Join us at the 6th Annual Conference!

“Engaging Students in a Polarized Nation”

Friday, March 1st, 2019

9:00am to 3:30pm, registration opens at 8:30am

The event will take place in

Lake Superior College’s

Commons/Cafeteria

Center of the building on the second floor

Room W2630

Link to the driving directions and LSC campus map: http://www.lsc.edu/about-lsc/maps/

Parking information:

When you drive to the LSC campus from the Trinity Road (or Hwy 53) stoplights, please enter the first parking lot to your right (Lot 1). You can park free of charge either on the lower lot or the upper lot on any unmarked space.

Please enter the E-entrance, which is towards the center of the building. There is a metal statue in front of the E-building and a long silver brick wall along the wide sidewalk. Once you get inside the building, you can follow the large open hallway until a central staircase takes you to the second floor Commons (W2630 on the campus map), where the registration table is located.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

This year's summit will feature live poetry from the

Duluth-based ARE Poets group

Summit Focus

Theme: Engaging Students in a Polarized Nation.

Strands: Academic Writing (Developmental through Research Writing), Creative Writing, and ESL.

There is no fee to attend the conference, thanks to this year's generous donors:

UW-Superior's Writing & Library Science Department

College of St. Scholastica Department of English

Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College

University of Minnesota Duluth Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies

Lake Superior College

Click the Link Below to Register for This Event

Registration Form

Please contact Steven Dalager with any other queries

s.dalager@lsc.edu

Who are ARE Poets?

ARE seeks to engage youth from different backgrounds through poetry, spoken-word, and hip-hop. ARE guides youth on a path to discover their own voices. Our students are encouraged to give voice to their own views and to challenge social norms, while also becoming more aware of the issues and perspectives in the world around them. ARE strives to develop young leaders who will provide inspiration and motivation that will empower people. WE ARE!

For more information about ARE Poets email arepoets@gmail.com.

About the Conference

History

The Summit was conceived in 2014 by a group of area writing instructors wishing to meet their colleagues at various educational levels and across states in the Northland. Its purpose is to bring together teachers of writing and literacy to exchange ideas, best practices, common challenges, and innovations in the teaching of writing, whether academic, creative, professional, or otherwise.

The Summit values experimentation in our small-group sessions as acts of discovery in teaching and learning. Thoughtful, intelligent sharing in question-and-answer sessions with very active audience participation is the cornerstone of this event.

In early years, conference fees ranged from $8-15 per attendee. However, since 2015, the conference has been free to attend based on generous donations from area colleges and universities.

Past Conferences

2018

Hosted by Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, this conference explored the role of writing in the lives of both teachers and students inside and outside the academic contexts, and how these related, contrasted, and informed each other.

2017

Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Superior Yellowjacket Union, the conference theme, "Writing Lives in the Northland," explored the role of writing in the lives of both teachers and students inside and outside the academic contexts and how these relate, contrast, and inform each other.

2016

Hosted by College of St. Scholastica, the conference was focused around the theme of "Engaging Communities," both in terms of writing teachers engaging their students, as well as how students can learn through community-based writing.

2015

Hosted by University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Summit expanded its focus by collaborating with English as a Second Language colleagues, whose interests dovetail with the teaching of writing. The theme was "Bridging Communities," a figurative nod to bringing disciplines together, as well as a figurative nod to the bridges connecting the Twin Ports of Superior, WI and Duluth, MN.

2014

Hosted by Lake Superior College, the inaugural conference brought college and high school writing instructors in the Northland together for the first time in the existing memories of senior colleagues (upwards of 20 years).

CEUs for High School Teachers

High School teachers who attend the conference can earn 6 hours of Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

A CEU certificate will be available on the day of the conference.