Engaging and Empowering Adolescent Readers and Writers
Two Day Workshop with Kelly Gallagher & Penny Kittle
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Last Date to Register: 7/31/2021 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 7/20/2021 12:01 AM
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Engaging and Empowering Readers and Writers
with Kelly Gallagher & Penny Kittle
August 3, 2021
Day 1: The Art of Essay Writing
Penny and Kelly will share how they invite young writers to discover the freedom and possibility of exploring the meaning of their lives through the art of essay writing. Specifically, they will discuss beliefs and practices that move students away from distant, unemotional, and faceless “school writing” and into a self-generating, determined practice of finding, collecting, and playing with ideas.
Day 1 Schedule
8:30-10:15 Session 1: Teaching the Essay as an Art Form
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2: Teaching the Essay as an Art Form (part 2)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Session 3: Teaching the Essay as an Art Form (part 3)
1:45-2:30 Session 4: Book Clubs: The Best Teacher of Reading is the Reading
2:30-2:45 Q and A
August 4, 2021
Day 2: Daily Decisions: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Creativity and Agency
Agency and creativity flourish when students are given the space to make decisions, speed bumps and all. But giving up much of the decision making to our students can be scary. In this workshop, Penny and Kelly will share how they have ceded many decisions, and how doing so was foundational to building creativity and agency in their adolescent students.
Day 2 Schedule
8:30-9:15 Session 5: Book Clubs: The Best Teacher of Reading is the Reading (part 2)
9:15-10:15 Session 6: Digital Composition: Beliefs and Practices
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 7: Digital Composition: Beliefs and Practices (part 2)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Session 8: Poetry: The Potential For Unexpected Things
2:30-2:45 Q and A
Lodging:
You can make your hotel reservations by calling Glacier Canyon Lodge, Wisconsin Dells at 1-800-867-9453.
Discounted room rates are in effect until July 4, 2021.
Double Queen rooms are $189
Rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 12.25%) in effect at the time of
check in, and a taxable $24.95 nightly Resort fee, or current prevailing fee if changed.
Reference leader #743083 to be linked with the room block of this event.
Penny Kittle teaches freshman composition at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was a teacher and literacy coach in public schools for 34 years, 21 of those spent at Kennett High School in North Conway. She is the co-author of 180 Days with Kelly Gallagher, and is the author of Book Love, and Write Beside Them, which won the James Britton award. She also co-authored two books with her mentor, Don Graves, and co-edited (with Tom Newkirk) a collection of Graves’ work, Children Want to Write. She is the president of the Book Love Foundation and was given the Exemplary Leader Award from NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership. In the summer Penny teaches graduate students at the University of New Hampshire Literacy Institutes. Throughout the year, she travels across the U.S. and Canada (and once in awhile quite a bit farther) speaking to teachers about empowering students through independence in literacy. She believes in curiosity, engagement, and deep thinking in schools for both students and their teachers. Penny stands on the shoulders of her mentors, the Dons (Murray & Graves), and the Toms (Newkirk & Romano), in her belief that intentional teaching in a reading and writing workshop brings the greatest student investment and learning in a classroom.
Learn more about Penny Kittle on her websites, pennykittle.net and booklovefoundation.org, or follow her on twitter.
Kelly Gallagher (@KellyGToGo) teaches at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California. He is the author of several books on adolescent literacy, most notably Readicide and Write Like This. Kelly is the former co-director of the South Basin Writing Project at California State University, Long Beach and the former president of the Secondary Reading Group for the International Literacy Association.
Registration Fee: $325 for CESA 5 School Improvement Services Members
$475 for Non-Members
Audience: Educators, Grades 6-12