This workshop is for faculty who wish to focus on how they guide students through the writing process. This foundational workshop introduces participants to writing-based teaching practices, while giving participants an opportunity to reflect on how they approach their own writing, as well as how they teach writing. The goal is to create, nurture, and sustain a writing-based classroom. The workshop is communal and collaborative: teachers read and write together, exchange ideas, and respond to one another’s work. Through these activities, teachers become more aware of the scaffolding behind the composing process and better perceive the roots of their students’ struggles to produce expressive and engaged writing. Teachers of all subjects who want to understand how shared writing practices can generate rich thinking and learning are invited to participate. 

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Stephanie Dunson. an award-winning scholar and a collaborative process specialist whose experience spans the academic and business worlds. Over her thirty-year career, she’s gained an international reputation as a writing process expert, leading workshops at major universities (Yale, George Washington University, University of London), speaking at leading colleges (Amherst, Wellesley, WPI), and coaching faculty from top programs (Johns Hopkins, Brown, University of Lausanne). Her development as a team thinking expert is grounded in her work as a consultant for the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking and continued within academia through her tenure as Director of Writing Programs at Williams College. 

Breakfast and lunch will be served. 

The design of the workshop requires a full-day commitment. Please only register if you can commit to full-day participation.   As this is an intensive full day workshop, participants will receive a stipend of $100.