UWMWP Conference on the Teaching of Writing
Saturday, November 9, 2013; 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education
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Schedule:
9:00am-9:40am - Welcome and Orientation
9:45am-11:10am - Breakout Session #1
11:15am-12:40pm - Breakout Session #2
12:40pm-1:30pm - Lunch Buffet
(Fried Chicken, Beef Stroganoff, Vegetable Pasta Saute, Soup, Salad, Cookies, Beverage)
1:30pm-2:55pm - Breakout Session #3
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Breakout Session #1 (9:45am-11:10am)
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Breakout Session #2 (11:15am-12:40pm)
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Breakout Session #3 (1:30pm-2:55pm)
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Room 7220
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“Listen, Look, Learn...Then Teach: Improving the Quality of Conferences in a Writing Workshop Classroom”
Mary Armstrong
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“Travel the Author-Paved Road: Revising Writing using Mentor Texts”
Jennifer Laffin
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“Creating and Using Effective Rubrics for Quality Standards-Based Assessment”
Dawn Schlipp
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Room 7230
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“The Mini-Lesson: Unlocking the Key to a Successful Writer’s Workshop”
Sara Skiba
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“e-Portfolios: an Introduction to Online Portfolios”
Carrie Nelson
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“Differentiating Writing Instruction in the Elementary Classroom”
Leslie Peters
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Room 7970
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“Moving Students from Definitions to Applications: A Case for Writing in the Science Classroom”
Paula Krukar
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“Want to Spark a Writing Revolution? Put Writing Circles into Action”
Kelly Saunders
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Room 7330
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“Writing from the Real World: Using Mentor Texts to Guide and Improve Student Writing”
Tracy McCubbin & Jennifer Kavatovich
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“Moving Beyond Formula Toward Better Student Writing”
Lisa Moore
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“Teaching Disciplinary Writing Conventions Through Meaningful Revision”
Michelle Streed
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Room 7350
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“To Group or Not to Group: Blended Collaboration Within the Writing Process”
Shannon Behm
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“Connected Learning: Using Texture Texts to Help Students Become Better Critical Consumers of Text and Develop Higher Level Thinking Skills”
Jody Rodewald
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“Differentiating Writing: Using Scaffolding Techniques to Reach Struggling Writers”
Jaime Silver
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Breakout Session #1 Descriptions
Listen, Look, Learn…Then Teach: Improving the Quality of Conferences in a Writing Workshop Classroom
Presenter: Mary Armstrong, Stormonth Elementary School (Fox Point-Bayside School District)
Description: Adopting a framework for one-on-one writing conferences helps teachers to meet diverse needs in their classrooms and to guide all students in their growth as writers. This interactive workshop uses examples of best practice and authentic student writing to introduce participants to a conference framework and the rich, intentional language that supports it.
Audience: K-8 Educators
The Mini-Lesson: Unlocking the Key to a Successful Writer’s Workshop
Presenter: Sara Skiba, Cedar Hills Elementary School
Description: Are you tired of just “winging it” when teaching writing? Or maybe you feel ill-equipped to effectively implement writing instruction? During this session on mini-lessons, participants will be given the opportunity to learn about the purpose, structure, and types of mini-lessons.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Moving Students from Definitions to Applications: A case for writing in Science classrooms
Presenter: Paula Krukar, Whitefish Bay High School, 2013
Description: Teaching writing is the job for the English teachers, not Science teachers. There is no time to add one more thing into the jammed-packed curriculum. Ever heard those excuses form content area colleagues or made them yourself? This workshop will disperse these two excuses and show the participants the need and the way to incorporate meaningful writing activities into the Science classroom.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Writing from the Real World: Using Mentor Texts to Guide & Improve Student Writing
Presenters: Tracy McCubbin & Jennifer Kavatovich, Bradley Tech High School
Description: In this workshop, navigate the process of using real world texts in the classroom to improve student writing. Participants explore the Mentor Text Model of “Read, Analyze, Model, and Emulate” to provide writers a scaffolded approach to the writing experience.
Audience: K-12 Educators
To Group or Not to Group: Blended Collaboration within the Writing Process
Presenter: Shannon Behm, Mitchell Middle School
Description: “Group Work”, the mention of this phrase evokes collective groans from students and educators, yet the ability to work collaboratively is a valued 21st century skill. This interactive session explores the benefits and challenges to collaboration with in the writing process and engages participants in strategies for effective collaborative writing.
Audience: 3-12 Educators
Breakout Session #2 Descriptions
Travel the Author Paved Road: Revising Writing using Mentor Texts
Presenter: Jennifer Laffin, Lake Geneva Schools
Description: Revision could quite possibly be the most important part of the writing cycle, yet it is the stage that most students avoid and many teachers have no idea how to teach. Connect reading and writing by teaching your students to use their favorite authors as writing coaches as they learn to revise their writing using mentor texts. Revising will never be boring (or dreaded) again!
Audience: K-12 Educators
e-Portfolios: Positively Powerful An Introduction to Online Portfolios
Presenter: Carrie Nelson, Brown Deer Schools
Description: This interactive session includes how to update the concept of writing portfolios using 21st Century tool. Participants learn about the expanded definition of e-Portfolios, current research that backs best practices of the Common Core, and how to implement parts of it in their classroom the next day.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Want to Spark a Writing Revolution? Put Writing Circles in Action
Presenter: Kelly Saunders, Nicolet High School
Description: Looking for a practical way to motivate your students to write more while also meeting the
Common Core State Standards? Try a writing circle. Based on the work of Jim Vopat, writing circles offer students a low-risk, collaborative forum to write, share, and respond easily and effectively in any classroom. This interactive workshop will lead you through essential strategies for getting a writing circle started.
Audience: 3-12 Educators
Moving Beyond Formula Toward Better Student Writing
Presenter: Lisa Moore, Cedarburg High School
Description: If not the five-paragraph essay, then what? In this workshop, participants will learn
how to design assignments that empower students to structure their writing in response to their specific audience and purpose. Participants will get hands-on practice in using mentor texts to teach students to think strategically, rather than formulaically, about writing.
Audience: 3-12 Educators, Curriculum Directors
Connected Learning: Using Texture Texts to Help Students Become Better Critical Consumers of Text and Develop Higher Level Thinking Skills
Presenter: Jody Rodewald , Oak Creek High School
Description: Feeling disconnected with your curriculum? This interactive session discusses texture texts - the layering of multiple types of text - as a way to offer students a richer reading experience. Participants will experience how incorporating texture texts develops higher level thinking skills and produces more meaningful writing.
Audience: 6-12 Educators
Breakout Session #3 Descriptions
Creating and Using Effective Rubrics for Quality Standards Based Assessment
Presenter: Dawn Schlipp, Rufus King High School
Description: Need help grading? This workshop offers tips and strategies to create and use effective rubrics for performance task assessments. Participants will learn about several strategies that promote student self-assessment through rubric development and use in the classroom. Teachers will critically examine sample rubrics and receive additional resource suggestions for effective rubric creation and use.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Differentiating Writing Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
Presenter: Leslie Peters, Kenosha Unified Schools
Description: How can differentiated writing content be implemented in the classroom to meet the needs of diverse learners? In this workshop, participants will learn how to differentiate writing content. Then, they will produce a written piece using a differentiated strategy.
Audience: K-5 Educators
Differentiating Writing: Using Scaffolding Techniques to Reach Struggling Writers
Presenter: Jamie Silver, Brookfield Central High School
Description: Discover ways to differentiate writing in your mixed-ability classroom. In this workshop participants will explore ways to differentiate by process for student readiness and consider a variety of scaffolding techniques for struggling writers. Participants will also participate in collaborative writing to experience differentiation strategies themselves.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Teaching Disciplinary Writing Conventions Through Meaningful Revision
Presenter: Michelle Streed, Tenor High School
Description: Writing and conventions instruction may have been the bane of participants’ existence while in compulsory schooling, but no more! Participants will engage in instructional strategies/activities to support development of how to effectively teach disciplinary writing conventions within the context of writing. Participants will leave the session with guiding principles of conventions instruction, including deciding what is taught and providing meaningful revision feedback.
Audience: K-12 Educators
