The Mendocino County Office of Education is offering a four-part professional learning series focused on the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), designed to support middle school and high school teachers in strengthening college and career readiness through engaging, standards-aligned instruction.
This 24-hour workshop series is intended for English language arts (ELA) and English language development (ELD) teachers teaching grades 9-12 in California public schools. The workshop series introduces the CSU Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC)
Series details:
- Four in-person sessions at MCOE’s River Campus in Ukiah, 2240 Old River Road, Ukiah.
- Dates: February 26–27 and March 19 and March 26
- Time: 9:00 am–3:30 pm each day
- Free to all participants
- Continental breakfast and lunch provided
Participants must attend all four sessions to receive access to the ERWC curriculum materials.
This series is open to secondary teachers from Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties.
Teachers attending this workshop series will:
- Receive access to online curriculum materials and professional books
- Identify features of effective ERWC classrooms as reflected in the ERWC assignment template and key principles.
- Become familiar with ERWC pedagogy and key concepts, including integrated and designated ELD.
- Investigate rhetorical reading, writing, and inquiry processes.
- Explore ERWC course design—including module overviews that identify learning goals, rhetorical concepts, ELA and ELD standards, and culminating tasks—to make decisions about modules to teach in their classrooms.
- Examine specific modules.
- Select modules to teach and begin planning for implementation.
Register here. Registration is open through February 12.
For questions, please contact Jennifer Valenzuela-Watkins: jvalenzuela-watkins@mcoe.us or 707-467-5148