Partnerships for Literacy and Learning
Providing professional learning that improves teaching, strengthens leadership, and creates partnerships and networks
UPDATE on the February 7 START WITH JOY conference!
Mother Nature throws a monkey wrench into the best laid plans! Due to the impending snow/sleet/ice storm, we have decided to reschedule the START WITH JOY conference for March 20, 2020. We hope you will be able to make it!
For more information and to register, check out our Events page!
Date: January-June 2020 (rolling start)
Presenter: Ellen A. Thompson, Ed.D.
Location: ONLINE
Cost: $600 for individuals, $200 for individuals in partner schools.
Credit Option: 3 graduate credits from NVU are available for an additional $600
What our students read and write matters. How much they read and write matters. What they do with what they read and write matters! As their teachers, we matter!
Join us in a new way to explore and enrich your understandings of literacy instruction in a completely on-line experience. This course offers facilitated discussions, readings, videos, and opportunities to connect with colleagues around the state. This online professional learning experience can be a useful foundation for PLC meetings, school-team or cross grade discussions, and whole school literacy learning.
Modules include:
Consider signing up as a faculty, team or individual teachers. Perfect for K-8 teacher and the time frame can be customized to meet your needs.
Date: March 13, 2020
Presenter: Kathleen Brinegar, Ed.D
Location: Hampton Inn, Colchester
Time: 8:30am-3pm
Cost: $225.00 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)
Education is not a neutral enterprise. As educators we can either choose to maintain the status quo, or reconsider and reimagine education centered in equity and inclusion. To prepare us for the latter, the morning session will focus on exploring inclusive and equity focused pedagogical practices—from Cornelius Minor’s focus on decolonizing education by getting to know your students to Tricia Ebarvia’s anti-racist literacy movement #DisruptTexts—we will engage in dialogue around what it means to build equity through our literacy instruction. In the afternoon we will shift from dialogue to action. Participants will engage in personal bias work, goal-setting, and curricular and pedagogical work that center equity and inclusion in the classroom. Please bring curricular and other materials to make the most out of the day.
RESCHEDULED!!!
Date: MARCH 20, 2020
Presenter: Katie Cunningham
Location: Capitol Plaza, Montpelier
Time: 8:30am-3:00pm
Cost: $225 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)
In this day-long workshop, participants will be introduced to a seven-pillar social-emotional framework that bridges literacy learning with strategies for student happiness. First, participants will learn about research from across fields that explain why now is the time to intentionally design for the sustainable happiness of students as a fundamental part of the school experience. Next, participants will learn about the seven-pillar framework as it relates to literacy instruction. The pillars are: Connection, Choice, Challenge, Play, Story, Discovery, and Movement. In particular, the day will support teachers across the domains of reading, writing, and speaking/listening with emphasis on how to infuse joy into read-alouds, small group instruction, conferring, and mini-lessons. Participants will be supported to create plans to integrate social and emotional learning with existing literacy curriculum (including but not limited to read alouds, writing prompts, visual prompts, guided reading interactions, conversation starters, and mini-lessons).
Gather. Collaborate. Learn. Coaching for Equity in Literacy Instruction
Date: October 4, 2019, January 17, and April 7, 2020
Presenter: Gayle Moskowitz & Ellen Thompson
Location: Capitol Plaza, Montpelier
Cost: $225/day or $625 for all three days (includes lunch)
Literacy instruction matters: it is more than just a thing we teach – it is vital for our students to become competent, engaged, and thoughtful readers and writers if they are to develop into active members in our communities. That happens when teachers teach literacy with flexibility and expertise in a system that is equitable for all learners. Coaches play a vital role in increasing teachers’ knowledge and expertise. In this session, literacy coaches will discuss how their work builds equity for all learners using embedded coaching strategies, facilitated conversations, and strengthened leadership roles. As participants consider their literacy coaching role within their specific context, we will build a community that supports professional growth through:
The three days are open to any coach, leader, or mentor looking to deepen their coaching knowledge and build connections to the coaching community in Vermont. Come for one day or all three.