Georgia Writes: Creating a Classroom Culture of Writing

Georgia Writes: Creating a Classroom Culture of Writing (Teacher Series) is a professional learning series designed to support classroom teachers in delivering effective writing instruction across grades K-12. Grounded in Georgia’s K-12 ELA standards and the science of writing, this virtual series will equip teachers with practical, classroom-ready strategies that directly strengthen student writing, reading comprehension, and engagement. 

Across six interactive sessions, teachers will deepen their understanding of how writers develop over time, how reading and writing work together, and what high-impact writing instruction looks like in daily practice. Sessions focus on structuring effective writing instructional time and delivering systematic, explicit instruction. Teachers will explore how mentor texts, sentence-level work, gradual release, and targeted feedback function as instructional tools—not add-ons—within a coherent writing routine. 

Session 1: What Works in Writing: The Research Every Teacher Should Know
Session 2: Developmental Progression and Vertical Alignment in Writing
Session 3: Reading-Writing Reciprocity: Using Texts to Grow Writers
Session 4: Structuring the Writing Block for Maximum Impact
Session 5: Delivering Systematic, Explicit Lessons
Session 6: Feedback, Student Work Analysis, and Differentiation

Educators will leave the series with a shared language, concrete tools, and actionable practices they can implement immediately—helping writing become not just an assignment, but a sustained classroom culture that supports all students as developing writers. 

Primary Contact: Mari Moss - mmoss@doe.k12.ga.us

Secondary Contact: Sarah Welch - sarah.welch@doe.k12.ga.us