July 7-8, 2025 @ Moore Hall, UCLA
Facilitated by: Gurbir Kahlon
Stories are powerful tools for exploring identity, community, and culture. Spark students’ imaginations and creativity while building their cognitive toolkit reading and understanding narratives and writing their own, all while building language proficiency. In this two-day workshop, participants will be introduced to UCLA Writing Project’s approach to Pathway Strategies for Narrative Writing:
- Supporting multilingual learners as they read narratives for content and craft
- Building cognitive writing tools, including planning and preparing for writing
- Revising writing using Grammar Brushstrokes strategy
- Building a community classroom through sharing
Gurbir Kahlon teaches high school ELA and ELD in Torrance, California. She is passionate about elevating environmental literacy in the classroom, utilizing technology and AI to enhance learning, and building Ethnic Literature curriculum. She thrives on the relationships she has collaborating with teachers throughout the UCLA Writing Project network. Gurbir believes reading and writing allows students’ minds and creativity to flourish. 