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Pro-D Conference Presentations


The Literacy Initiative: Reading, Writing, Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms and Schools

with FAYE BROWNLIE

A BCSSA-BCPVPA LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
FOR SCHOOLS & DISTRICTS

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The Literacy Initiative: Reading, Writing and Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms and Schools (Faye Brownlie, Leadership for Learning Academy, Fall 2007)

The Literacy Initiative: Reading, Writing and Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms and Schools (Faye Brownlie, Leadership for Learning Academy, Winter 2008)

Y6 Mentors – Master presenter list, with brief bio and description of presentation


PRESENTATIONS:

Kim Boettcher
TOPIC: Applying Elements of Formative Assessment to Literacy Lessons

A Strategic Literacy Lesson Plan: Enabling All Learners to Access Text in a Meaningful Way

Gerry Brennan
TOPIC: Collaborative Planning

Burial Site Lesson Plan and Assessment

Holly Colquhoun
TOPIC: Book Talk – A Book for Every Student

Blogging: An Innovative Way to Improve Literacy

Bev Craig
TOPIC: Engaging Students in Their Learning

Student as Learner

Ingrid Fawcett
TOPIC: Increasing Implementation: The Friendly Classroom Model

Supporting New Teachers in Literacy for Learning in the Middle and Secondary School Content Areas

Grant Frend
TOPIC: Connecting with At-Risk Youth

Aligning the Circle: Strategies for Successful Literature Circles in the Secondary School Classroom

Karen Greaux
TOPIC: Communicating Mathematically

Communicating Mathematically

Lisa Kean
TOPIC: 6 Traits of Writing

Reading Fusion from Assessment to Reading

Linda Klein
TOPIC: Supporting/Enhancing Reading Comprehension in Science and Social Studies

Enlarging My Circle

Julie Krall
TOPIC: Using Metaphor and Comparison to Make Connections to Text

Teaching and Assessing Inferencing as Part of Literature Circles

Jane Kruks
TOPIC: My Students Simply Cannot Make Inferences!!!

Can the Inquiry Approach Engage Readers and Writers?
My Students Simply Cannot Make Inferences!

Carol-Ann Leidloff
TOPIC: My Toboggan/Sunflakes: A Reading/Oral Language/Writing Sequence with Integrated Assessment

Michelle Miller-Gauthier
TOPIC: Dream or Reality? Working with a small group while other students work quietly and thoughtfully

15 Elements of Instructional Leadership (article by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey attached)

Barb McLaughlin
TOPIC: Poetry Circles

Gradual Release of Responsibility and Reading Responses

Marni McMahan
TOPIC: Knitting it all Together: How to teach strategies for organizing and holding thinking throughout the day

What Do I Do Next?

Wanda Mitchell
TOPIC: Contrast What You Think With the Author’s Perspective

Asking Questions and Determining Important Ideas in a Non-Fiction Text Linking Literature to the Curriculum

Natalie Morissette
TOPIC: Co-creating Your Criteria Using Students’ Voice and Their Work Samples

Two Models for Collaborating with Parents

Louise Neuls
TOPIC: Running Records – Assessment FOR Learning

Differentiating Instruction for Literacy Centers

Wendy Newport
TOPIC: Enhancing Ethical and Responsible Behavior with Picture Books

Successful Stories: Supporting All Readers and Writers in the Primary Classroom through the Use of Story

Lori Robinson
TOPIC: Graphic Organizers Are Not Worksheets!

Oral Language / File Folder Activity
Graphic Organizers Are Not Worksheets!
What's the Big Idea (worksheet)
Asking Questions Thinkmark
Character Sheet and Traits List
What's the Main Idea?
Experiment Proposal Form – Science Fair
Content Brainstorming (worksheet)

Rob Sidley
TOPIC: Tailoring Math Teaching

Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of All Learners in the Mathematics Classroom

Kelsey Swanson
TOPIC: Engage with Text!

Voices in the Park
Voices in the Park Rubric

Laura Tait
TOPIC: Teaching and Learning with Aboriginal content

QAR – Question-Answer Relationships
RAFT – Role/Audience/Format/Topic
Content Brainstorming
4 Squares Template
DART chart
Sticky Notes

Terry Taylor
FALL 2007 TOPIC: Online Literature Circles

Online Literature Circles

WINTER 2008 TOPIC: We are Canadian!!!

To come

Mike Ward
TOPIC: The LEARNING CYCLE: How to weave Universal Design and Gradual Release into lesson planning

What is Working

Erika Warkentin
FALL 2007 TOPIC: The New LA IRP: A Focus on Oral Language and Assessment

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – Kindergarten Oral Language, Reading, Writing and Social Responsibility Sequence
English Language K–7 IRP Prescribed Learning Outcomes 2007

WINTER 2008 TOPIC: The Power of Talk and Role-Play to Extend Thinking, Deepen Understandings and Differentiate Instruction Across the Curriculum

To come

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Why Do Ants Dig? Three Primary Teachers Journey With the Power of Questioning in Primary Research (Colleen Reimer, Louesa Newman, Lisa Schwartz, BCPTA Newsletter, summer/fall 2007)
How to Talk So Teachers Listen (Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman, ASCD Educational Leadership, Sep 2007)





Fall Conference 2007


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JOHN ABBOTT

Overschooled But Undereducated: Getting the Balance Right
Lieutenant Peter Puget, the grain of the brain and modern society's failure to understand adolescents
Subsidiarity
Why Education Isn't Working: A Guide for the Perplexed
21st Century Learning Initiative in British Columbia

ANDY HARGREAVES

The Long and Short of Leadership and Change
Data-Driven to Distraction

CALVIN HELIN

Community and Education (Speaking Notes)

HON. LINDA REID, Minister of State for Child Care

Child Care Partnerships: Creating Child Care Spaces


SIR KEN ROBINSON

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Slides)





Spring Forum 2007

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