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Every teacher's goal is to empower students to be independent learners and thinkers. This year The Academy for Technology and the Classics will pilot a Writing Center, where skilled student writers will serve as advisers to their peers. Writing Centers are a means of putting learning directly in the hands of students. When students visit a Writing Center, they are paired with peer advisers who lead conferences in which the student writer's voice and needs are central. In order to empower their peers, advisers need training and practice in how to conference one-on-one; the books I am requesting will serve as the foundation for my advisers to learn these skills. "A Tutor's Guide" provides a basis for student advisers to learn the culture and philosophy behind empowering their peers as well as strategies to enact those principles. After reading selections from the book and discussing the ideas in the articles, student advisers will put them to work in training sessions during which they peer conference in front of fellow advisers and receive feedback to improve. They will then put these skills to work during real conferences in the Writing Center. We will also utilize "Rhetorical Grammar" to learn how to talk and think about grammar and style during conferences. Other books in the cart provide guidance for my colleague and I as we embark on the logistics of setting up a Writing Center for the first time. These books are written by veteran writing center directors and contain valuable guidance for helping both our advisers and every ATC student who comes to the Writing Center to grow their voices.

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Every teacher's goal is to empower students to be independent learners and thinkers. This year The Academy for Technology and the Classics will pilot a Writing Center, where skilled student writers will serve as advisers to their peers. Writing Centers are a means of putting learning directly in the hands of students. When students visit a Writing Center, they are paired with peer advisers who lead conferences in which the student writer's voice and needs are central. In order to empower their peers, advisers need training and practice in how to conference one-on-one; the books I am requesting will serve as the foundation for my advisers to learn these skills. "A Tutor's Guide" provides a basis for student advisers to learn the culture and philosophy behind empowering their peers as well as strategies to enact those principles. After reading selections from the book and discussing the ideas in the articles, student advisers will put them to work in training sessions during which they peer conference in front of fellow advisers and receive feedback to improve. They will then put these skills to work during real conferences in the Writing Center. We will also utilize "Rhetorical Grammar" to learn how to talk and think about grammar and style during conferences. Other books in the cart provide guidance for my colleague and I as we embark on the logistics of setting up a Writing Center for the first time. These books are written by veteran writing center directors and contain valuable guidance for helping both our advisers and every ATC student who comes to the Writing Center to grow their voices.

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