Dublin Literacy
Conference
2017
“Read. Think. Wonder.”
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Dublin Coffman High School
6780 Coffman Rd.
Dublin, OH 43017
Presented by
Dublin City Schools
Dublin, Ohio
Conference Schedule
Saturday, February 25, 2017
7:30 Registration and Breakfast
7:30- 4:00 Vendor Hall open
8:30-10:00 General Session 1
Opening: Dublin Chapman ES Students Perform
Keynote: Cris Tovani
“What's Compelling? Re-Igniting Readers’ Sense of
Wonder”
10:30-11:15 Session A
11:30-12:15 Session B
12:15-1:30 Lunch
Autographing Session*
Student Tech Tables
Student Tech Tables
Stop outside the vendor hall to have
conversations with students about
the digital tools they are using to
create, communicate, and
collaborate!
1:30-2:30 General Session 2
Keynote: Kwame Alexander
“The Writerly Life”
2:45-3:45 Session C
4:00-4:30 Autographing Session*
* Forgot to bring your books for the autographing sessions? Don’t worry! Vendors will be selling
books by our DLC’s featured authors as well as a variety of other educational books and materials.
Vendors will be located in the gymnasium and open for business throughout the conference.
2017 Featured Authors
Kwame
Alexander
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator,
and New York Times Bestselling author
of 21 books, including The Crossover,
which received the 2015 John Newbery
Medal for the Most Distinguished
Contribution to American Literature for
Children. Kwame believes that poetry
can change the world and he uses it to inspire and empower young
people through his Page to Stage Writing and Publishing Program
released by Scholastic. Recently, he served as the The Bank Street
College of Education Center for Children's Literature's Inaugural
Dorothy Carter Writer-in-Residence. A regular speaker at schools
and conferences, he travels the world planting seeds of literary love
(Singapore, Brazil, Italy, France, Shanghai, etc.). Each year,
Alexander leads a delegation of writers, educators, and activists to
Ghana, as part of LEAP for Ghana, an International literacy program
he co-founded that builds libraries and provides literacy professional
development for teachers.
Books by Kwame Alexander include:
• Solo
• Acoustic Rooster
• Out of Wonder
• Surf’s Up
• The Crossover
• The Playbook: 52 Rules
to Aim, Shoot and Score
• Booked
in This Game Called Life
• She Said, He Said
• Indigo Blume and the • Animal Arc: Celebrating
Garden City
Our Wild World in Poetry
and Pictures
• And Then You Know
For more information about Kwame Alexander, visit
http://kwamealexander.com/
Cynthia
Lord
Cynthia Lord is a former elementary and
middle-school teacher and the NewberyHonor winning children's book author of
Rules, Touch Blue, Half a Chance and A
Handful of Stars. She is also the author of
the Hot Rod Hamster and the Shelter Pet
Squad series. She lives in Brunswick,
Maine with her family and pets. A former
teacher and bookseller, Cynthia still enjoys lying on a pier and
reading a good book. And she hears plenty of seagulls at her home
near the ocean in Maine.
Books by Cynthia Lord include:
• Rules
• Hot Rod Hamster
series
• Touch Blue
• Half a Chance
• Shelter Pet Squad
series
• A Handful of Stars
For more information about Cynthia Lord, visit
http://www.cynthialord.com/
Cris
Tovani
Cris Tovani is a internationally known
consultant focusing on issues of
reading, content comprehension and
assessment in secondary
classrooms. She has been an adjunct
professor and is the author of four
books. Her entire career has been
spent trying to figure out the “knowing-doing” gap by working to
help teachers put reading and writing research into practice in the
classroom. She works with all levels of learners and loves sharing
her success and failures with colleagues around the world so they
too, can better serve students. Recently, Tovani worked with
secondary English language learners from a high poverty district
in Colorado. She is currently facilitating literacy labs in several
different states to promote collaboration among colleagues. Tovani
has the pleasure of working with administrators to build their
background knowledge on best practices so they are able to give
teachers useful feedback about instruction.
Books by Cris Tovani include:
• I Read it but I Don’t Get It
• Do I Really Have to Teach
Reading?
• So, What do They Really Know?
• Comprehension Going Forward
• That Workshop Book
• No More Telling as Teaching: Less
Lecture, More Engaged Learning
For more information about Cris Tovani, visit
http://tovanigroup.com/
Kristine
Mraz
Kristine Mraz is a kindergarten teacher
in New York City Public Schools. She
also spends her time consulting with
teachers and schools across the world
about early literacy, play and inquiry
based learning. She was awarded a
New York State Empire in Excellence
Teaching Award this year from Governor
Cuomo. When she isn't busy working she loves snuggling next to her
dog and husband with a good book.
Books by Kristine Mraz include:
• Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to
Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning
Across the Day
• A Mindset for Learning: Teaching the
Traits of Joyful, Independent Growth
For more information about Kristine Mraz, visit
https://kinderconfidential.wordpress.com/about/
Session
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P/I
A
A-6 Essential Word Work- Using magnetic letters to
teach readers to take action at difficulty
This session will explore how to use magnetic letters to accelerate the
process of learning to read. Videos will be shared of students breaking
words apart with magnetic letters as well as in text.
Tessa Allen
P
A-7 Reading in the Content Areas: Using a Hands-On
Approach to Make Non-Fiction Meaningful
Many students struggle to connect with non-fiction texts. Several don't
understand the content it discusses so the task of reading becomes tedious.
In this session, we will explore strategies to help make reading non-fiction
meaningful and even (gasp) enjoyable!
Toby Carpenter
All
A-1 What's the Big Idea: Helping Adolescent
Readers Determine Importance in their Reading
Purpose determines what's important. It also helps readers sift and sort what
they pay attention to. Without a purpose for one's reading and teaching, it is
difficult to determine what to give precious time to. During this workshop,
teachers will explore the big ideas behind their content and
curricula. Cris will also model different ways that teachers can help students
determine importance in their reading.
Cris Tovani*
All
A-8 Bridging the Digital Divide
Have you noticed a disconnect between the work students do with printed
text versus digital texts? Are you wondering how to support students as they
apply reading strategies to the texts they read on a screen? In this session,
participants will practice techniques to transfer traditional reading and writing
skills to the digital world.
I/M/H
Angela Faulhaber
A-2 It All Started with a Wrong Turn
From her experiences creating A Handful of Stars, learn how Cynthia Lord
leaves herself open to possibilities and finds inspiration all around.
Cynthia Lord*
All
A-3 Purposeful Play: Igniting Deep and Powerful
Learning Across the Day
Too often play is set in direct opposition to work, when in reality, play is the
engine of learning for children. This session will help teachers reclaim a
playful and joyful spirit by teaching the myriad of ways play can be used to
facilitate social-emotional and academic growth. This session will outline the
ways play can be infused within a day, as well as the instructional strategies
teachers can utilize to support children's learning. Teachers will learn how
strategies like focused lessons, conferring, small group play, and whole class
conversations can build literacy skills, STEM skills, and critical socialemotional skills. Charts and tools will be shared alongside lessons that can
be used in classrooms. Teachers will see demonstrations and photographs of
how a playful spirit can extend to any teaching by utilizing student interests,
props, videos, and joy.
All
Kristine Mraz*
A-4 The Year of Collaboration
Newbery medal winner and New York Times bestselling author Kwame
Alexander talks about the collaborative process with co-authors Mary Rand
Hess and Deanna Nakaido and how working collaboratively is another way
to fuel students' creative juices just like it did for him.
Kwame Alexander*
All
A-5 ELL Writing Ideas for Classroom and Support
Teachers
ELL writing ideas will be presented for different language levels along with
mentor texts. Ideas can be used by support or classroom teachers. Ways to
scaffold ELL writing in the classroom will also be covered.
P
Anne Davidson
A-9 Building Meaning and Diverse Perspectives
Through Text Sets
This session will show teachers how to increase student engagement through
issues that affect students' lives and that involve multiple genres as text sets.
These text sets help students access prior knowledge, build vocabulary and
other literacy skills, and, most importantly, engage joyfully in acts of reading.
Resources provided.
Pamela Page and Elizabeth Storey
I/M
A-10 "Take a Chance - More Than Just a Catchphrase"
Classroom teacher Dr. Steve Kucinski and Dublin City Schools Chief
Academic Officer Kim Miller chose to truly see what it meant to "take a
chance." They have collaborated this school year in the partial co-teaching
of a class, incorporating innovative approaches and discussing best
practices along the way. The journey of risk has had its rewards.
Steve Kucinski and Kim Miller
All
A-11 Student Publishing is a Game Changer!
We all agree that it is valuable for students to write to a larger audience, but
how does it change the game when a student publishes to the iBook Store
for all to see? This session will focus not only on collaborative writing and
publishing, but especially the motivational impact of publishing.
Rhonda Luetje and Olivia DiSilvestro
All
A-12 Active Approaches and Dramatic Inquiry
for Engaging Students in Shakespeare’sTexts
Are your students rolling their eyes when you mention Shakespeare? Do
you want to add energy to your teaching of the Bard? Come to this
interactive session where you will learn how to use the active rehearsal
room approaches and dramatic inquiry processes of the Royal Shakespeare
Company to invigorate your classroom.
Allison Volz, Sandy Guinto, Jessica Sharp
I/M/H
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* Featured Speaker
Reading
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Writing
Primary
I
Word Study
Intermediate
M
Common Core
Middle School
Technology
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High School
Intervention
P
A-13 Using Teaching Tools in the Literacy Workshop
DIY Literacy will be used as a framework for this session. We will share a
brief overview of micro-progressions and demonstration notebooks.
Examples of these teaching tools will be provided along with time to
collaborate with others to create a micro-progression.
Katherine Young, Allie Armstrong, Leah DiSabato
I
A-14 Why Are We Reading This? Using Essential
Questions and Text Sets
This presentation will explain methods for making whole class novels more
relevant and engaging by using essential questions and text sets to connect
them to universal human issues.
Beth Toerner
M/H
A-15 Blended Book Clubs: Using a combination of
reading workshop, conferring, and online tools to
personalize student reading goals and instruction.
Learn how to plan, execute and manage personalized reading goals and
instruction for your MS students using blended learning strategies. Discover
ways to engage student-to-student collaboration, ignite deep thinking during
independent reading, differentiate reading instruction, and promote writing
about reading.
Melissa Voss
M
A-16 Poetry Across the Curriculum in Kindergarten
Using poems in kindergarten is a powerful way to introduce content, practice
reading, work on word study, write creatively, and more! Share your ideas
and get new ideas for poems in your classroom.
Margaret Robinson
P
B
Session
B-2 Teaching Leadership Through Literacy
Why did you become an educator? If it was to teach children how to be
empowered and not entitled, this is the session for you. Come explore ways
to teach leadership through literacy. We will be looking at a variety of
different picture books that evoke conversations that allow students to make
real life connections to leadership.
P
Megan Dimmerling
Writing
A-18 Integrating subjects within the school day to
impact students as real-world problem solvers
Do you ever feel you are teaching content like a checklist? Have you ever
felt that your pace is so quick that your students don't have a lot of time to
catch everything? How can we work together to integrate subjects within
the school day in order to impact students as real-world problem solvers?
In this session we will explore these questions.
Halie Miller, Dan Lowe,
I
Matt DeMatteis
A-19 Creating a culture of thinking: Promoting
Powerful Student Thinking Across Reading, Writing,
and Math Workshop
This session will explore how two teachers promoted a culture of thinking
across their reading, writing, and math workshops by using thinking
routines. The teachers will describe the shift in power as they became the
listeners and students became the driving thinkers and owners of the
learning.
Abby Farris, Lynsey Burkins,
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Rebecca Ratnasingham, Nichole Preissner
A-20 Exhilarated Reader (And Writer!) Finding the
Joy and Passion in our Literacy Classrooms
B-3 What in the World is Workshop?: How to Talk
with Parents, Colleagues, and Community about
Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
I/M/H
Reading
P/I/M
P/I/M
Involve students in frequent, purposeful goal-setting and reflection about
their reading and writing, using interactive spreadsheets, digital forms,
annotation, and other reflective strategies.
Jennifer Mitchell
P
Unleash student potential in reading and vocabulary by learning research
based classroom practices that engage all students in literacy. In this
interactive hands-on workshop, you will learn innovative and effective
strategies to engage learners in vocabulary that will ensure high levels of
achievement.
Susan Parks
We will share practices that are part of the literacy workshop that are a
source of joy for the learners in the classroom - including the teacher..
Josie Stewart and Justina Stewart
B-1 Growing Purposeful Readers & Writers: Student
Goal-Setting and Reflection
* Featured Speaker
A-17 A Plethora of Splendiferous Best Practices in
Vocabulary
Primary
I
Word Study
What school "looks like" has changed drastically in the past few years, and
many of our stakeholders struggle to understand our new normal. In this
session, we will consider ways to communicate what we know about best
practices in literacy instruction and gain support for our work in the process!
Jen Schwanke
I/M
B-4 What Difference Does "Difference" Make: Toward
a More Diverse Classroom Library
The focus of this PD is diversity in our school and classroom libraries. We
will discuss the importance of including diverse books, which celebrate the
collage of various cultural, racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds of our
student population.
Lynsey Burkins, Gretchen Taylor,
P/I/M
Mary Lee Hahn
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Intermediate
M
Common Core
Middle School
Technology
H
High School
Intervention
B
B-10 IGNITE for Middle School Language Arts
Session
Four middle school teachers share their knowledge about important topics in
middle schools today: making the most of independent reading conferences,
standards-based grading in an ELA classroom, formative assessment for
grouping students, and effective feedback for writing.
Beth Honeycutt, Rachel Polacek,
M
Angela Kurtz, Amber Yuen
B-11 Innovative Pedagogy - Just Try a Bite!
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B-5 Building a Reading Community
This session will focus on building a reading community in the classroom by
incorporating student choice, student talk, and tools that can support these
ideas within the workshop model. We will discuss ways to get to know your
students and ways to get them excited about reading.
Heather Halli and Allie Armstrong
I
B-6 Little Red Knows Karate, Katniss Strikes Back,
Again: Jazzing up YA and Children's Literature
What can you do after you read a book and students want to be in the story?
In this workshop learn a method to extend the story with story-based drama
called "Ensemble Storytelling." We will explore how you can jazz up interest
before, during and after you read children/YA literature and in turn jazz up
your classroom reading.
Kevin Cordi
All
B-7 Literacy Workshop Model meshes with
Authentic Online Reading and Writing for All K-5
Learners
Meet 9 year-old mentor tech, LivBit, as she shares her digital literacy journey.
LivBit shows how she uses talk and video to capture deep ideas about
books, thinking, and life. LivBit's work is a powerful example of agency,
student voice and responsible digital citizenship.
Cynthia Merrill, Olivia Van Ledjte,
P/I/M
Amy Riley
What if I told you there was a structure to each high frequency word. What if I
told you every letter was there for a reason? What if the explanations shared
in this presentation could make your teaching of sight words more efficient?
Come and join us for an explanation of every word on the high frequency
word list and how to teach them.
P/I/M
Mike Myers
Reading
P
Writing
Primary
I
Word Study
B-12 The Influence of To Kill a Mockingbird on Young
Adult Novels
Join us to explore five novels for middle school readers featuring Harper Lee
or her classic American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The CCSS names
TKAM a text exemplar for ninth and tenth grades, and these novels might
serve as a "gateway" to the classic text. Presenters and participants will
share teaching strategies for these novels and TKAM.
Linda T. Parsons and Caitlin Murphy
M/H
Students must read, comprehend, and synthesize digital text in the classroom
and at home. Learn how to teach K-12 students to read closely with digital
content from INFOhio by modeling best practices for digital reading skills. Take
practical teaching techniques back to your classroom that are easy to
implement and proven to get results.
Emily Rozmus
All
B-8 Keep Reading! Keep Thinking!
Using Video as a Powerful Mechanism for Reflection
and Feedback
* Featured Speaker
M/H
B-13 Got Digital Content? You Need Digital
Reading Skills!
Do you find yourself asking, “How do I fit online reading and writing for
my students within the workshop model?” Do you find yourself
wondering how to help students navigate the digital world we live in?
Come discuss ways teachers are incorporating online reading and
writing experiences that engage learners.
Mary Brothers and Lisa Kent
P/I
B-9 Sight Words: Spelling with Sense
You have read about it, talked about it, been PD'd on it, seen videos, taken
classes - now it's time to DO IT! Dr. Steve Kucinski will guide you through
some basic steps in trying some Project-Based Learning and ChallengeBased Learning, using technology to be innovative, and making both learning
AND teaching more fun AND effective. Hands on! If you have one, please
bring a future project or lesson that you would like to modify.
Steve Kucinski
B-14 Twitter: Personalized Literacy Professional
Development
Join us to learn how to use Twitter as your own personalized, on-demand
professional development source! In this hands-on session, we will help you
use Twitter and Tweetdeck accounts, find and follow literacy experts &
colleagues, find and participate in relevant Twitter Chats, and host your own
Twitter Chats in your district. Come get connected!
Susan Vincent and Johnny Downey
P/I
B-15 Socratic Smackdowns
Socratic Smackdown adds the elements of competition, play, and
accountability to motivate students in group discussions. This tool helps
make sure teachers are developing both critical and higher level thinking
skills, meeting the Speaking and Listening standards, and giving you
concrete ways to evaluate students during group discussions.
Kristen Henderson
M/H
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Intermediate
M
Common Core
Middle School
Technology
H
High School
Intervention
B-16 Multigenre Magic: Where Passion and
Creativity Collide
In this session, you'll learn all about the wonders of the Multigenre Project's
endless possibilities and ability to hook every writer in your class, K-12! We
will learn all about the process of the project, about digital literacy tools to
make unique genres come to life, and view physical and digital samples of
projects from a variety of grades!
Meghan Treglia
All
B-17 Creating a Culture of Argument - and that's a
Good Thing!
Session
Arguments are everywhere - in the everyday life of a student and in the
conversations around us. In this session, teachers will practice strategies to
create a culture of argument in a classroom and support argument writing
through the exploration of the National Writing Project's College Ready
Writer's Program.
M/H
Beth Rimer
C
Newbery medal winner and New York Times bestselling author Kwame
Alexander talks about the collaborative process with co-authors Mary Rand
Hess and Deanna Nakaido and how working collaboratively is another way
to fuel students' creative juices just like it did for him.
Kwame Alexander*
All
C-2 Becoming a Writer
Find out the "ins and outs" of writing with Cynthia Lord. Learn what helped
her as a child on her path to becoming an author and a simple method for
creating a story.
Cynthia Lord *
All
* Featured Speaker
Reading
P
Writing
We will be demonstrating techniques we've learned from Dr. Fred Burton that
we've authentically integrated in our workshop model across various content
areas. We will actually practice these thinking routines with the group, so you
can experience their impact and brainstorm ways to apply it to your field.
Stacey Brunst, Chloe Weight
I
B-19 Understanding the Writers in Your Room
Participants will learn how being a teacher who writes influences teaching
writers. Participants will learn how they can develop their writing lives and
how to set writing goals. Participants will leave with the confidence they can
live a writer's life.
All
Deb Frazier, Michelle Haseltine
B-20 Mistakes Grow Your Brain
How does Growth Mindset affect my life? How does it affect my students'
lives? Join us for a practical look at continuing to develop a growth mindset.
Participants will leave with helpful resources.
Josie Stewart, Julianna Irwin
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C-3 Conferring to Get Kids Unstuck
C-1 The Year of Collaboration
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B-18 Adding Thinking Routines in the Workshop
Model
Sometimes secondary teachers shy away from conferring because they
aren't sure what to say to students. For teachers who use workshop model to
plan and instruct, conferring is at the heart of their teaching. It is at this time
that teachers can do their best differentiating. During this session,
participants will explore ways to confer during student work time. Cris will
also share ways to manage and use conferring to help students not only get
unstuck, but to also revise and rework their reading and writing.
Cris Tovani*
All
C-4 Mindsets for Learning
In this session, teachers will learn how they can leverage the powerful
instructional strategies of storytelling, self talk, reflection, and goal setting to
teach students to have positive, powerful mindsets. Teachers will learn the
research that supports teaching stances like flexibility, empathy, optimism,
resilience and persistence. Teachers will learn how structures like conferring
and whole class conversations can be used to teach create classroom
communities of joyful effort, while still meeting benchmarks along the way.
Classroom charts and lessons will be shared alongside tools to ensure
teachers can keep this powerful work going all year long.
Kristine Mraz*
All
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Primary
I
Word Study
Intermediate
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Common Core
Middle School
Technology
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High School
Intervention
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2017 Dublin Literacy Conference
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Conference Fees
All Inclusive Registration $115*
Reduced rate for Dublin City Schools staff. Please contact your
principal for more information.
Preservice Teachers $70*
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Lura Beck
Dublin City Schools
7030 Coffman Road
Dublin, OH 43017
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