The Partnership will convene a Math Leadership Group and a Literacy Leadership Group in central Indiana during the 2019-2020 school year, using a new format to engage teacher-leaders in grades K-8 in deeper discussion and professional understanding. Applications are due August 23, 2019.

We've compiled strategies for beating "summer brain drain" in reading, writing, and math for grades preK-8.

The Partnership for Inquiry Learning, formerly the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019. Join us in looking back at our impact on the teaching of writing in grades preK-8 and celebrating other milestones throughout this year.

Riley Strauss, pre-service teacher in the Butler University College of Education, reflects on his work with an introverted kindergarten student who was not able to articulate what she knew about math. Find out how teacher-created tools, games, and partner work helped this young mathematician improve her fact fluency.

Looking closely at "Speech Class" by Jim Daniels, we see how and why a poet might include dialogue in a poem. Reading like a writer helps us understand craft strategies more deeply so we can use them deliberately in our own texts.

When Ms. Cusick teaches that readers re-read books, using a book by Marla Frazee to demonstrate, students begin to notice new things in texts they are already familiar with, too. Spend a day in this first grade reading workshop with us.

Writer-in-Residence Julie Patterson explains how a simple sentence from literacy scholar Matt Glover radically changed her attitude and actions when conferring with student writers.

Parents often ask, "Why are the children making books in preschool? How can they make books if they can't read and write yet?" Research tells us that young children can read and write, and there are multiple reasons for teaching writing in this way.

The right supplies can help you launch a K-2 writing workshop and establish the kind of habits and practices that will make the workshop easy to manage all year long. You may even want to stock up on these "must-have" supplies before the back-to-school sales end.

Join one of our after-school groups of teacher-leaders that meet monthly to talk and learn about workshop teaching in reading, writing, or math.