Spring Promising Practices Conference
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Marina Village Conference Center
8 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 am Opening General Session, Robin Turner
9:55 - 11:05 am Concurrent Breakout Sessions, Round 1 (choose one of 3)
11:05 – 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions, Round 2 (choose one of 3)
12:30 - 1:15 pm Lunch and Break (book browsing, autographing, sign-up for University credit for those who also attended the fall oonference, raffle
1:15 – 1:45 pm Celebration of William Shakespeare, Mary Carrig, Inside Shakespeare!
1:45 – 3:00 pm Closing General Session, Leroy Quintana
SPEAKERS/SESSIONS:
Robin Turner: Magnolia High School, Anaheim, CA, Author of Teaching Academic Literacy to Underrepresented Students (Stenhouse, 2008)
Opening Session: Academic Literacy & the Myspace Generation
An interactive discussion examining the role that educating underrepresented students plays in our nation’s success, participants will consider the real effects of NCLB and the damage it has wrought on students of color. Participants will also consider what we can learn from adolescent culture to aid us in reaching populations that currently are being underserved by our United States school system.
Robin Turner Workshop (offered twice): Academic Literacy through Familia
Participants will explore ways of introducing academic writing that draw upon students’ social and familial capital. This unit revolves around teaching expository writing using information from the students’ own lives. Lesson plans, materials will be provided so that teachers can go back and begin teaching this unit immediately, if so desired.
(Language Arts Instructors, grades 7-12)
Leroy Quintana: Professor of English at San Diego Mesa College, author of six books of poetry, including The Great Whirl of Exile (Curbstone Press), and La Promesa (University of Oklahoma)
Closing Session: Making Magic Out Of The Ordinary And Transforming It Into Poetry
The purpose of this workshop is to teach young students to begin to see that the “ordinary” people, actions, etc., need to be acknowledged, honored and respected as inspiration- and allow for deeper introspection- therefore growth, knowledge, and appreciation of the world.
Leroy Quintana Workshop: (offered twice): Poems From Plums, Shoes, Cherries, Electricity, Mermaids and Many Things in the Universe, Including the Universe
Participants will experience an introduction to poetry using examples from William Carlos Willliams and others. The group will experience how ambiguity can work as much as clarity, consider creativity (using examples like Gates and Einstein), learn to see things in new ways (using examples like Van Gogh’s painting “Shoes"), and write some original poetry.
Patty Blome: San Ysidro High School
Workshop (offered once): Using The Arts To Engage Under-Motivated Or Struggling Readers And Writers To Work Hard And Get It! Providing a meaningful “hook” to engage adolescents in reading and writing is sometimes the most challenging task for teachers. This interactive presentation will discuss/demonstrate strategies on how to use photographs, film clips, and music to begin, enhance, and end a literary unit of study. In addition, creative ways to check for understanding using the arts will be discussed.
(middle school / high school teachers) laptop
Tom Waldron: Valhalla High School, El Cajon
Workshop Title (offered once): Still Crazy After All These Years
The presenter, one of the five San Diego County Teachers of the Year, is a 32-year-veteran English teacher at Valhalla High School. He will share successful classroom practices he has evolved over time to create “shared” classroom experiences, enabling a sense of the class as a learning community. He will share several examples, including “poetry days,” the use of music, and the creation of classroom traditions that not only enrich the experience of the students but also the experience of the teacher. His goal will be to create a dialogue with the participants about our common best practices in making our classrooms lively and nurturing environments.
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Mary Carrig: Inside Shakespeare!
The presenter will give a short demonstration of Inside Shakespeare, her one-woman, live interaction show for Middle and High school students. Sharing secrets from her professional acting training, Mary helps to demystify Shakespeare's text and make personal connections to the language and Shakespeare's messages.
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