Georgia Writes: Creating a Classroom Culture of Writing—Session 1

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 equips teachers with practical, classroom-ready strategies that directly strengthen student writing, reading comprehension, and engagement. 

Across six interactive sessions, teachers 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 explore how mentor texts, sentence-level work, gradual release, and targeted feedback function as instructional tools—not add-ons—within a coherent writing routine. 

This recording captures Session 1 – What Works in Writing: The Research Every Teacher Should Know, presented on August 25, 2026.

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

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