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In the Classroom: Reading the World Webinar Series

 

Strategies for Student-driven Learning with Secondary Readers and Writers

SPEAKER: Sarah Zerwin

DATE: Thursday, November 14, 2024

TIME: 4:30PM - 5:30PM (PDT) | Zoom

Sarah Zerwin introduces her strategies for improving reading at the secondary classroom level. With nearly thirty years of classroom experience, Sarah offers a wealth of knowledge in addressing one of the greatest challenges confronting.

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Past Webinars

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Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Exploring the ERWC Online Community WebSite, with a Focus on Teaching ERWC in Virtual Classrooms

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Chris Street and Lori Campbell 4/10/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Tools and Strategies for Moving ERWC Courses Online

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Jen Roberts 4/14/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Ready to Launch? Converting Your ERWC Module to a Digital Course

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Jen Roberts 4/16/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Deeper Discussions: How to Create and Sustain Meaningful Interaction in Online Discussions

Recording Unavailable.

Chris Street and Lori Campbell 4/21/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Guiding Students into Making Real-World Writing Decisions Using "The Daily Me" (Part 1)

Recording Unavailable.

Jeffery E. Frieden 4/28/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Guiding Students into Making Real-World Writing Decisions Using "The Daily Me" (Part 2)

Recording Unavailable.

Jeffery E. Frieden 5/5/2020
Spring ERWC Online Professional Learning Fostering Deeper Online Discussions in Synchronous (Real Time) and Asynchronous Formats Mira-Lisa Katz and Heather Howlett 5/12/2020
Teaching for Change Reading Fast and Slow
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Carol Jago 12/1/2020
Teaching for Change Developing Your "Talking Game": How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

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Matthew Kay 1/19/2021
Teaching for Change Talking and Teaching about Race in the Classroom
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Tricia Ebarvia 2/17/2021
Teaching for Change Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy Dr. April Baker-Bell 3/16/2021
Teaching for Change Better, Faster, and More Equitable Feedback Matthew Johnson 4/20/2021
Going LIVE! Unpacking Universal Design for Learning: Practices for Building Equitable Classrooms Dr. Ginny Crisco 8/25/2021
Going LIVE! Teaching Literature Rhetorically: Transferring the Rhetorical Skills Emphasized in the ERWC Curriculum to the Teaching of Literature Dr. Jennifer Fletcher 9/23/2021
Going LIVE! Teaching Counterstory in the Secondary Classroom Dr. Aja Martinez 10/14/2021
Going LIVE! Cultivating Genius and Joy

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Dr. Gholdy Muhammad 11/4/2021
Going LIVE! Exploring Grammar Instruction Dr. Darren Crovitz 12/2/2021
Going LIVE! Reviving and Reinventing Sentence-Level Writing Instruction Martin Brandt 2/17/2022
Going LIVE! Hitting for Contact: Consistent Success in Race Conversations Matthew Kay 2/24/2022
Going LIVE! Structuring Classroom Talk to Improve Student Literacy Nelson Graff 3/23/2022
Going LIVE! Writing Live(s): Joining the Community of ERWC Bloggers with Jennifer Fletcher and Jonathon Medeiros

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Jennifer Fletcher and Jonathon Medeiros 5/12/2022
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series Deepening Our Understanding of Transfer of Learning

Literacy strategies acquired in language arts classrooms are not exclusive to language arts; yet students often fail to recognize how to transfer them to other learning situations. Teaching students how to recognize the transferability of skills and strategies is therefore part of the learning process, and it begins with structuring your unit plans. Join the ERWC community as we kick-off our 2022/23 “Language and Literacy” webinar series with Trevor Aleo—co-author of the book “Learning That Transfers: Designing Curriculum for a Changing World”—who will explore the real-world possibilities of teaching for transfer.

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Trevor Aleo 9/15/2022
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series Building Classroom Community through Civil Discourse

This session will examine a cross-curricular approach to developing and maintaining a strong classroom community even in the face of contentious topics. Nichelle will introduce her strategies for promoting civil discourse--an alternative to either avoiding or fighting our way through contentious topics--to foster meaningful, thought-provoking classroom discussions.

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Nichelle Pinkney 10/19/2022
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series Exploring a Translanguaging Approach to Bilingual Education

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Danling Fu 11/16/2022
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series The Rhetoric of Poetry

The ERWC community is pleased to kickoff its Spring webinar series with a very special guest, Daniel Summerhill. In this session, Daniel will explore the connection between rhetoric and poetry and his work to transform language for the purposes of social action, community building, and truth-telling.

Daniel B. Summerhill is Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University Monterey and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County, CA. He is the author of Divine, Divine, Divine (Nomadic Press), a semifinalist for the Charles B. Wheeler Prize. Summerhill holds an M.F.A. from Pine Manor College (Solstice). He received the Sharon Olds Fellowship and was nominated to Everipedia’s 30 under 30 list.

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Daniel Summerhill 1/18/2023
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series Confronting Challenges in Teaching ELA and Writing Instruction

Welcome back Matthew Johnson as he joins us for a discussion on some of the biggest issues facing teaching middle and high school students today, and how these changes impact writing instruction.

Matthew Johnson is a father, husband, and English language arts teacher in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Learning Network, EdWeek, and Edutopia and blogs regularly about writing instruction and pedagogy at www.matthewmjohnson.com

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Matthew Johnson 2/16/2023
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series A Principled Approach to Writing

Welcome Anne Whitney as she joins our three-part webinar series on writing in the classroom. Anne will introduce the key elements of NCTE's "Principled Approach to Writing" and discuss how they impact writing instruction.

Dr. Anne Whitney is a former high school English teacher. Her research addresses writing and how writing works in school and life. This work has included studies in elementary, secondary, college, and professional development settings and non-school contexts such as churches.

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Dr. Anne Whitney 3/16/2023
The Language and Literacy Webinar Series Authentic Writing Instruction

Nadia will share her research into "authentic" writing instruction and offer strategies for building a robust writing program at the high school and middle school levels.

Nadia Behizadeh is an associate professor of adolescent literacy in the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Middle and Secondary Education. She is also a co-director for the Center for Equity and Justice in Teacher Education. In addition to her scholarly activities, Behizadeh teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in educational research and theory, English language arts methods and content literacy.

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Dr. Nadia Behizadeh 4/19/2023
In The Classroom Teaching with Technology

Interested in using technology more effectively in the classroom? In this webinar, Troy Hicks--an ISTE Certified Educator--will introduce "'digital diligence'--an alert, intentional stane that helps both teachers and students use technology productively, ethically, and responsibly." Hear his strategies for minimizing digital distraction, fostering civil conversations, evaluating information on the internet, creating meaningful digital writing, and deeply engaging with multimedia texts.

Recording Unavailable.

Troy Hicks 2/15/2024
In The Classroom Antibias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers

We are excited to welcome Tricia Ebarvia to the ERWC community. Tricia is a lifelong educator, author, speaker, literacy consultant, and expert in curriculum design culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy, and social justice education. She will be sharing her perspective on improving students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.

Tricia Ebarvia 3/14/2024
In The Classroom Flexing Students' Reading Muscles

What can teachers do when students balk at doing the assigned reading? Why do so many students have difficulty staying with a book for more than a few minutes? In this webinar, Carol Jago will demonstrate instructional moves that help students increase their reading stamina and develop greater confidence in themselves as readers. Based on current research in adolescent literacy, she will offer texts and tasks designed to engage today’s teenagers while enlarging their capacity for comprehending what they read.

Carol Jago 4/18/2024
In The Classroom The Unlimited Teacher presented by Marisa Thompson

We kick off the 2024-2025 webinar series with hope for a new year. September’s webinar series presenter comes to you with ideas for removing the "limits" placed on educators and offers strategies for expanding and developing our approach to planning for academic success.

Marisa Thompson 9/19/2024
In the Classroom Kelly Gallagher Presents

The Fall 2023 Webinar series kicks off with a very special guest. ERWC, in conjunction with the CSU Chancellor's Office, is proud to welcome Kelly Gallagher to our webinar community. Kelly Gallagher is the author of multiple books, including 180 Days: Two Teachers and their Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents, Readicide, Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing through Modeling & Mentor Texts, and Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School.

Recording Unavailable.

Kelly Gallagher 9/21/2023
In the Classroom The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Decolonize Your Classroom

The fall 2023 webinar series continues this month with an exciting presentation from Felicia Rose-Chavez who will present "a new approach for a new millennium--a blueprint for a twenty-first-century writing workshop that concedes the humanity of people of color so that we may raise our voices in vote for love over hate." This session will include select readings from Rose-Chavez's book "The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom." Can't wait to see you there!

Recording Unavailable.

Felicia Rose-Chavez 10/19/2023
In the Classroom AI In Education

Join the ERWC Community as we explore Generative AI as an emergent practice in the English classroom. Marc Watkins, an academic innovation fellow at the University of Mississippi will explore best practices in teaching students AI literacy, AI assistance, and AI aptitude.

Marc Watkins 11/16/2023
In the Classroom Labor-based Grading

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Seth Czarnecki 12/7/2023
In the Classroom Building Student Engagement

Does your classroom ever feel stuck, or out-of-tune? Meaningful teaching is something educators strive for each day. Educators also know that there is no such thing as a perfect classroom. Despite our best intentions, our classrooms sometimes feel like they're stuck, or out of tune. In this webinar, Antero Garcia will explain why we should allow students to play an integral role in turning classrooms into spaces for greater engagement and innovation.

Antero Garcia 1/18/2024
In the Classroom: Reading the World Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital World presented by Troy Hicks

The central question facing teachers today as they seek to engage students in reading is "How can we help adolescents become critical readers in a digital age?" In this webinar, Troy Hicks will share what he learned in his research into adolescent reading practices in a dozen middle and high school classrooms and the subsequent tools created to assist students in connecting to their reading. Hicks will offer practical tips and highlight classroom practices that engage students in reading and thinking with both print and digital texts, thus encouraging reading instruction that reaches all students.

Troy Hicks 10/24/2024