LINDA DENSTAEDT, PhD

Linda Denstaedt, co-director of the Oakland Writing Project, is a literacy consultant. She serves on the National Writing Project’s College-Ready Writers Program Leadership Team, which developed and supports an Investing in Innovation Program for rural teachers focused on the development of student argument writing. From 2010 to 2014, she worked in an out of classrooms at a high priority school bordering Detroit. She worked collaboratively coaching teachers to become students of themselves and their students as they developed instructional practices, units of study, and formative assessment to accelerate student learning and increase student achievement. In 2002, she retired from Clarkston Community Schools after teaching elementary, middle and high school. At Clarkston, she also served as Director of Writing and supported the professional learning of her colleagues as they collaboratively studied and redesigned the teaching and learning in their classrooms. Recently, Denstaedt, Laura Jane Roop and Stephen Best wrote Doing and Making Authentic Literacies for National Council Teachers of English. 

Her workshop will highlight proven methods from the NWP that can help area teachers improve as writing instructors.

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