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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A11: Engaging Grade 7 - 10 students with 21st century literacy resources Venessa McDowell Grades 9 - 12 |
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| Friday Afternoon Sessions: 1:15 - 3:15 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Sat1:Multiple pathways to leading literate lives Leyton Schnellert, Linda Watson, Nicole Widdess and Shelley Moore Grades 4 - 12 |
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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
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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
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For more information, please refer to the conference brochure HERE.