Presenter Materials
Session Strands
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Multi-Modal ELA
ERWC (Expository Reading and Writing Course)
Elementary
English Learners
InvestiCATE: This strand will feature presenters who ask their students to investigate something, and the types of lessons or projects that frame their investigations.
Emphasis on Reading
Emphasis on Writing
Oral Performance/Theatre in the Classroom
2020 Convention
LAX Marriott | Feb. 21-23, 2020
Thursday Pre-Convention with the California Writing Project
Special “Double Feature” Session:
Movie Screening and Writing Workshop by Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell is a teacher, an education activist, a Long Beach native, and the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation. Erin and her students captured their collective journey in The Freedom Writers Diary. She created the Freedom Writer Methods, a progressive teaching philosophy and curricula designed to achieve excellence from all students. In a CATEexclusive double session, Erin will be screening her new documentary Freedom Writers: Voices from the Heart and leading a corresponding writing workshop.
