Webinar: Accelerating Early Learners’ Writing with Wiley Blevins: Using Scaffolds and Supports to Build Writing Skills by Seesaw

Accelerating Early Learners’ Writing with Wiley Blevins: Using Scaffolds and Supports to Build Writing Skills

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Come join Wiley Blevins as we learn and explore strategies that accelerate early learners’ writing by leveraging scaffolds to differentiate and provide intentional language development.

Participants will explore writing activities that build students’ comprehension and deepen their understanding of language through syntax and sentence development.

Presenters

Seesaw

Keeps everyone in the learning loop

Erin Wakshlag

Director of Curriculum

Erin, our Director of Curriculum at Seesaw, has an extensive career in education. She spent 9 years teaching in an urban Title 1 school with majority MLL students before earning her Master’s in Educational Leadership from UC Berkeley, focusing on social justice. As a district admin, she served as the TK-5 literacy and ELD coordinator for 4 years. Erin is dedicated to empowering students and families through access to education and opportunities.

Wiley Blevins

Author, Educational Consultant, and Researcher

Wiley Blevins has a Doctorate in Education. He studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bowling Green State University. He is an author, educational consultant, and researcher, and has taught both in the United States and South America. Wiley has written over 17 books for teachers, including A FRESH LOOK AT PHONICS, PHONICS FROM A TO Z, DIFFERENTIATING PHONICS INSTRUCTION FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT, and CHOOSING AND USING DECODABLE TEXTS. He has authored several phonics and reading programs and wrote the phonics brief by the International Literacy Association (Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction). Wiley's current focus is on adaptive technology, differentiated professional development, and children's literature. Wiley has written over 100 children's books and is SVP and Associate Publisher at Reycraft Books, a new imprint focused on publishing books by authors and illustrators from under-represented groups.

Kris Szajner

Sr. Content Marketing Manager

Kris is the content marketing manager for Seesaw Learning. He is a former Kindergarten teacher and technology integrationist. He has spoken across the nation on curriculum design and development, innovation, STEM instruction, and K-12 best practices. Kris is on a mission to create a better tomorrow by creating opportunities for students to reach their fullest potential at every opportunity possible.

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