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Fostering Connections:
Saturday, August 9th, 2025
Saturday, August 9th, 2025
9am-5pm, UC Berkeley School of Education
9am-5pm, UC Berkeley School of Education
As writing teachers, we all want what is best for our students. While writing is taught throughout and across the school system, sometimes, the connections between the different grades and institutions are not obvious or clear to students and teachers. Our Fostering Connections Conference aims to do just that: foster, strengthen, and enhance the connections between the teaching of writing from middle school through college.
The Conference, sponsored by the Bay Area Writing Project, UC Berkeley College Writing Programs, and UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning, aims to foster a community of writing instructors and educators from different educational levels and disciplines to discuss, learn about, and improve teaching writing practices.
Anyone engaged or interested in the teaching of writing is welcome to attend! High school Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Community College Instructors, College Faculty, School Administrators, School Principles, and Graduate Students are all welcome
For questions Email teachingwritingconference@gmail.com
The Conference sponsors acknowledge that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.
We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion, and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand but also, we recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today.
This acknowledgment was co-created with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Native American Student Development and is a living document. Learn more about the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the importance of acknowledging the original nations upon whose land we work with this helpful toolkit.
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