Sessions

Session one

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Transforming Writing with Curipod: Daily Feedback, Creativity, and Engagement

Discover how to use Curipod to give students daily, high-quality writing feedback while building creativity, critical thinking, and confidence. Explore interactive, standards-aligned activities and AI-powered tools that make writing more fun and effective across all subjects.

Bridging Potential: Writing Strategies for Exceptional Students

Get hands-on with inclusive writing strategies that support struggling writers, especially students with special education needs. Explore real student work, adapt scaffolded routines, and leave with ready-to-use tools that build confidence, consistency, and student voice across content areas.

Using Journals to Nurture Writer Identity and Reflective Classroom Communities

Explore how journals can make learning visible and foster a reflective, inclusive classroom. This session offers practical prompts to nurture writer identity, deepen relationships, and support formative assessment across disciplines. Includes time for discussion and Q&A.

Diversifying Student Writing: Implementing the 3x Genre Writing Challenge

Discover the 3x Genre Writing Challenge, an EduProtocol that helps students write with creativity and flexibility across genres. Learn how to build adaptable writers and bring engaging, cross-disciplinary writing into your classroom.

Once Upon a Time: Harnessing the Power of Play to Teach Young Writers

Discover how play-based learning can ignite imagination and strengthen writing skills in young learners. Explore storytelling techniques, hands-on activities like puppets and books, and walk away with practical strategies to support early writers on their literacy journey.

Session two

1:15 - 2:15 p.m.

Latino Leaders Speak: Stories of Struggle and Triumph

Explore the free Latino Leaders Speak curriculum designed for secondary classrooms. Learn how to engage students with stories of contemporary Latino role models while applying culturally responsive teaching practices. This interactive session includes protocols like Think/Write/Pair/Share and Four Corners.

Explore the World With Curiosity: Using Global Books to Spark Your Writing

Discover the power of globally-themed picture books to support writing and enrich learning across the curriculum. Explore sample lessons, dive into book selections, and discuss creative classroom applications in this interactive session.

Unlocking Academic Writing for Long-Term English Learners: Strategies that Build Language, Confidence, and Voice

Support Long-Term English Learners in developing strong academic writing skills. This interactive session offers practical, research-based strategies for scaffolding language, designing purposeful writing tasks, and delivering feedback that builds confidence and clarity.

Introducing Story Elements through Art

Spark creativity by guiding students to invent a character and story inspired by a mysterious egg. This playful activity helps young writers explore character traits, setting, problem, and solution while developing narrative skills through imagination.

Session three

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Bridging Languages: Strategies for Building Writing Skills and Confidence in Secondary Multilingual Students

Learn proven strategies to help secondary multilingual learners gain confidence and skill in academic writing. This interactive session features classroom-tested tools like structured prompts, vocabulary routines, and scaffolds—plus hands-on activities and student samples you can take back to any content area.

Design with Literacy in Mind: From Paper-Pencil to AI

Equip students with essential literacy skills and knowledge needed for success across disciplines. Create comprehensive opportunities for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use across content areas. Hands on paper pencil experiences and leveraging the power of AI will allow for authentic interaction with literacy.

Teaching Writing in K-5; Write to Liberate, Teach to Empower!

Explore how teaching writing as a core content area in K–5 opens doors to equity and empowerment. Engage with research, exemplar lessons, and culturally responsive strategies that help students develop voice, agency, and the skills to shape their futures through writing.

The Role of Self-Reflection in Culturally Responsive Teaching

Explore how your identity shapes your approach to teaching writing. In this reflective session, educators will engage with personal narratives, discussion, and activities from Facing History’s Unit Planning Guide to examine how their lived experiences influence classroom practice and support culturally responsive teaching.