CATE 2012: Crossing Boundaries
Workshop Sessions
Feb. 10-12, 2012—Doubletree Hotel & Convention Center, Ontario |
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Workshop Sessions
NOTE: Some session numbers might be renumbered on the actual program,
but presenters/presentations will not switch session times.
Session Schedule
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: Rebecca Worley
Session: A01
Strand: Read
Level: 9 to 12
Title: Poetry Bootcamp
Description: Have you struggled with teaching poetry? This workshop will explore the nuts and bolts of teaching structure and figurative language in poetry and will discuss how toget the students interested and involved. You can use this with any level of student within the high school environment.
Presenters: Jennifer Becker
Session: A02
Strand: Tech—COMM
Level: 9 to 16
Title: MyFoundationsLab: Accelerating Remediation for College Readiness
Description: Come learn about MyFoundationsLab, Pearson’s suite of online resources for reading, writing, and math. The system offers a rich environment of pre-built or customized assessments, personalized learning plans, and highly interactive learning activities that enable students to master skills at their own pace. Students become engaged in their learning, focusing only on areas where they are weak, and experience progress and success in preparing for college-level courses.
Presenters: Heather Wolpert-Gawron
Session: A03
Strand: CWP
Level: All
Title: Project-Based Writing: Real World Applications in Student Learning
Description: If the world beyond our school is the "real world," does that make what we do within our walls the "fake" one? Project-Based Writing aligns the skills students will need for their future with those we must teach to meet the standards. Rigor, student-choice, authentic assessments, and learning hand-in-hand with our students is what makes PBW an essential component for any 21st Century school.
Session: A04
Combined Session Title: Crossing Boundaries from Interpretation to Argumentation and Academic Writing
Presenters: Gannon Daniels
Session: A04
Strand: CWP—RWAC
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Text out of Context: A Unique Approach to the Reading before the Writing
Description: Small groups interpret quotes out of context. The quotes are then re-interpreted using the text. Initially, the author’s intention is eliminated, allowing for limitless interpretation. Without boundaries, participants share prior knowledge, question/predict, and clarify meaning. Finally, they summarize. The exercise encourages healthy argument and sharing personal experience. It builds confidence and empowers participants to write with more freedom and interpret uniquely.
Presenters: Maureen Rippee
Session: A04
Strand: CWP—RWAC
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Crossing Barriers: Teaching Poetry as a Subversive Activity
Description: This interactive session will demonstrate how to infuse poetry as a parallel to nonfiction. The presenter will address how to support student comprehension of text and argumentation skills, as well as how to give students an opportunity to read and write poetry as an applied practice of Common Core standards. Participants will interact with a variety of texts and strategies, apply strategies to support standards, respond to student models, and create their own models.
Presenters: Carol Jago
Session: A05
Strand: None
Level: All
Title: Writing for Publication: Advice from California English Editor Carol Jago
Description: Interested in being published? Come talk with Carol Jago, author and editor of CATE's quarterly journal, about how to write for publication and how to find venues for seeing your work in print and online.
Session: A06
Combined Session Title: Networking for Learning across Regional and National Borders
Presenters: Ami Szerencse
Session: A06
Strand: Tech
Level: 9 to 12
Title: Class Lines: Writing Beyond Borders
Description: What do students from an urban school in California have in common with a rural school in Idaho? The desire to discuss, analyze, and synthesize texts on a social network. The presenter will share the successes and struggles of implementing a social network with students and teachers across state lines. Participants will receive handouts of activities, lessons, and suggestions for starting a social network.
Presenters: Myra LeBendig
Session: A06
Strand: Tech
Level: 9 to 12
Title: Media Literacy Studies in International Baccularate Curriculum
Description: This presentation shows how one teacher in a Small Learning Community (SLC) incorporates a student-centered curriculum while addressing the standards. Focus will be on a State Department grant partnering an LAUSD high school with a sister school in Capetown, South Africa. Materials shared will include resources about web-sites, reading materials, and global issues for interdisciplinary community service projects that address global needs and local possibilities.
Presenters: Jonas Basom
Session: A07
Strand: ELL—COMM
Level: All
Title: Basic Literacy Skills Come Alive with Drama!
Description: Discover fun, easy, and effective drama games and techniques that bring alive literacy skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, phonics, and vocabulary development. Learn how to use drama to reach the multiple intelligences, English Language content standards, and ELL students. No experience or talent needed; these are games for everyone! Don’t miss this engaging hands-on workshop led by the Bravo Award Winner for Outstanding Arts Educator of California.
Presenters: Marie Keaney
Session: A08
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Bullying in Our Schools
Description: The presenter will share current research and statistics regarding “bullying.” Participants will be given the tools to identify the subtleties of bullying within the school dynamic and will be able to inform students that tolerance is vital among their peers and, in spite of multiple differences, a common ground must be sought to produce a healthy community. Lesson plans which address such issues will be introduced also.
Presenters: Robin Lilly, Juliet Herman, and Summer Peterson
Session: A09
Strand: CWP
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Crossing the Line: Inviting Students into the Grade Book
Description: Reduce teacher grading time by using student self-assessment in a way that counts! In this session, participants will learn how the presenters share some of the responsibility for grading student work in a way that both increases student learning and student motivation.
Presenters: Kristen Bowers and Kathleen Rowley
Session: A10
Strand: CCS—COMM
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Create Your Own Literature Guides: Developing Practical Materials for Teaching Literature Using the Common Core Standards for ELA
Description: Kristen Bowers, president and founder of Secondary Solutions and former high school teacher, will share ideas that enable attendees to focus on creating and implementing Common Core Standards-based materials using popular literature taught in today's middle and high school ELA classrooms. Participants will create original standards-based work derived from a selected piece of literature and will leave with a variety of ideas for creating practical, usable materials.
Presenters: Donna Bogan
Session: A11
Strand: None
Level:7 to 12
Title: Reducing the Work Load Yet Still Teaching Writing
Description: This presenter will discuss how to reduce the workload of teachers, while at the same time helping students to succeed. The presenter will demonstrate how to assess essays that allows the teacher to focus on the content of student writing, which has become an area of neglect due to time constraints and the demand to teach students to be increasingly proficient on multiple choice tests.
Session B – Friday 2:30 pm
Presenters: Cody Bema
Session: B01
Strand: RWAC
Level: 9 to 12
Title: The Transformative Power of Epistemological Curiosity and the Parlay: Facilitating a Dynamic and Critical Classroom through Verbal and Written Discourse
Description: This session will present philosophical justifications for the inclusion of epistemological discourse in the classroom. It will also focus on strategies that will provoke in-depth discussion from your students, which, in turn, will result in a critical appreciation of their respective beliefs as well as the nature of knowledge itself. Finally, an approach will be introduced that will assist students in their transition from the discussion format to the organizing and formalizing of argumentative essays.
Presenters: Sharyn Gardner and Marcy Merrill
Session: B02
Strand: RWAC
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Improving Students’ Writing through Peer Revision
Description: Because research indicates that peer revision is a useful tool to help students improve their writing, our session reports on the implementation of this useful tool in the business classroom. We describe how students received instructions for their team project in the beginning of the semester, met for a lecture and workshop on peer revision, and worked on subsequent parts of the project using peer revision to improve their writing.
Session: B03
Combined Session Title: Using Comic Books and Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy and Literature
Presenters: Natalie Neal-Peters
Session: B03
Strand: CWP—ELL
Level: All
Title: Batman and Beyond: Building Readers and Content Area Connections with Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Description: Comic books and graphic novels can be the gateways to grade-level literature and are often overlooked resources for content area teachers. Learn about hundreds of grade-level appropriate titles through a hands-on book pass and presentation! Participants will walk away with research-based lists of student-grabbing titles and the follow-up literature to push them towards once they’re hooked.
Presenters: Robyn A. Hill
Session: B03
Strand: ELL
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Comics Resources to Encourage Reading and Enhance Curricula
Description: Comics and graphic novels are an exciting text-based medium that can inspire reluctant readers and enhance learning across content areas. Find out about free and low-cost ways to obtain comics and related resources, as well as strategies for using these materials in the classroom. Participants will receive free comics and more!
Session: B04
Combined Session Title: Avenues for Engagement in Academic Writing
Presenters: Gail R. Nettels
Session: B04
Strand: CWP—UPS
Level: 9 to 12
Title: Why People Lie: Academic Writing for Reluctant Learners
Description: Do you have students who say, "teach me if you dare?" This lesson offers an engaging, hands-on approach to teaching academic writing based on mentor texts, critical thought, and peer review. Participants will leave the session with a successful writing unit to use in their classrooms.
Presenters: Michelle Aiken
Session: B04
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Relevance and Rigor: Annotation and the Academic Summary of Current and Relevant Expository Text
Description: Using the NY Times, LA Times, and The Week Magazine to engage students in the analysis (Annotation) and the writing (Academic Summary) of relevant and engaging topics. The session will help bridge the gap between narrative and expository text with a focus on the academic skills required for success in college and career.
Presenters: Maria Rankin-Brown
Session: B05
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Tools for Demystifying and Analyzing the "Other" in Non-western Literature
Description: In this session, the presenter will provide a framework for participants from which to analyze non-western literature. Since this requires thinking about literature and the world differently from the traditional Western literary theory approaches, a different socio-cultural model will be presented that can be used to analyze and discuss non-Western literature.
Presenters: Darin Shepherd
Session: B06
Strand: UPS—COMM
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Help is here for Reading Intervention- Literacy Navigator
Description: Literacy Navigator’s approach targets students, including English language learners, who are comfortable with social language or who are adequate readers of literary text but struggle to comprehend content-area text.
Presenters: JanStallones, Jared Stallones, and Bebe Wenig
Session: B07
Strand: CCS
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Embracing Literacy Across the Content Areas - Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts Meet on the Battlefield at Gettysburg
Description: With the arrival of the adopted Common Core Standards, literacy across the curriculum will become increasingly important. But does reading and writing look the same in all content areas? What are the commonalities and differences, and how can the content areas work together to present a consistent, yet appropriate set of skills to our students? Come see how the Battle of Gettysburg can bring it all together.
Presenters: Daniel Reynolds
Session: B08
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Using Films In Your Classroom; Strategies, Examples, Lists and Lessons
Description: Sure, we show the movie versions of the novels we teach, but what else is out there? This session will focus on 25 original films and ways to include them into our curriculum, with a focus on teaching literary analysis through film, selecting the right film, using strategies, and finding the clip vs. full-length balance. These ideas will be addressed through discussion, exercises, and strategies that can then be used with almost any film.
Presenters: Carrie Targhetta and Jeannine Ugalde
Session: B09
Strand: CWP—Read
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Turning Readers into Writers: Teaching Students to Think Like Authors
Description: Students confidently play the role of reader, but often fail to see themselves as capable writers. We will guide participants to use students' pre-established reading skills to develop skills as writers. Participants will learn how to teach students to identify how writers create their craft and to begin making conscious choices as writers themselves.
Presenters: Adrienne Gayoso and Victoria Lichtendorf
Session: B10
Strand: Tech
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Looking at American Art: Prose, Poetry, Podcasts
Description: Connect American art and literature through models explored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Clarice Smith National Teacher Institutes. Discover how analyzing artwork illuminates English curricula themes and fosters vocabulary development, inference; academic and creative writing skills. Explore how creating artwork-inspired podcasts promote relationships between your students and the Museum.
Presenters: Andrianna Gervais
Session: B11
Strand: Tech
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Tech Tools in the Classroom: Reducing your Reliance on Paper
Description: Presenter will demonstrate tools teachers can use in the classroom with their students to reduce the amount of paper used. In addition, the presenter will explore some of these sites and their capabilities. Presenter will provide samples of student projects done with these sites. All sites demonstrated will be free.
Session C – Friday 4:00 pm
Presenters: Philip Bowles
Session: C01
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
Title: LGBTQ Resources for Teachers, Selected Titles in Depth, and a Discussion of Teacher Needs
Description: A selected LGBT bibliography with several categories including LGBT adolescent fiction will be presented, highlighting a few titles in each category. Participants will be asked to recommend titles and brainstorm teacher needs for future publication. Annotated bibliography distributed.
Presenters: Erika Daniels and Jennifer Hamby
Session: C02
Strand: UPS
Level: 6 to 8
Title: Inquiry in the Middle School Classroom
Description: This session describes an inquiry project that engaged 60 Intervention middle school students in authentic literacy tasks. With an essential question as the foundation, students read a core text and maintained blogs to further their understanding of the essential question. Participants will receive lesson plans that were used, see examples of the blogs, and engage in conversation about what worked, what didn't, and what can be done to engage and challenge students.
Session: C03
Combined Session Title: Helping Students Meet and Exceed Standards in Writing
Presenters: Denise Mikkonen and Nancy Pace-Skinner
Session: C03
Strand: CWP
Level: K-12
Title: Writing to the Core
Description: This session will provide an overview of the newly adopted California Common Core Standards for teachers K-12. Emphisis will be placed on the spiraling effect of the writing and convention standards. Join us to explore the practical implications for the teaching of writing.
Presenters: Anita Sunseri
Session: C03
Strand: Elem
Level: 3 to 5
Title: Strategies to Help Students Write More Effectively
Description: This session offers several writing strategies participants can use to improve students' writing. One is helping students deconstruct writing prompts for more effective writing assessment scores. Two is showing participants how they can augment the writing process for students by modeling their writing for students, monitoring students as they write, and conducting one-on-one writing conferences with students. Examples of writing prompts and writing outlines will be provided.
Presenters: Joel Albritton
Session: C04
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
Title: A Three-Strategy Model for Critical Thinking-in-Writing
Description: Explore ways to elicit student responses in discussions and papers that bring joy back to teaching. Practice using proven learning tools that enhance rigor and eliminate student perceptions of teacher as source of inert knowledge. In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to integrate depth and complexity and Toulmin argumentation into a shared inquiry foundation to improve the quality of students’ interaction and the value of all their reading and writing experiences.
Presenters: Sue Sommer
Session: C05
Strand: ELL—COMM
Level: 7 to 12
Title: The Bugaboo Review—Lighthearted Learning of Grammar and Whimsical Word Use? What a Concept!
Description: For years Sue Sommer has used a photocopied handout she created of easy-to-remember ways to correct errors (many made by her students!) in the English language. Now published, The Bugaboo Review is ready to share. The presenter will demonstrate how grammar and usage can be light-hearted, and examples can be fun. Participants will get samples to use—and take a quiz!
Presenters: Kathleen Rowlands and Marcy Merrill
Session: C06
Strand: RWAC
Level: 7 to 10
Title: The Expository Reading and Writing Course: A Curriculum for Crossing into Expository Texts
Description: In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to the new 7th-10th grade modules created for the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC). In addition to working with a new module, they will learn how they can access the materials for integration into their curricula.
Presenters: Mark Olsen, Sarah Fay Philips, and Emerson Case
Session: C07
Strand: UPS
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Collapsing the Distance: A Collaborative Intervention to Improve Transitioning Between High School and College
Description: This session introduces an intervention on a High School English class using strategies from a University First-Year Experience program. Interventions including sessions on 1) differences between High School and college, 2) college level writing expectations, 3) experiences of current college students, 4) college-level lecture, and 5) participation in a campus common reading program including a voluntary campus visit to hear/meet the author. Data from surveys and focus groups will be shared.
Presenters: Nicole Callahan
Session: C08
Strand: CWP—Coll
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Like a Patient Etherized upon the Table: On the
Importance of Teaching Complex Texts in the High School Classroom
Description: In the face of increasing pressure to exclude complex works of literature from the HS English curriculum in favor of non-fiction and technical texts, this session argues for the teaching of difficult texts such as those written by authors like Shakespeare and Milton. We will explore how the careful reading of complex literature fosters critical thinking skills that are applicable to fields ranging from poetry to diagnostic medicine.
Presenters: Scott Hobson
Session: C09
Strand: None—COMM
Level: All
Title: How to Help Your Child Be a Better Learner
Description: This workshop explores numerous ways to reach learners in different and interesting ways. Participants will learn to assist their children in developing fluency in thinking and writing and will leave with a multitude of new time-saving strategies, abundant creative ideas for activities and knowledge of specific materials for implementing these new ideas.
Presenters: Carol Booth Olson
Session: C10
Strand: CCS
Level:
Title: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Teaching Nonfiction
Description: This session will provide a practical approach to teaching students to tap prior knowledge, ask questions, make predictions, summarize, visualize, form interpretations, and activate other cognitive strategies in their reader's and writer's tool kits as they read and write about high interest nonfiction. This approach will prepare student to meet the rigorous new Common Core Standards for English Language Arts.
Presenters: Teresa Dickey and Patrick Lynch
Session: C11
Strand: Tech
Level: All
Title: Organically Grown Technology
Description: Is your school implementing a one-to-one laptop program or contemplating one? Have you taken the plunge, but need support? Patrick and Teresa will share the successful model Marymount High School employed to ensure a vibrant one-to-one laptop program. Come hear about the program that over 60 schools world wide have visited and learned from and earned Marymount Apple Inc’s Apple Distinguished School status in 2010 - 2011. You can do it, too!
Session D – Saturday 8:15 am
Presenters: Robin Potchka and Phyllis Roth
Session: D01
Strand: Read
Level: All
Title: Literature Talks
Description: This opportunity will provide information on how to strengthen vocabulary and comprehension through Literature Circles. Participants will gain instruction on how to implement and manage a successful discussion about books. Ideas will be shared that will motivate students to enthusiastically embrace reading while instilling a love for analyzing and talking about books.
Session: D02
Combined Session Title: Language and Litercy for Social Justice and Civic Engagement
Presenters: Chris Paquette
Session: D02
Strand: Tech
Level: 9 to 16
Title: How Dystopia Healed My Culture. How Technology Ripped It Apart.
Description: This session presents ideas on how to challenge students to reflect on the affects of technology on American culture by juxtaposing dystopian stories with texts from current cultural critics. Beyond stories of nightmare future worlds, students discover that dystopian stories are weapons of social justice. These visions of chaos speak to us about our dependence on technology, and, consequently, provide a springboard to talk about a number of controversial subjects.
Presenters: Janet Tran
Session: D02
Strand: Tech
Level: All
Title: Fading Boundaries: Letters to the President
Description: Discover how to engage students in their national government by exploring letters to the President both past and present. Leveraging social media tools, participants will learn to integrate civic engagement into their writing instruction. All participants will leave with classroom ready materials, strategies for encouraging the development of literacy skills, and exclusive primary source material from the National Archives.
Presenters: John Creger
Session: D03
Strand: CWP
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Designing for Depth: Seven Ways to Transform a World Literature or English Class
Description: Season this lively session to taste, voting from a menu of topics that follow from a paradigm-shifting Model of Deepened Learning. On your menu? Standards-friendly principles and practices designed to cultivate students’ wisdom through the year, weave pervasive questioning through students’ learning, make sustained purposeful reflection a core routin,; foster the development each student’s Personal Creed, and mix in a regular practice of classroom meditation. You vote for three.
Presenters: Michelle Muncy-Silva and Megan Munoz
Session: D04
Strand: ELL
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Scaffolding academic skills for the Long term English Learner’s advancement
Description: Participants will explore ways to create access to grade-level content that is challenging, rigorous, high interest, focused, and purposeful for the long-term English language learner. Handouts and activities that identify specific skills scaffolded to support instruction for the Long Term EL student will be provided. During the session, participants will apply a set of research-based best practices and discuss their useful application in creating a supported language community.
Presenters: Anna J. Roseboro
Session: D05
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Measure for Measure: Evaluation of Reading Selections by Teachers and Students Based on Nine Yardsticks of Value
Description: Students sometimes question the value of reading literature from the canon and from other cultures. Students wonder how educators choose the literature and why teachers think the literature is good, when the students do not. This interactive workshop demonstrates how to teach the vocabulary of literary analysis, how to analyze published critiques, and how to help student read more open-mindedly, write more honestly, and patiently allow skillfully written complex literature to engage, amaze, and inform them.
Session: D06
Combined Session Title: Beyond Conventional Boundaries for Effective Litteracy Instruction
Presenters: John Sterling Warner
Session: D06
Strand: Coll
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Visual, Cultural, and English Literacy Skills in Composition Classes
Description: While English instructors seek out and use "effective/best teaching practices," students often bring unacknowledged literacies into English classrooms, which, if tapped, may serve as starting points for innovative methods to deliver material. This workshop will examine best instructional practices, identify diverse learning styles, and consider possible ways to incorporate and build upon multiple effective teaching methodologies, by connecting them with student visual/cultural literacies.
Presenters: Shayna Arhanian
Session: D06
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Breaking Boundaries: 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. Prewriting and organization teamed with an engaging activity will give participants a series of sequenced and scaffolded lessons to help students develop length and depth in their writing.
Presenters: Jeremy Teitelbaum
Session: D07
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Cross the boundaries of Reading, Writing, and Speaking by Including a Critical Thinking Component in Student Presentations
Description: Public speaking is one of the most important skills students can learn. Yet the foundation of good speaking lies not only in delivery, but in the content of the message. Join this speech instructor as he shares nine different types of oral presentations that can be incorporated into reading and writing, all emphasizing that ever-important critical thinking component. Help your students to be more prepared for college level coursework.
Presenters: Brad Ruff
Session: D08
Strand: Coll
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Crossing the Boundaries from High School to College: AVID Strategies in Secondary and Postsecondary Classes
Description: Effective teaching strategies used in AVID secondary classes are now being integrated into AVID Postsecondary Programs. This session will focus on how Cornell notes, critical reading strategies, and Socratic seminars can be used effectively in high school and college classes. The presenter will guide the participants through the activities and conduct a Socratic seminar with the group at the end of the session.
Presenters: Daniel Rosenberg
Session: D09
Strand: Elem
Level: 3 to 8
Title: Language Arts Activities That Enrich and Extend
Description: Discover a variety of language arts activities that can easily be incorporated into your classroom. Activities include Candy Wrapper Writings, extension activities relating to various genres of literature, Live and Learn and Pass It On, The World’s Shortest Stories, multiple creative writing lessons, and Way Beyond. Participants will also receive a list of recommended books, games, and websites for the English classroom.
Presenters: Carol Jago
Session: D10
Strand: CCS
Level: All
Title: With Rigor for All: Meeting Common Core Standards for Reading Literature
Description: This workshop will offer a convincing rationale for teaching to all students challenging literature as described in the Common Core Standards. It will offer practical suggestions for overcoming students' fear and loathing of long books, methods for increasing students' reading vocabulary, and ways to help students navigate unfamiliar diction, complex syntax, and unusual story structures. Participants will come away with many strategies for making challenging texts come alive in K-12 classrooms.
Presenters: Erik Palmer
Session: D11
Strand: None
Level: All
Title: Common Core Speaking: Meeting the New Standard With Ease
Description: All English teachers have speaking activities, yet few specifically teach speaking skill. This session suggests increasing emphasis on speaking skills, discusses the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards, and offers participants a multiple trait framework for understanding and teaching speaking. By breaking effective oral communication into logical, teachable parts and providing specific lesson ideas and rubrics, all participants will feel comfortable and confident teaching speaking.
Session E – Saturday 9:45 am
Presenters: Lonée Lona, Deborah Lowe, Paulina Martinez, and Kelly Maloney
Session: E01
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Think it Through: Introducing LGBTQ Literature Into Your Curriculum
Description: The UCLA Writing Project Study Group on Homophobia has been working with teachers for years to develop English curricula that are inclusive of LGBTQ literature. All are invited to join us as we introduce a model for considering a variety of texts (including student-authored literature from our teen writing contest) and help you find a place for LGBTQ literature in your course of study.
Presenters: Stephanie Binckes and Catherine Webb
Session: E02
Strand: Tech
Level: 4 to 12
Title: MY Access! Online Writing Program as an Instructional Tool
Description: Does your school use MYAccess!? Are you interested in how technology can enhance and simplify writing instruction? This hands-on session will demonstrate how MYAccess! facilitates deeper level revision using a number of writing tools and strategies. Perfect for teachers currently using the program or for anybody interested in the latest in educational technology.
Presenters: Thomas Kostic
Session: E03
Strand: UPS
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Character Based Literacy
Description: This session will introduce participants to Character Based Literacy of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, which is a character education project and a literacy project. CBL is project that intends to serve students who have had marginal success in school and are at serious risk for failure and anti-social behavior.
Presenters: Carolyn Frank
Session: E04
Strand: CWP—Coll
Level: Univ
Title: Interviewing Teachers in Teacher Education
Description: This session will illustrate how student teachers might use ethnographic techniques to write up interviews with their master teacher. The communication between these two depends on the relationship, or rapport, that is built. An ethnographic interview is a good way for novice teachers to learn from experienced teachers and understand this “member knowledge.” Examples from student teachers who interviewed master teachers will be given.
Presenters: Stephanie Etcheverria
Session: E05
Strand: Elem-COMM
Level: 3 to 5
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!
Session: E06
Combined Session Title: Breaking Boundaries to Prepare Students for College Success
Presenters: William Foreman and Michael Morgan
Session: E06
Strand: CCS
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Fostering Teacher Autonomy in the Era of the Common Core
Description: The new Common Core State Standards attempt to further standardize the texts taught at every K-12 level. This session will help teachers fight back against attempts to impose curriculum and materials on their classrooms. The presenters will reveal how standardized curriculums fail to make students more college ready, and they will show participants how to use available resources to select and defend their choice of readings and other materials.
Presenters: Tina Matuchniak and Lisa Waner
Session: E06
Strand: CWP
Level: 9 to 16
Title: The Write Divide: Crossing Boundaries from High School to College
Description: The presenters, one a college composition instructor and the other a high school English teacher, will discuss the gap that exists between high school and college writing due to mismatched expectations, lack of transfer, and developmental factors. The presenters will offer participants a multitude of strategies to facilitate the successful transition of students between the two writing communities.
Presenters: Miles Myers and Jonathan Lovell
Session: E07
Strand: CWP
Level: All
Title: Does Brain Design Fit Lesson Design
Description: Have the demands for research-based instruction become just another ever-changing headache? If so, consider a different, more stable approach—the model of the hybrid mind emerging from brain research. This model has interesting suggestions for some of our most difficult challenges. Example suggestions are discussed. Digital copies of articles and a book (The Constructivist Manefesto by Quartz and Sejnowsky) will be available by email to participants after the conference.
Presenters: Jane S. Hancock
Session: E08
Strand: CWP
Level: All
Title: Billy Collins and Me
Description: In his poem "The Trouble with Poetry" Billy Collins gives us permission to "steal" ideas and words and inspiration from him, as he does from others. In this session, particpants and presenter will become a merry "band of thieves" taking thoughts from the poet and making them into their own.
Presenters: Lorra Wells
Session: E09
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Thriving as an English Teacher in a Career Pathway
Description: Tag, you're it. Whether you volunteered or have been chosen as the English teacher on a career pathway/academy team, this session will share advice to help you transition and thrive as you make the move to the dynamic world of pathway teaching.
Presenters: Bharti Kansara and Susan Dillon
Session: E10
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Building Core Curriculum Skills Through Interactive Texts – Why Labor when you can Engage, Empower and Differentiate
Description: Consider how far our passive textbooks inhibit the individual and dynamic processes of learning and burden teachers. Experience how interacting with rich texts and each other engages students to visualize, analyze, make connections, express feelings, and think critically. Bring your laptop/netbook/IPAD to experience the ease, power and fun of teaching interactively and empowering homework. Take away immediately usable interactive lessons that demonstrably build core curriculum skills at all levels (even with one laptop projected).
Presenters: Shifra Teitelbaum
Session: E11
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: What Do They Really Think?: A Candid Conversation with Students about School
Description: How often do we get student input on our practice? Students from local high schools will share what they want teachers to know about education, and will provide their experiences as students. Participants and youth will talk and listen, learn from each other’s perspectives, and find common ground to improve schools and education for everyone. Please join us for a stimulating and refreshing session. Student presenters are involved in youTHink leadership programs.
Session F – Saturday 3:45 pm
Presenters: Kathy Hall and Susan Johnson
Session: F01
Strand: Coll
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Updated Trickster Tales in the Developmental Composition Class
Description: The session will focus on the use of updated forms of traditional trickster stories by Neil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Gene Luen Yang, Allen Ginsberg, and Grant Morrison to teach critical reading, writing, and thinking skills to developmental composition students.
Session: F02
Combined Session Title: Exploiting New Media to Teach Literature and Writing
Presenters: Deborah Duffy
Session: F02
Strand: Tech
Level: 6 to 8
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, movie clips, music videos, blogs, and iTunes. Participants will receive ideas as well as samples of different clips and videos for specific literature curriculum. Also, participants will actively participate in portions of a poetry unit that uses different types of videos. Student samples will be on display. Participants will also be given lesson plans.
Presenters: Laurie Stowell
Session: F02
Strand: Tech
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Teaching writing with YouTube
Description: Today’s student writes more than any other generation. They embrace written communication with their peers, and that in turn could inspire a new appreciation for other forms of writing. How can we capitalize on their interest in writing and digital environments to teach them to improve their writing? This session will share Youtube videos for grades 4-12 that model and teach writing.
Presenters: Gai Jones
Session: F03
Strand: None
Level: All
Title: Employing Expressive, Enticing Ensemble Theatre Experience into the English Classroom
Description: This participatory session involves all delegates in theatre techniquest to use in any classroom. Participants get in touch with their playfulness and life skills involving Saying Yes to Creativity. The presenter is the author of Raising the Curtain and Break a Leg: Tips and Truisms for the Theatre Teacher.
Presenters: Tim Dewar et al.
Session: F04
Strand: CWP—RWAC
Level: All
Title: New Teachers, New Standards: Writing to Learn and Informational Writing
Description: The recently adopted Common Core Standards place a new emphasis on writing informative/explanatory texts. This session will share the work of a group of preservice teachers who have developed lesson sequences to support writing to learn and writing to communicate across disciplines. Participants will experience supports for both the reading and writing of informational texts.
Presenters: Kathleen Hicks
Session: F05
Strand: CWP—ELL
Level: 9 to 16
Title: AP English Language for English Learners
Description: I have an open door policy for my Advanced Placement Language and Composition class; this is an unlikely practice at a school specifically designated for English Language Learners! I strive for a rigorous understanding of a variety of expository texts and meaningful writing experiences to help ELL students get into and through college. The presenter will discuss scaffolding and pacing and will also compare writing of intermediate-advanced English learners at the beginning and end of the year.
Presenters: Rene MacVay
Session: F06
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Using Holocaust Prose and Poetry to Teach Students to Find Their Voice
Description: In this session, participants will explore diaries, memoirs, and poetry written by witnesses of the Holocaust. Through an exploration of the context of the text, participants will analyze the diction used by the witnesses to recount their experience. Through an exploration of memory, participants will develop methods for assisting students in finding their voice to tell their story.
Session: F07
Combined Session Title: New Strategies to Promote Engaged and Critical Reading
Presenters: Erin Bach and Danielle El-Murr
Session: F07
Strand: CWP—RWAC
Level: 9 to 12
Title: CATCH Me If You Can: Effective Tools for Engaging with and Responding to Texts
Description: In this session, participants will discover how to combat passive reading by enhancing students' literacy toolbox. The CATCH method of annotating and the academic précis will both be introduced and demonstrated in order to provide participants with effective tools to boost students' reading comprehension and academic writing skills.
Presenters: Sandra Halajian
Session: F07
Strand: RWAC
Level: 7 to 12
Title: Teach Middle and High School Students to Become Critical Readers through Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) Reading Strategy
Description: Help struggling secondary level students to monitor their own reading comprehension and to analyze challenging texts by training them to ask four levels of questions through QAR. Students will learn to ask literal and critical thinking questions and will implement effective reading strategies—visualizing, predicting, connecting, rereading, inferring, synthesizing, and summarizing—to search for answers and to become independent learners.
Presenters: Molly Matheny
Session: F08
Strand: Read
Level: 7 to 12
Title: One Size Does Not Fit All: Using Book CLubs to Increase Engagement
Description: From clothes to cars, teenagers want what they want. It's the same with books. The more they enjoy what they read, the more they get out of it. Get a brief overview of how to implement Book Clubs as a way for student to learn from novels that "fit."
Presenters: Christine Parker
Session: F09
Strand: None
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Fun with False Cues in Shakespeare's Plays
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: Robert Pacilio
Session: F10
Strand: None
Level: All
Title: Springsteen, Adele, Buble, and Me: Teaching Theme and Symbolism in The Metaphor Cafe
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: Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Session: F11
Strand: CWP
Level: K-12
Title: Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching
Description: As defined, culturally responsive teaching utilizes the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them, while teaching through the strengths of students and to them (Gay, 2000). Presentation participants will discuss and indulge in culturally responsive teaching practices that focus on the whole child. This presentation is meant to be interactive and participatory and the materials made can be used as teacher models for their own classroom settings.
Session G – Sunday 9:30 am
Presenters: Brian Jeffrey et al.
Session: G01
Strand: LGBTQ
Level: All
Title: STAND UP Presents “Experiences”: How to Confront Racism, Prejudice, Homophobia, and Bullying.
Description: STAND UP “Experiences” is an award-winning play performed by a diverse cast of high school students that confronts the dangers of racism, prejudice, homophobia, and bullying. Following STAND UP’s live performance, teachers will learn how to use internet-based videos of their play that features satire and poetry as prejudice reduction lessons in their classrooms. STAND UP and its advisor Brian Jeffrey have received human rights awards for their performances from the USA Network, National Education Association, and California Teachers Association. All attendees will receive a CD-ROM with the complete session and handouts for immediate use in their classrooms, as well as how to schedule an appearance by STAND UP at their schools.
Presenters: Vickie Spanos
Session: G02
Strand: None
Level: All
Title: How to Get Yourself a Real Fine Job In 2012
Description: It's time! You've finished your student teaching and want a paying job, so let's talk about the practical skills needed in getting a teaching job in today's market. Come hear a top-notch recruiter and interviewer for the largest high school district in California tell you how to land a great job. The session will include first-hand information – dos and don'ts you can apply right away – and a "round table" discussion to allow you to ask questions and talk about your concerns.
Presenters: Kelley Hazen
Session: G03
Strand: None
Level: K-6
Title: Freeing the Voice Within: Empowering the Writers and Speakers of Tomorrow, Today
Description: Utilizing character-building programs to develop and expand EQ in elementary school children, teachers can help students open doors that will create a better foundation for language and writing skills in later years. Using as example The Manadoob Program for Self-Esteem (currently used at Westridge School in Pasadena), the presenter will spotlight the need, approach, and attributes of a system that can instill the inner trust that releases the authentic voice of tomorrow’s writers and speakers, inspiring both students and teachers.
Presenters: Chella Courington
Session: G04
Strand: CWP-Coll
Level: All
Title: Writing about Teaching in a Semi-Autobiographic Genre
Description: This session will focus on how we can write about our teaching, as Wendy Bishop advised, in such a way that the joys and disappointments become a metaphor for the teaching life. Presenting pieces from my own work, I will engage participants in writing exercises that allow them to tap the creative energy that shapes our work in the classroom and hopefully will lead to their own teaching narrative.
Presenters: Lori Cohen
Session: G05
Strand: RWAC
Level: 9 to 16
Title: Students Teaching Students: A Workshop Approach to Response to Literature
Description: NWP founder Jim Gray's mantra "teachers teaching teachers" empowers educators to be at the center of professional development—strengthening learning communities inside and outside the classroom. This workshop focuses on educators empowering students to cross the boundary from student to teacher through learning the fundamentals of the “workshop method” (lesson design, pedagogy, and assessment)—putting students at center of the classroom community through teaching Response to Literature.
Presenters: Julia Mason and Jane Raphael
Session: G06
Strand: CWP—Elem
Level: K-6
Title: The Noticing Journey: Using Our Senses to Engage in the Writing Process with Elementary Students
Description: Presenters model a simple, versatile protocol that uses movement, speaking, and listening to support students in writing with detail. Presenters guide participants in a silent "noticing journey" around the conference campus, using our physical senses to collect observations. We then circle up to pass a talking piece as we share details from our walk. Our collective harvest becomes the material for each teacher's individual written story of the walk, which teachers may read in author's chair.
Presenters: Gary Meegan
Session: G07
Strand: RWAC
Level: 7 to 12
Title: The Elements of Thought: Critical Thinking in Reading and Writing
Description: Research has shown the power of the Paul/Elder model of critical thinking in the classroom. This session will focus on using the Elements of Thought to help students analyze how they, and others, reason. We will walk through the Elements and practice strategies for using them in reading and writing. Participants will be provided with classroom materials that can be used immediately in the classroom.
Presenters: Angus Dunstan
Session: G08
Strand: None
Level: 7 to 16
Title: Rethinking Revision
Description: Every model of the writing process emphasizes the importance of revision, but for most students it’s more a matter of correction than of reconsideration, alteration, change, amendment, modification, or adjustment. In this session we’ll look at what we might do to make revision worth our students’ time.
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