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Keynote with M. Colleen Cruz
Keynote with M. Colleen Cruz
Risk. Fail. Rise.
Mistakes Can Carbonate Our Teaching
Everyone knows everyone makes mistakes. Nowhere is that adage more repeated than in schools. But less is understood about how the types of mistakes and the reasons we make them can give us insights into teaching and learning. In this talk, Colleen will begin by exploring the robust body of research about mistakes that most directly connects to school. She will then guide participants toward considering our own mistake habits as well as how we can tap this knowledge to move beyond growth mindset and on to creating mistake welcoming cultures. Participants can expect to laugh, engage in some self-reflection, and to leave with mistake-focused knowledge and strategies to help energize their learning communities.
9:10-10:40
Workshop with M. Colleen Cruz
Workshop with M. Colleen Cruz
Writers Read Better: Strategies to Maximize Reading and Writing Reciprocity
Writers Read Better: Strategies to Maximize Reading and Writing Reciprocity
For years teachers have known that reading can lift and accelerate student writing. Less explored is leveraging writing to lift reading. In this session, Colleen will begin by discussing the research behind the often-untapped method of using writing instruction to support reading success. She will then explore how from phonics to fluency, to deep comprehension, tackling some of the trickiest-to-teach reading skills and content from grades K-8 can be more successful when first approached through rich writing instruction. You will have an opportunity to explore a range of classroom-ready strategies and leave with energizing ideas you can use in your classroom right away – plus resources to help make it all go smoothly. Join us if you are interested in making your literacy instruction more effective, symbiotic, and efficient.
For years teachers have known that reading can lift and accelerate student writing. Less explored is leveraging writing to lift reading. In this session, Colleen will begin by discussing the research behind the often-untapped method of using writing instruction to support reading success. She will then explore how from phonics to fluency, to deep comprehension, tackling some of the trickiest-to-teach reading skills and content from grades K-8 can be more successful when first approached through rich writing instruction. You will have an opportunity to explore a range of classroom-ready strategies and leave with energizing ideas you can use in your classroom right away – plus resources to help make it all go smoothly. Join us if you are interested in making your literacy instruction more effective, symbiotic, and efficient.
10:50-11:50
Literacy Studio with Ellin Keene
Literacy Studio with Ellin Keene
Teachers are all too familiar with the complex issues in teaching reading and writing;
how do we teach standards effectively; how do we differentiate meaningfully; how do
we engender deeper thinking in students? Perhaps our greatest challenge in literacy
instruction, though, is the tyranny of time. We struggle to find:
· time for students to read and write independently,
· time to confer with individuals and meet with small groups, and
· time to provide meaningful, in-depth instruction when there are so many
standards and curriculum objectives.
Most of us learned to read and write as separate subjects making it difficult to craft
instruction that integrates reading and writing but when we do make integration
work, the impact on students is enormous. We find that students are far more
engaged and their learning more permanent when they understand how the same
objective or standard impacts them as readers and writers. We can help students
craft more potent written pieces and comprehend more deeply if we integrate
instruction. Let’s talk about the nitty gritty of launching a Literacy Studio in your
classroom!
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