Let’s be honest—teaching writing is one of the toughest challenges in education. Students wrestle with grammar, structure, and confidence. Teachers wrestle with endless grading, trying to provide timely, personalized feedback that every student needs—but few consistently get.
That’s why SchoolDay Academy created Enhance Writing Instruction with AI: Practice and Pedagogy, an exclusive 15-hour hands-on professional learning course for K–12 teachers. This course equips educators with tools and strategies to use AI as a true teaching partner—not a replacement.
The result? Hours saved on grading, stronger student writing, and renewed balance for teachers who want to focus on what really matters—helping students grow as writers and thinkers.
Why This Course Matters
Writing instruction demands time, attention, and differentiation. AI can help teachers meet those needs more efficiently, without sacrificing quality or authenticity.
Here’s what makes this course essential:
- Save Time: The 15 hours you invest will pay back every week in reduced grading and faster feedback.
- Hands-On Learning: You’ll actively use AI tools like Scribo throughout the course—no passive watching.
- Classroom-Ready Outcomes: Leave with ready-to-implement tasks, feedback strategies, and workflows.
- AI as a Partner: This isn’t about replacing teachers—it’s about amplifying what you already do best.
This course redefines PD for writing teachers—practical, research-informed, and built around real classroom realities.
What You’ll Learn
Across 12 modules and a final applied project, you’ll learn to integrate AI into your writing instruction in thoughtful, effective, and ethical ways.
🧠 Core Learning Modules
- The Cognitive Demands of Writing
- Why writing overwhelms students and teachers alike.
- How Cognitive Load Theory and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) explain common challenges.
- How AI can lighten the load so you can focus on teaching craft.
- Why writing overwhelms students and teachers alike.
- AI as a Writing Partner
- Use Scribo to provide real-time feedback and exemplars.
- Support clarity, structure, and independence in student writing.
- Learn how AI accelerates learning while maintaining authenticity.
- Use Scribo to provide real-time feedback and exemplars.
- Pedagogy Meets Technology
- Connect proven teaching models like gradual release to AI-supported workflows.
- Align modern AI tools with evidence-based strategies you already use.
- Connect proven teaching models like gradual release to AI-supported workflows.
- Championing Equity & Student Voice
- Ensure every student receives meaningful, personalized feedback.
- Use AI to support ELLs, struggling writers, and advanced students simultaneously.
- Build confidence and amplify authentic voices.
- Ensure every student receives meaningful, personalized feedback.
🛠️ Application-Focused Modules
- Data-Informed Instruction
- Use Scribo dashboards to track progress and identify growth areas.
- Move from reactive grading to proactive teaching.
- Use Scribo dashboards to track progress and identify growth areas.
- Practical Classroom Strategies
- Apply AI to drafting, revising, and peer review cycles.
- Integrate tools seamlessly into existing curriculum.
- Apply AI to drafting, revising, and peer review cycles.
- Streamlining Grading with AI
- Score writing more efficiently while maintaining fairness and consistency.
- Learn how to cut your grading time in half without cutting quality.
- Score writing more efficiently while maintaining fairness and consistency.
- Building Strong Writing Foundations
- Scaffold grammar, structure, and vocabulary with AI-generated practice.
- Strengthen the building blocks of confident writing.
- Scaffold grammar, structure, and vocabulary with AI-generated practice.
- Writing for Different Purposes
- Teach narrative, argument, and expository writing using adaptive AI support.
- Prepare students to write effectively across genres and contexts.
- Teach narrative, argument, and expository writing using adaptive AI support.
- Revision & Growth
- Guide students through iterative writing cycles with AI-supported revision.
- Build independence and ownership through data-driven feedback.
- Guide students through iterative writing cycles with AI-supported revision.
- Collaboration & Peer Review
- Foster collaboration using AI-assisted peer feedback.
- Build a positive classroom writing community.
- Foster collaboration using AI-assisted peer feedback.
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- Integrate writing in science, social studies, and CTE courses.
- Personalize writing support across subjects with AI.
- Integrate writing in science, social studies, and CTE courses.
🎓 Final Assessment & Application
- Create a complete writing instruction plan using AI support.
- Reflect on implementation and next steps for your classroom.
- Leave with a customized roadmap to transform writing instruction.
Course Details:
- Duration: 15 hours
- Format: Self-paced, hands-on professional learning
- Audience: K–12 teachers and literacy coaches
- Certificate: Shareable SchoolDay Academy credential for PD records
Teacher Impact
Fifteen hours of PD that saves you dozens more in grading. Imagine cutting your feedback workload in half while giving students richer, more personalized guidance.
You’ll see struggling writers gain confidence, reluctant writers find their voice, and advanced students push their creativity further—all while you reclaim time for planning, reflection, and life outside the classroom.
This isn’t theory—it’s transformation in practice.
Why SchoolDay Academy Recommends This Course
At SchoolDay Academy, we believe professional learning must be practical, engaging, and worth your time. Enhance Writing Instruction with AI: Practice and Pedagogy was built for real K–12 classrooms, blending proven pedagogy with innovative technology.
This course stands out because it:
- Balances AI and instruction to strengthen—not replace—good teaching.
- Includes hands-on tools like Scribo for immediate classroom use.
- Delivers measurable outcomes for both teacher efficiency and student growth.
- Offers affordable access: $149 per user, per year, with bulk discounts as low as $100 per user—a fraction of Coursera’s $399 retail rate.
It’s PD that saves time, supports equity, and redefines what’s possible for writing instruction.
Final Thoughts
Teaching writing doesn’t have to mean endless grading or one-size-fits-all feedback. With Enhance Writing Instruction with AI: Practice and Pedagogy, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to make feedback faster, instruction more effective, and students more independent.
Explore and enroll in Enhance Writing Instruction with AI: Practice and Pedagogy through SchoolDay Academy (powered by Coursera) to transform how you teach writing—and reclaim your time in the process.
