CATE 2011 Convention
Never More CrucialFeb. 11-13, 2011
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List of 2011 Workshop Sessions
Schedule of Sessions
Session A - Friday – 10:00 am to 11:15 am
Session B - Friday – 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Session C - Friday – 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Session D - Saturday – 8:15 am to 9:30 am
Session E - Saturday – 9:45 am to 11:00 am
Session F - Saturday – 3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Session G - Sunday – 9:30 am to 10:45 am
Session A – Friday 10:00 am
Presenters: Jodene Morrell, Kathleen Dudden Rowlands, and Matthew Brown
Session: A01
Strand: CWP
Level: All
School: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Cal State Northridge Writing Project; California State University, Northridge, Cal State Northridge Writing Project; Teacher, Santa Clarita Christian, Cal State Northridge Writing Project
Title: Never More Crucial: Transforming Young Writers’ Attitudes Toward Writing and Becoming Writers
Description: What caused significant attitudinal improvements toward writing and writer identity (as revealed by a pre/post survey) during a two-week Young Writer’s Camp? Presenters will share the instructional premises that are the foundation of the Cal State Northridge Writing Project camp experience, as well as the pedagogies, strategies, and activities that engendered those improvements. Writing samples will demonstrate the creative expression and energy campers brought to their work. The session will conclude with time for discussion.
Presenters: Kristin Hunter-Thomson
Session: A02
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Fisheries Education Specialist, NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Title: A Voyage of Oral History, Community, and Heritage Through Local Fisheries Knowledge
Description: Through engaging, hands-on activities, Voices of the Bay exposes students to the marine culture, economy and ecology that surround them, while meeting multiple language arts and communications standards. Students research, plan and conduct personal interviews with the fishing community to explore the historic, environmental and cultural dimensions of their place in the world. Participate in this module to discover how local fisheries can make oral histories and literacy skills pop off the page!
Presenters: Julia Brett and Sun Ezzell
Session: A03
Strand:None
Level: All
School: Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program, University of California, Riverside; Professor of Learning Assistance in Writing, Mt. San Antonio College
Title: Project-Based Writing
Description: How can we invite students to produce writing that is meaningful? In this session, we will share research supporting how Project-Based Learning can help students "take ownership" of their assignments, leading them to produce work they care about. We will share course plans that link a variety of assignments to students' individual projects, discuss assessment strategies, and offer samples of student work. Participants will have opportunity to begin designing their own project-based units.
Presenters: Kay Garcia and Linda Manuel
Session: A04
Strand:None
Level: All
School: Regional Outreach Directors, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Title: National Board Certification for Teachers of English
Description: Over 600 California teachers have earned National Board Certification in English Language Arts. Would you like to join them? Attend this session to learn about the requirements and the rewards of becoming a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT). You will interact with NBCTs who will guide you through a National Board activity. You will learn about the financial and collegial support that is available for California educators. Bring your colleagues and your questions!
Presenters: Susan G. Bennett and Nicolette Aman
Session: A05
Strand: CWP/Tech
Level: Univ
School: Instructors, Humbolt State University, Redwood Writing Project
Title: A Technophobe Uses Blogging in a University First-Year Reading and Writing Class: No More Lugging Around 50 Notebooks
Description: As a veteran teacher used to assigning traditional reading and writing logs in the freshman composition classroom, I challenged myself to switch to blogs after attending the Redwood Writing Project Advanced Technology Institute. I would like to share my successes and challenges with other composition teachers who might be wary of but interested in introducing technology via blogs into the classroom.
Presenters: Daniel Reynolds
Session: A06
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Mt. Diablo High School, Mt. Diablo Unified
Title: Condensing Is Not Condescending
Description: Having students creatively shorten works of literature can serve as a point of entry, as well as to increase engagement, comprehension, and analysis, or to review or illustrate mastery. Participants will explore numerous classroom activities/strategies that ask students to condense, summarize, and otherwise shrink sections of text down in concise, structured, and innovative ways. Examples: Tweet the scene in Hamlet; Rewrite this chapter as a haiku; Write a Facebook status update for a character.
Presenters: Cynthia Thorburn
Session: A07
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: National Consultant, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Title: Foldables! Hands-On Three Dimensional Graphic Organizers
Description: Engage students note-taking with Foldables. This three-dimensional is a student made, interactive graphic organizer. Making foldables give students a fast, kinesthetic activity that helps them organize and retain information. The purpose of this session is to teach teachers how to create various types of foldables for use in the English/Language Arts classroom.
Presenters: Robyn A. Hill and Bill McGrath
Session: A08
Strand: UPS/ELL
Level: All
School: Associate Professors, National University
Title: Differentiated Instruction Using Comics Formats
Description: Presenters will discuss how comic books, graphic novels, and other comics-format related materials can be used in a variety of ways to create highly engaging lessons that appeal to a range of learners. There will be an emphasis on English Learners and other "at risk" students. Participants will receive free comics, as well as information about many other free or low-cost resources and materials, so that they can easily integrate these strategies into any curriculum.
Presenters: Erin Deis
Session: A09
Strand: CWP
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Selma High School, Selma USD, San Joaquin Writing Project
Title: Reading the Word and the World: Making Room for Multiple Perspectives through Visual and Critical Literacy
Description: Critical literacy encourages students to think for themselves, "demythologizing" their previous perceptions of reality and history, and giving them agency to actively influence and transform the world around them. Participants will be led through a hands-on session in which they will read a text that tells a well-known story from a new point-of-view and then work in small groups to rewrite stories, from their curriculum, through the eyes of a "missing" perspective.
Presenters: Jack Stanford
Session: A10
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher, Palm Springs High School, Palm Springs USD
Title: Write More, Grade Less: The Pipeline System of Essay Scoring
Description: Frustrated with your students' lack of progress because you can't assign enough writing without exhausting yourself? In this session, learn how to assign up to 20 essays per student per year, while increasing their interest level and their accountability. Instead of perfunctory "peer editing," you can engage them in meaningful revision and scoring exercises. Change your role from paper grader to writer's workshop facilitator.
Presenters: Susan Henneberg
Session: A11
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Teacher, TMCC Magnet High School, Washoe County
Title: Celebrate the Chaos - Managing the English Classroom
Description: Small group workshops, large group, pair shares, lecture, silent reading, video, performance - how do you manage the infinite number of class configurations without losing your students in the transitions? Participants will learn key strategies that establish a respectful productive environment where student misbehavior becomes a learning opportunity. Teachers and students are rewarded with new abilities to focus and channel their energy into the tasks at hand.
Presenters: Elise Wallace
Session: A13
Strand: CWP
Level: 6 to 8
School: Teacher, Natomas Charter School, Natomas USD, Area 3 Writing Project
Title: Raise your Voice: Helping Students Define the Meaning and Value of an Authentic Voice
Description: Empower students to make their writing authentic by helping them understand voice as a writing trait. Participants will be led through a series of classroom-ready activities designed to help students discover the different elements of voice, as well as its importance in quality writing. When students write with voice, the process is more powerful and enjoyable for both student and teacher.
Presenters: Andrianna Gervais
Session: A14
Strand: None
Level: 6 to 8
School: Teacher, Christa McAuliffe Middle School, Lodi Unified
Title: Response to Literature for Middle School and Struggling Students
Description: Want to teach your kids to write an authoritative response to literature essay? Do you struggle with what they need to know to accomplish that? Then this is the session for you! Participants will write a response to literature essay in 75 minutes, using a short story and two graphic organizers.
Presenters: Brian Jeffrey
Session: A15
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
School: Teacher, Los Osos High School, Rancho Cucamonga
Title: Creating a Safe Zone in Your Classroom for GLBTQ Students
Description: Learn how to make your classroom a safe place for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning students and how the Ed Code mandates teachers to protect students, faculty, and staff from harassment and discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity. All attendees will receive a CD-ROM with the complete session and handouts for use immediate use in their classroom.
Presenters: Roy Rogers
Session: A16
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Arroyo Valley High School, San Bernardino City USD
Title: Bring the "Fun" Back To Teaching
Description: This interactive session will explore one teacher's efforts to develop activities to allow time for "fun" in the classroom. In a world where high stakes testing is more important than individual growth, teachers must ensure that their students demonstrate mastery of state mandated standards while keeping them engaged in the classroom. These activities have quickly increased the success rates of ELD and low-performing students on standardized tests, including the CAHSEE, SAT, and ACT. Copies of the curriculum will be provided
Session B – Friday 2:30 pm
Presenters: Tara Nuth and Robin Pickering
Session: B01
Strand: None
Level: All
School: English and Global Studies Teacher, Fortuna Union High School; History and Global Studies Teacher, Fortuna Union High School
Title: Inspiring Global Citizenship: The Integration of English and History in an engaging Global Studies Program
Description: Collaborate and create an inspiring and integrated humanities program that educates students about current global issues and incorporates writing, literature, history, debate, the arts, and critical thinking. Students not only engage in deep investigation of contemporary and historic global issues and regions—including Israel-Palestine, Iran, China, colonization, war vs. diplomacy, and globalization—but communicate with students all over the world through class blogs. Global Studies seeks to create understanding, communication, and trust of cultures outside of our own.
Presenters: Victoria Lichtendorf and Adrienne L. Gayoso
Session: B02
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Clarice Smith Education Managers, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Title: Looking at American Art: Prose, Poetry, Podcasts
Description: Explore models featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Clarice Smith National Teacher Institutes for bridging visual and language arts. Discover how and why analyzing works of art supports English curricula, such as language acquisition, vocabulary development, communication, listening, and interpretation. Learn how writing, recording, and editing podcasts inspired by works of art create a rewarding connection between classrooms and museums.
Presenters: Joel Freedman, Lonée Lona, Deborah Lowe, and Paulina Martinez
Session: B04
Strand: CWP/LGBTQ
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Fairfax High School, LAUSD, UCLA Writing Project; Teacher, Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology, LAUSD, UCLA Writing Project; Teacher, Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology, LAUSD, UCLA Writing Project; Bravo Medical Magnet, LAUSD, UCLA Writing Project
Title: Stand Up! Speak Out! Teen Writers Reflect on LGBTQ Realities
Description: The UCLA Writing Project Study Group on Homophobia recently sponsored a writing contest on LGBTQ issues for all teens. "What does the world need to know about LGBTQ teens?" Teenagers throughout Los Angeles responded—in a variety of genres, some with humor, others with great seriousness. Join us as we introduce writing generated by the contest, suggest classroom use and engage in dialogue about intentionally designing opportunities for students to focus on issues rarely discussed in schools.
Presenters: Holly Wilson
Session: B05
Strand: Tech
Level: All
School: Teacher, Fairmont Preparatory Academy
Title: Hybrid Learning – Innovative Teaching and Student Success
Description: Hybrid learning combines brick-and-mortar teaching methods and an online curriculum resulting in innovative classroom teaching and student success. This summer, Fairmont Prep Academy developed 15 advanced hybrid courses in math, science, English and history. One hundred and eighty six students completed these courses. Learn how you can implement hybrid learning at your district. Learn about real-world experiences including student measurements and teacher conclusions in this increasingly valuable new education model.
Presenters: Robert Pacilio
Session: B06
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Retired English Teacher, Author, and Adjunct Professor at National University
Title: Meet Me at the Metaphor Café
Description: Imagine making lessons relevant and exciting to students by speaking their musical language, yet at the same time meeting state standards. Impossible. Not for Bob Pacilio as he rocks a classroom and enhances literature. Pacilio's lessons come to life in song and the ability to express theme and think critically about the message as he does in his novel Meetings at the Metaphor Café.. From E Street to Lady Gaga, Pacilio will inspire your students.
Presenters: Bill Foreman
Session: B07
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Associate Professor of English, California State University, Stanislaus
Title: Literary Figures in Visual Media: Teaching Metaphor, Irony, and Other Figures with Editorial Cartoons
Description: One can "read" anything: a text, a photograph, a drawing. The methods to be use for reading various media are quite similar. This session will provide teachers with resources and ideas for short lessons using visual media like newspaper and magazine cartoons to teach literary concepts. I’ll explore how editorial cartoons demonstrate literary concepts visually, and how students can then apply the same interpretive methods to texts.
Presenters: Michael LoMonico
Session: B08
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Teacher and Senior Consultant on National Education, Folger Shakespeare Library
Title: Shakespeare 2.0: Technology Ideas from the Folger Library
Description: Using ideas developed by the Folger Library, this session will give teachers some smart technology-based lessons that will help them integrate Web 2.0 activities into their Shakespeare unit.
Presenters: Lisa Torina
Session: B09
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teacher, Cabrillo High School, Lompoc USD
Title: How to Facilitate a Class Discussion of Literature
Description: This session will demonstrate ways to engage high school students in a whole-class discussion of literature. The presenter will provide suggestions on ways to modify a discussion for regular, remedial and AP/GATE classes. Learn how to improve students' own critical thinking about any text, including fiction and non-fiction, while enhancing standards-based reading and writing skills.
Presenters: Jane S. Hancock
Session: B10
Strand: CWP
Level: All
School: UCLA Writing Project
Title: Building a Community of Writers
Description: How can teachers develop a community of writers in their classrooms? How can they create a space where students feel safeto write, share, to help each other, to learn together? In this session the presenter will share a few class-tested ideas for developing such a community—ideas that involve reading, writing, listening, speaking, and maybe a little drawing. Participants will become a part of this session's community of writers.
Presenters: Nadrian Smith-Whytus
Session: B11
Strand: UPS
Level: 9 to 12
School: Educator and Doctoral Candidate, Arroyo Valley High School, San Bernardino City USD
Title: H.O.P.E.—Having Outrageous and Phenomenal Expectations
Description: It has never been more crucial to master the skill of motivating at risk high school students to work towards academic and social excellence in high school and beyond. Participants will learn how to Praise and prepare students until they are Powerful then push them towards their Purpose. Fostering the principles of H.O.P.E!
Presenters: Maria Rankin-Brown
Session: B12
Strand: Coll
Level: 9 to 16
School: Associate Professor, Pacific Union College
Title: Strategies for Combatting Plagiarism
Description: With more and more information available online, and with student use of online resources increasing, 'ownership of ideas' becomes a "blurry" area for students, often leading to increased instances of both inadvertent and deliberate plagiarism. This interactive session will provide ideas about effective ways to educate high school and college students about plagiarism. Come prepared to share your own successful ideas and strategies.
Session C – Friday 4:00 pm
Presenters: Julie Minnis and Mahbod Seraji
Session: C01
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Minnis and Seraji
Title: A View of Iran from Rooftops of Tehran
Description: Persia has a long history of devotion to cultural development, including art, architecture, and literature. In Rooftops of Tehran readers gain an understanding of Iran's history since 1970 while following Pasha, a 17-year old observer during the summer preceding the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Shah. Session includes discussion of text as well as background of Iran's history.
Presenters: Andrea Fazel
Session: C02
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
School: Teacher, Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Charter High School, Sacramento
Title: It Gets Better
Description: Far too often, young people facing anti-LGBTQ bias and bullying (whether or not they identify as LGBTQ) feel hopeless and isolated, sometimes to the point of taking their own lives. Many creative resources and campaigns for reaching out to these youth have been developed, and have gained increased visibility in light of recent youth suicides. In this session, we will explore the resources and campaigns that are out there, and discuss how to connect them not only to our role as supportive adults, but also to our lessons in the classroom.
Presenters: Donna Thomas
Session:C03
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Teacher, Roseland University Prep
Title: Classroom Book Clubs: Constructing Meaning Through Social Interaction
Description: Are you looking for ways to motivate students to participate more actively in literary discussions? This session will explain the advantages of classroom book clubs (based on the work of Taffy E. Raphael and Susan I. McMahon) Participants will learn how to integrate literacy instruction and structure groups so that students of all levels are able to successfully construct meaning and deepen their understanding of texts through student-led discussions.
Presenters: Maria Rankin-Brown
Session: C04
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Associate Professor, Pacific Union College
Title: Creativity: A Lost Art?
Description: A lack of creativity and the desire to produce formulaic work affects all areas of education. This interactive session will provide fun (for the student and the teacher) lessons that English teachers can use in classes to cultivate creative thinking and writing skills so that students become more engaged in the process of thinking and writing.
Presenters: Catlin Tucker
Session: C05
Strand: Tech
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Windsor High School, Windsor USD
Title: Ditch Dull Discussions: Five Strategies That Will Spark Conversations about Literature and Language
Description: Get kids talking! This session will present lesson ideas that make silent sustained reading more meaningful and engaging; provide resources that support teachers in using online discussions to compliment in-class instruction; introduce "Playing with Language," a quick daily activity that makes learning roots, prefixes, and suffixes fun; and discuss the benefits of story time with secondary students (yes-sitting on the floor!).
Presenters: Kim Flachmann and Nancy Brynelson
Session: C06
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Writing Program Coordinator, California State University, Bakersfield; California State University Chancellor's Office
Title: Building a Bridge Between High School and College that Doesn't Collapse
Description: The presenter will first provide ideas from the Expository Reading and Writing Program for building a solid bridge between high school and college English. The presenter will then focus on the best practices in reading and writing from that program, which participants will be able to take back to their classes the next week. Finally, participants will share their ideas about using these strategies in their classes.
Presenters: Andrea Jennings and Deanne Andrade
Session: C08
Strand: CWP/ELL
Level: 4 to 8
School: Teachers, Jefferson, Greater Valley Writing Project
Title: No More Telling Me; Just Show Me! Using Art with English Learners to Write with Details, Revise Drafts, and Develop Their Voices.
Description: In this session, the presenters will share an effective method for teaching students to write a narrative that is rich with details and voice. Participants will leave the session with a scaffolded lesson that uses art to supports English learners develop and revise their writing.
Presenters: Matthew Hart
Session: C09
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher, Granada High School, Livermore Joint USD
Title: Toolbox Teaching
Description: Imagine trying to fix everything in your house with just a hammer. Obviously, a person needs different tools for different problems. Readers and writers need a variety of tools to be effective, so this session will focus on building a "toolbox" for students filled with rhetorical strategies and critical reading skills.
Presenters: Bradi Powell Everett
Session: C10
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teacher, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach Unified
Title: War and Literature: Beyond the Political
Description: This session will provide a standards-based thematic unit plan for teaching about war through memoir, poetry, fiction, film, and current events. Topics include violence, loss of innocence, selective service, war crimes, post traumatic stress disorder, propaganda, recruiting practices, and social justice. Participants will leave with everything they need to teach this unit, including texts, lesson plans, and assessments.
Presenters: Lisa Ledri-Aguilar
Session: C11
Strand: Coll
Level: Univ
School: Assitant Professor, Grossmont College
Title: C.S. Lewis and the Uses of the Imagination
Description:
Presenters: Lori Cohen and Robin Workman
Session: C12
Strand: Pol
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teachers, The Bay School of San Francisco
Title: Promoting Civic Engagement and Persuasion Through Teaching Aristotle's Rhetoric
Description: This session will teach Aristotle's paradigm of ethos, pathos, and logos in order for students to understand the rhetorical devices people in positions of authority use to persuade their audiences. Presenters will connect these facets of Aristotle's paradigm to both literature and to persuasive speech-writing. Presenters will illustrate how students both can apply and feel empowered to use these tools to speak about topics that have an impact on the local and global community.
Presenters: John Creger
Session: C13
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher and Author, American High School, Fremont Unified
Title: Cultivating the Intelligence of the Heart in Acquiring Literacy
Description: In designing an English class, what should be at the center of our intentions? Is it enough to aim for our students’ attainment of standards, the development of their skills, or even the growth of their intellects? This session introduces classroom experiments in designing courses intended to help students develop along deeper lines. Participants sample three practices to guide students in developing academic and intellectual skills as they cultivate a posited higher intelligence of the heart.
Session D – Saturday 8:15 am
Presenters: Michael LoMonico
Session: D01
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Teacher and Senior Consultant on National Education, Folger Shakespeare Library
Title: Shakespeare Set Free: a Short Course from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Description: Teaching Shakespeare's plays in the current atmosphere has never been more crucial. Through the course of this hands-on workshop, we will explore how to demystify his rigorous language in ways that will help score high on standardized tests. Then we will look at how to begin the study of a Shakespeare play, how to sustain it, and how to culminate and assess it. Teachers will leave with material and ideas that they can use on Monday.
Presenters: Jim Foster et al.
Session: D02
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
School:Positive Images
Title: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
Description: During this first of two connected sessions, view the Respect for All Project documentary Straightlaced in which incredibly diverse students take us on a powerful and intimate journey to see how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are shaping the lives of today's American teens. This uplifting and surprisingly funny film demonstrates the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on our lives, and offers both teens and adults a way out of anxiety, fear, and violence.
Presenters: Deborah Duffy
Session: D04
Strand: Tech
Level: 6 to 8
School: Teacher, Guajome Park Academy, San Diego
Title: Using Different Types of Media to Support Your Curriculum
Description: In this session, participants will learn how to support their literature curriculum through the use of different types of media, including YouTube, videos, movie clips music videos, blogs, and ITunes. Participants will receive ideas as well as view samples of different clips and videos for specific literature curriculum. Also, participants will actively participate in portions of a poetry unit; they will receive lesson plans, and student samples will be on display.
Presenters: Nicole Callahan
Session: D05
Strand: Tech
Level: 9 to 16
School: Doctoral Student, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Title: Creating Authentic Assessments with Webquest Assignments
Description: Millennial students face an incredible technological frontier, and conscientious educators must craft curriculum to fit the demands of a new and still-emerging world. This session will focus on using webquest assignments to scaffold close reading of texts; intelligent and discriminatory uses of internet research; understanding of rhetorical and stylistic techniques; and synthesis of research, text analysis and creative skills in crafting a sophisticated piece of original writing.
Presenters: Cindy Withers and Kim Monnie
Session: D06
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher and English Language Development Specialist, Palm Springs USD; Teacher and English Language Arts Specialist, Palm Springs USD
Title: Moving from Text to Symbol to Image to Concept
Description: How does text re-presentation lead students to an understanding of abstract concepts in literature? Text re-presentation is a strategy that allows the student to use imagery and symbol in addition to the text to illustrate conceptual understanding. Participants will engage in a lesson that results in text re-presentation of a concept.
Presenters: Stephanie Etcheverria (EXHIBIT)
Session: D07
Strand: Ele
Level: 3 to 5
School: Program Coordinator, California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom
Title: Imagine This... Building a Strong Writing Foundation
Description: Imagine this... get your students thinking and writing creatively! The activities that will be explored in this session will help students take a few words and ideas and turn them into quality short stories. Participants will be introduced to techniques that can be done with students to help build a foundation for strong writing skills while encouraging students to think creatively. Some activities include working with works and writing strong verbs. Free Resources for participants!
Presenters: Jan Stallones and Chris Jacobson
Session: D08
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Corona Norco Unified School District; Teacher, Corona Norco Unified School District
Title: CAHSEE To College - Bridging Writing Gaps, Year Three
Description: CNUSD is in its third year of a writing initiative designed to move students from CAHSEE-proficient writing to the level of writing expected from incoming freshman by colleges and universities. Our plan teaches structure, then leads students into deeper analysis . You can't have one without the other - so come and learn how to combine the two approaches. We'll share strategies and results and discuss how our approach could work in your school or district.
Presenters: Donna Thomas and Deidre Harrison
Session: D09
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teachers, Roseland University Prep
Title: Poetry: Finding Hope in Hard Times
Description: Despite the increasing pressure to cut out creativity and teach to standardized tests, the writing of poetry in our classrooms has never been more crucial. Writing poetry helps students develop an authentic voice, establish a sense of self and regain hope in difficult times. This session provides participants with three fully-developed, lively poetry writing lessons and the opportunity for even the most reluctant writer to compose a poem.
Presenters: Mark Meritt
Session: D10
Strand: Coll
Level: Univ
School: Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Language, University of San Francisco
Title: How Do Ideas Matter? College Composition Readers and the Shifting Place of the Humanities in Undergraduate Education
Description: New media and digital literacy are often a focus in college writing, yet many still teach using a "great ideas" reader containing "classic" texts. This presentation considers the following questions: Do these textbooks resist academic trends by reinstating traditional curricula within the composition course? Or do they promote re-thinking traditional texts in new ways? Examining several books, the presenter will assess how traditional "great ideas" are framed in current college writing texts.
Presenters: Lisa Waner and Mike Harrison
Session: D11
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Big Bear High School, Bear Valley Unifed, UCI Writing Project; Teacher, Big Bear High School, Bear Valley Unifed
Title: Developing Student Self-Efficacy Through Reading and Writing
Description: Participants will learn the significance of promoting self-efficacy, a sense of self accomplishment, in both reading and writing and its relationship to student performance. Proven practices that promote self efficacy will be shared along with the theoretical frameworks behind them. Participants will leave with myriad ideas and lessons that can be applied in a variety of settings. Both presenters are classroom teachers who are involved in research on these practices.
Presenters: David B. Cohen and Larry Ferlazzo
Session: D12
Strand: Pol
Level: All
School: Teacher, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto USD; Teacher, Luther Burbank High School
Title: "The Danger of a Single Story" — Enriching the Public Discourse on Education
Description: Much of the current education reform agenda relies on false assumptions about teaching, learning, and schools. A single narrative plays repeatedly in the news, pushing reform in directions that undermine good pedagogy in English Language Arts. Teachers must do more than respond; we must tell our stories publicly and counteract what novelist Chimamanda Adichie calls "the danger of the single story." The presenters will share their strategies and invite participants to develop and share their own.
Presenters: Rachel Pledger
Session: D13
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Graduate Student, Azusa Pacific University
Title: Transacting with Literature through Socratic Seminars to Foster Moral Development in the Secondary RSP English/Language Arts Classroom
Description: Instruction oriented toward the development of critical thinking skills has often been deemphasized to ensure the maximum inclusion of standards-based content, yet it is a skill crucial to student success. The presenter will demonstrate the effectiveness of Socratic Seminars to discuss universal values as represented in diverse works of literature. Participants will learn to help RSP students develop personal philosophies through a Socratic curriculum without sacrificing CA content standards
Presenters: Harvey Green and Jonathan Taylor
Session: D14
Strand: CWP
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teacher, Santa Ynez High School, Santa Barbara County, South Coast Writing Project; Teacher, Lompoc High School, Santa Barabra County, South Coast Writing Project
Title: Supporting Writers in AP Classes
Description: This hands-on session features two approaches designed to bring all Advanced Placement English Language and U.S. History students into a community of rigorous study. In one approach, students gradually learn how to use their academic voices in free response questions. In the other, students join this community through research, writing a synthesis free response prompt as the base of inquiry. Strategies focus on students’ individual involvement in a writing community.
Presenters: Cynthia Thorburn (EXHIBIT)
Session: D15
Strand: ELL
Level: 7 to 12
School: National Consultant, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Title: Never More Crucial—Strategies for EL and Struggling Learners
Description: What classroom instructional strategies work best for EL and struggling learners? In this session, the presenter will discuss the needs of our EL and struggling learners and will discuss modified research-based instructional strategies, including graphic organizers, cooperative learning, vocabulary, and Interactive Question Response. Participants will learn the research that supports the use of these strategies and experience using each strategy.
Presenters: Nicole Valentine
Session: D16
Strand: CWP
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Roosevelt High School, Fresno USD, San Joaquin Writing Project
Title: Texting 4 Comprehension
Description: This session changes the way we look at text messaging by analyzing text-speak as a distinct and valid literary genre. During the session, participants will examine the genre conventions of text messaging and evaluate how text-speak can be incorporated into classrooms as a tool to aid students in comprehending difficult texts by making them culturally relevant
Presenters: Christine Parker and Cheryl Bradley
Session: D17
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Dramaturg, Victor Valley College; Teacher, Del Norte County High School, Del Norte County USD
Title: Discovery with Shakespeare's Cue Scripts
Description: Shakespeare's actors learned parts from cue scripts—literal rolls of paper with only their lines and a cue of a few words. When learning a new part, Shakespeare's actors would not know the full story or to whom their lines were spoken. Imagine the discovery of character and story when the actors first came together to rehearse! With carefully planned false cues, Shakespeare found a way to add his directorial touch in an age without directors.
Presenters: Jyothi Bathina
Session: D18
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
School: Assistant Professor, Fresno State University
Title: Literate Voices: Using PAR and Personal Narrative to Build Adolescent Literacy
Description: The presenter will share the key elements of the Literate Voices project, which has resulted in three successful publications of student work in urban schools with at risk student populations. The session will provide an overview of how to implement the project in any school district, including lifemaps, relevant texts and lesson plans, ways to integrate daily reading and writing, and the concept of participatory action research. Partipants' questions will be answered at the end of the session.
Presenters: Pamela Bostelmann
Session: D19
Strand: None
Level: 6 to 8
School: Teacher, Walter T. Helms Middle School, West Contra Costa USD
Title: Using a Full-Length, High-Interest Nonfiction Book as a Class Text in Middle School "Literacy" Classes
Description: Chew On This by Eric Schlosser and Charles O. Wilson is the kid version of Fast Food Nation. Using extensive schema-building, the presenter helped her students deepen their comprehension with previewing, re-reading, reviewing, learning vocabulary, and writing-to-learn. She will share materials and activities with participants.
Session E – Saturday 9:45 pm
Presenters: Sheridan Blau
Session: E01
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 16
School: Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Program Director, Teachers College Columbia; Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Re-reading the Study of Literature and Rescuing Literary Study from the Official Barbarism of Literacy: A Hands-on Workshop with Theoretical Reflections
Description: This session will feature hands-on experiments in "learning" literature and in learning from non-literary texts, as we interrogate the strong prejudice against literature and in favor of informational texts in state and national standards documents and assessments.
Presenters: Jim Foster et al.
Session: E02
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
School: Positive Images
Title: Hear Us, Please.
Description: For 21 years, Positive Images has been the only Sonoma County agency serving the unique needs of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, gender-queer, questioning and intersex (GLBTQQI) youth ages 12 to 25. P.I. provides programs and services that help youth, service providers, and the public develop positive, healthy, life-affirming, and accepting behaviors and views of personal expression. Positive Images will offer a panel presentation of high school and college-age students who will share their courageous coming out process with the workshop attendees.
Presenters: Anna J. Small Roseboro
Session: E03
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Adjunct Professor, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Title: Poetry T.I.M.E.— Learning with and from our students
Description: Poetry T.I.M.E., an acronym for four essential components of poetry analysis, is a key students use to unlock the poem, observe structure, beauty, and messages of the poetry. This interactive session demonstrates proven instruction methods applicable to a variety of poetry. Learn how to equip students to discover meaning and to show what they know. When we see what they say, we learn and we grow as teachers.
Presenters: Allen Teng
Session: E04
Strand: CWP/Tech
Level: 6 to 12
School: Teacher, Woodland Park MS, San Marcos Unified, San Marcos Writing Project
Title: Using Free Social Networking Technology to Improve Writing Quality and Motivation
Description: Using free Web 2.0 application and open source software, the presenter will share how he has been able to create password secure online writing portfolios, encourage collaborative revision and prewriting, and engage middle school students in in-depth discussions through online chats and discussion boards. Mimicking some of the popular social networking sites such as Facebook, students have shared writing and published to a wider audience with technology-mediated exchanges between all of the middle schools in the district.
Presenters: Douglas Forster
Session: E05
Strand: Coll
Level: 9 to 16
School: Lecturer, Japan Women's University
Title: Remember to Laugh: Teaching Situation Comedies
Description: In this session, the presenter will discuss the importance of humor and laughter in the English classroom and show effective ways of using the situation comedy Seinfeld to teach grammar, the elements of a story, and writing. These methods can be used in junior and senior high as well as university.
Presenters: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Session: E06
Strand: Ele
Level: K to 6
School: Author
Title: Words and Pictures: Teaching Narrative Writing Through the Picture Book
Description: Though it appears short and simple, the picture book is an ideal form to perfect the craft of narrative writing. A picture book project can unlock your students' creativity while teaching the fundamentals of good writing that can be applied in other areas of life.
Presenters: Marcy Merrill, Roberta Ching, and Jennifer Fletcher
Session: E07
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Professor of Literacy, California State University, Sacramento; Chair, Learning Skills Center, Sacramento; Associate Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay
Title: Teaching Grammar Rhetorically with the ERWC
Description: What does it mean to teach grammar rhetorically? How can we help students view academic language as a meaning-making resource? Drawing on M.A.K. Halliday’s claim that "language is as it is because of what it has to do," this session explores grammar instruction through a rhetorical approach to texts and contexts, using mini-lessons from the CSU Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC). Topics include logic, sentence focus, writer’s purpose, argumentation, and revision.
Presenters: Jan Stallones, Bebe Wenig, and Karen Stepp
Session: E08
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Corona Norco Unified School District; Teacher, Corona Norco Unified School District; District Coordinator, Corona Norco Unified School District
Title: Bridge to High School—Scaffolding and Integrating Reading, Writing and Math Skills for Nithth-Grade Success
Description: Ninth graders earn more Ds and Fs than any other grade level in California. Supporting struggling students as they enter high school can make the critical difference between success or failure. Learn how CNUSD worked with incoming freshman to strengthen basic reading, writing, and math skills and integrate mathematics and Language Arts. We'll share our strategies, results, student work, and will allow time to discuss how this approach could work in your school or district.
Presenters: Kara Buchanan
Session: E09
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 12
School: International Educational Programs Manager EF Education First
Title: Preparing the Next Generation of Global Citizens
Description: Our future is inextricably linked to the complex challenges of the global community. For our students to be prepared to take their place in that world, they must first understand it. Seventy three percent of CEOs who report having difficulty finding qualified workers in the U.S. also rate global competitiveness as "very" or "most" important. Learning to be a Global Citizen has never been more crucial. Best practices for bringing the world into your classroom and your classroom into the world will be shared.
Presenters: Bradi Powell Everett
Session: E10
Strand: Read
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach Unified
Title: Toss the Worksheets: Ten Self-Assessment Tools for the Reading Comprehension Toolbelt
Description: Think of Huck Finn as a sitcom, and Thoreau as an eccentric hippie, and all of the sudden students can access these complex texts! This session provides 10 different reading comprehension strategies for struggling readers. Help them build background knowledge, chunk information, make inferences, draw conclusions, recognize structure, and analyze rhetoric. These strategies are based on the practices of good readers who self-assess before, during, and after the reading process.
Presenters: Donna Shpak and Jeremy Teitelbaum
Session: E11
Strand: UPS/ELL
Level: All
School: Instructor, Hancock Community College; Lecturer, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Title: How do You Spell Success? Y-O-U
Description: Join an ESL teacher and speech communication instructor with over 30 years combined experience teaching children and adults for a jam-packed session where you will learn time-tested, research-based strategies and techniques designed to decrease teacher and student frustration, improve student focus, systematically teach appropriate behavior, drastically reduce problem behavior, and greatly increase instruction time. These techniques can be applied immediately in your classroom.
Presenters: Robert Pacilio
Session: E12
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Retired English Teacher, Author, and Adjunct Professor at National University
Title: A Slice of Don McLean's American Pie
Description: Imagine a lesson relevant to teenagers and linked to standards! Bob Pacilio, San Diego County's "Teacher of the Year," demonstrates this concept using Don McLean's song "American Pie." His lesson focuses on voice, autobiographical writing, and he reminds teachers that students have their own heartfelt lessons of life—their slices of "American Pie." The impact this lesson has on his students is evident in his novel Meetings at the Metaphor Café. Let's rock the house!
Presenters: Shayna Arhanian
Session: E13
Strand: CWP
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher, Granada Hills Charter High School, Cal State Northridge Writing Project
Title: Breaking Through: Going Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
Description: In this session, the presenter will provide participants with successful writing strategies to help students move beyond the five paragraph essay structure. Through the use of prewriting and organization, teamed with an engaging activity, participants will walk away with a series of sequenced and scaffolded lessons to help students develop length and depth in their essay writing.
Presenters: Barbara Murchison and Deborah Franklin
Session: E14
Strand: Pol
Level: All
School: Education Programs Consultant, Standards, Curriculum Framework, and Instructional Resources Division, California Department of Education; and Education Programs Consultant, Standards, Curriculum Framework, and Instructional Resources Division, California Department of Education
Title: An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards
Description: On August 2, 2010, the California State Board of Education adopted new standards for English language arts, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This session includes an overview of the CCSS and highlights some of the similarities and differences between the CCSS and the 1997 California content standards. Participants will look more closely at the standards and engage in collegial conversations regarding the content of the CCSS and their implementation.
Presenters: Donald Bear
Session: E15
Strand: ELL
Level: All
School: Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling with English Learners—Activities and Research
Description: What language considerations are made to teach English learners phonics, vocabulary and spelling? We’ll progress through word study activities with English learners over five stages of literacy development. Common sense assessments to show teachers what phonics, spelling and vocabulary to teach English learners are presented.
Presenters: Matthew Hart
Session: E16
Strand: Read
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher, Granada High School, Livermore Joint USD
Title: Wisdom Lit
Description: Characters in literature are not only driven by desire, they are also driven by ideas. In many ways, literary texts are battlegrounds of competing convictions. This session looks at ways to apply philosophy to texts in order to build students' interpretive skills.
Presenters: Bill Younglove
Session: E17
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Instructor/ and Teacher Supervisor, California State University, Long Beach
Title: Elie Wiesel: Emergence and Evolution from Night
Description: It has never been more crucial for students to read and study Holocaust testimony. Iconic Holocaust survivor and writer, Elie Wiesel, emerged from Night his faith in shambles. Selected writings from Wiesel's canon, however, reveal just how his world view has evolved. Pivotal excerpts, plus the 1960/2006 editions will be examined.
Presenters: Jane S. Hancock
Session: E18
Strand: CWP
Level: All
School: UCLA Writing Project
Title: Re-Discover Portfolio Assessment
Description: Let’s bring back portfolio assessment. A portfolio speaks to the parent, to the teacher, to the administrator. Most importantly it speaks to the student as a writer, allowing the student to apply knowledge rather than just recall it, allowing the student to select and reflect and project. Look at student portfolios and join in the discussion about this daily, on-going observation of student learning.
Presenters: Armeda Reitzel
Session: E19
Strand: CWP/Tech
Level: 9 to 16
School: Humbolt State University, Redwood Writing Project
Title: A "Delicious" Way to Research through Social Bookmarking
Description: This interactive workshop provides teachers with the knowledge and skills to introduce the use of delicious as a way to research and share resources for writing papers. The presenter will walk the participants through the steps in setting up and using delicious. Examples will be given. Participants will set up their own delicious accounts and share their ideas for using delicious. Handouts will be provided.
Session F – Saturday 3:45 pm
Presenters: Michael Flachmann
Session: F01
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
School: Professor and Director of Honors, California State University, Bakersfield, Dramaturg, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Director, Camp Shakespeare
Title: Sex, Lies, and Shakespeare: Using Performance to Make Shakespeare Come Alive in the English Classroom
Description: This presentation will provide exciting, enjoyable, and extremely effective hands-on pedagogical techniques that can be used the next time you teach Shakespeare. The presenter, who is the company dramaturg at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, will reveal insider tips from his professional theatre work and his own classroom experience to make certain your students end up understanding (and loving) Shakespeare's plays.
Presenters: Jim Burke
Session: F02
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Burke
Title: My Head's on Fire! Teaching Students How to Generate Ideas for Reading and Writing
Description: Participants in this session will learn a variety of strategies they can teach or use to help students generate ideas. Judith Langer's research on effective literacy instruction identifies "generative thinking" as one of the six key elements, yet teachers frequently struggle with just how to do this. Participants will take home very specific strategies, that work for both reading and writing, and apply to grades 4-12, and also show how to incorporate a range of tools from stickies to...(shhh!) Facebook.
Presenters: Jeremy Teitelbaum
Session: F03
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Lecturer, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Title: Reading, Writing, and Speaking! Including a Critical Thinking Component in Student Presentations
Description: Public speaking is one of the most important skill our students can learn. Yet, the foundation of good speaking lies not only in the delivery, but in the content of the message. Join this speech communication professor as he shares 9 different types of verbal presentations that can be incorporated into lessons of reading and writing, each that emphasize the all important critical thinking component.
Presenters: Dave Ficke
Session: F04
Strand: Ele
Level: 3 to 8
School: Retired Teacher, Upland Unified, and Chair CREEC Region 10 RIMS, California Regional Environmental Education Community Network Region 10 RIMS
Title: The Integration of Environmental Education into Language Arts Programs
Description: The environment has always been a way to capture students' interest in reading. Many teachers are not aware that the State of California has passed the Education and the Environment Initiative, AB 1548, that allows teachers to implement State standards using free, accessible supplemental materials. I will be presenting examples of curricula, as well as showing teachers how to access the CREEC (California Regional Environmental Education) Network, offering a wealth of resources for educators.
Presenters: Lorna Gonzalez
Session: F05
Strand: Tech
Level: 9 to 16
School: Teacher and Academic Technology Specialist, Oxnard High School, Oxnard UHSD
Title: Teaching and Learning Online and Off: The Hybrid Model
Description: Hybrid/"blended" learning is a new buzz in education. This presenter shares experiences supplementing an eleventh grade English class with online learning, participating as a student in a blended course, and using learning theories to design a blended model course. Participants are invited to discuss implications of hybrid models; they will receive handouts with online resources for supplementing the traditional curriculum; and they will see examples of students' online work.
Presenters: Judy Flynn (EXHIBIT)
Session: F06
Strand: COMM/ELL
Level: 6 to 8
School: Consultant, McGraw-Hill School Education Group
Title: Using Interactive Question-Response Techniques to Help English Learners Build Meaning
Description: This session will discuss the use of Interactive Question-Response techniques in the middle school language arts classroom. Interactive Question-Response is a research-proven, interactive approach that helps coach English Learners in using language to make connections and build meaning. Participants will learn how to implement the strategies using the gradual release model and will practice application of the techniques on selected texts.
Presenters: Roy Rogers
Session: F07
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
School: Teacher, Arroyo Valley High School, San Bernardino City USD
Title: Tracing the Minority Experience through Media and Literature
Description: Minorities are often times misrepresented in the media. Sometimes they are underrepresented in the classroom. This interactive session will demonstrate how participants can increase their student engagement and participation through the incorporation of media in their lesson plans. The California State Standards will never be the same. Participants will be provided with lessons and projects to enhance student comprehension, critical thinking and analytical skills, as well as the appreciation of the language and texts of both print and non-print through the use of media.
Presenters: Jeannine Ugalde and Carrie Targhetta
Session: F08
Strand: CWP
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teacher, Oak Valley Middle School, Poway Unified, San Marcos Writing Project; Teacher, El Camino High School, Oceanside Unified, San Marcos Writing Project
Title: Creating Confident Writers Through Memoir
Description: Students are increasingly less prepared for the demands of college writing. In this session, presenters will demonstrate how to use memoir to help students not only discover their own writing voice, but also become confident writers for their future academic goals. Presenters will lead participants through a modified unit in creating memoirs that build college-ready writing skills.
Presenters: Brian Jeffrey
Session: F09
Strand: Read
Level: 6 to 12
School: Teacher, Los Osos High School, Rancho Cucamonga
Title: Improving Adolescent Literacy through Discovering Students’ Strengths and Skills
Description: Participants will learn how to discover their students’ personal strengths to help them create meaningful reading assignments they will want to do, and, in the process, increase their literacy through differentiated instruction, formative assessment strategies, and instruction infused with technology. All attendees will receive a CD-ROM with the complete session and handouts for use immediate use in their classroom.
Presenters: Betsy Potash
Session: F10
Strand: Read
Level: 7 to 12
School: Faculty, The Webb Schools
Title: Revitalize your Outside Reading Program
Description: Learn how to integrate outside reading into your teaching as a parallel curriculum. You don't have to choose between the canon and free choice books, you can have both! This session will teach you strategies for program success like hosting guest book talks, making "Faculty Recommend" posters with a simple web tool, starting individual and class reading contests, designing a book review blog, and organizing an outside reading festival.
Presenters: Marcy Merrill and Linda Westover
Session: F11
Strand: None
Level: 4 to 8
School: Professor of Literacy, California State University, Sacramento; Teacher and Resource Specialist, Sierra Oaks K-8, San Juan USD
Title: Mother Daughter Book Club: Let's Motivate Kids To Read
Description: Presenters will share implementation of a mother-daughter book group. Presenters will share qualitative and quantitative results of survey given to book club members to show program's efficacy and increased reading motivation.Presenters will share insight on how to start a similar sorts of ways to motivate children to read at home.
Presenters: Daniel Reynolds
Session: F12
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 12
School: Teacher, Mt. Diablo High School, Mt. Diablo Unified
Title: The Smurfs Are Evil (and Other Ways To Read A Text)
Description: What does a metaphorical (or Freudian, or Postmodernist, or Marxist, or Romantic) reading of the Smurfs look like? We will experiment with a multitude of ways to analyze a text, discuss the benefits of attempting these multiple analytic perspectives, and evaluate what these readings can teach us about ourselves as readers/critics/students. These ideas will be addressed through discussion, exercises and strategies that can then be used in the classroom with almost any text.
Presenters: Sherry Shahan
Session: F13
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Author, UCLA Extension
Title: Young Adult Novels in Verse
Description: This session will focus on YA novels in verse as a writing and reading application that includes poetics. The author believes verse novels get to the heart of a teenager with surgical skill, because a poem mirrors the cadence of teen speak, as well as provides a panoply of voices, real and truthful. This discussion will show how verse novels can enhance learning and personal growth, as well as stimulate an enjoyment of reading.
Presenters: Darlene Stotler
Session: F14
Strand: UPS
Level: 9 to 16
School: Instructor, California State University, Bakersfield
Title: Pallette-able Grammar
Description: I can't help students conquer writing by saying , "Use a more vivid verb here, or insert a concrete noun here," if students can't discern a verb from a noun. Enter the palette method: by using the highlighter command on a computer, students label parts of speech with corresponding colors: blue shades for nouns, pronouns, and prepositions, and red shades for verbs, adverbs, etc. Students' writing increases because they're now strategically placing specific parts-of-speech.
Presenters: Graciela Vega and Patricia Messer
Session: F15
Strand: CWP/ELL
Level: 9 to 12
School: English Learner Specialist and Teacher, Renaissance High School, Pajaro Valley USD; Teacher and Resource Specialist,Renaissance High School, Pajaro Valley USD
Title: Creating Writing Projects in an English High School Continuation Classroom: Focusing on ELL Students
Description: In this session. the presenters will discuss strategies to engage ELL high school students in a continuation high school setting. The presenters will discuss the execution of projects such as a Children's Boo;, a writing portfolio with The Edge curriculum, while simultaneously incorporating SDAIE strategies; writer's workshop; and teacher conferences. The presenters will demonstrate student work to demonstrate the writing processes utilized with ELL students and discuss teacher collaboration.
Presenters: Bill Foreman
Session: F16
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Associate Professor of English, California State University, Stanislaus
Title: Focus Group on Mandated Curriculum
Description: Many districts in California are moving to mandated curriculum and pacing schedules. This focus group will examine teacher reactions to mandated curriculum. How widespread is this movement? How much control are teachers losing over their instructional lives? How has mandated curriculum affected teachers’ enthusiasm for their work and their relationships with students? This focus group will help researchers develop better questions for a future survey. Come let your voice be heard!
Session G – Sunday 9:30 am
Presenters: Jill Hamilton-Bunch
Session: G01
Strand: UPS/ELL
Level: 7 to 12
School: Faculty, Point Loma Nazarene University
Title: Language and Literacy: Supporting English Learners in the Secondary English Classroom
Description: This interactive session focuses on approaches for supporting literacy and language for adolescent English Learners, specifically those ELs who have been in California schools for more than five years. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of current research regarding long-term EL students and the most effective methods for teaching these students in the secondary English classroom.
Presenters: Carol Jago
Session: G02
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Jago
Title: How to Publish in California English and Beyond
Description: Come meet California English editor Carol Jago and learn about submitting your writing for publication. The session will provide ideas for articles, tips about preparing manuscripts, and suggestions of ways in which you can make writing a natural part of your professional day.
Presenters: Angus Dunston
Session: G03
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 16
School: Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Title: Going Green: Seven Re-cycled Principles of Teaching Writing
Description: For those of us who teach writing it has never been more crucial to re-assert
certain basic principles. In this session we will celebrate ideas which have the
potential to transform a course in teaching writing into a course in making the
implicit explicit and revising inner speech for a purpose and an audience. We
will write and briefly experiment with ways of putting these principles into
practice.
Presenters: Kim Flachmann
Session: G04
Strand: None
Level: All
School: Writing Program Coordinator, California State University, Bakersfield
Title: Handling the Paperload
Description: Are you overwhelmed with grading and paper work? Do you want to have time to get to know your children's names again? This session will provide some realistic, manageable answers for you. It will present several methods for handling the paper load with two unique strategies that will change your paper-grading life. Join us for strategies, solutions, and good conversation.
Presenters: Bill Foreman
Session: G05
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
School: Associate Professor of English, California State University, Stanislaus
Title: Focus Group on Mandated Curriculum
Description: Many districts in California are moving to mandated curriculum and pacing schedules. This focus group will examine teacher reactions to mandated curriculum. How widespread is this movement? How much control are teachers losing over their instructional lives? How has mandated curriculum affected teachers’ enthusiasm for their work and their relationships with students? This focus group will help researchers develop better questions for a future survey. Come let your voice be heard!
Presenters: Friends of Bill W.
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