SEMINAR SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:00 - SIGN-IN REGISTRATION, WELCOME & REFRESHMENTS
9:00-10:30 - SESSION ONE WORKSHOPS:
SENSORY WRITING:
Writing Using the Five Senses
Kristen Schneider, JFK Elementary School
COVID robbed many students of opportunities to learn language, develop new literacies, and form relationships with teachers and peers. Together we will explore the impact of hands-on sensory experiences as a way to help children rebuild their capacities to connect with each other and to express themselves and their ideas in writing. (Grades K-6)
STUDENT WORK PROTOCOL:
A Shared Experience of Exploring Student Writing
Elissa Apar, C.V. Star Intermediate School
When teachers come together and take a learner's stance we “can do powerful things to improve [our] own teaching and, in turn, improve student learning” - Robert John Meehan. In this session, we will analyze one student’s piece of narrative writing by sharing our observations, takeaways, and discussing ways to support the writer. (K-12)
FROM PREFERENCES TO POEMS:
Using Personal Journals to Make Public Poetry
Carolyn Herman, Pawling High School
“Ask students to write meaningless texts, and writing will be meaningless for them. But let them write in ways that matter to them, and they will … [use] writing to … make sense of their lives.” - Robert Yagleski. In this workshop, we will explore how personal, ungraded journal writing can be an important stepping stone toward polished, publicly shared work. (Grade 9-College)
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