Workshop Two: CASA Integration Team

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

9:00 PT / Noon ET

• Capstone presentations in May (May 7, to be confirmed with Andrea and CJ) Importance of thinking about this as a process where the teachers on this team are documenting their learning, and sharing it monthly with each other, then in May, to a wider audience.
• Details about monthly meetings together, plus a drop-in meeting each month, with ongoing at-need availability 
• David and I refer to user stories to begin thinking about  "proper dossage" for learning with AI on Writing Partners. Positive examples of remembering to give students time to reply to each other... (more needed)
• Quick platform re-intoduction - three vibes have become the Thinking Partner
• Write... what are your first thoights on where do you think Writing Partners might fit your project with student this semester?

9:30 PT / 12:30 ET

Add to and revise last session's document, while dialoguing with the new Thinking Partner while writing, revising, and expanding your text.

Show PromptSymbols for a writing assignment: Describe the steps of a project you are planning to do this semeser. What are the skills and habits that students need to develop at each step of the process? What rubrics do you have on your computer, ready to upload? Describe a Thinking Partner that might be able to give students feedback on their work at different points in the process doing this project. What kind of feedback do you want a customzed Thinking Partner to provide at each stage of the project? How do you want sudents to work with this new Thinking Partner and with you? Describe 3 or 4 times when students will use Writing Partners as part of making this project. Note that we asking you to make a plan for students to come back to the same document and use the same Thinking Partner or Performance Coach over several day. In you plan include how students might use Writing Partners for idea‑generation, mid‑draft, revision, and reflection.

• Describe the steps of a project you are planning to do this semeser.
  • What are the skills and habits that students need to develop at each step of the process?
  • What rubrics do you have on your computer, ready to upload?
• Describe a Thinking Partner that might be able to give students feedback on their work at different points in the process doing this project.
  • What kind of feedback do you want a customzed Thinking Partner to provide at each stage of the project?
  • How do you want sudents to work with this new Thinking Partner and with you?
• Identify a place early in the project when a student might use the new Thinking Partner.
• Describe 3 or 4 times when students will  use Writing Partners as part of making this project.
  • Note that we asking you to make a plan for students to come back to the same document and use the same Thinking Partner or Performance Coach over several day.
  • In you plan include how students might use Writing Partners for idea‑generation, mid‑draft, revision, and reflection.

Show Prompt"Proper Dosage" I'm referring to a work plan in a school project. Is ther enough repetition and reflection wiith the different features of Writing Partners platform: Composing, learning through reading and annotating multimodal texts about your topix, dialoguing with the AI Thinking Partner while reading, writing, and xhatting , revising based on AI Thinking Partner feedback

10:00 PT / 1:00 ET

Do some reflective process writing under what you just wrote on the same document:

• Stay in the frame of a learner: Describe the cognitive moves, revision process, iterative decision-making, idea generation that you are doing with the Thinking Partner to do the writing you just completed.
• Everybody reads aloud with discussion 
• Back  to document: What would this kind of reflection on their process look like with your students? Sketch instructions for students.

10:30 PT / 1:30 ET

• Break

10:40 PT / 1:40 ET (Paul will make slides)

• Review the script of our Thinking Partner - highlighting what might be changed, what to leave alone for now
• Look at the difference between the Thinking Partner and one of Peter's AP Lang Coaches.
  • Attached rubric PDF's (each row)
  • Language pointing to the PDFs in the repository
  • Instructions asking for links to quotes. (HTML)
  • Additions to the description.
• Discussion - Just as we did here, how might you introduce this to your studetns? AI literacy.

11:00 PT / 2:00 ET

• Break

11:10 PT / 2:10 ET

Make your own customized Thinking Partner → Practice Coach

• Duplicate the Thnking Partner
• Make changes similar to what we did with the AP Language Coach.
  • Attached rubric PDF's (each row)
  • Language pointing to the PDFs in the repository
  • Instructions asking for links to quotes. (HTML)
  • Additions to the description.
• Test and share with others in the group
• Upload a student example of the project you are envisioning to Writing Partners. (David and Paul will go to each participant indifidually to support this while they are writing. 

Noon PT / 3:00 ET

• How do you plan to get started in the next three weeks?
• Discuss

12:30 PT - 3:30 ET

• Paul and David stay around and available for further, individual or small group consultation.