At WritingwithColors, we provide a comprehensive suite of services designed to empower educators, ensure consistent scoring, and deliver individualized writing support to students. Our expertise is focused on practical, high-impact strategies that directly translate into improved writing outcomes.
Transform your classroom instruction with our dynamic and research-based training. We equip educators with practical, ready-to-use strategies for teaching the writing process, providing effective feedback, and integrating writing across the curriculum.
Customized Workshops: Full-day, half-day, or multi-session training tailored to your school or district's specific instructional goals and curriculum needs.
Focus Areas: Training on specific writing modes (e.g., argumentative, informative, narrative), integrating technology, differentiated instruction, and effective revision strategies.
Coaching & Mentoring: Ongoing support for teachers, including classroom modeling and one-on-one coaching to ensure successful implementation of new techniques.
Achieve consistency and accuracy in your student writing assessments with our expertly developed materials. Our scoring sets are essential for preparing teachers for large-scale assessment scoring or ensuring inter-rater reliability within your school.
Ready-to-Use Sets: Comprehensive collections of student writing samples at various grade levels and writing proficiencies.
Annotated Rationales: Each paper is accompanied by a detailed explanation and rationale for the assigned score, aligned to your specific rubric or state standards.
Benchmark Papers: Clear examples of papers demonstrating target proficiency levels to anchor your scoring discussions.
Streamline your scoring process and ensure high levels of scorer reliability with our flexible, accessible online training platform. This service is ideal for district-wide training or asynchronous professional learning.
Interactive Modules: Self-paced courses guiding educators through the scoring rubric, key indicators, and the calibration process.
Practice Scoring: Opportunities for participants to score sample papers and immediately compare their results against expert scores.
Reliability Reporting: Tools to track and report on individual and group scoring reliability and consistency.
We believe every student deserves personalized attention. Our one-on-one sessions are designed to fill knowledge gaps, provide targeted practice, and build the confidence necessary for students to become successful writers.
Personalized Tutoring: Highly-focused sessions with experienced writing specialists for students needing extra support in specific skills or genres.
Homeschool Curriculum Supplement: Targeted support to enhance or supplement a student's existing homeschool writing curriculum.
Essay and Application Coaching: Specialized assistance for high school students on college application essays and research paper development.
Ready to bring clarity and consistency to your writing program? Contact us!