GITA is a highly strategic writing toolkit designed to propel student success in informational, persuasive, and narrative writing in grades K-12!
After spending four years in the classroom where I led unprecedented growth in students’ English and Language Arts scores, I was recruited to become a Literacy Professional Development Specialist with an Atlanta-based organization. Once established in the Atlanta area, I became an independent consultant; presently I am in my 21st year in education and my 17th year in consulting. I took everything I learned in the classroom and used it to compile the GITA Writing Toolkit, a toolkit that I have taken all over the southeast and which has continually and consistently produced significant increases in student achievement at all K-12 levels. Although a full-time consultant for 17 years, I still teach students in their classrooms at least once per week, keeping on the cutting edge of what is working, how it best works, and ways it can be adapted.
My GITA Writing Toolkit can be applied to ANY writing curriculum, is cross-curricular, and is grounded in the idea that writing must be intentionally and explicitly taught, just like reading. Unfortunately, most curricula require students to write sentences, paragraphs, stories, and essays without adequately providing the necessary tools teachers need to help students get from where they are to where they are expected to be. My toolkit provides fun, engaging, effective tools to produce phenomenal writing, and it is vertically aligned for grades K-12!
The focus of the GITA Writing Toolkit is writing composition (informational, persuasive, and narrative writing beginning at the sentence level and reaching the most complex levels of grade 12+ composition, including all components of grammar/syntax). I can offer professional development as short as a 1-day workshop or training and guidance as complex as a year-long partnership.
In addition to staff development, I can come to your school to model teach, co-teach, observe, and/or meet with teachers to provide very focused and targeted support. I also offer student tutoring at all levels and college essay-writing consultations for high school students.
I hope we can converse soon so that I can learn more about your school and explain how the GITA Writing Toolkit can serve the needs of your teachers and students!