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Teachers and Students Together: Leading Literate Lives

Conference Schedule at a Glance

Thursday Evening Wine and Cheese 7:00 - 9:00pm

Faye Brownlie - Teachers and Students Together: Leading Literate Lives

Friday Morning Sessions: 10:00 - 12:00

A1: Oral Language: It's Critical!

Sharon Jeroski

Grades 8 - 12

A2: Fostering the Writer's Identity through Conferring and Book Making

Joan Jung

Grades 4 - 7 

A3: Real reasons to Write: Working with authentic tools, tasks, and audiences

Sara Kajder

Grades K - 12 

A4: Digitally Speaking: Engaging Intermediate and Secondary Students with Inquiry and Multi-Modal Literacies

Carly Hollander and Tracy Sullivan

Grades 9 - 12 

A5: 21st Century Storytelling: Creating a Virtual Writer's Community

Matt Rosati

Grades K - 12 

A6: Ignite a passion for poetry through reflective recitation

Liisa House

Grades 9 - 12 

A7: Practices in Mindful Awareness for a Compassionate Classroom

Deborah Roos & Peggy Bochun

Grades 5 - 9 

A8: Teaching Shakespeare online - Using differentiated instruction to meet the needs of a variety of learners

Kelli O'Malley

Grades 9 - 12 

A9: Testing our limits

Krista Vokey

Grades 9 - 12 

A10:Moving your students forward through goal setting and reflection

Camila Bhandari (Arscott)

Grades K - 7 

A11: Engaging Grade 7 - 10 students with 21st century literacy resources

Venessa McDowell

Grades 9 - 12

 
 Friday Afternoon Sessions: 1:15 - 3:15

B1:Middle Mosaic

Faye Brownlie, Susan Crichton, Leyton Schnellert and other presenters

Grades 4 - 10

B2: Nurturing Thoughtful, Reflective Writers

Lorraine Minosky, Mari-Jane Mendenwaldt

Grades 4 - 7 

B3: How can we collaborate on the internet

Celia Brownrigg?

Grades K - 12 

B4: Living Language Through Perspective in Drama Education

Natalie Mah

Grades K - 7 

B5: Transformations in the Classroom: The Power of Teacher Inquiry

June James and Tina Gordon 

Grades 5 - 12 

B6: Assistive technology to support struggling readers and writers

Myriam Dostert

Grades K - 12 

B7: Finding our voices: Ways to help students become mindful and find their voices in all that they do

Pamela Smith, Belinda Chi and Don Blazevich

Grades K - 12 

B8: Uncovering Biases: Culturally Inclusive Practitioners

Sara Raouf

Grades K - 12 

B9: Building Readers, Role Models and Relationships

Jennifer Barsky

Grades 9 - 12 

B10: Critical Approaches to Cultural Practices and Identity Formation in Literature

Sara Abdolall

Grades 9 -12 

B11: Crossing Over: Building Literacy Skills in Science

Jessica Avery, Susan Mayner and Andrea Hart

Grades 5 - 9 

B12: Re-engaging the disengaged

Jennifer Aulukh, Dave Ellison, Ravi Gill and Jonathan Rempel

Grades 9 - 12

 Saturday Institute: 8:45 - 3:00

Sat1:Multiple pathways to leading literate lives

Leyton Schnellert, Linda Watson, Nicole Widdess and Shelley Moore

Grades 4 - 12

Sat2: Students and Teachers becoming cultural literate

Sat2A: Multiculturalism: An Awkward Adolescent?

Starleigh Grass and Chelsea Prince

Grades K - 12 

Sat2B: Untold history: Understanding the impact of Indian residential school on Canada Aboriginal peoples - A teacher resource for Grade 7

Ilona Weiss

Grades 5 - 9

Sat2C: Kloshe'nem: Honoring traditional stories with new retellings, creating cultural connetedness, inspiring literate lives

Lori Sherritt-Fleming and Anastasia Hendry

Grades K - 2

 

Sat3: How new literacies can help Teachers and Students lead more literate lives

Sat3A: A few new things: Noticing, unpacking and sharing 2.0 tools and practices

Sara Kajder

Grades K - 12

Sat3B: Digital voices: Speaking and listening in virtual spaces

Matt Rosati

Grades K - 12

Sat3C: Consciousness in consumer society

Liz Shulze and Mitchell Stookey

Grades 9 - 12

Sat3D: When I grow up, I want to b a content architect

Susan Crichton

Grades K - 12

 

For more information, please refer to the conference brochure HERE.