Celebrate what teachers and students across California, from K through college, are writing and how they are going public and taking action:
- Link below to regions across our state: explore students’ digital products or link to classroom and school spaces that showcase students' writing.
- Link to CWP’s Digital Learning Day Facebook page to see the student digital projects teachers and schools have posted there: https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDigitalLearningDay
Northern California | Greater Sacramento Area | Greater Bay Area and San Jose
Central Valley | California Coastal Region | Inland Empire
Greater Los Angeles and Orange County | Greater San Diego Area
Across the Country
Northern California
Tom Fox, CSU Chico and Northern California Writing Project, decided to take a couple of weeks during his rhetoric and writing class to explore the concept of Upstanders, Not Bystanders and then invite his students to create videos (or choose other digital tools) in small groups around issues that are relevant to them. For instance, two students died from alcohol poisoning this year and in discussion with the class, one of the things they said was how difficult it is to stand up and stop even a close friend from drinking 21 shots on his birthday. One of the choices for media was video because that is what the students will be studying in rhetoric.
Link to view examples of what the students are working on. Kudos to all of them!
Link to view examples of what the students are working on. Kudos to all of them!
Amanda von Kleist, Special Education teacher in Hamilton City and teacher leader for the Northern California WP, taught her students to write Glogster informational reports on their choice of historical upstanders. Link to two student examples:
http://denayala.edu.glogster.com/malala/ and http://gabe530.edu.glogster.com/mlk/
(Play the sound files for the Malala Glogster!)
Also, link here to download Amanda's lesson plans:
http://denayala.edu.glogster.com/malala/ and http://gabe530.edu.glogster.com/mlk/
(Play the sound files for the Malala Glogster!)
Also, link here to download Amanda's lesson plans:
| lesson_planning_templateamandavonkleist.pdf |
Rochelle Ramay, Northern California Writing Project, and her students at Corning High School, created and showcased This I Believe video/digital essays. Link here and scroll down the Facebook page to find and view the videos from Corning High Schools. Also, note which are I Write the Future award winners:
https://www.facebook.com/lovelightgoodenough
https://www.facebook.com/lovelightgoodenough
Greater Sacramento Area
Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project, and Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project, are working together to create the Upstanders, Not Bystanders VoiceThread. "Our goal is to ignite shared conversations on the challenges and achievements of those who have crossed that line from bystander to upstander. We created the VoiceThread less than a month ago, and already we are struck by the power of the individual voices and stories, which span kindergarten to senior citizens and celebrate the impact of an upstander, whether on the playground, or from a family story, or during the Rwandan genocide. We would love to hear CWP voices!"
| CaliforniaDigitalCitizenshipMonth_Flyer.pdf |
Cary Zierenberg, Area 3 Writing Project, and her seventh grade students from Natomas Charter School-Leading Edge Academy chose to write about a real-life example of an upstander in their Language Arts class. The upstander could be historic, public, or personal. In Technology class students used a program called Scratch to illustrate how and why this person is an upstander. Each project explains how the events and the person have made a personal impact on each student, the writer. Students then uploaded their essays and projects to a Google site to share their work with a global audience.
Link here and visit the class links on the left-hand side of the page:
https://sites.google.com/a/natomascharter.org/jennifer-m/home
Link here and visit the class links on the left-hand side of the page:
https://sites.google.com/a/natomascharter.org/jennifer-m/home
Elise Wallace, teacher at Natomas Charter School and Area 3 WP teacher leader, developed a lesson sequence, drawing on Common Sense Media lessons, that all 7th grade homeroom teachers are using. In Elise's 7th grade ELA class, students are using what they learned from those lessons to analyze characters in the novel The Outsiders, classifying actions into different levels of responsibility, discussing what happens when responsibilities conflict, and identifying characters in the text who are upstanders and bystanders.
Jeanne Feeney, teacher at Natomas Charter School and Area 3 WP teacher leader, and her 6th grade students created One-Slide Stories for publication on Upstanders Together.
Link here to see their work:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k4Adhl8TU7kMJ3dhiqhBrqiAE-g4jNjzW3xbDz8k6Ok/edit?usp=sharing
Students also created their own anti-bullying and cyber-citizenship documentaries and stop-motion films.
Greater Bay Area and San Jose
The San Mateo County Office of Education, RESPECT! 24/7, and the STEM Center are collaborating to promote May as Digital Citizenship Month.
As a partner in this statewide initiative, we are promoting participation and encouraging teachers to post student writing on the RESPECT! 24/7 Facebook page. We are additionally celebrating the month with local flavor. All posted student work that addresses the Upstanders, Not Bystanders writing prompt will be considered as an entry in our local “contest.” We will select four student-created works to recognize and celebrate, (one in each grade span – K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and those winners will have the opportunity to take a tour of the Facebook campus in Menlo Park.
Further, Commonsense Media is encouraging districts and schools to dedicate a classroom lesson or two during the month of May to digital literacy and cyber citizenship, utilizing Commonsense Media-created instructional lessons (included in the toolkit). Finally, beginning next week, Commonsense Media’ landing page will also feature a cartoon animation challenge around digital citizenship using toontastic.
Download all the details about the writing contest, supporting professional development, and digital citizenship activities.
As a partner in this statewide initiative, we are promoting participation and encouraging teachers to post student writing on the RESPECT! 24/7 Facebook page. We are additionally celebrating the month with local flavor. All posted student work that addresses the Upstanders, Not Bystanders writing prompt will be considered as an entry in our local “contest.” We will select four student-created works to recognize and celebrate, (one in each grade span – K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and those winners will have the opportunity to take a tour of the Facebook campus in Menlo Park.
Further, Commonsense Media is encouraging districts and schools to dedicate a classroom lesson or two during the month of May to digital literacy and cyber citizenship, utilizing Commonsense Media-created instructional lessons (included in the toolkit). Finally, beginning next week, Commonsense Media’ landing page will also feature a cartoon animation challenge around digital citizenship using toontastic.
Download all the details about the writing contest, supporting professional development, and digital citizenship activities.
| May is Digital Literacy Month.pdf |
Central Valley
Lorena Sanchez and her students at South West Park School in Tracy are writing essays about an upstander, turning them into PowerPoint presentations, and posting them for student and parent viewing on their class Wikipage! Lorena is a teacher leader with the Great Valley Writing Project.
Mary Asgill's students at Turlock High School combined their study of the ERWC module, Language, Gender, Culture, with ISAW's I Write the Future Call to Write a problem-solution essay about an issue of intolerance in their school or community. The students were also challenged to collaboratively compose a "digital" problem-solution essay. View them in several formats: video, Animoto, Prezi, Photostory. Listen to others as podcasts. Through their digital writing and problem-solving, these students are being upstanders.
Obesity Amongst Women
Elizabeth Rabago, Ryan Mabie, Elena Baker-Matson
Problems within families
Carina Espinoza and Tania Alvarez
How cliques adversely impact education
Andrea Aguilar, Stephanie Van Epps, Luis Morfin
Abused Men and Domestic Violence
Angelica Cardenas & Jasmin Lopez
Abusive teenage relationships
Gabby Singh, Quentin Walter, Jorge Diaz
How Women Abuse Men Physically and Emotionally
Mark Cisneros, Kelsi Valenzuela, Zackery Luis
Differences between Men's Brains and Women's Brains Cause Communication Problems
Marissa Pineda-Machado, Jesse Riendeau, Anastacio Zavala
Men are abused by women
Gerrit Dykzeul, Logan Conner, Jazmine Favela
BEYOND THE SILENCE
Cinthia Godinez, Perfecto Corralejo, Ying Ou, Danielle Simmons
Teenage Abusive Relationships
Emma Villasenor, Matthew Gaitan, Vanesa Barcenas
Discrimination Based On Clothing
Jenna Anderson and Eric Garibay
How Media Creates and Exacerbates Stereotypes
Jasdip Singh and Destiny Grimes
Language Discrimination (audio only podcast)
Josephine Hazleton, Garrett Roof, Angel Solis
Radio Show That Tackles Jokes About Religion
Jagtar Singh, Mark Lopes, Vickie Costa
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College students as Upstanders!
Check out the Upstander video essays and podcasts that students created in Kathee Godfrey's upper division Writing in a Digital Age class at CSU Fresno: http://katheegodfrey.com/2013/03/19/podcasts/
About the students' digital writing, Kathee says, "This semester, my students made podcasts responding to the California Writing Project’s invitation to write about the idea of “Upstanders, Not Bystanders.” Most of the students used a combination of Garage Band, iTunes, and Podomatic to do their podcast, although some used Photo Story 3 and YouTube. They were all new to using these applications, but I’m really proud of their thoughtful scripts and their willingness to share their ideas about someone they admired.
Kathee is the Co-Director of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.
Jenna Valponi, teacher at Ripon HS and teacher leader, Great Valley WP, and her students are creating Prezis and Animotos on upstanders. After students create them, they are uploaded them to the class Edmodo page. Jenna adds, "My students were sharing their Upstanders projects today and I realized that while they have learned a lot in my class, they have taught me a whole lot more. Many students did their projects on the people you might expect-- Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. etc. However, many more did their projects on people I'd never even heard of or even thought of as an Upstander; I am so proud. What started out as a final for them to show what they know, turned out to be a final for me, showing me how much I've learned with them and how far I've yet to go. What a great way to end the year! Below are some links to student projects that taught me such a lesson:
ISAW teachers, Mary Asgill, Great Valley Writing Project and Turlock High School, Tera Brandt, UC Merced Writing Project and Livingston High School, and Janet Lenards, Great Valley Writing Project and Sierra High School, and their students, created and showcased This I Believe video/digital essays. Link here and scroll down the Facebook page to find and view the videos from Turlock Livingston, and Sierra High Schools. Also, note which are I Write the Future award winners: https://www.facebook.com/lovelightgoodenough
Tara Woodall, teacher, Golden Valley HS, and teacher leader, UC Merced WP, created an Upstanders, Not Bystanders month for her students. Students read a blog article on bystanders and responsibility from the New York Times:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/do-bystanders-have-a-responsibility-to-intervene-in-crimes/
They read additional articles about the bystanders effect and the UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam (AWPE) prompt "Why People Don't Help in a Crisis?" They practiced critical reading strategies (Notice and Focus and Paraphrase x3 from Rosenwasser and Stephen's Writing Analytically). They wrote summaries. They made claims of policy for their principal about how to create more upstanders based on the information in the articles. They wrote a response to the AWPE prompt. For that prompt and another lesson on bystanders you can adapt for your students, link to:
http://www.californiawritingproject.org/uploads/1/3/6/0/13607033/crisis_bystanders.pdf
California Coastal Region
Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project, and Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project, are working together to create the Upstanders, Not Bystanders VoiceThread. "Our goal is to ignite shared conversations on the challenges and achievements of those who have crossed that line from bystander to upstander. We created the VoiceThread less than a month ago, and already we are struck by the power of the individual voices and stories, which span kindergarten to senior citizens and celebrate the impact of an upstander, whether on the playground, or from a family story, or during the Rwandan genocide. We would love to hear CWP voices!"
| CaliforniaDigitalCitizenshipMonth_Flyer.pdf |
Santa Cruz students as upstanders, artists, and writers!
The Central California Writing Project at UCSC, artists Ed Martinez and Taylor Reinhold, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History are partnering to help students study issues threatening the local ecosystem and respond in sculpture, murals, and digital writing. Link here for a website with more info and to see the art projects, academic plans, and reflections for Forage III and Forage IV:
http://forage.storyreach.com/
The Central California Writing Project at UCSC, artists Ed Martinez and Taylor Reinhold, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History are partnering to help students study issues threatening the local ecosystem and respond in sculpture, murals, and digital writing. Link here for a website with more info and to see the art projects, academic plans, and reflections for Forage III and Forage IV:
http://forage.storyreach.com/
Inland Empire
Greater Los Angeles and Orange County
Greater San Diego Area
Chastain Foulk (San Diego Area Writing Project), teaching colleagues, and 749 students at Sandburg Elementary in the San Diego Unified School District are planning to write a variety of text forms to explain their thinking and how it connects to their world and experiences. Students will draw on texts for evidence for their connections and ideas. The goal is that students will begin to appreciate the importance of writing as a way to express themselves and practice this skill throughout the day and week at school.
Student work will be published and shared through mybigcampus.com, kidblog.org and through digital media presentations in ourclassroom.
Student work will be published and shared through mybigcampus.com, kidblog.org and through digital media presentations in ourclassroom.
Jeanine Ugalde (San Marcos Writing Project), a teaching colleague, and 160 students at Oak Valley Middle School in San Diego researched an Abuse of Power event or problem anywhere in the world within the past 200 years. Students also found and researched an Upstander who helped to support the abused or tried to stop the person/people in power. Students created a digital essay about their Upstander. The digital essays include information about the abuse, the upstander, and how this learning impacted the student. Digital essays also contain an embedded power point, pictures, and hyperlinks.
Link to the class wiki to read student work and check back as more is posted: http://upstanderdigitalessays.pbworks.com/w/page/65447598/UGALDE%27S%20STUDENTS%27%20DIGITAL%20ESSAYS
Link to the class wiki to read student work and check back as more is posted: http://upstanderdigitalessays.pbworks.com/w/page/65447598/UGALDE%27S%20STUDENTS%27%20DIGITAL%20ESSAYS
The San Diego Area Writing Project is a professional learning partner with a district-wide digital community of learners and writers in South Bay USD. The district has created the SBUSD Year of Learning blog with the goal of empowering parents, students, educators and other members of the South Bay community to share stories of what they are learning every day. Check out the blog and scroll to Day 157 to see the contributions of the San Diego Area Writing Project: http://sbusdyearoflearning.com/
Abby Robles, teacher, Del Sur Elementary School, Poway USD and teacher leader, San Diego Area WP, her teaching colleague, and their Kindergarten and 2nd/3rd grade students have created an award-winning video, Hero's Choice: An Interactive Movie. Link here to view: http://www.flixmaster.com/projects/5703/play
Janet Ilko, teacher at Cajon Valley MS and teacher leader, San Diego Area WP, is working with Writing for Change club students to write a short piece based on Sandra Cisneros's chapter, "Those Who Don't" from House on Mango Street. Using the chapter as a mentor text, students are writing about what people assume about them and what is true. Students will then make iMovies that use their voice, words, and images to break the stereotypes of what people assume about them. Student work will be posted on www.writingforchange.net at the beginning of June.
Across the Country
Kristie Jordan and her students at Genesee High School in Genesee, Michigan are using a Common Sense Media lesson to study digital citizenship, as well as upstanders and bystanders. They'll be sharing their writing via Edmodo!
