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SUMMARY:Digital PD: Johnny Can Spell Word Study
DESCRIPTION:Systematic\, Explicit Phonics Integrated with Handwriting and Spelling\n\nDATES: 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 for 180 days. \nFORMAT: DIGITAL (online) PD\, self-paced independent study\, work at your convenience\, self-paced\, independent study\n\nACCESS: 24/7 from anywhere there’s an internet connection and a device to receive it\n \nONLINE ADDRESS: Alice Nine Professional Development Center \n \nCOST: $145 \nView / Print: Brochure and Registration Form and Materials Listing.\nPurchase online at Alice Nine’s Store \nWorkshop Summary \nAlice Nine will show you how to integrate the following during Word Study lessons\, without worksheets:\n \nphonemic awareness with sounds and syllables — \nsystematic\, explicit phonics —\nhandwriting instruction — \nspelling practice —\nword grammar — \nand how-to sound out words for both reading and writing \nTEXAS TEACHERS!!\nAligns with ELA TEKS\n \nDaily Word Study with content (phonograms and words) and routines of JCSpell provide ongoing opportunities to address\nStrand 1– The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness\, print concepts\, phonics\, and morphology to communicate\, decode\, and spell (encode) during the daily JCSpell lesson routines\, i\,e.\, Think to Spell\, Word Talk. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively through oral and written sentences during Word Talk.\nStrand 6 — The student composes legible texts during I-Work. The student composes sentences and uses appropriate conventions during I-Work. \nWho should enroll? \nTeachers and parents working with students in grades K-3. Recommended for anyone working with struggling readers. Especially great for ELLs.  Alice Nine recommends this training for core instruction; however\, it can be used in Tier 2 intervention\, especially at intermediate and secondary level. \nCourse Features: \nCourse Outline  Print / View.\nEnrollment period  — 180 days.\nCourse Materials  Notes and Handouts are linked in this course to download and print.\nGeneral Access –24/7 access.\nProgress Reports conclude each Session and provide record of your work.\nReflect & Write activities give you a chance to share personally with Alice Nine.\nCourse Office Hours (optional) are a face-to-face Q&A time.\nWork Logs are available to campus professional development facilitator.\nCertificate of Completion with your name is available upon completion of course requirements (24 clock hours). \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form.  Please note: Course enrollment may be purchased with credit card at our Online Store\n2) Our PD facilitator will create an account for you\, complete your enrollment\, and send you a Welcome Email within one business day.\nView / Print:  Brochure and Registration Form and Materials Listing.\nPurchase online at Alice Nine’s Store (NINE Enterprises). \n____________ \nWhat is Johnny Can Spell (JCSpell) #JCSpell ?\nJCSpell is not a curriculum.  JCSpell is not a program.\nJCSpell is an instructional design that offers you a systematic\, explicit approach for integrated ELA instruction. \nWho is the course instructor?\nFor 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. \n  \nAlice Nine\, creator of Johnny Can Spell\, Is the sole provider of JCSpell workshops.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/jcs_digital/
LOCATION:Online at PD.alicenine.net
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202
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SUMMARY:Digital PD: Bridging Grammar to Writing
DESCRIPTION:“Learn how to use grammar to better craft sentences!\nRegistration is OPEN\nRegister to fit your schedule\nWork at your convenience\nSelf-paced\nDIGITAL (online) PD\nDATES: Enrollment fits your schedule\nAlthough begin/end dates are listed for this workshop\, it will actually begin for you on the day you complete registration\, and your enrollment will be for ninety (90) days.\nAccess 24/7 at Alice Nine Professional Development Center\n \nView / Print: Workshop Brochure with Enrollment Form\nPurchase online at Alice Nine’s Store \nTELL ME ABOUT THE WORKSHOP.\n \nAlice Nine will show you how to use an instructional routine she developed and used daily with her students–a four-part routine she calls Tactical Sentence Instruction (TSI).  TSI is a multi-faceted instructional routine that is easily incorporated at any grade level daily to . . . \npractice the use of written conventions —\napply knowledge of grammar for the sake of writing and reading —\nlearn to analyze the structure of text —\ndevelop editing and revision skills —\nmaster the art of crafting sentences —\n \n… all with a single sentence each day. \nEach of the four workshop sessions is divided into two parts — Part A and Part B.  The two parts provide unique support for immediate implementation — an important aspect of this professional development event. \nPart A contains the webinar style videos in which Alice Nine introduces basic how-to. Immediately following viewing of the video\, you are to begin implementing with your students. \nPart B contains a series of in-the-classroom student-facing videos to help you experience the routine — what it looks like and how it sounds. These videos can be view immediately after viewing Part A videos\, or they can be view after you have tried it on your own with your students\, giving you some great follow-through. Also\, you can “invite” Alice Nine to co-teach in your classroom–just stream a video to your students and Alice does the virtual teaching while you do the in-person monitoring and follow-through instruction. \nWHO SHOULD ENROLL?\n \nTeachers and parents who work with student writing at any level. Recommended for anyone working with struggling writers. Especially great for ELLs as they learn the patterns of English sentences.  Alice Nine recommends TSI for a 10-minute activity in core instruction; however\, it can be used in Tier 2 intervention\, especially at intermediate and secondary level. \nI WANT THIS WORKSHOP!  WHAT DO I DO? \n1)  Follow directions on Enrollment Form.  View / Print Registration Form\n2)  As soon as we receive your enrollment request with payment\, our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a Welcome Email. \nNote: 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.  \nHOW DO I MAKE PAYMENT?\n \n1)  With a credit card. Payment can be made online with a Visa or MasterCard.  Click HERE to purchase online\n2)  With a school purchase order. Email a completed copy of Enrollment Form and copy of School Purchase Order to johnny@nine-enterprises.com.\nNeed a quote for your school?  Contact: Christy\,  johnny@nine-enterprises.com \nWORKSHOP FEATURES–\n \nWorkshop Summary — Print / View\nWorkshop Agenda — Print / View\nEnrollment Period  — 90 days\nWorkshop Materials — Notes and Handouts are linked in this course to download and print.\nGeneral Access — 24/7 access.\nCheckpoints conclude each Session and provide record of your work.\nWorkshop Chat gives you a chance to share personally with Alice Nine.\nOffice Hours (optional) are a face-to-face Q&A time\, by request\nWork Logs are available to campus professional development facilitator\, by requests.\nCertificate with your name is available upon completion of course requirements (6 clock hours). \nTexas Teachers!\nAlignment with RLA TEKS\n \nTactical Sentence Instruction provides ongoing opportunities to craft sentences and address\nStrand 1 — Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening\, speaking\, reading\, writing\, and thinking–beginning reading and writing. The student … [uses] word structure knowledge through phonological awareness\, print concepts\, phonics\, and morphology to . . .  spell.\nStrand 6 — Composition: listening\, speaking\, reading\, writing\, and thinking using multiple texts–writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts [sentences] that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student uses [sentence] characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts [sentences] that are meaningful.  \nMEET ALICE NINE. \nFor 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 fourteen teacher manuals and produced hundreds of student-facing lesson videos available at Academy.AliceNine.net. Beyond her experience as an educator\, she worked as a copy editor for several years and has done ghost writing. \nThis is an on-demand virtual workshop presented by NINE Enterprises.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/bg2w/
LOCATION:Online at PD.alicenine.net
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210416
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190301T161330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T212810Z
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SUMMARY:Digital PD: Writing STAAR™ Essays - Gr.4
DESCRIPTION:Registration is OPEN\nBegin at your convenience.\nDIGITAL (online) PD.\nCourse is available to fit your schedule.\nAccess 24/7 at Alice Nine Professional Development Center.\n \nView / print: Brochure / Registration Form\nPurchase: Alice Nine Online Store\n \nCourse Outline\n\nModule 1. Decipher the Rubrics\nWe will analyze the three writing traits and the student performance descriptors in the STAAR™ writing rubrics.\nWe will demystify the language of the rubrics in order to simplify and clarify how student writing will be assessed. \nModule 2. Deconstruct the Prompt\nWe will closely examine each component of the expository prompt scaffold for the STAAR™ writing test in grade 4.\nWe will identify how students should use each component to support writing the essay for STAAR™. \nModule 3. Develop the Essay\nWe will examine the structure and form of the expository essay and construct a graphic that represents each component.\nWe will develop an essay with a working thesis and the X-Builder \nModule 4.  From Prompt to Essay\nWe will explore a step-by-step how-to with strategies that help struggling writers\n1) Getting inside the prompt and avoiding distractions\n2) Responding to the prompt with a clear central idea (thesis)\n3) Planning the essay body with supporting ideas and developing details\n4) Planning the conclusion based on the central idea and essay body \nModule 5.  Modeling From Prompt to Essay\nWe will experience a step-by-step model with released STAAR™ 2015 prompt.\n1) Getting inside the prompt\n2) Responding to the prompt\n3) Planning the essay\n4) Drafting the essay\n5) Revising the essay\n6) Crafting the thesis\n7) Writing a draft to submit\n \nResources.\nLinks to resources from TEA\nSTAAR™-like prompts by Alice Nine\nVarious versions of STAAR™ rubric compiled by Alice Nine\n… and more \nAlignment with RLA TEKS\n \nStrand 6 — The student uses the writing process recursively to compose an expository essay in accordance with the demands and constraints of the STAAR™ Writing test. The student uses appropriate conventions. The student’s work is legible. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose an expository essays that is meaningful and in accordance with the demands and constraints of the STAAR™ Writing test. \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form. Please note: Course may be purchased with credit card at our Online Store\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and email a confirmation to you.\nView / print: Brochure / Registration Form \nClick HERE to purchase at Alice NIne’s Store \nGeneral course information. \nMaterials. Notes and Handouts linked in this course\nAccess. Self-paced with 24/7 access. You can return to any part of the training as often as you choose. Course closes on April 15\, 2021\nAssignments/Progress Reports conclude each Module. These become available once you have viewed videos and opened documents in the module. They must be completed to have access to the Certificate of Completion.\nCertificate.  Check marks in tick boxes (right side of course screens) are a record of your work completion. Upon completion of all course work\, a Certificate of Completion (6 clock hours) will be accessible. You must print and then add your name and date to the document. Keep in your professional files. N.I.N.E. Enterprises does not keep a file of these certificates.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/writing-staar-essays-3/
LOCATION:Online at PD.alicenine.net
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200425
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20200322T164216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T012735Z
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SUMMARY:Cursive Handwriting
DESCRIPTION:Join\nALICE NINE\nM – F\nMarch 23 – April 24\, 2020\nFor 15-20 minute lessons in cursive writing\nRemote Lessons\nFREE\n(Location Website Link Below)
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/cursive-handwriting/
LOCATION:Online at Alice Nine’s Johnny Can Spell & Write Facebook Page
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200107
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20191102T154416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T161611Z
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SUMMARY:O'Shea Keleher Inservice Day
DESCRIPTION:Word Study with Alice Nine\n\nJohnny Can Spell PD\nParticipation limited to campus staff.\nEl Paso\, Texas
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/oshea-keleher-inservice-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T150000
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CREATED:20191102T143322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T145107Z
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SUMMARY:Writing STAAR™ Essays
DESCRIPTION:With an eye on STAAR™ — writing mentor essays and developing teaching points with Alice Nine. \nRegistration is OPEN\nEl Paso\, TX. \nWorkshop Summary \nA one-day workshop\nLearn how to show your students to —\n* Write a clear central idea statement using the prompt\n* To plan and write the body with Alice Nine’s X-Builder\n* Write a conclusion that completes the essay\nPlan STAAR™ essay practice in bite-sized pieces\nPlus you will have access to Writing STAAR™ Essays digital (online) modules \nWorkshop Agenda \nWriting STAAR™ Essays is a one-day workshop. View / Print the Agenda.\nPLUS extensive online digital modules\, available 24/7 through April 15\, 2020. \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1) Follow directions on Registration Form.  Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store..\n2) Our PD facilitator will process your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \nWhat is a blended workshop? \n\nLIVE workshop on December 12\, 2019\, with Alice Nine focuses on writing mentor essays and developing teaching points in response to STAAR-like prompts.\nDigital (online) Modules available 24/7 through March 15\, 2020 include–\n\nDeconstructing the Prompt–Understanding use of each part\nDeciphering the Rubrics– Understanding the language\nDeveloping the Essay– Close examination of components\nFrom Prompt to Essay–How-to outlined with teaching points\nFrom Prompt to Essay–A modeled lesson\nResources \n________ \n Enroll in the Online Modules only\nOur online modules are available for individual teacher enrollment as Digital PD.. Check our Calendar. \n 
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/writing-staar-essays-12/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191211T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20191102T143936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T153312Z
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SUMMARY:Snippety Grammar 4 Editing STAARs
DESCRIPTION:Grammar PD with an eye on STAAR™.\nDid you know?  50% of the 4th grade STAAR Writing score is based on editing. \nRegistration OPEN\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nA one-day workshop day applying grammar knowledge and practicing editing skills with an eye on demands of STAAR™.  Digital (online) resources are included. \nWhy is it called Snippety Grammar? Because it is grammar in snippets — \nMini-lessons and anchor charts…\nBite-sized daily practices that develop editing skills…\nSimple\, no nonsense\, can-use-tomorrow routines…\nEditing strategies (tips and tricks) for proof-reading and test-taking… \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\n \nStrand 6 — The student uses acquired knowledge to support appropriate use of conventions to analyze and edit text. The student learns tips and tricks of editors to proofread and determine correct use of conventions. The student uses proofreader symbols.\nStrand 1 — The student demonstrates and applies spelling knowledge.\nStrand 5 – The student uses critical inquiry to notice and analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning and flow of text. \nWorkshop Agenda \nView/Print the Agenda for the day.\n \nIt’s easy to enroll\nOnly a few places are still available.\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/snippety-grammar-4-editing-staars-8/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191031
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190912T152012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T152636Z
UID:11634-1572393600-1572479999@alicenine.net
SUMMARY:Horizon Heights Inservice Day
DESCRIPTION:JCSpell Word Study Plus\nParticipation limited to campus staff.\nEl Paso\, Texas
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/horizon-heights-inservice-day/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191029T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190325T194213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T205930Z
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SUMMARY:Interactive Poetry Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Poetry is an echo\, asking a shadow to dance. -Carl Sandburg. \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\nDon’t miss it! Alice Nine has revised her popular Interactive Poetry Notebook Workshop!\n \nWorkshop Summary \nIn this workshop\, teachers will\n• Outline 5 generic lessons that can be used with any poem\n• Organize and layout the Interactive Poetry Notebook\n• Experience the instructional activities in real time in the role of a student\n• Create a personalized Teacher’s Edition of the Interactive Poetry Notebook\n• Review poetry basics\n• Apply STAAR™ poetry question stems \nVisit Alice Nine’s “Talking with Letters” (blog) to read about Day One \n\nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS \nDuring the course of the five lesson designs of Alice Nine’s Interactive Poetry Notebook\, students are purposefully engaged in the following ELAR TEKS: \nStrand 1– The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.\nStrand 2 – The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex poems.\nStrand 3 – The student responds to poems that are read\, heard\, or viewed.\nStrand 4 – The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across diverse poems.\nStrand 5 – The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors choices and how they influence and communicate meaning in poems. The student analyze the author’s craft.\nStrand 6 – The student writes legibly and uses appropriate conventions \nWorkshop Agenda\nInteractive Poetry Notebook is a one-day workshop day: October 29\, 2019.\nView / Print the Agenda. \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form.Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/interactive-poetry-notebook-4/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191024
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T161305Z
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SUMMARY:Ernesto Serna Inservice Day
DESCRIPTION:JCSpell Word Study Plus\nParticipation limited to campus staff.\nEl Paso\, Texas
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/serna-inservice-day/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191017T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191017T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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SUMMARY:Writing STAAR™ Essays
DESCRIPTION:With an eye on STAAR™ — writing mentor essays and developing teaching points with Alice Nine. \nRegistration for OCT 17 is CLOSED\nWe have scheduled another session for OCT 15.\nEl Paso\, TX. \nWorkshop Summary \nA one-day workshop day\nLearn how to show your students to —\n*Use the prompt to write a clear central idea statement\n*Use Alice Nine’s X-Builder for body\n* Write a conclusion that completes the essay\nPlan STAAR essay practice in bite-sized pieces\nPlus you will have access to Writing STAAR™ Essays digital (online) modules \nWorkshop Agenda \nWriting STAAR Essays is a one-day workshop. View / Print the Agenda.\nPLUS extensive online digital modules\, available 24/7 through March 15\, 2020. \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form.  Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store..\n2) Our PD facilitator will process your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \nWhat is a blended workshop? \n\nLIVE workshop on October 17\, 2019\, with Alice Nine focuses on writing mentor essays and developing teaching points in response to STAAR-like prompts.\nDigital (online) Modules available 24/7 through March 15\, 2020 include–\nDeconstructing the Prompt\nDeciphering the Rubrics\nDeveloping the Essay\nFrom Prompt to Essay\, modeled step-by-step with teaching points\nResources\n\n________ \n Enroll in the Online Modules only\nOur online modules are available for individual teachers as Digital PD and will open for enrollment in August 2019. Check our Calendar or check here for a link to enroll online. \n 
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/writing-staar-essays-10/2019-10-17/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191016T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191016T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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SUMMARY:Snippety Grammar 4 Editing STAARS
DESCRIPTION:Grammar PD with an eye on STAAR™.\nDid you know?  50% of the 4th grade STAAR Writing score is based on editing. \nRegistration has been Re-Opened\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nA one-day workshop day applying grammar knowledge and practicing editing skills with an eye on demands of STAAR™.  Digital (online) resources are included. \nWhy is it called Snippety Grammar? Because it is grammar in snippets — \nMini-lessons and anchor charts…\nBite-sized daily practices that develop editing skills…\nSimple\, no nonsense\, can-use-tomorrow routines…\nEditing strategies (tips and tricks) for proof-reading and test-taking… \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\n \nStrand 6 — The student uses acquired knowledge to support appropriate use of conventions to analyze and edit text. The student learns tips and tricks of editors to proofread and determine correct use of conventions. The student uses proofreader symbols.\nStrand 1 — The student demonstrates and applies spelling knowledge.\nStrand 5 – The student uses critical inquiry to notice and analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning and flow of text. \nWorkshop Agenda \nView/Print the Agenda for the day.\n \nIt’s easy to enroll\nOnly a few places are still available.\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/snippety-grammar-4-editing-staars-7/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190923T200156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T200156Z
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SUMMARY:Writing STAAR Essays
DESCRIPTION:With an eye on STAAR™ — writing mentor essays and developing teaching points with Alice Nine. \nRegistration is OPEN\nEl Paso\, TX. \nWorkshop Summary \nA one-day workshop day\nLearn how to show your students to —\n*Use the prompt to write a clear central idea statement\n*Use Alice Nine’s X-Builder for body\n* Write a conclusion that completes the essay\nPlan STAAR essay practice in bite-sized pieces\nPlus you will have access to Writing STAAR™ Essays digital (online) modules \nWorkshop Agenda \nWriting STAAR Essays is a one-day workshop. View / Print the Agenda.\nPLUS extensive online digital modules\, available 24/7 through March 15\, 2020. \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1) Follow directions on Registration Form.  Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store..\n2) Our PD facilitator will process your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \nWhat is a blended workshop? \n\nLIVE workshop on October 15\, 2019\, with Alice Nine focuses on writing mentor essays and developing teaching points in response to STAAR-like prompts.\nDigital (online) Modules available 24/7 through March 15\, 2020 include–\nDeconstructing the Prompt\nDeciphering the Rubrics\nDeveloping the Essay\nFrom Prompt to Essay\, modeled step-by-step with teaching points\nResources\n\n________ \n Enroll in the Online Modules only\nOur online modules are available for individual teacher enrollment as Digital PD.. Check our Calendar. \n 
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/writing-staar-essays-11/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191004
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190912T144950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T152239Z
UID:11621-1569974400-1570147199@alicenine.net
SUMMARY:James Butler Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Grammar Boot Camp\n\nParticipation limited to campus staff.\nEl Paso\, Texas
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/james-butler-gbc/
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191002
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190912T144537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T152324Z
UID:11618-1569888000-1569974399@alicenine.net
SUMMARY:John Drugan Workshop
DESCRIPTION:JCSpell Word Study Plus\nParticipation limited to campus staff.\nEl Paso\, Texas
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/john-drugan-inservice-day/
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20190926T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20190926T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
CREATED:20190315T223512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T024305Z
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SUMMARY:JCSpell Word Study
DESCRIPTION:Integrating phonemic awareness\, handwriting\, phonics\, spelling\, and vocabulary \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nAlice Nine will show you how to integrate the following during Word Study lessons\, without worksheets:\n \nphonemic awareness with sounds and syllables — \nsystematic\, explicit phonics —\nhandwriting instruction — \nspelling practice —\nword grammar — \nand how-to sound out words for both reading and writing \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\n \nDaily Word Study with content (phonograms and words) and routines of JCSpell provide ongoing opportunities to address\nStrand 1– The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness\, print concepts\, phonics\, and morphology to communicate\, decode\, and spell (encode) during the daily JCSpell lesson routines\, i\,e.\, Think to Spell\, Word Talk. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively through oral and written sentences during Word Talk.\nStrand 6 — The student composes legible texts during I-Work. The student composes sentences and uses appropriate conventions during I-Work. \nWho should attend? \nAll teachers\, especially elementary since phonics is now part of the new ELAR TEKS\, for grades 4-5 as well as K-3.  This is especially great for ELLs. Alice Nine recommends it for core instruction; however\, it can be used Tier 2 intervention\, especially at secondary level. \nWorkshop Agenda \nView/Print JCSpell Word Study  Agenda.\nTwo dates are offered for the LIVE Workshop:  Aug. 29 or  Sept. 26\, 2019 \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form\n \nBLENDED Professional Development involves\n \n✓  Face-to-Face Session:  August 26th or September 26th\, with Alice Nine\, 6 hour workshop\n✓  Digital (online) Sessions:  Begins upon Registration\, 24 hours of personalized step-by-step training with simulated lessons\, access 24/7 through January 30\, 2020 \n________ \n Enroll in the Online Sessions only:\nListed on our calendar:  Digital PD: JCSpell Word Study\nCan be purchased with credit card in our Online Store. \n________ \nWhat is Johnny Can Spell (JCSpell) #JCSpell ? \nJCSpell is not a curriculum.  JCSpell is not a program.\nJCSpell is an instructional design that offers you a systematic\, explicit approach for integrated ELA instruction. \nNOTE: If you are currently enrolled in the digital course (JCSpell Word Study) and want to attend this one-day workshop at the Radisson on August 26\, contact Alice Nine. \nAlice Nine\, creator of Johnny Can Spell\, Is the sole provider of Johnny Can Spell workshops.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/jcspell-word-study-2/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190830T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190830T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T215559Z
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SUMMARY:Teach Cursive
DESCRIPTION:“Scrawls that cannot be read may be compared to talking that cannot be understood; and writing too difficult to decipher\, to stammering speech.” –Spencerian Penmanship\, 1874 \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\nDon’t miss it!\nThe new ELAR TEKS require it!\n \nWorkshop Summary\nExperience a day of learning and practice \nBasic formation of cursive letters\n–The “cursive connection” and how to use it to teach cursive\n–Writing and ready cursive\n–A sequence for successful instruction\n–How to integrate instruction and practice with phonics and word work\n–How to teach and practice without workbooks or worksheets\n–Easy-to-use practice activities that support mastery\n–Tips and tricks to support good handwriting habits \n\nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\nStrand 1 — The student is expected “to develop handwriting by forming all cursive letters using appropriate strokes when connecting letters” [110.4(2)(E)]; “to write complete words\, thoughts\, and answers legible in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words” [110.5(2)(D)]; “to write legibly in cursive to complete assignments” [110.6(2)(C); 110.7(2)(C)].\nStrand 6 — “The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.” \nWorkshop Agenda\nTeach Cursive is a one-day workshop day: August 30\, 2019.\n(Additional sessions of this workshop scheduled on August 16 and September 27)\nView/Print the workshop Agenda \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form \nStudent samples – Grade 2
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/teach-cursive-2/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20190829T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20190829T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T024343Z
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SUMMARY:JCSpell Word Study
DESCRIPTION:Integrating phonemic awareness\, handwriting\, phonics\, spelling\, and vocabulary \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nAlice Nine will show you how to integrate the following during Word Study lessons\, without worksheets:\n \nphonemic awareness with sounds and syllables — \nsystematic\, explicit phonics —\nhandwriting instruction — \nspelling practice —\nword grammar — \nand how-to sound out words for both reading and writing \nAligns with new ELAR TEKS\n \nDaily Word Study with content (phonograms and words) and routines of JCSpell provide ongoing opportunities to address\nStrand 1– The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness\, print concepts\, phonics\, and morphology to communicate\, decode\, and spell (encode) during the daily JCSpell lesson routines\, i\,e.\, Think to Spell\, Word Talk. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively through oral and written sentences during Word Talk.\nStrand 6 — The student composes legible texts during I-Work. The student composes sentences and uses appropriate conventions during I-Work. \nWho should attend? \nAll teachers\, especially elementary since phonics is now part of the new ELAR TEKS\, for grades 4-5 as well as K-3.  This is especially great for ELLs. Alice Nine recommends it for core instruction; however\, it can be used Tier 2 intervention\, especially at secondary level. \nWorkshop Agenda \nView/Print  JCSpell Word Study Agenda.\nTwo dates are offered for the LIVE Workshop:  Aug. 29 or  Sept. 26\, 2019 \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1) Follow directions on Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Brochure / Registration Form \n**  IF currently enrolled in the online JCSpell Word Study **\nContact Alice Nine for a reduce price to attend the workshop on Aug. 29 or Sept 26\, 2019 \nBLENDED Professional Development involves–\n \n✓  Face-to-Face Session:  August 29th or September 26th  with Alice Nine\, 6 hour workshop\n✓  Digital (online) Sessions:  Begins upon Registration\, 24 hours of personalized step-by-step training with simulated lessons\, access 24/7 through January 30\, 2020 \n____________ \n Enroll in the Online Sessions only:\nListed on our calendar:  Digital PD: JCSpell Word Study \n____________ \nWhat is Johnny Can Spell (JCSpell) #JCSpell ? \nJCSpell is not a curriculum.  JCSpell is not a program.\nJCSpell is an instructional design that offers you a systematic\, explicit approach for integrated ELA instruction. \nAlice Nine\, creator of Johnny Can Spell\, Is the sole provider of JCSpell workshops.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/jcspell-word-study/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190816T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190816T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T215448Z
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SUMMARY:Teach Cursive
DESCRIPTION:“Scrawls that cannot be read may be compared to talking that cannot be understood; and writing too difficult to decipher\, to stammering speech.” –Spencerian Penmanship\, 1874 \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\nDon’t miss it!\nThe new ELAR TEKS require it!\n \nWorkshop Summary\nExperience a day of learning and practice\n–Basic formation of cursive letters\n–The “cursive connection” and how to use it to teach cursive\n–Writing and ready cursive\n–A sequence for successful instruction\n–How to integrate instruction and practice with phonics and word work\n–How to teach and practice without workbooks or worksheets\n–Easy-to-use practice activities that support mastery\n–Tips and tricks to support good handwriting habits \n\nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\nStrand 1 — The student is expected “to develop handwriting by forming all cursive letters using appropriate strokes when connecting letters” [110.4(2)(E)]; “to write complete words\, thoughts\, and answers legible in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words” [110.5(2)(D)]; “to write legibly in cursive to complete assignments” [110.6(2)(C); 110.7(2)(C)].\nStrand 6 — “The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.” \nWorkshop Agenda\nTeach Cursive is a one-day workshop day: August 16\, 2019.\n(Additional sessions of this workshop scheduled on August 30 and September 27)\nView/Print the workshop Agenda \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form \nStudent samples – Grade 2
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/teach-cursive/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20190814T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20190815T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190808T143908Z
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SUMMARY:Grammar Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:Teach grammar for the sake of reading and writing. \nRegistration is CLOSED.\nEnrollment is FULL\nEl Paso\, Texas\n \nWorkshop Summary \nExperience two days of easy-to-manage\, student-engaging Anchor Lessons\, Anchor Charting\, Learning Rituals & Routines and an introduction to Alice Nine’s Interactive Grammar Notebook\, followed by online lessons for blended classroom instruction. \nAnchor Lessons and Anchor Charts build concepts with clear\, concise\, easy explanations and definitions. Mentor texts model with accurate examples. The Grammar Notebook becomes a student’s resource book. Full-color graphics and explicit notebook building is part of the lessons in Alice Nine’s online Grammar Boot Camps. Based on scientific research & best practices these grammar lessons align with the new ELAR TEKS and the ELPS and support gains in STAAR Writing. \nAlignment with NEW ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6 — The student learns grammar basics during the creation of an interactive grammar notebook. The student uses acquired knowledge to support appropriate use of conventions to edit\, analyze\, and revise a mentor sentence. The student writes legibly.\nStrand 5 – The student uses critical inquiry to notice and analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning in a mentor sentences. The student analyzes the authors’ craft and applies it purposefully in order to develop his or her own sentences. \nWorkshop Agenda \nGrammar Boot Camp\, a two-day workshop. View/Print the Agenda.\nAugust 14-15\, 2019\nDay 1: Rituals and charting all about parts of speech\nDay 2: Anchor lessons and routines working with sentences\nFollowing the workshop you will have access to over 50 front-loading grammar lessons. \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\n View/Print:  Brochure / Registration Form. \nChoose one of two options — \nOption 1. Attend the two-day workshop and join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons with a one-year membership to Alice Nine Academy\, home of Grammar Boot Camp. \nOption 2. Attend the two-day workshop and join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons with a three-month membership to Alice Nine Academy\, home of Grammar Boot Camp. \nPurchase using the Registration Form or through our online Store: Option 1 HERE  or  Option 2 HERE \nCan’t attend the workshop?\nBecome a member of Alice Nine Academy by purchasing “Site Membership” HERE. \n______\nVisit Grammar Boot Camp sample lessons at ALICE NINE ACADEMY — your place for blended classroom instruction.\n–As one teacher put it\, “It’s like having Alice Nine in your pocket!”\n\n–As Alice Nine puts it\, “Through my Academy\, I can team teach with you in your classroom any or every day of the year.”\nBe sure to check out the Scope & Sequence for each boot camp.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/grammar-boot-camp-2/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190712
DTSTAMP:20260408T121916
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190310T000719Z
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SUMMARY:A9 Literacy Conference
DESCRIPTION:ENROLLMENT CLOSED \nParticipation by invitation only.\nMorgan Mill\, Texas. \nDay 1: JCSpell Word Study.\nDay 2: Grammar Boot Camp.\nDay 3: Writing. \n 
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/a9-literacy-conference/
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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SUMMARY:Mentor Sentences
DESCRIPTION:Use model sentences to teach grammar\, craft moves (revision)\, and lift the level of student writing. \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nAlice Nine will show you how to use grammar while practicing revision and editing skills with mentor sentences using her simple instructional routine ( #A9_TSI ).  She will show you how to lift student writing by — \n*Using grammar for mastery through meaningful application\n*Developing the habit of noticing language patterns\n*Analyzing and imitating authors’ craft purposefully \nAlice Nine’s strategy ( #A9_TSI ) makes daily application and practice of foundational knowledge and skills easy to blend 
into any writing program at any grade level. \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6: The student uses appropriate conventions to edit sentences. The student develops his or her revision skills by learning how authors craft sentences and by imitating authors to craft his or her own sentence. The student improves his or her editing and revision skills by developing the habit of noticing. The student uses legible handwriting.\nStrand 1 – The student learns and uses the academic vocabulary of grammar. \nWorkshop Agenda \nMentor Sentences is a one-day workshop day. View / Print the Agenda .\nThis workshop is offered on two dates: April 25 and June 13\, 2019.\nActivities in April are designed with a focus kindergarten through second grade.\nActivities in June are designed with a focus on grades 3 and above.\n \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form.  Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \n___________\nWhy work with one sentence at a time?\nThe answer is in this quote. \n“In her book The Writing Life (1989)\, Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student\, “Do you think I could be a writer?” “‘Well\,’ the writer said\, ‘do you like sentences?'” The student is surprised by the question\, but Dillard knows exactly what was meant. He was being told\, she explains\, that “if he likes sentences he could begin\,” and she remembers a similar conversation with a painter friend. “I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said\, ‘I like the smell of paint.'” The point\, made implicitly (Dillard does not belabour it)\, is that you don’t begin with a grand conception\, either of the great American novel or masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. You begin with a feel for the nitty-gritty material of the medium\, paint in one case\, sentences in the other.”  ―  Stanley Fish  \n___________\nMentor Sentences is a Growing Strong Writers workshop.\nGrowing Strong Writers Workshop Series with Alice Nine is attentive to the importance of daily writing practice\, the complex demands of learning English\, and a desire to cultivate a love for writing \nThese workshops offer super simple\, no nonsense\, can-use-it-tomorrow routines and strategies. Workshops are interactive with teachers doing the work of a student to step-by-step experience the routines themselves. to examine routine procedures and management\, and to clarify\, connect\, and expand personal knowledge. Alice also shares practical ideas for adapting routines to meet diverse student needs and the demands of writing across core curriculum. \nOther Growing Strong Writer workshops:  How We Write\, Writing with Authors\, Sentence Combining\, Poetry Fridays\, Morning Pages\, Small Writing\, Poetry Notebook.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/mentor-sentences-2/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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SUMMARY:How We Write
DESCRIPTION:Teaching the writing process with a one-sentence composition. \nRegistration is OPEN.\n El Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nDuring this workshop\, you will learn how to teach the writing process and the academic vocabulary of writing in six anchor lessons that include modeling\, guided practice\, and anchor charts. Alice will show you how students can work with a one-sentence composition to 
 1) Plan a first draft
 2) Develop the draft
 3) Revise the draft 
 4) Edit the draft 
 5) Publish. \nHow We Write anchor lessons develop the foundation for writing instruction and set up classroom procedures as they easily blend 
into any writing program at any grade level. \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6 – The student learns about the writing process and learns how to use it. The student applies knowledge of conventions to edit. The student uses legible handwriting.\nStrand 1 – The student learns and uses the academic vocabulary of writing.\nStrand 7 – The student uses inquiry and research during prewriting. \nWorkshop Agenda \nHow We Write is a one-day workshop day. View / Print Agenda\nThis workshop is offered on two dates:  April 24 and June 12\, 2019\nActivities in April are designed with a focus kindergarten through second grade.\nActivities in June are designed with a focus on grades 3 and above.\n \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \n___________\nHow We Write is a Growing Strong Writers workshop.\nGrowing Strong Writers Workshop Series with Alice Nine is attentive to the importance of daily writing practice\, the complex demands of learning English\, and a desire to cultivate a love for writing \nThese workshops offer super simple\, no nonsense\, can-use-it-tomorrow routines and strategies. Workshops are interactive with teachers doing the work of a student to step-by-step experience the routines themselves. to examine routine procedures and management\, and to clarify\, connect\, and expand personal knowledge. Alice also shares practical ideas for adapting routines to meet diverse student needs and the demands of writing across core curriculum. \nOther Growing Strong Writer workshops:  Mentor Sentences\, Writing with Authors\, Sentence Combining\, Poetry Fridays\, Morning Pages\, Small Writing.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/how-we-write-5/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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SUMMARY:P.S. 147 PD Day
DESCRIPTION:ENROLLMENT CLOSED.\nParticipation by invitation only.\nDigital training is in progress.\nBrooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/p-s-147-pd-day-4/
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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SUMMARY:Teach Cursive
DESCRIPTION:“Scrawls that cannot be read may be compared to talking that cannot be understood; and writing too difficult to decipher\, to stammering speech.” –Spencerian Penmanship\, 1874 \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\nDon’t miss it!\nThe new ELAR TEKS require it!\n \nWorkshop Summary\nExperience a day of learning and practice\n–Basic formation of cursive letters\n–The “cursive connection” and how to use it to teach cursive\n–Writing and ready cursive\n–A sequence for successful instruction\n–How to integrate instruction and practice with phonics and word work\n–How to teach and practice without workbooks or worksheets\n–Easy-to-use practice activities that support mastery\n–Tips and tricks to support good handwriting habits \n\nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS\nStrand 1 — The student is expected “to develop handwriting by forming all cursive letters using appropriate strokes when connecting letters” [110.4(2)(E)]; “to write complete words\, thoughts\, and answers legible in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words” [110.5(2)(D)]; “to write legibly in cursive to complete assignments” [110.6(2)(C); 110.7(2)(C)].\nStrand 6 — “The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.” \nWorkshop Agenda\nTeach Cursive is a one-day workshop day: September 27\, 2019.\n(Additional sessions of this workshop scheduled on August 16 and August 30)\nView/Print the workshop Agenda \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form \nStudent samples — Grade 2
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/teach-cursive-3/
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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SUMMARY:Grammar Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:Teach grammar for the sake of reading and writing.\nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\n \nWorkshop summary \nExperience two days of easy-to-manage\, student-engaging Anchor Lessons\, Anchor Charting\, Learning Rituals & Routines and an introduction to Alice Nine’s Interactive Grammar Notebook. \nAnchor Lessons and Anchor Charts build concepts with clear\, concise\, easy explanations and definitions. Mentor texts model with accurate examples. The Grammar Notebook becomes a student’s resource book. Full-color graphics and explicit notebook building is part of the lessons in Alice Nine’s online Grammar Boot Camps. Based on scientific research & best practices these grammar lessons align with the new ELAR TEKS and the ELPS and support gains in STAAR Writing. \nAlignment with NEW ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6 — The student learns grammar basics during the creation of an interactive grammar notebook. The student uses acquired knowledge to support appropriate use of conventions to edit\, analyze\, and revise a mentor sentence. The student writes legibly.\nStrand 5 – The student uses critical inquiry to notice and analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning in a mentor sentences. The student analyzes the authors’ craft and applies it purposefully in order to develop his or her own sentences.\n \nWorkshop Agenda \nGrammar Boot Camp is a two-day workshop. View / Print the Agenda.\nTwo dates are offered:  May 21-22  or  August 14-15\, 2019\n \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\n View/Print:  Brochure / Registration Form. \nChoose one of three enrollment options — \nOption 1. Attend the two-day workshop and join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons\nDay 1: Rituals\, Anchor Lessons\, and Anchor Charts for front-loading\nDay 2: Tactical Sentence Instruction for application\nFollowing the workshop you will have a one-year membership with full access to 40 front-loading grammar lessons\nYou save $120 with this option over purchasing the onsite (Option 2) and online (Option 1) separately.\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form or through our Online Store HERE.] \nOption 2. Attend the two-day workshop only (without joining Alice Nine Academy)\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form or through our Online Store HERE.] \nOption 3. Join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons (without the workshop)\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form or by purchasing “Site Membership” to Alice Nine Academy HERE.] \n______\nVisit Grammar Boot Camp sample lessons at ALICE NINE ACADEMY — your place for blended classroom instruction.\n–As one teacher put it\, “It’s like having Alice Nine in your pocket!”\n\n–As Alice Nine puts it\, “Through my Academy\, I can team teach with you in your classroom any or every day of the year.”\nBe sure to check out the Scope & Sequence for each boot camp.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/grammar-boot-camp/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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SUMMARY:Mentor Sentences
DESCRIPTION:Use model sentences to teach grammar\, craft moves (revision)\, and lift the level of student writing. \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas \nWorkshop Summary \nAlice Nine will show you how to use grammar while practicing revision and editing skills with mentor sentences using her simple instructional routine ( #A9_TSI ).  She will show you how to lift student writing by — \n*Using grammar for mastery through meaningful application\n*Developing the habit of noticing language patterns\n*Analyzing and imitating authors’ craft purposefully \nAlice Nine’s strategy ( #A9_TSI ) makes daily application and practice of foundational knowledge and skills easy to blend 
into any writing program at any grade level. \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6: The student uses appropriate conventions to edit sentences. The student develops his or her revision skills by learning how authors craft sentences and by imitating authors to craft his or her own sentence. The student improves his or her editing and revision skills by developing the habit of noticing. The student uses legible handwriting.\nStrand 1 – The student learns and uses the academic vocabulary of grammar. \nWorkshop Agenda \nMentor Sentences is a one-day workshop day. View / Print the Agenda.\nThis workshop is offered on two dates: April 25 and June 13\, 2019.\nActivities in April are designed with a focus kindergarten through second grade.\nActivities in June are designed with a focus on grades 3 and above.\n \nIt’s easy to enroll \n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form. \n___________\nWhy work with one sentence at a time?\nThe answer is in this quote. \n“In her book The Writing Life (1989)\, Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student\, “Do you think I could be a writer?” “‘Well\,’ the writer said\, ‘do you like sentences?'” The student is surprised by the question\, but Dillard knows exactly what was meant. He was being told\, she explains\, that “if he likes sentences he could begin\,” and she remembers a similar conversation with a painter friend. “I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said\, ‘I like the smell of paint.'” The point\, made implicitly (Dillard does not belabour it)\, is that you don’t begin with a grand conception\, either of the great American novel or masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. You begin with a feel for the nitty-gritty material of the medium\, paint in one case\, sentences in the other.”  ―  Stanley Fish  \n___________\nMentor Sentences is a Growing Strong Writers workshop.\nGrowing Strong Writers Workshop Series with Alice Nine is attentive to the importance of daily writing practice\, the complex demands of learning English\, and a desire to cultivate a love for writing \nThese workshops offer super simple\, no nonsense\, can-use-it-tomorrow routines and strategies. Workshops are interactive with teachers doing the work of a student to step-by-step experience the routines themselves. to examine routine procedures and management\, and to clarify\, connect\, and expand personal knowledge. Alice also shares practical ideas for adapting routines to meet diverse student needs and the demands of writing across core curriculum. \nOther Growing Strong Writer workshops:  How We Write\, Writing with Authors\, Sentence Combining\, Poetry Fridays\, Morning Pages\, Small Writing\, Poetry Notebook.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/mentor-sentences/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20190424T150000
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SUMMARY:How We Write
DESCRIPTION:Teaching the writing process with a one-sentence composition. \nRegistration is OPEN.\nEl Paso\, Texas\n \nWorkshop Summary \nDuring this workshop\, you will learn how to teach the writing process and the academic vocabulary of writing in six anchor lessons that include modeling\, guided practice\, and anchor charts. Alice will show you how students can work with a one-sentence composition to 
 1) Plan a first draft
 2) Develop the draft
 3) Revise the draft 
 4) Edit the draft 
 5) Publish. \nHow We Write anchor lessons develop the foundation for writing instruction and set up classroom procedures as they easily blend 
into any writing program at any grade level. \nAlignment with new ELAR TEKS \nStrand 6 – The student learns about the writing process and learns how to use it. The student applies knowledge of conventions to edit. The student uses legible handwriting.\nStrand 1 – The student learns and uses the academic vocabulary of writing.\nStrand 7 – The student uses inquiry and research during prewriting. \nWorkshop Agenda \nHow We Write is one-day workshop day. View / Print the Agenda.\nThis workshop is offered on two dates:  April 24 and June 12\, 2019\nActivities in April are designed with a focus kindergarten through second grade.\nActivities in June are designed with a focus on grades 3 and above.\n \n  \nIt’s easy to enroll\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form. Please note: Payment can be made with credit card at our  Online Store.\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you.\nView/Print: Brochure / Registration Form.\n \n___________\nHow We Write is a Growing Strong Writers workshop.\nGrowing Strong Writers Workshop Series with Alice Nine is attentive to the importance of daily writing practice\, the complex demands of learning English\, and a desire to cultivate a love for writing \nThese workshops offer super simple\, no nonsense\, can-use-it-tomorrow routines and strategies. Workshops are interactive with teachers doing the work of a student to step-by-step experience the routines themselves. to examine routine procedures and management\, and to clarify\, connect\, and expand personal knowledge. Alice also shares practical ideas for adapting routines to meet diverse student needs and the demands of writing across core curriculum. \nOther Growing Strong Writer workshops:  Mentor Sentences\, Writing with Authors\, Sentence Combining\, Poetry Fridays\, Morning Pages\, Small Writing.
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/how-we-write-4/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T080000
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SUMMARY:Grammar Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:Teach grammar for the sake of reading and writing.\nRegistration is OPEN. \nIt is easy to enroll :\n1)  Follow directions on the Registration Form\n2)  Our PD facilitator will complete your registration and send a confirmation email to you. \n View / Print:  Brochure & Registration Form. \nThree options are available —\n1. Attend the two-day workshop and join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons\nDay 1: Rituals\, Anchor Lessons\, and Anchor Charts for front-loading\nDay 2: Tactical Sentence Instruction for application\nFollowing the workshop you will have a one-year membership with full access to 40 front-loading grammar lessons\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form.] \n2. Attend the two-day workshop only (without joining Alice Nine Academy)\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form or by visiting our online Store HERE.] \n3. Join Alice Nine Academy for Grammar Boot Camp blended lessons (without the workshop)\n[This option can be purchased using the Registration Form or by purchasing “Site Membership” to Alice Nine Academy HERE.] \nBe sure to visit Grammar Boot Camp and view sample lessons at ALICE NINE ACADEMY — your place for blended classroom instruction\nAs one teacher put it\, “It’s like having Alice Nine in your pocket!”\nAs Alice Nine puts it\, “Through my Academy\, I can team teach with you in your classroom any or every day of the year.”
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/alicenine-grammar-launch-2018-10-03/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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SUMMARY:Johnny Can Spell Word Study- All Grades
DESCRIPTION:Alice Nine will show you how to integrate\nphonemic awareness with sounds and syllables — \nsystematic\, explicit phonics —\nhandwriting instruction — \nspelling practice —\nword grammar — \nand how-to sound out words for reading and writing\nin your Word Study lessons without worksheets. \nAligns with new ELAR TEKS for Texas elementary teachers! \nOPEN enrollment\nEl Paso\, Texas \nIt’s easy to enroll:\n1) Follow directions on Reg. Form if using a school purchase order  OR\nPurchase enrollment at our ONLINE STORE\n2) Our PD facilitator will complete your enrollment and send you a confirmation email.\nView / Print: Flyer / Registration Form\n \nBLENDED Professional Development \n✓  Face-to-Face Session:  August 30th or September 20th\, with Alice Nine\, 6 hour workshop\n✓  Digital (online) Sessions:  Begins upon Registration\, 24 hours of personalized step-by-step training with simulated lessons\, access 24/7 through January 30\, 2019 \nWho should attend?\nOur focused is on primary grades (level of words we examine)\, but all teachers are welcome.\nThis is especially great for ELLs and Tier 2 intervention at higher grades. \n Enroll in the Online Sessions only:\nListed on our calendar:  Digital PD: JCSpell Word Study \nWhat is Johnny Can Spell (JCSpell) #JCSpell ?\nJCSpell is not a curriculum.  JCSpell is not a program.\nJCSpell is an instructional design that offers you a systematic\, explicit approach for integrated ELA instruction. \n\nVisit / Become a MEMBER of Alice Nine Professional Development Center  \n\nOnsite = Face-to-Face Professional Development\nOnline = 24/7 any where Professional Development
URL:https://alicenine.net/event/johnny-can-spell-11-30-18/
LOCATION:Radison Hotel El Paso Airport\, 1770 Airway Blvd\, El Paso\, TX\, 79925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Onsite / Online
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