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Writable Academy Mini Courses
Earn certificates and badges in 20 minutes or less while learning about pedagogy, the latest trends in AI and education, and all about how to best utilize Writable.
The Human Touch in an AI World
Featuring Angela Maiers
Explore AI in education with Angela Maiers. Understand its potential to enhance and disrupt learning, and strategies for effective human-AI collaboration. Learn to navigate its complexities, ensuring it enhances human potential, creativity, and ethics.
Policy Perspectives
Featuring Susan Gentz
Join Susan Gentz to explore AI's role in education policy, impact on different stakeholders, and state-level policy development. Learn about the integration of AI in districts, the use of task forces, funding challenges, and effective policy creation.
Navigating the AI landscape
Featuring Adam Garry
Learn from Adam Gary, former Dell education leader and current CEO of Strategic EDU, on integrating AI into U.S. and Canadian school systems as he discusses ethics, assessment, AI literacy, and effective strategies for both learners and educators.
A Global Look at AI
Featuring Joseph South
Learn from Joseph South, Chief Innovation Officer at ISTE and ASCD, about AI's transformative role in education. Explore AI's impact on pedagogy, personalized learning, and creativity globally.
Two Facets of Daily Writing
This mini-course explores hands-on ways to conduct effective mini-lessons and optimize your classroom time for writing.
Four Steps of Best Practice
This course explores best practices for planning and incorporating mini-lessons in your instruction.
Kid-Friendly Writing Rubrics
Explore how to create instructional and data-collection rubrics for writing with students, using kid-friendly language and criteria.
Essential Informational Skills
Review the essentials skills for informative writing across grade levels and genres. Skills include introducing a topic, providing details, organizing the writing, and writing a conclusion. This course contains resources for K-5 and 6-12 grades.
Preparing for State Assessments
Prepare students for high-stakes testing with state-aligned assessments, AI-assisted feedback, and recommended practice assignments.
Getting Started with Ed and Writable
This course helps teachers launch into Writable to access HMH curriculum and Writable features.
Daily Writing with High 5s
This course introduces High 5 Quick Writes, which involves brief, daily writing assignments, along with AI-assisted feedback, both designed to develop students' writing abilities.
Explore Writable Assignments
Learn how to access 1000+ customizable assignments with 300+ reading options in Writable.
Resources & Guides
Explore our curated collections of resources and guides, designed to inspire and support educators at every step of their journey.
Getting Started Guide for Admins
Learn how to get started with Writable for administrators
Getting Started Guide for Educators
Learn how get started with Writable as an educator
Getting Started Guide for Students
Learn how to get started with Writable as a student
Learn all about AI features and content in Writable
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