Name: Social Stories - Building Empathy through Writing (Grades 6-12)
Start: 2025-08-08T11:00:00-0700
End: 2025-08-08T12:00:00-0700

Friday August 8, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

Board Room

Are you looking for authentic audiences for your students’ writing? Look no further than the social story. A3WP teacher leader Michelle Voelker demonstrates a technique she uses with her students to write social stories for others where they not only build their writing skills, but their empathy as well. Come learn how this very short story can hone students’ writing craft, and help them cultivate compassion.

Speakers

Michelle Voelker

Area 3 Writing Project

Michelle Voelker is an English teacher at a Title I school in Sacramento, CA. She is an A3WP teacher leader, providing workshops on literacy practices in the classroom. Before becoming a teacher, Michelle was an AmeriCorps member for a program that provided reading intervention on... Read More →

Friday August 8, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Board Room 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA, USA

Interactive Workshop

Audience 6-12
Subject Writing

FSUSD Spark 2025

Michelle Voelker

Attendees (4)

FSUSD Spark 2025

Michelle Voelker

Attendees (4)

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