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Keep in Touch!
Keep in Touch!
Below, you'll find examples of my Readings, Workshops, Consultation Projects, and Presentations; I am available by request to help you and your organization.
Use the contact form at the bottom of the page, and I will respond to you at my earliest convenience.
Readings
Readings
“The Apple” public reading at Spoon Market in Wooster, July 2019
A terrifying and dangerous event in which the safety of a child was at risk.“Spiders” public reading at NWP-ISI Wooster, July 2019
A car accident involving a child and his mother on the highway.“Writing: A House Analogy” public reading at Oxford Writing Festival 2014
Written in class with Tom Romano and Angela Faulhaber - they prompted us to write about the writing process.“Sisterwho 2” public reading at the 2001 release party of The Mill, Baldwin Wallace University
Rhetorical, impossible questions that surround the loss of a loved one.Workshops
Workshops
National Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute in Wooster, Ohio
Approximately fourteen teachers in the Wooster City School District (WCSD) have completed the NWP-ISI, actively implementing high quality professional methods with colleagues. Our hope is to offer this to all ELA teachers in the district and then to extend it to other content area teachers so that writing becomes a district strength.We borrowed nearly all of our ideas from the OWP cohort lead by Betsy Woods, teacher extraordinaire and technology guru. Our group of writers have met on occasion, exchanging drafts of essays, poems, memoirs, fictional narratives, and articles for the purpose of allowing the writing to become what it is meant to be.Consultation
Consultation
Edgewood Calamity Days Presentation - 2019 during WCSD Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, April 23
Cooperative project conducted with Bridget Frantz and Edgewood MS staff - A comprehensive, safe plan for Edgewood Middle School Calamity Days. See news of presentation in “Wooster Board to Make Up Calamity Days with a Creative Solution” published in The Daily Record (or hard copy).Three-Year English Language Arts Action Plan, Wooster City School District
A comprehensive plan for scaffolded vertical alignment over a three (to five) year period.Presentations
Presentations
Mind Mapping at NWP-ISI Wooster, July 2019
The use of symbolism to trigger memory for writing instruction.Crafting Vision at NWP-ISI Wooster, July 2019
The use of grammatical devices to develop visual/cinematic writing.Writing and Reading Conference Methods at NWP-ISI Wooster, July 2019
The use of short, structured meetings for verbal assessment and formative instruction.The Writing Code: R.A.C.E.R. and A.I.R. at WHWN, June 2019
The development and effects of functional informative and argumentative rubrics with instructional framework for our 7th grade ELA classrooms in the WCSD.“The Writing Code” at WCSD, October 2017
at OCTELA, February 2017 at WHWN, June 2017at Tri-County Computer Service Association, June 2016Implementation of annotative, coding strategies in writing and development of functional, scaffolded rubrics.“Argumentation” at NWP-ISI Wooster, August 2017
Application of Joseph Harris’s Rewrite strategies with exemplification and coded rubrics.“The Principles of Practice” at multiple locations in WCSD, March - May, 2017
The comprehensive mission statement and educational philosophy of WCSD.“This Presentation is a Formality” at NWP-ISI Wooster, July 2016
Instructional methods for analysis of formal writing voice.“Rehearsal Methods for Student-Centered Writing Instruction” - June 2011
M.A.T. presentation at Miami University - part one of the Three Phase Writing Process.
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