Invitational Summer Institute July 15, 2015

Agenda TimeEvent 9:00-9:15Daily Log, Author’s Chair 9:15-10:15Teacher Leadership 10:15-10:30BREAK 10:30-11:30Writing for Publication 11:30-12:00Reflection 12:00-1:00Lunch 1:00-1:30Lab 2121A ISI Evaluation 1:30-3:25Inquiry Groups 3:25-3:30Wrap–up

 ALL ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS IN!!!!  iPAD mini collection today or tomorrow

Your Comments: What You Learned  Not to be so excited about ISI that I turn off my colleagues  Many ways to use what I have learned  Places to go to learn more about technology  Books! So many books, so little time. Sigh.  The value of IS program and life after the project.  The writing we are doing in our groups is more meaningful and touching.

Your Comments: What You Learned  Use anchor standards to plan. More manageable!  3 stares and a wish!  Wow…brain overload. So many great ideas, websites, notebook strategies.  Plickers app for QR codes  Removal of indentation to save costs  Sophia.org  Resource Notebooks

Your Comments: What You Learned  Jeff Zwiers’ Constructing Conversations  “movie in your mind”  Other activities and resources I can use in my classroom  Leadership opportunities  There are many different ways to become a teacher-leader  Cognitive skills over content

Your Comments: What You Learned  College and “laminate writing wls covers” Denise! Help!?  Just because you’ve “covered” a topic doesn’t mean the students learned it.

Your Comments: What You Learned  Strategies to promote Writing Project in my circle of colleagues—especially in my field of study/profession

What Surprised You? What Questions Do You Have?  Can I audit next year?  I was surprised by the vast amount of knowledge each of us has.  Less testing. Assess in other ways.  Model yourself, making mistakes as you go. It’s a process for all of us.  “Know-cabulary:  Leadership opportunities available as a next step

What Surprised You? What Questions Do You Have?  Had not thought about colleagues being resistant to our sharing our knowledge  The brain processes differently when reading on a screen vs on paper  How I rated myself on the leadership roles and which ones I really wanted to improve on  There are only 2 full days left!

What Surprised You? What Questions Do You Have?  The number of journals in class at a time? Science, social studies, math, bullying program, writer’s workshop, resource! How to unify so there aren’t so many notebook/ journals.

What Surprised You? What Questions Do You Have?  How will Common Core address high school growing attrition especially involving students of color? A conversation to have five or ten years from now. TBD.

What Do You Want To Know More About?  Are social issues such as childhood poverty taken into consideration when implementing learning/ teaching practices within Common Core Standards? For example, not blaming poor children for not meeting Common Core Standards?

What Do You Want To Know More About?  Everything!  Trying the backchannel  Linda Reif: Read, Write, Think  How to grade this new unstructured writing

TEACHER LEADERSHIP

You, as a Leader  What have you done at your school or in your department?  What are you thinking of doing next year?

You as a Leader  What have you done at your school?  What are you thinking of doing next year?  5 Minutes Quickwrite

Conference Presentations  State Level (California Association of Teachers of English)  National Level (NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE)

Conference Presentations  State Level (California Association of Teachers of English)  National Level (NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE)

Alameda County Office of Education English Learner Conference  The ACOE English Learner Conference is an annual event aimed at the improvement of language proficiency and the academic achievement of language learners. This annual event brings to our county panels of distinguished and highly esteemed researchers and language development experts.  February

CATE 2016: Inspiring Literate Lives  Costa Mesa  Pre-convention (Writing Project) Thursday February 18  Friday-Sunday, February at Hilton Orange County

Break

WRITING FOR PUBLICATION

Professional Publications

Math

Professional Publications in English Language Arts  California English  English Journal  Voices from the Middle  Language Arts  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Call for Manuscripts  Submission Guidelines  Some Genres: –Practitioner advice –Reviews –Research Reports (RTE, The Reading Teacher)

Digging In (25 minutes)  Poke around in the sample publications you’ve been given (or go online).  Choose one that interests you the most. Get 2-3 additional copies of the same journal.  Make a quick list of the characteristics of the articles in this publication: Topics? Genres? Voice?  Prepare to share.

Reflection  Please spend the next 10 minutes writing to yourself (you may wish to frame this as a “Dear…” letter) about your experiences in the ISI. What have you learned? Have you changed as a writer? As a teacher? If so, how? What are the most important take-aways for you from this experience?  Optional sharing after 10 minutes.

Lunch (meet in LAB 2115A for ISI Evaluation)

Inquiry Groups