFICATE: Complete required course work and receive a 25-clock-hour certificate
COST: $159
TELL ME ABOUT THE WORKSHOP.
How can we teach evidence-based response writing so that our students achieve a high performance level on RLA STAAR? Alice Nine’s virtual, on-demand workshop “Writing for STAAR” shows you how. In the looming shadow of the redesigned STAAR, a number of Texas educators approached Alice for insights into evidence-based writing instruction and assessment. Alice, responded to their request and intently focused her lens on TEA’s released RLA STAAR documents. She dug deep. She deciphered, deconstructed, and demystified the test. In this workshop, Alice Nine shares her findings so you will know and understand the test — the changes and the demands and constraints of the SCR and ECR questions. And then, she provides instructional models and ideas that you can use immediately in your classroom.
Participants will
▸ Examine RLA STAAR blueprint for insights
▸ Identify changes on the RLA STAAR writing rubrics
▸ Analyze workload of the test
▸ Identify and examine test questions that require writing in sentences
▸ Examine the key indicators of high performance
▸ Compare the extended constructed response to a traditional essay
▸ Model a short constructed response
▸ Model an extended constructed response
Join Alice Nine, and you’ll return to your classroom better able to deliver systematic, focused instruction for evidence-based response writing.
Some videos can be used with students; stream Alice Nine into your classroom to co-teach with you.
WATCH: Module 8, Video 1: Writing a Central Idea Statement
WHO IS THE PRESENTER?
For over three decades Alice Nine, a teacher of teachers, has provided professional development to thousands of teachers across the United States. Her passion is literacy and classroom instruction. Alice, creator of Johnny Can Spell-Write and Grammar Boot Camps, has written fifteen teacher manuals, including her most recent Alice Nine Sentence Writing Book 1 Lessons Guide. These manuals are available in our online store. Alice has also produced hundreds of student-facing lesson videos available in courses at Academy.AliceNine.net. Beyond her experience as an educator, she worked as a copy editor for several years and has done ghost writing.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL?
Texas Elementary Teachers. Alice draws upon released STAAR RLA for grades 3-6 for modeling videos. Grades 7-8 can gain insights since the general workings of the text are vertically aligned.
I WANT THIS WORKSHOP! WHAT DO I DO?
1) Follow directions on Registration Form. View / Print Registration Form
2) As soon as we receive your registration with payment, our PD facilitator will create an account for you, complete your enrollment, and send you a Welcome Email within one business day.
HOW DO I MAKE PAYMENT?

1) With a credit card.
Make payment with a Visa or MasterCard. Click HERE to purchase online Once purchased, email a completed copy of Registration Form to johnny@nine-enterprises.com.
NOTE: Be sure to enter your Order # under “Make Payment.” Your Order # is on the receipt emailed from our online store.
2) With a school purchase order.
Email a completed copy of Registration Form and a copy of purchase order to johnny@nine-enterprises.com.
3) Need a quote for your school? Contact: Christy at johnny@nine-enterprises.com
WORKSHOP FEATURES
▸ Start date: Any time*
▸ Enrollment period: From date of purchase through May 31, 2026
▸ Work at your convenience
▸ Access is 24/7
▸ Self-paced
▸ Workshop notes and handouts are linked in the workshop modules to download and print. TEA documents are linked for your convenience.
▸ Digital (on-line) PD
▸ Dates: Any. Register at any time.*
* Although begin/end dates are listed for this workshop, it will actually begin for you the day you complete registration and continue until the course closes on May 31, 2026. Please note, access cannot be extended past May 31, 2026.
Note: We encourage group participation; however, we require that each person be registered and be included in the enrollment payment. For group pricing information please email johnny@nine-enterprises.com.
This is an on-demand virtual workshop presented by NINE Enterprises.
Request information about a “facilitated optional add-on” for this workshop.
