In this spring course, CiRCE-Certified Master Teachers Andrea Lipinski and Patty Bianco will offer an introduction to The Lost Tools of Writing. Designed to help you teach your students, this LTW class for adults will model the teaching process, while also helping you improve your own writing and thinking. This webinar style class will engage a group of participants as models for a classroom. These sessions will enable you to teach effectively and calmly on a day-to-day basis. Andrea and Patty will reveal how to solve the three problems all writers face, the questions that make for the kind of deep thinking that leads to skillful writing, and why writing does not need to be a stressful or intimidating process.

This shortened spring course will include the big picture of LTW, some difficulties students and teachers encounter, and sample lessons. Over the course of six weeks, we will meet weekly in the evening for two hours online.  Andrea and Patty will provide a thorough introduction to the tools as well as the teaching of the tools. Essays one through six will be included during the six-week period, and you will gain the pattern for completing the remaining essays! While this course is called an intensive for the speedy introduction to these tools, Andrea and Patty will keep you connected to the big picture of LTW while shining light on individual lessons. Join us for this opportunity to be introduced to The Lost Tools of Writing from home in only six weeks of March through the beginning of May 2025.

Required Reading:

Prior to class, participants should 
1. Read The Lost Tools of Writing Teacher’s Guide: Introduction, Essay One, and Appendices
2. Read “An Introductory Lesson in Invention: From Story to Issue” pdf
3. Read Snow White by the Brothers Grimm and Hansel and Grettel by Andrew Lang
4. (optional and helpful) Read, write, and/or teach individual lessons

Purchase a copy of the required text of The Lost Tools of Writing Level One-Teacher Guide here.
Purchase a copy of the fairy tales here, if you need a copy.

You may also be interested in The Lost Tools of Writing Level One Student workbook or The Lost Tools of Writing Level One Complete set, as well as The Handbook of Types.

Assessment Option

If you choose the assessment option, you are committing to submit weekly assignments in a timely manner for feedback and assessments. You may receive feedback from more than one assessor on your assignment. The fee for assessment is not based on how many assignments you submit. If you choose the assessment option and do not submit assignments, the fee is not reduced or refundable. We expect that the weekly assignments for this course will require about 2-4 hours of work outside of live class sessions with reading and writing requirements. Transfers and refunds are not available after the first week of the intensive. Certificates are issued by email for participants who complete all six assignments successfully. Please allow 2-4 weeks after the end of the intensive course to receive your certificate of completion.

Class Times

• Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 7-9pm ET

• Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 7-9pm ET

• Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 7-9pm ET 

• Tuesday, April 15, 2025, break week

• Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 7-9pm ET

• Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 7-9pm ET

• Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 7-9pm ET

Teachers:
Andrea Lipinski, Lead Teacher  and Patty Bianco, Assistant Teacher