Students across the grade levels and content areas often struggle to express relationships between and among ideas within academic content. In addition, they often struggle to comprehend academic meaning in complex academic texts that they read. The EXPANSION strategy is an exceptionally powerful tool for supporting students in these areas. This short workshop provides a deep dive into expansion. It is a hands-on workshop for WIT beginners or those with prior experience for teachers of grades 3-12 across content areas.
*CTLE hours: 2
About the instructor:
Michelle Brochu is a Senior Strategic Inquiry consultant and a certified trainer in both Strategic Inquiry and WIT. From 2008 to 2017, she was an adjunct professor in educational leadership in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. Prior to joining Strategic Inquiry, she worked for over 20 years in education in New York City as a senior program officer and instructional specialist at New Visions for Public Schools; an Assistant Principal at Henry Street School for International Studies; a founding co-director of the Bronx Lab School; an AUSSIE literacy consultant; and a classroom teacher.
