Creating Strategic,Curious, and Collaborative Readers, Writers, and Critical Thinkers

UCI Writing Project presents...

2017 Annual Literacy Conference for Teachers, Grades K-12

Creating Strategic,Curious, and Collaborative Readers, Writers, and Critical Thinkers

UCI Writing Project presents...

2017 Annual Literacy Conference for Teachers, Grades K-12

Keynote Speakers:

Stephanie HarveyHarvey “Smokey” Daniels

Thursday, December 7, 20178:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.

In writing instruction, packaged programs o�en shortchange kids’ opportunities to become e�ective writers. Still enshrined in most states, the Common Core Standards also place an overemphasis on students’ creating occasional, long pieces, either in on-demand situations or as the culmination of a unit of study. �ere’s no mention or understanding of writing-to-learn - frequent, short, exploratory writings used throughout the school day to develop �uency, build con�dence, enhance audience awareness, stimulate kid-kid discussions, and advance thinking. Kids need far more writing practice than they are currently getting. Smokey will discuss how to create better situations for them to practice and provide strategies to help them re�ect, share, savor, and revise.

Stephanie Harvey has spent her career teaching and learning about reading and writing as a public school teacher, a sta� developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), and as a private literacy consultant. Insatiably curious about student thinking, she conducts keynote speeches, presentations, and workshops on K-12 literacy with a focus on comprehension instruction, inquiry-based learning, content area reading and writing, non�ction literacy, and the role of passion, wonder and engagement in teaching and learning.

She is the co-author, with Anne Goudvis of the groundbreaking book Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding, Engagement, and Building Knowledge and author of Non�ction Matters (Stenhouse). Her Heinemann publications include Comprehen-sion and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action, co-authored with Smokey Daniels, and �e Comprehension Toolkit series with Anne Goudvis. Her most recent book, From Striving to �riving (Scholastic) co-written with Annie Ward shares how to turn striving readers into thriving readers.

Harvey “Smokey” Daniels has been a classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education.

He works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, o�ering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds.

Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles and numerous other bestselling books for Heinemann, including �e Curious Classroom: 10 Structures for Teaching with Student Directed Inquiry, Subjects Matter, and Content-Area Writing. He also co-authored Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action with Stephanie Harvey.

�e research is overwhelming and clear: nothing correlates more strongly with reading achievement than reading volume. �e minutes of high-success reading completed each day are the best predictor of reading growth, even above socio-economic factors. Yet the amount of times kids actually read in school continues to decline. Whenever children fall below a benchmark, we tend to throw a program at them. But programs don’t teach kids, teachers do. �e truth is we need an intervention on interventions. �e best intervention is a good book, one that kids can and want to read. So let’s let them read! Stephanie will explore how to help readers thrive by introducing them to compelling texts, providing plenty of time for reading, and explicitly teaching reading strategies.

Part 1: The Best Reading Intervention is a Good Book

Part 2: The Best Writing Intervention is Writing Practice

Morning Keynote Address 8:45 - 10:00 a.m.

Morning Workshops (choose one) 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.Re�ection in the Writer’s Workshop: Writers Self-Evaluate by Looking Back, Looking Forward, Looking Inward, and Looking Outward, Grades K-5Brian Kissel, Associate Professor, Department of Reading and Elementary Education, University of North Carolina, Char-lotte; author, When Writers Drive the Workshop (Stenhouse), co-author, What’s New in Literacy Teaching (Teachers College Press), and �e Literacy Coaches Companion (Corwin).

Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Languages, Grades K-5Je� Anderson, author, Mechanically Inclined, Everyday Editing, Patterns of Power; co-author (with Debbie Dean) Revision Decisions (Stenhouse); author, Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth (Sterling Children’s Books).

Battling the Beast: Revising Revision Attitudes to Help Writers See Revision as Opportunity, Not Punishment, Grades 5-12Debbie Dean, Professor of English, Brigham Young University; author, Strategic Writing, Genre �eory, and What Works in Writing Instruction (NCTE); co-author (with Je� Anderson) Revision Decisions (Stenhouse).

Creating a Culture of Literacy: How to Engage and Motivate Readers and Writers: Sample Assignments, Projects and Approaches to Teaching Traditional ELA Tasks in Innovative Ways, Grades 6-12Barry Gilmore, Head of Upper School, Hutchinson School, Memphis; author, Speaking Volumes: How to Get Students Discuss-ing Books, and Much More (Heinemann); co-author (with Jim Burke), Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness (Corwin); and co-author (with ReLeah Lent), Common Core CPR: What about Adolescents Who Struggle...or Just Don’t Care?; ReLeah Cossett Lent, Literacy Consultant; author, �is is Disciplinary Literacy (Corwin), Overcoming Textbook Fatigue (ASCD); co-author (with Barry Gilmore) Common Core CPR (Corwin).

Negotiating Voices in Academic Arguments: Summary, Synthesis, and Citation, Grades 7-12Jennifer Fletcher, Professor of English, Cal State University, Monterey Bay; author, Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Compre-hension, Critique and Response (Stenhouse), and Fostering Habits of Mind of Today’s Students: A New Approach to Develop-mental Education (Stylus); Member, Steering Committee, ERWC (Cal State Expository Reading and Writing Course).

ScheduleThursday, December 7, 2017

Registration/Co�ee & Pastries ......................................................................... 8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Morning Keynote Address .............................................................................. 8:45 - 10:00 a.m.

Break ............................................................................................................ 10:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Morning Workshop ....................................................................................... 10:15 - 11:45 a.m.

Lunch ........................................................................................................... 11:45 - 12:45 p.m.

A�ernoon Keynote Address ............................................................................ 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.

Break/Refreshments ......................................................................................... 2:00 - 2:15 p.m.

A�ernoon Workshop ........................................................................................ 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

When:�ursday, December 7, 2017

Where:UCI Student Center311 W. Peltason Dr.Irvine, CA 92697

Registration Information

Pricing:

December Conference: $260

Research-Based Strategies Workshop SeriesJanuary 23, 2018 Douglas Fisher Visible Learning for Literacy across Disciplines

March 16, 2018 Carol Ann Tomlinson Thinking about Differentiation: A Status Check and a Look Ahead

Registration Forms:

Visit our website at writingproject.uci.edu for online registration (credit card) and registration forms (for P.O. and check). Scan and e-mail completed registration form with Purchase Order # to uciwritingproject@uci.edu. Or, mail registration form with check (payable to: UC Regents) to: UCI Writing Project 401 East Peltason, Suite 3100, Irvine, CA 92697-5510.

All registrants will receive a con�rmation e-mail within 2 business days of receipt. For more information, please call �e UCI Writing Project at (949) 824-7864 or e-mail us at uciwritingproject@uci.edu.

�is workshop series was designed with input from school district administrators in the Greater Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties. Its goal is to showcase the work of outstanding scholars whose publications help teachers trans-late research into classroom practice and improve outcomes for all students, grades K-12. Each workshop o�ers administrators and teachers in all content areas cutting-edge practices that are informed by educational research.

For more information, please visit our website at http://writingproject.uci.edu.

Special Pricing for December Conference Attendees ONLY:All those who register for the December Conference will receive a $25 discount on the Douglas Fisher and Carol Ann Tomlinson workshops.

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December Conference Fee: $260 December Conference registration comes with parking, continental breakfast, a box lunch, and attendance to keynotes and workshops.

Research-Based Strategies Workshop Combo: All who register for the December Conference will receive a $25 discount on the Douglas Fisher and Carol Ann Tomlinson workshops.

All Research-Based Strategies workshops include parking, continental breakfast, a box lunch, and a copy of a book by the featured speaker.

OPTIONAL: Research-Based Strategies Workshop Selection (Check all that apply): Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - Douglas Fisher - Visible Learning for Literacy across the Disciplines

Friday, March 16, 2018 - Carol Ann Tomlinson - �inking about Di�erentiation: A Status Check and a Look Ahead

Payment (Check total price): Optional Research-Based Strategies Workshop Series :

December Conference only: $260 +1 workshop: $445 ($25 discount) +2 workshops: $630 ($50 discount)

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December Conference Morning Workshop (choose one) 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Brian Kissel: Re�ection in the Writer’s Workshop: Writers Self-Evaluate by Looking Back, Looking Forward, Looking Inward and Looking outward, Grades K-5 Je� Anderson: Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Languages, Grades K-5 Debbie Dean: Battling the Beast: Revising Revision Attitudes to Help Writers See Revision as Opportunity, Not Punishment, Grades 5-12 Barry Gilmore & Creating a Culture of Literacy: How to Engage and Motivate Readers and Writers: Sample, ReLeah Cossett Lent: Assignments, Projects and Approaches to Teaching Traditional ELA Tasks in Innovative Ways, Grades 6-12 Jennifer Fletcher: Negotiating Voices in Academic Arguments: Summary, Synthesis, and Citation, Grades 7-12

December Conference Afternoon Workshop (choose one) 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Brian Kissel: �e Author’s Chair: Giving Agency and Authority Back to the Author in Writer’s Workshop, Grades K-5 Je� Anderson & �under and Lightning: Writing Strategies that Reverberate (Mentor Texts, Writer’s Notebooks, Debbie Dean: Revision Decisions, and more), Grades 4-12 ReLeah Cossett Lent: Deep Learning �rough Disciplinary Literacy: Disciplinary Tools that Deepen Students’ Reading, Writing, �inking, and Doing, Grades 5-12 Barry Gilmore: Digging In: Methods to Produce Better Reading/Analysis of Texts and Energize Students’ Text-Based Academic Writing about Texts, Grades 6-12 Jennifer Fletcher: Teaching Students to Reason from Evidence, Grades 7-12: