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Session # 19
Excursion Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Excursion Time: 10:00:00 AM
Excursion Title: In and Out. Up and Down. In the Gap: Motivating Strategies that Motivate the Unmotivated
Description: The past two teaching years seem, at times, like a Dr. Suess book written just about teaching. With so much going on, it is no wonder that so many of our students, and faculty, need help to stay in the game. In this session, we will explore some proven foundations for personal, professional relationships and give some specific strategies that will help us engage (and keep engaged) those students who need us most.
Topic Band: Motivating the Unmotivated
Targeted Grade Band: All Grades
Presenter(s): Bonner Slayton
Session # 20
Excursion Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Excursion Time: 1:00:00 PM
Excursion Title: Get those Pencils Dancing!!
Description: We’ll share multiple ways to use daily quick writes with in-person and virtual classrooms. We’ll also look how to use the Writing Process to organize your daily writing lessons.
Topic Band: Best Classroom Strategies
Targeted Grade Band: Appropriate for multiple grades
Presenter(s): Tamee Daniel
Session # 21
Excursion Date: Monday, July 19, 2021
Excursion Time: 9:00:00 AM
Excursion Title: Jump Starting the School Year with Writing
Description: This session will give ideas on how to develop writing routines in the classroom as well as helping students develop ideas for writing.
Topic Band: Best Classroom Strategies
Targeted Grade Band: All Grades
Presenter(s): Sandi Hebert
Session # 22
Excursion Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Excursion Time: 1:00:00 PM
Excursion Title: Painting with Participles
Description: Improve student writing and encourage and enhance revision with this practical approach to one of Harry Noden’s “brush strokes” — participial phrases. Use manipulatives, models, and picture prompts to scaffold students through a sequence of strategies developed based on pedagogical recommendations from experts such as Don and Jenny Killgallon, Constance Weaver, and Jim Burke.
Topic Band: 6 Traits of Writing
Targeted Grade Band: 6th-8th
Session # 23
Excursion Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Excursion Time: 10:00:00 AM
Excursion Title: Helping Students Discover Their Voices through Personal Narrative
Description: Every student has a voice, but not every student has been encouraged to exercise it. This presentation focuses on teaching practices that help students grow as independent writers. Using quickwrites, student-written mentor texts, videos, the recursive writing process (including peer review), young writers learn how to share their experiences through expressive writing. Participants will take part in conversations about how to identify student interests, use mentor print and nonprint mentor texts to inspire students to share their stories, and encourage students to engage in the revision and editing processes with a goal of publishing their work. Presenters will provide a collection of mentor texts and ideas for writing minilessons.
Topic Band: Motivating the Unmotivated
Targeted Grade Band: 9th-12th