Concurrent Sessions
Autoethnographies: Helping Reluctant Writers
For students who feel they don't have anything to write about, personal narratives are a great place to start. The autoethnography puts a spin on the narrative that helps all students develop reflective writing and helps your more advanced students work on meaningful revisions.
strategies/practice for the classroom, secondary
Alisha Davis - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 501 Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park Educational Engagements
Find out about the history of the landmark supreme court case that outlawed segregation in schools and how you can use that history in your classroom for different writing prompts on Civil Rights history.
community partnerships, general
Nicholas Murray - Ranger, Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site
The Classroom Based Assessment: Unlocking Student Creativity through Rigor
The Classroom Based Assessment (CBA) is a unique research-based assessment whereby students take a deep dive into a topic to create a product following the parameters of a compelling question. We will discuss various compelling questions and explore creative potential of a CBA.
strategies/practice for the classroom, general
Nathan McAlister - Humanities Program Manager, KSDE
Creating Community Agreements
In an effort to create a learning community, it is important to develop community agreements. Rather than relying on class rules and teacher's expectations, students and teachers (or colleagues with one another), community agreements are created through a process of writing and discussion.
strategies/practice for the classroom, general
Kate Miner - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 512 Shawnee Mission
Culturally Responsive Literature: Picture Books to Adult
How does one access and teach authentic literature without promoting stereotypes? From a list of 200 books, teaching ideas will be shared from selected titles of non-fiction and fiction for picture books, young adult, and adult. Viable resources and two lists will be shared.
strategies/practice for the classroom, general
Stacy Harrison - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 501 Topeka
Roger Caswell - FHWP Director/NWP Teacher Consultant, Flint Hills Writing Project
Developing Writing Fluency for Young Writers Through Poetry Workshop
Participants will be taken through the writing workshop process focusing on poetry. The session will focus on how to help struggling writers as well as enrich advanced writers, and all the writers in-between. This presentation is for K-3 teachers as well as special education and ELL instruction.
strategies/practice for the classroom, elementary
Sherri Spare - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant
Elementary Writing Considerations - AHHA
Participants will consider and reflect on what students do in their writing processes. Discussions will be linked to student self-talk. Parallels drawn among the reading and writing processes will be used to focus on developing self-talk. Reflections will be shared on instructional pathways that create the AHHA to move writing processes forward.
strategies/practice for the classroom, elementary
Debra Schapaugh - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden
The Hero's Journey
The Hero's Journey aka the Monomyth is a style of storytelling and plotting seen in mythology, folk tales, and modern cinema. Learn the different steps and the two worlds that exist in this framework and develop a story from it.
self as writer, general
Brian Johnson - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, Spirit Aerosystems
Integrating Contemporary Indigenous Voices in Education
Placement of Indigenous experiences in the past tense perpetuates the perception of Indigenous lives and ways of knowing as something from the past. Let’s discuss and brainstorm ways we can use contemporary Native American voices and experiences to shift our educational perspectives and strive for learning with equity and inclusion as our goal.
strategies/practice for the classroom, general
Amber Ovsak - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 497 Lawrence
Journaling Through Tough Topics
Many topics are tough to talk about in a classroom due to varying opinions and the political/social climate, but that doesn't mean they should be avoided completely. This session is about the use of journaling to encourage conversations that attempt to enhance the critical thinking skills of students.
strategies/practice for the classroom, secondary
Jennifer Manger - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 202 Turner
Passageways that Lead to Freedom
A. Participants will engage in a social justice collaborative service-learning project. B. Participants will create action plans that aim to create outdoor sit-in spaces. C. Participants will revisit sit-ins that happened throughout the United States, and at DeAngelo’s restaurant in Kresge’s department store located in Kansas City, Kansas.
community partnerships, general
America Patton - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 501 Kansas City Kansas
Recovering Credits through Community Partnerships
We always have students who fall behind on credits, and this has been of particular concern during recent historical events. Come and hear how CCCHS used ESSER funds, in conjunction with the local mural movement and businesses, to encourage student writing and credit recovery.
community partnerships, secondary, general
Dawn Murphy - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 379 Clay Center
The Story is in the Thread
Art inspired fabric quilts with stories will be the focus to inspire writing. The quilts are original patterns with the use of African waxed fabrics. This presentation will continue, spark, or enlighten a story to ponder reflection and allow one to pen thoughts to paper.
art inspired, general
Montika Allen-Atkinson - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant
Use of Art as a Prompt for Storytelling
In using art, we will discuss how this can launch story, characters, and ideas. Also how our writing can be used to produce further acts of art and creativity.
art inspired, general
Brian Johnson - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, Spirit Aerosystems
Who Am I and Where Am I Going?
We often ask high school seniors what they're going to do, when instead we need to help them figure out who they are and how they will live and move through the world. Using strengths assessments and reflective writing, CCCHS is helping seniors do this. Learn how this applies to seniors and maybe to you, too. Bring a device to access the internet.
self as writer, secondary
Dawn Murphy - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, USD 379 Clay Center
Writing with Purpose: A Collaborative Instructional Routine
Students become more skilled writers when they write for a meaningful purpose (Block & Strachan, 2019). However, adolescents often complete assignments with little use outside classroom walls. Writing with Purpose is an instructional routine designed to connect students with a reason for writing, then support them throughout a collaborative writing process.
strategies/practice for the classroom, secondary
Suzanne Myers - FHWP Leader/NWP Teacher Consultant, University of Kansas