Our workshops help teachers empower students through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Creating Powerful Writers
One Day Workshop
The written word has always been important. But now, it may be more important than ever, with people learning and working across time, across media, and across the globe. Perhaps more than ever, students need to be confident and competent writers. This workshop will help you create a writing-rich classroom where writers inquire, collaborate, and create. Explore the three main types of academic writing (writing-to-learn, process writing, and writing on demand). Learn best practices in teaching and assessing writing, including how to use peer conferences effectively. Find ways to provide time and ownership to student writers so that they become powerful writers for life.
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Creating Passionate Readers
One Day Workshop
Competent readers do well on every academic achievement measure, but reading well has benefits far beyond academia. Lifelong readers are lifelong learners. This workshop will help you create the reading-rich classroom where students read joyfully to inquire, collaborate, conduct research, and understand human experience. Explore how to provide students more choice in reading and how to create reading tasks that mirror what readers do outside of school. Additionally, explore proven strategies that require students to dig deeper into text and to discuss it meaningfully with peers.
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Information Literacy for all Students
One Day Workshop
In this session, participants will investigate the pedagogy and curriculum behind teaching information literacy at all levels from Pre-School through High School. We will look at the major tenets of research, sourcing, critical analysis, synthesis, presentation and reflection as applied to information literacy. The session will draw upon the work of the Big 6 and the Super 3 to create a continuum of research and informational literacy learning objectives for all students
The workshop will provide instructional strategies and curricular examples for teaching information literacy at all levels, broken down by grade ranges. The conclusions drawn from the session can be applied to any curriculum or age group.
Takeaway – Baseline process of information literacy instruction by age group that can be used to develop instructional practice and curriculum for a teacher or a school.
*This workshop is led by Dr. Matt Harris, current Chair of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
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Facilitating Engaging Discussion
One Day Workshop
Being able to present one’s ideas verbally is critical to success in school and in the workplace. However, in many classrooms, students speak very little. Engaging classroom discussions can spark engagement, allow students to wrestle with content, propel them to create logical arguments, and boost divergent thinking. In this workshop, explore how to increase productive discussion in your classroom. Learn best practices both for frequent, informal student talk and for less frequent, more formal discussions like those using Socratic dialogue.
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Facilitating Robust Vocabulary
One Day Workshop
The size and strength of one’s vocabulary impacts how well one reads, writes, and speaks. This workshop provides key points from research and establishes the urgency for effective vocabulary instruction. Learn best practices for teaching both general and discipline-specific vocabulary words in addition to exploring digital tools and apps that can support vocabulary learning.
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Digital Literacy Through Blogging & Digital Portfolios
One Day Workshop
Develop a classroom blogging website where your students can host each of their individual blogs as digital portfolios of their learning. This workshop will take you through pre-blogging scaffolds and digital citizenship considerations to take with students prior to executing online postings. You will experience the steps associated with brainstorming, writing, posting, and commenting on student blogs, as well as tagging content to specific subject areas or learning outcomes. This workshop will help you to set up your blogging website and set up a digital portfolio action plan that includes pre-blogging lessons and promoting parent engagement. Student learning can be made visible as students document their learning in through blogging and digital portfolios! *available k-12+ using Edublogs and for elementary using Edublogs or Kidblog
