Category: Presentations
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Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference
Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference Thanks to the many educators who joined in the conversation this past weekend as I presented “Mixing Sources, Amplifying Voices: Crafting Writing in an Information Age.” Here is the description, and the archived version of the keynote. As the inputs continue to multiply,…
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Tracing the Common Core in Michigan
My colleague Robert Rozema has asked me to speak at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English annual conference later this week about where the “common core conversation” is at in Michigan. So, I have gathered a few resources that trace CCSS implementation in our state, and across the nation, including the current debate. This…
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Reflections on CMU’s High Impact Teaching Academy
Last fall, I joined CMU’s High Impact Teaching Academy with the specific goal of rethinking the approach to teaching my methods course, ENG 315: “Writing in the Elementary and Middle Schools.” While I am unable to present my final project in person this week, I did want to share three components of my refined approach:…
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Preparing for IRA 2013
This week, I travel to San Antonio for the International Reading Association’s Annual Convention. This is my first trip to IRA, and I was fortunate enough to be invited by Julie Coiro to help facilitate the pre-conference institute entitled, “Using New Technologies to Engage Readers and Encourage Student Voices.” My portion of the institute will…
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Teacher Leadership and Digital Writing
This weekend, I began working with teacher leaders from the Columbus Area Writing Project on the hybrid course we are calling “Teacher Leadership in Teaching Digital Writing.” I’ve been fortunate enough to make many trips to Columbus in the last few years, and look forward to having this opportunity to work with these NWP colleagues…
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NWP/NCTE 2012: Mentoring Matters
As NCTE President Sandy Hayes said at the very beginning of the convention, this entire weekend would feel like Christmas: so long in the making, with the magic lasting only a moment. Still, what a moment it was, and continues to be, as the many conversations I had this weekend still resonate with me. Natalie…
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Preparing for NWP/NCTE 2012
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for English teachers! We are just weeks, days really, away from the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention and the National Writing Project Annual Meeting. As a way of gathering my wits and preparing to head to Las Vegas in a few weeks, I am…
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Workshop on Historical Thinking and Argumentative Writing
As it always does, summer continues to slip by in a blurry mix of vacation days, professional development days, and some that are a little of both. Last week, we hosted our 2012 CRWP Open Institute, and the week before I partnered with another CMU professor, Tim Hall, to lead a three-day session connected with…
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Ideas from AERA 2012 (Part 1)
Unlike many conference experiences where I am “on” for most of the time, presenting or meeting, I was able to take a slightly slower pace at AERA 2012 this weekend in Vancouver. Although the long travel days and time zone differences were a little tough to contend with, the few focused hours that I spent…
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Reflections on Co-Facilitating a Digital Writing Workshop
As a part of my day at the “Write to Learn: New World, New Literacies” conference yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to lead a keynote, do a breakout session on using mobile devices for digital composition (see this Google Doc for many links), and then do a three-hour writing workshop with fellow teacher/author Penny…