WSRA's Conference: Raising Our Voices: Empowering All Learners Today to Change the World Tomorrow

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The Conference Chair’s Voice The Wisconsin State Reading Association invites you to join us as we celebrate 65 years of leadership, advocacy, and professional learning!

As I was thinking about this milestone year for our organization, I reflected on all of the voices that have informed my literacy DNA and looked to the voices that are moving my thinking forward. Mostly, I thought about the children; they are our whyThis brought me to this year’s theme: Raising Our Voices: Empowering All Learners Today to Change the World Tomorrow.

Inherent in the Raising Our Voices theme are not just the voices of students but our voices as educators as well. How are we advocating for the learners in front of us? How are we equipping ourselves with research-based best practices? How are we insisting on intentional, inclusive, anti-bias, anti-racist literacy practices for all of our students? How are we engaging civically in matters that greatly impact our profession? During nine months of ongoing, in-depth, and impactful learning, we will explore these ideas and mine them for practices that we can put to work with the readers and writers before us in both traditional and distance-learning environments.

We hope you and your students will join us for our Young Voices Virtual Field Trips! These opportunities will bring authors right to you and will empower your students to open their hearts and minds, changing the world one voice at a time!

Michelle Mullen

We live in a democracy that ultimately demands engagement, so how are we educating its citizenry? Are we providing them spaces that foster agency where knowledge is constructed through dialog and interaction? Are we giving voice to those traditionally silenced or marginalized? Are we creating compassionate, civic-minded citizens who, through authentic, relevant, and meaningful learning opportunities, discover who they are and who they want to be in our global community? In short, are we honoring and raising up all voices?

In Kara Pranikoff’s book Teaching Talk: A Practical Guide to Fostering Student Thinking and Conversation, she states, “Lasting impact is made when we see the capacity we have to bring people together and empower their voice.” Beyond these days of learning together, my hope for you is that you reflect on whose voices you are lifting up in your schools, that you continue to offer and support relevant teaching that connects your students to the global community, and that you raise your own voices on behalf of all of the learners in our literacy communities. I will end as Monique Gray Smith did in her WSRA 2020 conference keynote: Thank you for contributing to the wellness of the world!

Michelle Mullen 2021 Conference Chair WSRA 1st Vice President

change we want to see. In order to do so, we must not only consider how students’ voices are empowered but we must also lift up the voices of educators.

WSRA President’s Voice Greetings conference attendees,

La Tasha Fields

Welcome to the 2021 Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference. As we celebrate 65 years of literacy excellence, WSRA will continue its commitment to literacy leadership, advocacy, and expertise.

In the midst of advocating for racial justice and navigating COVID-19, we face a dual pandemic that forces us to grapple with the importance of social change – one of those changes being remote learning engagement opportunities.

As we collectively raise our voices to ensure racial justice, equity, and quality literacy learning, we will contribute to the world in a way that will make a difference for everyone.

I would like to thank the 2021 WSRA Conference Planning Committee for their hard work, innovation, and commitment to ensure that educators across the nation have a meaningful virtual learning experience.

Additionally, on behalf of the WSRA Board of Directors, I would also like to thank each attendee. We value you and encourage you to continue to raise your voices and make a difference for students and their families. Enjoy the conference!

In excellence, Although the 2021 WSRA Conference is virtual this year, I want to assure you that a lot of time and effort was put into planning so that each attendee will engage in high-quality literacy sessions, not only in February, but throughout the school year from October – June.

In the current context of social change, I encourage each of us to consider the 2021 WSRA Conference theme, envisioned by the Conference Chair, Michelle Mullen, Raising Our Voices: Empowering All Learners Today to Change the World Tomorrow.

La Tasha Fields La Tasha Fields 2020-2021 WSRA President

Incredible Presenters Each Month!

June November January

Joyful Voices

Emerging Voices

March Liberating Voices

Collaborative Voices

May

October Voices for Justice

February December Voices for Change

Connecting Our Voices

April Innovative Voices

Here is the At-A-Glance Schedule.

Powerful Voices

Click this link to register. Live

webinars and recorded sessions each month October to June!

Register for the Academy By Month at the WSRA member rate $50 per month per individual.

Full-time Undergraduate Student $10 per month per individual.

Register for the complete series: $350 at the WSRA member rate per individual Register by October 12 to be there for the first Academy Day. Full-time Undergraduate Student $70 for the complete series.

Register for the Academy By Month at the nonmember rate $100 per month per individual.

Register for the complete series: $450 at the nonmember rate per individual

Team Discount 6th or 12th registrant per Academy Month can attend for one month for free when registered for the complete series.

Please contact Joyce at WSRA for the discount code before you begin to register your team. You can reach her at wsra@wsra.org or call 262-514-1450.

WSRA’s 2-½ day 2021 conference has been e-x-p-a-n-d-e-d to provide you with ongoing professional learning throughout the school year.

Who?

Register for the complete series or by the month.

Authors Primary K-2 YOU and Intermediate 3-5 your TEAM! Middle Level 6-8 Secondary Level 9-12 Administrators Literacy Coaches Consultants Content Areas Curriculum Directors Special Education Educators Library Media Specialists Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist Title I Educators Teacher Educators Interventionists Preservice Teachers

Please note that the access links and recording links are for the sole use of the individual who registered for the Academy. Thank you for helping to support WSRA and our speakers!

October to June Complete Series October Voices for Justice November Joyful Voices December Voices for Change January Collaborative Voices February Connecting Our Voices

Frequently Asked Questions

March Liberating Voices April Innovative Voices May Powerful Voices June Emerging Voices

Registration by credit card only. WSRA accepts Visa, Mastercard, & Discover. Sorry, no purchase orders.

Access to the Academy is here.

This is a single sign on system. When you log on, you have access to your profile and to the Academy Days for which you’re registered.

When you register for the complete series from October to June, all of the Academy Days will be available to you as the registrant. When you register for separate months, you will have access to those particular Academy Days. Attendees who complete a short survey will automatically receive a personalized certificate of attendance.

You can see the conference sessions in the Literacy Learning Academy. After you register, click your Academy Month and the session details and the Zoom webinar links will be available to you.

Young Voices Field Trips: Changing the World One Voice At a Time Go on a Young Voices Virtual Field Trip! Sessions for kindergarten to grade 6 Register K-3 or 3-6 grade band in your school for $150.

Please note: The Field Trips are separate registrations from the Raising Our Voices Academy Days. ● October 14 Access links and ○ Ralph Fletcher at 12:45 for grades 3-6 recording links are ● January 13 ○ Janet Wong at 9:00 for grades K-3 ○ Janet Wong at 10:45 for grades 3-6 ● January 27 ● ●

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for the sole use of the paid registrants.

Thank you for helping to support WSRA and our presenters! *Live webinar only

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Ralph Fletcher at 12:45 for grades 3-6

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*Phil Bildner at 12:45 for grades 3-6

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Zephaniah and Zion Singh at 10:45 for grades 3-6 *Phil Bildner at 12:45 for grades 3-6

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Mitali Perkins at 12:45 for grades K-3

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Mitali Perkins at 12:45 for grades K-3 *Juana Martinez-Neal time 10:45 for K-3

February 10 February 11 March 10

March 24

All times are CST.

If you are an adult who would like to register yourself and one child for a field trip, contact Joyce at wsra@wsra.org for a discounted rate.

Q&A Young Voices Field Trips: Changing the World One Voice At a Time

Q: How will I gain access to the Young Voices Virtual Field Trip?

A: Log onto your WSRA profile. Then go to www.wsra.org/literacy-learning-academy Q: How will the students participate and view the field trip?

A: Log in to your WSRA profile using the email address used to register for the field trip. Go to the registered field trip in the Academy. Log in to the Zoom link provided by WSRA. Share your screen with the other school staff members in the K-3 or 3-6 grade band for this registered field trip. Each of the connected staff members then shares his/her screen with students for this field trip (using your school’s virtual platform i.e.

Google Meet, Zoom) Q: What can I do if I can’t make it to the live webinar?

A: Most of the webinars will be recorded and accessible for 10 days after the event. *Phil Bildner and Juana Martinez-Neal’s are live webinars only Q: What if my school district does not permit the use of Zoom?

A: Request permission from your IT department or access the recorded webinars in advance of the field trip.

WSRA’s October Voices for Justice Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on our role as educators and community members to demand and fight for an educational system where all students thrive. We’ll explore using literature to honor our humanity and that of others and to empower students to embrace their destiny and raise their voices against hate and injustice as literate citizens.

Leading our Voices for Justice Academy will be Bettina Love, Janet Wong, Liz Kleinrock, and Aeriale Johnson. Joining them will be educators Crystal Ballard, Karen Biggs-Tucker, and authors Baptiste Paul and Liza Wiemer. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the October Academy registrants throughout the school year.

October 14 ● ● ● ● ●

9:00 Bettina Love* 10:45 Janet Wong 2:45 Bettina Love* 4:15 Liz Kleinrock 7:00 Aeriale Johnson

October 28 ● 10:45 Janet Wong ● 4:15 Liz Kleinrock ● 7:00 Aeriale Johnson

All times are CST.

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October 14: Voices for Justice 9:00 AM: Bettina Love *Live webinar only Keynote: We Gon’ Be Alright, But That Ain’t Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom Audience All Dr. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system where all students are thriving, not simply surviving.

10:45 AM: Janet Wong Building a Poetry Suitcase Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8 How can we make lifelong learners? The extra time spent at home during the social distancing of the past year highlights the importance of finding inspiration for learning in everyday objects. Building a Poetry Suitcase as a class—and then guiding students to build one at home—is a terrific way to encourage at-home learning. Objects in the Poetry Suitcase can be as personally meaningful or as simple as a favorite stuffed animal, a potato, a marshmallow, or a twig. In this session Janet Wong will share her own Poetry Suitcase—and inspire us to make our own suitcases, with our own poems and stories inside, too.

2:45 PM: Bettina Love Information coming soon

* live webinar only

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October 14: Voices for Justice

4:15 PM: Liz Kleinrock Putting Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Theory Into Practice Audience All In this session, participants will receive an overview of ABAR principles, and identify ways to cultivate this lens to lesson plan and develop classroom facilitation and discussion. We will discuss how to identify diverse and culturally responsive literature, as well as how to utilize it in the classroom without perpetuating stereotypes or deficit-based beliefs.

7:00 PM: Aeriale Johnson After Diverse Books: Empowering All Learners With Inclusive Libraries and Instructional Practices Audience K-2, 3-5 You've purchased the books. You've carefully curated a classroom library that is more inclusive. What now? In this session, we will explore ways elementary teachers can nurture young minds to read with criticality and embrace their destiny to change the world.

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October 28: Voices for Justice 10:45 AM: Janet Wong Hop To It! Audience K-3 Poems that incorporate movement can help younger children “get the wiggles out” and can ease the stress that older children feel—preparing everyone for a better learning experience. Poet Janet Wong will share a wide variety of poems that make us feel more joyful and alive, while also touching on topics across the curriculum, from science and math to social studies and language arts instruction. Learn more about Janet's work at janetwong.com and pomelobooks.com.

4:15 PM: Liz Kleinrock

7:00 PM: Aeriale Johnson Still We Rise Up: Using Poetry in the Early Childhood Classroom to Heal and to Hope Audience K-2 Teaching children to read with deep comprehension is of the utmost importance. Teaching children to prioritize and manage their social-emotional well-being is of the utmost importance. Too often these two truths are perceived as mutually exclusive. Poetry offers us innumerable opportunities to engage in close reading and to do so for the purpose of honoring our humanity and that of others. In this session, we will explore resources and strategies for using poetry to teach children to read and to live.

All times are CST.

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October Pre-Recorded Sessions: Voices for Justice Crystal Ballard and Mary Ellen Graf Authors' Stories and Diverse Perspectives Audience All Tap into diverse perspectives from authors and illustrators. Shape conversations on diverse experiences with this primary source collection of resources. Add to your reader's advisory bag of tricks with tools on TeachingBooks. Explore more ideas to connect readers with diverse titles and engage them in the process.

Discover resources to use as a hook so they will open the book. Use advanced searching techniques to locate similar reads.

Karen Biggs-Tucker Inside an Integrated Literacy Workshop: Where Interest Drives Learners‚ Reading, Writing, and Research Audience All Are you looking for classroom-tested ideas to re-energize your literacy instruction? If so, this session is for you! We will take you inside an integrated workshop where learners read, write, research, and converse about their world. During this independent learning time, students apply the strategies, skills, habits, and behaviors of literate citizens. Leave with a collection of mentor texts and literacy workshop demonstration lessons that will spark your students’ interest in literacy learning.

Baptiste Paul and Liza Wiemer Upstanders: Helping Students Speak Up Against Injustice And Hate Audience All It is widely known that students fear peer alienation more than they fear death. Sometimes, they join the wrong crowd or participate in activities that don't align with their values. They learn quickly when they don't belong. Alienation, bullying, and feeling different are strong barriers to speaking up against injustice and hate.

Utilizing literature that provides positive examples and role models to foster discussion, kindness, and respect is a critical part in helping students become aware of ingrained attitudes and can help foster change. We will examine bias and provide guidelines for an inclusive classroom. We'll share our own books as well as others to promote respect, celebrate differences, promote tolerance, and create a safe environment for upstanders.

All times are CST.

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WSRA’s November Joyful Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on creating thriving reading communities in your traditional and virtual classrooms where choice, voice, and student agency take center stage. Connecting with students in meaningful ways and focusing on equity in instruction are cornerstones during this month of professional learning. Leading our Joyful Voices Academy will be Juana Martinez-Neal, Pernille Ripp, Kathy Collins, Megan Schliesman, and Merri Lindgren.. Joining them will be educators Mona Zignego, Lisa Hedrick, Laura Barbieri, Sarah Rowse-Borrelli, Samantha Jayne, and Heinemann author Nancy Steineke. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the November Academy registrants throughout the school year.

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10:45 Juana Martinez-Neal* 12:45 Kathy Collins 4:15 Lester Laminack* and Katie Kelly 7:00 Pernille Ripp (prerecorded)

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10:45 Kathy Collins 12:45 Megan Schliesman and Merri Lindgren CCBC 4:15 Megan Schliesman and Merri Lindgren CCBC 7:00 Pernille Ripp (prerecorded)

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November 11 Joyful Voices 10:45 AM: Juana Martinez-Neal We Start With Joy Audience All

Keynote *Live webinar only

12:45 PM: Kathy Collins Improve Comprehension and Engagement With the Dynamic Pairing of Shared Reading and Close Reading Audience All When we think of shared reading, we typically think of Mrs. Wishy-Washy and enthusiastic kindergartners. In this session, Kathy will help to expand our vision of shared reading to include older students in addition to our youngest learners. Kathy will share ideas for a variety of ways to use shared reading to support children as they learn how to understand more deeply and read more closely. She'll show some examples of work in upper level classrooms and provide many ideas for how to implement a comprehensive, high level shared reading time in classrooms across grade levels.

All times are CST.

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November 11 Joyful Voices 4:15 PM: Lester Laminack and Katie Kelly *Live webinar only Reading to Make a Difference Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Library Media, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Interventionist, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Preservice Building off the work of Rudine Sims Bishop we will extend the notion of literature as windows, mirrors, and doors to create more inclusive classrooms. We will explore an instructional framework that enables you and your students to delve into diverse literature to help students speak freely, think deeply and take action. Throughout the workshop we examine the work of teachers and their students including classroom conversations, student artifacts, and video clips that demonstrate how moving through the framework develops conscious awareness and sparks social action.

7:00 PM Pernille Ripp But They Still Hate Reading: Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Audience 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Literacy Coach, English Language, Special Education, Library Media, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Interventionist, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Preservice, Consultant The message is clear among literacy communities; we want to help our students become readers for life, we want them to establish a positive relationship with reading, but we need more ideas that focus on the individual development of reading identity. So what do we do when we believe in choice, when we believe in inclusive access, when we believe we have the components needed for each child to be successful, and yet, it does not seem to be enough? What do we do not just on the first day of school but every single day after when those kids who hate reading just grow in their hatred rather than change their minds? Focusing on creating authentic opportunities for students to recognize, (re-)establish, and cultivate positive reading identities this session is meant for the educator looking for practical ideas in their quest to help students become passionate readers. Based on literacy research, personal anecdotes, and advice from her students, this session focuses on practical tools, reflective conversations, as well as easily implementable ideas that will help you continue the work you have started toward a thriving reading community.

All times are CST.

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November 18 Joyful Voices 10:45 AM Kathy Collins Improve Comprehension and Engagement With the Dynamic Pairing of Shared Reading and Close Reading Audience 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Interventionist, Curriculum Director When we think of shared reading, we typically think of Mrs. Wishy-Washy and enthusiastic kindergartners. In this session, Kathy will help to expand our vision of shared reading to include older students in addition to our youngest learners. Kathy will share ideas for a variety of ways to use shared reading to support children as they learn how to understand more deeply and read more closely.

She'll show some examples of work in upper level classrooms and provide many ideas for how to implement a comprehensive, high level shared reading time in classrooms across grade levels.

12:45 PM Megan Schliesman and Merri Lindgren: Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) African American Affirmation and Resilience: Books for K-5 Audience K-2, 3-5, Library Media, Curriculum Director, Preservice, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Literacy Coach CCBC librarians Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman will highlight picture books, and fiction for elementary-age children, that illuminate Black experiences, with an emphasis on affirmation and resilience.

All times are CST.

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November 18 Joyful Voices 4:15 PM Megan Schliesman and Merri Lindgren: Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) African American Affirmation and Resilience: Books for Grades 6-12 Audience 6-8. 9-12, Library Media, Curriculum Director, Preservice, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Literacy Coach CCBC librarians Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman will highlight books for middle- and high school-age that illuminate Black experiences, with an emphasis on affirmation and resilience.

7:00 PM Pernille Ripp How Do We Learn Best: Embedding Authentic Choice and Voice Audience 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Literacy Coach, English Language, Special Education, Library Media, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Interventionist, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Preservice, Consultant “How do I learn best?” is the question Pernille Ripp and her students, explore all year throughout their work, personal monitoring and growth. In this session, based on the book Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students, 7th-grade teacher Pernille Ripp will help both novice and seasoned educators create a positive, interactive learning environment where students drive their own academic achievement by honoring the individual child. Attendees will hear practical strategies for embedding choice, personalization, and sharing ownership of either the virtual or in-person classroom experience with students. Based on common-sense strategies, personal storytelling and the research behind student engagement, this is a session meant to give easy ideas that can be implemented right away as we navigate these unprecedented times.

All times are CST.

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WSRA’s November Joyful Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on creating thriving reading communities in your traditional and virtual classrooms where choice, voice, and student agency take center stage.

Connecting with students in meaningful ways and focusing on equity in instruction are cornerstones during this month of professional learning.

Leading our Joyful Voices Academy will be Juana Martinez-Neal, Pernille Ripp, Kathy Collins, Megan Schliesman, and Merri Lindgren. Joining them will be educators Mona Zignego, Lisa Hedrick, Laura Barbieri, Samantha Jayne, and Sarah Rowse-Borrelli, and Heinemann author Nancy Steineke. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the November Academy registrants throughout the school year.

November Pre-Recorded Sessions Joyful Voices Nancy Steineke Classroom Management That Creates Student Achievement, Engagement, and Collaboration Audience 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, English Language, Special Education, Library Media, Principal/Administrator, Teacher Educator, Preservice, Content Area Attendees will practice the steps necessary for creating an environment where all students feel respected, supported, and valued for their contributions, and where all students acquire the interpersonal and self-regulatory skills necessary for creating a strong classroom community of learners. Participants will leave with a toolkit of easily implemented techniques for relationship building, teaching social skills, structuring small group collaboration, and student-centered goal setting.

Laura Barbieri, Samantha Jayne, and Sarah Rowse-Borrelli Steps to Empowerment for Secondary Students: Implementing Literacy Interventions that Work Audience 6-8, 9-12, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Interventionist, Preservice Based on 19 years of combined reading intervention experience and 24 years of classroom teaching experience, we have delved into action research with the intent of finding effective reading interventions at the secondary level that work outside of the typical programming available to us. This research and implementation has resulted in identifying effective instructional practices aimed at closing learning gaps more quickly and with long-term results. We will share with you the results of 6 months of action research of reading intervention 7-12 during which we have identified successful learning strategies that empower students to utilize strategies within other content areas. A wonderful benefit to this action research has been the Tier 1 instructional practices aimed toward creating more equity in our instruction with the intention of closing achievement gaps.

Lisa Hedrick and Mona Zignego Lifting the Level of Writing Conferences Virtually and In-Person Audience K-2, 3-5, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Interventionist, Teacher Educator It has been a challenge to get a virtual classroom up and running, and even more so, your writing workshop! We'll give you tips and strategies on how to lift the level of your writing conferences both in person and in a virtual setting to continue to support your writers. How can you transfer this knowledge between a virtual classroom and the regular classroom that still allows you to connect with students in a meaningful way?

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WSRA’s December Voices for Change Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on our pedagogical practices and how we can advance education in both digital and traditional learning environments. Our speakers will explore classroom spaces that are co-constructed, where inquiry and play lead learning, and where literacy practices are not only driven by student choice and voice, but also become a whole-body experience. Leading our Voices for Change Academy will be Yong Zhao, Katie, Kelly, Kristi Mraz, Gravity Goldberg, and Lester Laminack. Joining them will be Mary Lou Harris-Manske, Kate Van Haren, Kristin Halverson, Victoria Rydberg, and Katrena Leininger. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the December Academy registrants throughout the school year.

December 9 ● ● ● ● ●

9:00 Yong Zhao 10:45 Katie Kelly 2:45 Gravity Goldberg 4:15 Lester Laminack* 7:00 Kristi Mraz

December 16 ● 9:00 Yong Zhao ● 10:45 Kristi Mraz ● 2:45 Gravity Goldberg

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December 9 Voices for Change 9:00 AM Yong Zhao Keynote: Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Audience All Professor Yong Zhao calls for a paradigm shift in education. Dr. Zhao brings extensive evidence to show that every child has both potential and need to become great. To help each and every child achieve their greatness, we need a different kind of education that focuses on enhancing the unique strengths and passion of each child. Education is to help each and every child discover and develop their strengths and passions with the goal to create value for others and the world. To do so, we need to make education personalizable by the child, instead of personalized for the child.

10:45 AM Katie Kelly Engaging Literacy Practices for Digital Learning Audience All Today's digital landscape continues to expand the way we participate in various literacy practices within and beyond the school walls. When we had to quickly shift to remote learning, we found ourselves looking for ways to engage children in learning experiences online. Whether we are teaching from home or in our traditional school settings, there are numerous ways we can integrate technology to engage students in authentic reading and writing experiences while preparing them as digital citizens. In this session, participants will explore a range of digital tools to engage students in meaningful literacy practices such as but not limited to word work, independent reading, book clubs, and writing.

2:45 PM Gravity Goldberg Developing Readers Who Choose to Read Audience All Our goal can't just be helping students learn to read, but also helping them develop the dispositions so they choose to read. Participants will learn what gets in the way of students’ reading ownership and what they need instead.

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December 9 Voices for Change 4:15 PM Lester Laminack *Live webinar only Building a House of Fiction on a Foundation of Nonfiction: Unpacking the Nonfiction Read Aloud Audience All We will explore the idea of delving into nonfiction through the doorway of fiction. Lester will take you on an exploration of one topic beginning with two fiction selections that will set up an exploration of moving through a series of nonfiction texts building vocabulary and background knowledge while moving toward deeper understanding of the topic.

7:00 PM Kristi Mraz Play as a Means for Change Audience K-2, Literacy Coach, English Language, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Title I, Curriculum Director, Preservice, Content Area Play is more than just fun; play is a way to make sense of the world, build empathy and compassion, and come to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a member of a community. This session will focus on the social emotional benefits of play, as well as address the ways play can be used to build a more inclusive community and classroom. Teacher practices will be examined to study the role of bias during children's play. Participants will leave with reflective questions, practical strategies, and research to support play as means of change.

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December 16 Voices for Change 9:00 AM Yong Zhao Information coming soon 10:45 AM Kristi Mraz Playful Explorations and Inquiry Audience K-2, Literacy Coach, English Language, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Title I, Curriculum Director, Preservice, Content Area Often small group time is spent with children completing tasks while a teacher meets with small groups. This session will help teachers re-envision small group time to be a time of playful, engaging, self-regulating explorations. This empowers children, builds executive functions, and invites children into a co-constructed space of learning. The research to support this model of small group time will be shared, as well as practical strategies to make it work in any classroom.

2:45 PM Gravity Goldberg Literacy as a Whole Body Experience Audience All When we act as though our brains are the only part involved in reading and writing, we are cutting off important aspects of ourselves. Participants will learn the research and moves that help students bring their physical, emotional, and thinking selves together. Let's reimagine literacy as a whole body experience.

All times are CST.

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WSRA’s December Voices for Change Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on our pedagogical practices and how we can advance education in both digital and traditional learning environments. Our speakers will explore classroom spaces that are co-constructed, where inquiry and play lead learning, and where literacy practices are not only driven by student choice and voice, but also become a whole-body experience. Leading our Voices for Change Academy will be Yong Zhao, Katie, Kelly, Kristi Mraz, Gravity Goldberg, and Lester Laminack.

Joining them will be Mary Lou Harris-Manske, Kate Van Haren, Kristin Halverson, Victoria Rydberg, and Katrena Leininger. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the December Academy registrants throughout the school year.

All times are CST.

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December Pre-Recorded Sessions Voices for Change Kate Van Haren, Kristin Halverson, and Victoria Rydberg Place, Passion, and Purpose: Using Our Communities and Fueling Literacy Learning in Our Classrooms Audience All Our K-12 learners are passionate about so many things‚ yet sometimes it feels impossible to get them motivated for reading and writing. Join us to explore how our local and global communities can provide rich contexts to help students find purpose for their learning. Hear from educators about how they integrated inquiry, literacy, social justice, and sustainability to increase engagement and fuel passion. Experience literacy-rich inquiry, participate in discussions and small group activities, and walk away with easily adaptable strategies and lesson ideas that engage students and encourage them to create positive changes in the places where they live.

Katrena Leininger Boss Writer: How Writing for a Reader Leads to Conventional Writing Audience K-2, 3-5, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Teacher Educator Many teachers have adopted published authors and their texts as mentors for their young writers. Teachers facilitate the noticing of craft and convention moves that writers make intentionally to influence the readers of their pieces. This session will explore how to help young writers progress from noticing the moves writers make to intentionally and purposefully using writer’s craft and conventions to boss their reader around. It will delve into how writing teachers can help connect reading like a writer and writing for a reader through the careful use of teacher language, modeling, and writing conferences to assist their writers in thinking through authentic reasons to write. Examples from primary classrooms will be shared.

Mary Lou Harris-Manske What's New in Children's Literature and Some All-Time Favorites Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Library Media, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Content Area These books teach, touch the heart , and tickle the funny bone. Participants will be introduced to a vast array of books that enhance the curriculum and support core content areas. Books for read- alouds, interactive read-alouds, mentor texts as well as books to spur independent reading will be shared. These sure-fire books will spark interest, invite dialogue, and deepen students' engagement.

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WSRA’s January Collaborative Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on accelerating literacy learning and empowering student voices through dialogic classroom cultures and project-based learning. We’ll also explore constructive coaching conversations that empower teacher voices and increase student achievement. Leading our Collaborative Voices Academy will be Gwendolyn McMillon, Dana Mitra, and Kara Pranikoff. Joining them will be Jen Breezee, Sandra Taylor-Marshall, Kathy Champeau, Peter Johnston, and Terra Tarango.

The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the January Academy registrants throughout the school year.

January 13 ● ● ●

2:45 Dana Mitra 4:15 Kara Pranikoff 7:00 Gwendolyn McMillon

January 27 ● ● ●

2:45 Dana Mitra 4:15 Kara Pranikoff 7:00 Gwendolyn McMillon

All times are CST.

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January 13 Collaborative Voices 2:45 PM Dana

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Student Voice as a Pathway Equity Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Involving young people in decision-making processes can lead to greater opportunities for equity schoolwide and schools. Session will describe the types of ways that student voice can strengthen social justice initiatives, from preschool through high school.

4:15 PM Kara Pranikoff Breathing New Life into the Talk in Your Classroom Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Content Area What we read influences our thinking, yet conversations about read-aloud books are often led by the teacher’s interpretation. What can we do to better utilize the talk that flows through all our classrooms? How can we develop strategies to strengthen student talking and listening so both become equally active roles? In this workshop we’ll consider ways to support a range of students in developing and expressing their thoughts, and then use student-reflection of transcripts and video to meet goals. Teachers will leave with concrete ideas about using classroom talk to help students become better thinkers and stronger conversationalists.

7:00 PM Gwendolyn McMillon My Community is My Classroom: Transformative Teaching in Turbulent Times (Repeats on January 27) Audience All How can we keep students engaged in literacy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and other distractions? Is it fair to expect students to care about literacy learning when the world seems to be falling apart around them? What can we do to authentically engage our students in literacy learning that matters?

All of these questions and more will be covered during the workshop. It is possible to turn your face-to-face and virtual classrooms into spaces where students want to learn. Collaborative voices from the community can be incorporated into classroom curriculum. Attend the workshop to find out how and why.

All times are CST.

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January 27 Collaborative Voices 2:45 PM Dana Mitra Civic and Inquiry Learning gains through Student Voice Efforts Audience All This work can lead to greater gains in academic and socio-emotional learning outcomes. This session will discuss the types of ways in which the design of student voice activities can lead to improved outcomes for young people. . Session will include the ways in which teachers can deepen student voice in their classroom, contexts and conditions that can help it to thrive.

4:15 PM Kara Pranikoff Coaching Powerful Classroom Talk Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Content Area In a classroom where students become the meaning makers, the teacher assumes a new role, that of conversational coach. Space is made for regular reflection as the community must consider both how the conversation is orchestrated, and what ideas are developed. In this workshop we’ll explore materials and instructional moves that foster a safe space for students to have essential conversations that build identity, respond to world events, and create communities of acceptance and inclusivity. We’ll come together to consider ways that teaching helps raise human beings who can listen with compassion and speak with strength.

Recording Gwendolyn McMillon My Community is My Classroom: Transformative Teaching in Turbulent Times (Repeated from January 13) Audience All How can we keep students engaged in literacy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and other distractions? Is it fair to expect students to care about literacy learning when the world seems to be falling apart around them? What can we do to authentically engage our students in literacy learning that matters? All of these questions and more will be covered during the workshop. It is possible to turn your face-to-face and virtual classrooms into spaces where students want to learn. Collaborative voices from the community can be incorporated into classroom curriculum. Attend the workshop to find out how and why.

All times are CST.

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WSRA’s January Collaborative Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on accelerating literacy learning and empowering student voices through dialogic classroom cultures and project-based learning. We’ll also explore constructive coaching conversations that empower teacher voices and increase student achievement. Leading our Collaborative Voices Academy will be Gwendolyn McMillon, Dana Mitra, and Kara Pranikoff. Joining them will be Jen Breezee, Sandra Taylor-Marshall, Kathy Champeau, Peter Johnston, and Terra Tarango. Some of the live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the January Academy registrants throughout the school year.

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January Pre-Recorded Sessions Collaborative Voices Terra Tarango Make It Real: Bring Literacy to Life with Project-Based Learning Audience 3-5, 6-8, Principal/Administrator, Curriculum Director Teachers want to connect literacy instruction to memorable, meaningful experiences that give an authentic context for learning, but who has the time!?!? Discover how to implement project-based learning with cross-curricular content, collaboration options, and real-world connections. Explore specific literature-aligned PBL units and discover how to implement these projects in your classroom. Come ready to be that teacher students will never forget. Leave with lesson-by-lesson project ideas to make it happen.

Jen Breezee and Sandra Taylor-Marshall Constructive Coaching Conversations Audience All As instructional coaches, we strive to facilitate and promote effective, on-going, job-embedded professional learning that results in meaningful growth in instructional practices and, accordingly, positive impacts on student learning. This session will explore the power of constructive questioning through the use of clarifying, reflective, probing, and inquiry questions to encourage teachers to reflect deeply and actively engage in solution-oriented professional learning that not only results in meaningful transformation of teacher practice but also to an increase in student achievement.

The session by Kathy Champeau has been rescheduled for February.

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WSRA’s February Connecting Our Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on infusing the work of both educators and their students with meaning and purpose, leading us all to making a positive impact in the world. The Wisconsin DPI will dive deep into our Revised Standards for ELA, and WSRA’s own Children’s Literature Committee will share their much-anticipated text sets of the best books of 2019-2020! Leading our Connecting Our Voices Academy will be Deanna Singh and Sherrill Knezel. Joining them will be Barb Novak, Laura Adams, Gayle Luebke, Sarah Rowse-Borrelli, Linda Maas, Kathy VanHimbergen, Jillian Heise, and members of WSRA’s Children’s Literature Committee. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the February Academy registrants throughout the school year.

February 10 ● ●

2:45 PM Deanna Singh 4:15 PM Sherrill Knezel

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February 10 Connecting Our Voices 2:45 PM Deanna Singh Purposeful Hustle Audience 9-12, Principal/Administrator, Curriculum Director Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all lived in our unique purpose? If that were the case, we would be able to solve the majority of the challenges that we are facing today. Even though our desire to live in our purpose is so strong, many people choose not to. Why? Because they are afraid of living in their purpose. They are unsure about how to do it, and they don’t feel like they have the right tools. If you are sick of watching your dreams drift further and further away, then this session is for you. It will help you connect your purpose to your hustle so that you can live a more fulfilling and impactful life. This program is perfect for individuals who want to make a positive impact in the world and who want to infuse their life’s work with meaning and direction. It is also great for individuals that are interested in incorporating a conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion, because Deanna will illustrate her points through that lens.

4:15 PM Sherrill Knezel Sketchnoting: Using Visuals to Empower Students, Amplify Voice, and Create Change Audience All Our students draw before they write, and drawing is thinking! This session will explore the ways sketchnoting can be used in the classroom to support the learning styles of ALL students, empower voice, and make thinking visible. Based on the compelling research that images and text used together increase engagement, memory, and retention, (Andrade, 2009; Paivio,1971; Wammes, Meade & Fernandes, 2016) using sketchnotes in the classroom can have transformative effects.

When students use sketchnotes, they are empowered to be critical thinkers whether they are reading, listening, or viewing content. When they use visuals to make meaning of content and express themselves, they build confidence and connections that can lead to change. Narrative data and student examples from upper elementary through post-secondary, as well as differentiation for ELL and neurodiverse students will be shared to show the range and possibility of this innovative literacy and advocacy tool. Participants will learn about current brain research that supports the benefits of sketchnoting to increase literacy and comprehension, take part in hands-on practice to shift their own thinking around drawing, and leave with concrete ways to use sketchnoting across all grade levels and content areas.

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February Pre-Recorded Sessions Connecting Our Voices Barb Novak and Laura Adams Wisconsin's Revised Standards for English Language Arts Audience All Examine newly-published instructional practice guides for English Language Arts. Written through a collaboration between Wisconsin educators and the Department of Public Instruction, the guides emphasize instructional practices in universal instruction for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language likely to lead to equitable learning in English language arts in K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

Virtual Office Hours will be posted in the Academy for registrants with questions.

Barb Novak and Laura Adams Advancing Educational Equity Through Wisconsin Standards for English Language Arts Audience All Participants in this interactive session will explore how to ensure standards-based English language arts instruction, materials, and assessment are both aligned with Wisconsin’s Standards for English Language Arts (2020) and engaging, meaningful, and accessible for every student. Session materials are taken from free, online learning modules created by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) available at www.dpi.wi.gov/ela Virtual Office Hours will be posted in the Academy for registrants with questions.

Gayle Luebke NOW Elementary: Implementing the Wisconsin ELA standards with Fidelity Audience All One district's journey into the implementation of the new Wisconsin ELA Standards and their methods of ensuring that they are being taught with fidelity.

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February Pre-Recorded Sessions Connecting Our Voices Sarah Rowse-Borrelli, Linda Maas, and Kathy VanHimbergen Leading to Literacy Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Literacy Coach, Library Media, Interventionist, Curriculum Director Community partnerships are giving new voices to those that may not have been very loud before. Together, we will share our practices of connecting high schoolers to elementary students in order to create a community within a suburb of Milwaukee, empowering all of the students involved to grow in all content areas as well as their literacy, self-efficacy, and personal leadership skills.

WSRA Children’s Literature Committee WSRA’s Children's Literature Committee Recommends Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Library Media, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Teacher Educator, Preservice With thousands of new books published each year, it can be difficult to know which ones are worthy of your budget to add to your classroom or library. The WSRA Children’s Literature Committee is here to help! We focus on high-quality titles with kid appeal that are diverse, authentic, and relevant in our global world to meet teachers’ needs and help students raise their voices around and through books in their community. Join our committee members as they share text sets of the best new books with themes, genres, and purposes that will engage students in reading and learning.

Kathy Champeau and Peter Johnston CHANGED FROM JANUARY TO FEBRUARY Create Dynamic Literacy Learning Environments by Maximizing Peer Relationships Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8 Literacy Coach, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant Learn to leverage critical components for creating both intellectually stimulating and emotionally healthy, self-regulated classrooms through productive peer interactions. Participants will critically analyze authentic classroom vignettes, highlighting environments which meaningfully engage children with each other, resulting in not only accelerated literacy learning, but the development of children's humanity. Through dialogue, attendees will identify the conditions necessary for student voices to permeate the curriculum with a clear understanding of how to create these same environments in their classrooms.

WSRA’s March Liberating Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on the practices necessary for equitable and liberatory outcomes for ALL of our students. We’ll look at literature as an advocacy tool and be inspired to encourage all of our students to embrace who they are. Leading our Liberating Voices Academy will be Pam Allyn, Ernest Morrell, and Sonja Cherry-Paul.

Joining them will be Peg Grafwallner, Radeen Yang, Lauren Zepp, Sandra Taylor-Marshall, and Jen Breezee. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the March Academy registrants throughout the school year.

March 10 ● ● ●

2:45 Ernest Morrell 4:15 Sonja Cherry-Paul* 7:00 Pam Allyn

March 24 ● ● ●

2:45 Ernest Morrell 4:15 Sonja Cherry-Paul* 7:00 Pam Allyn

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March 10 Liberating Voices 2:45 PM Ernest Morrell Digital Media Literacies in the ELA Classroom: Empowering Student Voices through Production and Critique

How do we help our students to become more critical consumers and producers of digital media? How do we help them to develop essential 21st century literacies without sacrificing our commitments to teaching literature and writing? This virtual session will frame media literacy education in the context of student engagement, academic development, and student voice. We will discuss how teachers can help students to ask hard questions of the media they consume and how students can experience greater joy and connection to their everyday literacies. We will conclude by exploring exciting ways that teachers can integrate digital media into their traditional children’s and YA literature-based units.

4:15 PM Sonja Cherry-Paul *Live webinar only Reimagining Book Clubs as Liberating, Identity-Inspiring Reading Praxis (Repeats on March 24) Audience 3-5, 6-8, English Language Learners In classrooms where book clubs are foundational, the experience for students can be identity inspiring. When students have access to books and the freedom of choice, they are able to see themselves in the texts they read, examine their own lives, and explore their identities. "In book clubs, students construct and reconstruct their reading identities" (Cherry-Paul & Johansen, 2018). It is this iterative process that cultivates lifelong readers. During this presentation, we'll examine the conditions and work of educators that make this possible. These conditions include disrupting identity-silencing practices, and instead, inviting students to bring their full selves to classroom spaces. It requires educators to truly know our students and understand their various, complex, and intersecting identities. And it requires us to see this work as not only essential for promoting student engagement and achievement, but as paramount for bringing about equitable and liberatory outcomes for all students.

7:00 PM Pam Allyn Every Child a Super Reader: 10 Steps to Make it Happen

March 24 Liberating Voices 2:45 PM Ernest Morrell SEL, Cultural Responsiveness, and Literacy in PK-6 Classrooms - The Seven Strengths

This session draws upon a culturally-responsive instruction and social-emotional literacy framework that honors children's languages, cultures, communities, and stories, builds a safe and loving environment in which to cultivate super readers who believe in themselves and are ready for academic achievement, civic engagement, and true joy in their reader and writer lives. In this session participants will learn the research behind each of the strengths (Belonging, Curiosity, Friendship, Kindness, Courage, and Hope), they will hear examples of each strength in practice and they will have an opportunity to consider how they might develop strengths-based practices in their classrooms and schools.

4:15 PM Sonja Cherry Paul *Live webinar only Reimagining Book Clubs as Liberating, Identity-Inspiring Reading Praxis (Repeated from March 10) Audience 3-5, 6-8, English Language Learners In classrooms where book clubs are foundational, the experience for students can be identity- inspiring. When students have access to books and the freedom of choice, they are able to see themselves in the texts they read, examine their own lives, and explore their identities. "In book clubs, students construct and reconstruct their reading identities" (Cherry-Paul & Johansen, 2018). It is this iterative process that cultivates lifelong readers. During this presentation, we'll examine the conditions and work of educators that make this possible. These conditions include disrupting identity-silencing practices, and instead, inviting students to bring their full selves to classroom spaces. It requires educators to truly know our students and understand their various, complex, and intersecting identities. And it requires us to see this work as not only essential for promoting student engagement and achievement, but as paramount for bringing about equitable and liberatory outcomes for all students.

7:00 PM Pam Allyn Literacy 365 at Home and at School: How to Ensure Children Have Access to Powerful Reading and Writing Experiences All Year Long

March Pre-Recorded Sessions Liberating Voices Peg Grafwallner Not Yet: Supporting Achievement in the Secondary Classroom Audience 6-8, 9-12, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Interventionist, Curriculum Director We must create opportunities of "not yet," where educational setbacks are allowed, even encouraged in the classroom. We must design classrooms that normalize those experiences so they become part of the process and not the product for student learning; that use setbacks as trial-and-error opportunities that assist students in process learning; that highlight the positive aspects of "not yet" as it offers opportunities to learn, and finally, empower students to realize that setbacks are often a beginning point to learning and seldom the end. Attend this session to learn how to create a classroom of "not yet" utilizing pedagogy, resources, strategies and reflections meant to highlight the challenges and successes in middle and secondary classrooms.

Lauren Zepp and Radeen Yang Confronting Ableism Through Children’s and Young Adult Literature Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Library Media, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Teacher Educator, Preservice This interactive, practical session for K-12 educators and librarians will provide a brief overview of ableism within children’s literature and its lingering impact on the educational expectations and outcomes for students with disabilities. Participants will learn how to incorporate disability culture into the content area curriculum, review a selection of titles in four developmental areas (board books, picture books, middle grade readers, and young adult literature), and receive a list of recommended titles. Educators will learn how to use literature as an advocacy tool to combat harmful ableist perspectives and encourage students with disabilities to embrace who they are.

Sandra Taylor-Marshall and Jen Breezee Talking, Drawing, Writing: Strategies for Every Writer Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Title I, Teacher Educator, Preservice How do we engage emergent and/or striving writers in the writing process? How can we build writers’ identities and confidence while emphasizing the joy of writing? Join us as we step into our writers’ shoes and engage in talking, drawing, and writing to plan, draft, and share our own stories. This session will mirror writing strategies we can use in our own classrooms to scaffold the writing process with every writer.

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WSRA’s April Innovative Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on engaging and inspiring learners in a culture of innovation that amplifies inquiry and honors student agency. Session attendees will leave with practical ideas for classroom practice, intervention, and communication in both traditional and digital learning environments. Leading our Innovative Voices Academy will be Elisabeth Bostwick, Tonya Gilchrist, and Ellin Keene. Joining them will be Diane Salazar, Shoundra Washington, Lisa Kohler, Anne Kissinger, Jen Breezee, and Christina Stefonek.. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the April Academy registrants throughout the school year.

April 14 ● ● ●

9:00 Tonya Gilchrist 2:45 Ellin Keene 7:00 Elisabeth Bostwick

April 28 ● ● ●

9:00 Tonya Gilchrist 2:45 Ellin Keene 7:00 Elisabeth Bostwick

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April 14 Innovative Voices 9:00 am Tonya Gilchrist Amplify Inquiry and Honor Agency through Readers' and Writers' Workshop Audience All You are an inquiry-based educator. You value curiosity, critical thinking, and concept-based learning. What could it look like to move a child’s critical reading and writing skills forward while also holding tight to the essential elements and core values of an inquiry spirit? Can you have it all? In this session, you'll explore the beautiful braid of inquiry, agency, and literacy. Together, we will examine how workshop practices can amplify inquiry and honor agency while maximizing instructional essentials for reading and writing. Leave with strategies for designing an agentic environment and curricular plan that keep kids at the center of it all.

2:45 pm Ellin Keene Engaging Children: Helping Students Find and Hold Onto Engagement Audience All Engagement lies at the heart of learning—remembering what is most important and using those understandings in new contexts later. What does it mean to be engaged? How does engagement relate to compliance, participation, and internal motivation? What is our role when it comes to helping students discover what most engages them? We’ll discuss these questions and ways in which students can take increasing responsibility for their own engagement whether they are learning from school or at home. We’ll also explore how we can reliably know when students are engaged and what to do when they aren’t.

7:00 pm Elisabeth Bostwick Empower a Culture of Innovation, Where Every Learner Thrives Audience All Our schools ought to be places where students explore, inquire, and unleash creative thinking within a supportive and collaborative environment. Collectively, we will explore how to create the conditions that empower meaningful learning, rooted in relationships, and lead to a culture of innovation where every learner thrives.

We will re-imagine learning experiences through integrating Design Thinking, and the use of tools that can be leveraged in meaningful ways to catalyze agency and amplify student voice. Together, we can create the conditions to inspire learners to take greater ownership of their learning and increase intrinsic motivation to take action. Every child has incredible inner potential; let’s create dynamic learning opportunities to unleash it!

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April 28 Innovative Voices 9:00 am Tonya Gilchrist There's a Better Way: Translanguaging as a Path to Empowerment Audience All Your literacy classroom is filled with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. You want to keep content challenging and relevant, but you're worried that "language limits" are getting in the way. You might even find yourself thinking, "These kids can't..." Translanguaging can help. Join us for a highly practical session on ways to empower your students to harness their entire linguistic repertoires as agentic readers, writers, and communicators. Together, we'll examine what translanguaging means and how it's changing the face of classrooms around the world in beautiful ways. We'll also explore research-based strategies to support emergent and proficient multilingual learners in a variety of teaching and learning experiences.

2:45 pm Ellin Keene The Literacy Studio: Integrating Reading and Writing Audience All Imagine a buzzing studio of literacy learning in which children understand reading from a writer's perspective and writing through the eyes of a reader. Why have we developed the habit of teaching reading and writing separately, often without making the connections between them explicit? In a Literacy Studio, lessons focus simultaneously on reading and writing, and students choose when to apply what they learn as readers and when to work as writers. Teachers, therefore, have much more time to differentiate for students through conferences and small group learning and students spend more time in independent work developing and applying the skills and strategies that matter most. Participants will discuss ways to transform reader’s and writer’s workshop into a Literacy Studio.

2:45 pm Elisabeth Bostwick Inspiring Innovation, Creativity, and Joy Within Literacy Audience All Take a deeper dive into Design Thinking and how we can incorporate it within literacy to empower learning. Design Thinking begins with fostering empathy and encourages learners to be innovative designers and problem solvers. The more we nurture a sense of wonder and place learners in the driver’s seat to generate questions and ideas, the more we empower students to take ownership of their learning. Together we will also explore tech tools that amplify student voice and choice, transforming learning experiences to feel more authentic. More than ever in today’s world, we need to promote empathy and explore new possibilities and ideas by fostering divergent thinking; thereby expanding on creativity and fostering learner agency.

WSRA’s April Innovative Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on engaging and inspiring learners in a culture of innovation that amplifies inquiry and honors student agency. Session attendees will leave with practical ideas for classroom practice, intervention, and communication in both traditional and digital learning environments. Leading our Innovative Voices Academy will be Elizabeth Bostwick, Tonya Gilchrist, and Ellin Keene. Joining them will be Diane Salazar, Shoundra Washington, Lisa Kohler, Anne Kissinger, Jen Breezee, and Christina Stefonek.. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only.The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the April Academy registrants throughout the school year.

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April Pre-Recorded Sessions Innovative Voices Diane Salazar, Shoundra Washington, and Lisa Kohler Intervention for Intermediate Grades with a Digital Component Audience Audience 3-5, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant Obtain effective methods and intervention strategies that will assist Literacy Teachers. As Title 1 professionals, we will share best practices for engaging and uplifting all learners. These interventions will focus on intermediate grade students. Various components of phonemic awareness & phonics, comprehension and writing will be presented. In light of our current situation, we will also examine how to take these best practices and show how they can be applied in a digital platform.

Anne Kissinger A Case For Literacy: Value the Activity of Reading Audience All Learn how one Milwaukee County Library is in the process of transforming the view of reading with zero extrinsic rewards (e.g. stickers, badges, logs, coupons, etc.) by valuing the activity of reading itself. Reading rewards lead to false statistical gains, oppression, lower level reading, detrimental effects to intrinsic motivation, etc.

Jen Breezee and Christina Stefonek Supporting All Students in Language Learning Across Disciplines Audience Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I Learn about the challenges of supporting the language learning of all students including English Learners and striving readers and writers across subject areas.

We will address before-, during-, and after- reading strategies to improve comprehension, such as modeling and think-alouds. Additionally, we will share strategies for producing oral and written academic language, (e.g., sentence stems and frames) and provide ways to use students’ social oral language to support their written academic language. You will experience these strategies and practice as learners and educators as you consider your own contexts.

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WSRA’s May Powerful Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on honoring and raising up all voices in our literacy communities through speaking, reading, and writing practices that foster compassion, understanding, respect, motivation, and comprehension. Our speakers will guide us toward teaching for a better world. Leading our Powerful Voices Academy will be Katherine Bomer, Tricia Ebarvia, and Marcelle Haddix. Joining them will be Clair Mitchell, Mora Moritz, David O’Connor, Nancy Roncke, Aliza Werner, and Liza Wiemer. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the May Academy registrants throughout the school year.

May 12 ● ● ●

9:00 Tricia Ebarvia 10:45 Marcelle Haddix 12:45 Katherine Bomer*

May 26 ● ● ●

9:00 Tricia Ebarvia 10:45 Marcelle Haddix 12:45 Katherine Bomer*

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May 12 Powerful Voices 9:00 AM Tricia Ebarvia Get Free: Anti-Bias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant Teachers will be invited to interrogate how to unpack the ways in which bias informs their instructional and curricular decisions. Using critical literacy pedagogies, and inspired by the work of Dr. Barbara J. Love's "liberatory consciousness," teachers will learn strategies for how to support students in anti-bias reading and writing practices as they develop greater awareness and take action toward social justice.

10:45 AM Marcelle Haddix Writing Our Lives Toward Healing in Troubling Times (Repeats on May 26) Audience 6-8, 9-12, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant What if we taught writing as if we were writing for our lives? What if we taught writing as if Black lives mattered? How do we teach writing to respond to the social and political moment? How do we support spaces for young people to write their lives? In this presentation, Dr. Marcelle Haddix will offer a framework for reclaiming writing instruction as a way toward collective healing in and beyond our school communities. The session will engage educators in understanding ways that writing can serve as a method for cultivating restored health and wellness for youth and communities impacted by the ongoing effects of racial injustice and violence.

12:45 PM Katherine Bomer *Live webinar only Raising ALL Children’s Voices: Finding Beauty and Brilliance in Every Student’s Speaking and Writing Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant Often, when we skim student writing or listen to them speak, we notice what’s wrong and what’s missing, according to current English standards. We feel our job is to correct them, making some students feel frustrated, disengaged, unseen, and unheard. Instead, we might celebrate the gifts and strengths our students have, naming them the way writers would, using language of craft rather than rubrics and scores. Students begin to feel like real apprentices learning an art. Katherine will provide protocols that help name what your students are doing well in their writing in order to help them want to revise and write more.

May 26 Powerful Voices 9:00 AM Tricia Ebarvia Constructing Thematic Literacy Instructional Units Through an Anti-Bias Lens Audience 6-12 In this session, Tricia will walk teachers through how to construct strong thematic units of study through an anti-bias, critical pedagogy lens. This practical, step-by-step workshop will support teachers in identifying engaging topics of study and engaging texts from multiple perspectives that center the voices of Indigenous, Black, and people of color communities.Teachers will leave with a protocol for text selection and lesson design.

10:45 AM Marcelle Haddix Writing Our Lives Toward Healing in Troubling Times (Repeated from May 12) Audience 6-8, 9-12, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant What if we taught writing as if we were writing for our lives? What if we taught writing as if Black lives mattered? How do we teach writing to respond to the social and political moment? How do we support spaces for young people to write their lives? In this presentation, Dr. Marcelle Haddix will offer a framework for reclaiming writing instruction as a way toward collective healing in and beyond our school communities. The session will engage educators in understanding ways that writing can serve as a method for cultivating restored health and wellness for youth and communities impacted by the ongoing effects of racial injustice and violence.

12:45 PM Katherine Bomer *Live webinar only Three Essentials in the Teaching of Writing: Time, Choice, Response Audience K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant In the past months, we have been bombarded with programs, packets of worksheets, videos and websites, all vying for our attention and our students’ attention as we navigate online, hybrid, and in person teaching. But writers do not need that information overload. Writers need time to write, choice of what to write about and in what genre, and response and feedback from us, from peers and from audiences. Katherine invites participants to refresh, renew, and remind ourselves of what those essential conditions are, and what they can look like whether we are teaching online or inside the classroom.

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WSRA’s May Powerful Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on honoring and raising up all voices in our literacy communities through speaking, reading, and writing practices that foster compassion, understanding, respect, motivation, and comprehension. Our speakers will guide us toward teaching for a better world. Leading our Powerful Voices Academy will be Katherine Bomer, Tricia Ebarvia, and Marcelle Haddix. Joining them will be Clair Mitchell, Mora Moritz, David O’Connor, Nancy Roncke, Aliza Werner, and Liza Wiemer. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the live presentation unless marked as *live only. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the May Academy registrants throughout the school year.

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May Pre-Recorded Sessions Powerful Voices David O’Connor American Indian Studies in Wisconsin Audience All Digital Technology Explore and identify ways to deepen your understanding of American Indian Studies of Wisconsin (often referred to as Wisconsin Act 31) content through texts and digital resources. Learn about ideas for implementing American Indian Studies content into practice while identifying and exploring selected resources and materials to integrate into teaching and learning or curriculum with students. Explore information about Wisconsin American Indian nations’ histories, treaties, sovereignty, and cultures.

Nancy Roncke, Clair Mitchell, and Mara Morita The Power of Student-Led Discourse on Students' Advocacy and Comprehension Audience All Experience the power of how Socratic seminars lead to increased student advocacy and comprehension. Learn first-hand from middle school students, their teachers and literacy coach while actively participating in anticipatory learning experiences that enhance Socratic seminars. With a rich foundation in comprehension and student-discourse theories, the session will culminate with everyone participating in an interdisciplinary Socratic seminar, complete with inner, outer, and cyber circles. Experience how intentional planning around student-led discussions fuels not only all students' comprehension skills, but ultimately their motivation and level of advocacy in their world.

Liza Wiemer and Aliza Werner Learning from History: Empowering Students with Holocaust Literature to Improve Our World Audience All Holocaust education is critical because the history provides a mirror for humanity today. The impact of silence, complacency, and hate continues to be prevalent.

Few students have direct ties to or knowledge of the subject. In a PowerPoint and handouts, we’ll broaden the list of literature for classroom use, explain how to use it to improve critical analysis, empower students, and foster compassion, understanding, and respect. We’ll examine/explain why some assignments such as role-playing are curriculum violence. Resources for a positive learning experience without trivializing or marginalizing will be provided.

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WSRA’s June Emerging Voices Academy will be presented in both live and pre-recorded sessions. This month’s professional learning will focus on key literacy skills in the development of our readers and writers. Through inquiry-based, student centered, and joyful instruction, we’ll give voice to student ideas, and empower them to be active participants in their learning as readers and writers. Leading our Emerging Voices Academy will be Pamela Koutrakos, Clare Landrigan and Heidi Mesmer. Joining them will be Mona Zignego and Dana Hagerman. The live sessions will be recorded and accessible for ten days following the presentation. The pre-recorded sessions will be available to the June Academy registrants and to WSRA members as a member benefit.

June 9 ● ● ●

9:00 Pam Koutrakos 10:45 Heidi Mesmer* 12:45 Clare Landrigan

June 23 ● ● ●

9:00 Pam Koutrakos 10:45 Heidi Mesmer* 12:45 Clare Landrigan

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June 9 Emerging Voices 9:00 AM Pamela Koutrakos Word Study That Sticks: Jumpstarting Engagement, Joy, and Success in Word Learning Audience All When it comes to words and grammar, knowledge just isn’t enough. This leaves teachers wondering, How might I support students in applying their knowledge all across the day? It’s time to rethink how we could authentically infuse more “word awareness” throughout the day. In this session, we will connect the dots, while also protecting the integrity and focus on content area learning. Power practices for fostering a habit of transfer will be discussed, demonstrated and tried.

Consistent, competent, and confident transfer is possible! Intended Audience: Grade K-8 teachers, coaches, administrators, and support staff 10:45 AM Heidi Mesmer *Live webinar only Letter Lessons and First Words: New Ideas and Extensions (Repeats on June 23) Audience All The big messages about phonics instruction have been well-established---Make sure that students get solid phonics instruction (Lonigan & Shanahan, 2009; Mesmer & Griffith, 2005; Snow, Burns, and Griffin, 1998). Unfortunately, the more nuanced and sophisticated messages about phonics instruction have not reached all classrooms and all teachers. This session will focus on teaching techniques that can be used in any phonics curriculum. For example, in primary classrooms children read orally to their teachers, but what do teachers say and do when they don’t know a word or make a mistake? Similarly, we want children to sound out words that they know, but how does a teacher get a child from pronouncing individual sounds /c/ /a/ /t/ to blending the word together? Likewise, teachers know that they must use explicit language, words that directly tell children what sound a letter group makes (e.g. sh = /sh/), but when is it important let students figure things out? Finally, we know that Letter-of-the-Week is not a good practice, but what does a kindergarten teacher do to bring everyone up to speed with the alphabet?

12:45 PM Clare Landrigan Changing Up Read Aloud to Foster Agency, Identity, and Interpretation Audience All Young readers have big ideas and love to talk about them. The sooner we get our readers thinking, talking, listening, comprehending, and debating during read-aloud, the sooner they will become engaged readers. Let’s talk about how to implement systems that get us out of their way and create space for authentic response. Formative assessment, instruction, community, and fun all combine with meaningful interaction with text.

June 23 Emerging Voices 9:00 AM Pamela Koutrakos Teaching for Transfer: Power Practices That Make Word & Language Learning Stick Audience All When it comes to words and grammar, knowledge just isn’t enough. This leaves teachers wondering, How might I support students in applying their knowledge all across the day? It’s time to rethink how we could authentically infuse more “word awareness” throughout the day. In this session, we will connect the dots, while also protecting the integrity and focus on content area learning. Power practices for fostering a habit of transfer will be discussed, demonstrated and tried.

Consistent, competent, and confident transfer is possible! Intended Audience: Grade K-8 teachers, coaches, administrators, and support staff 10:45 AM Heidi Mesmer *Live webinar only Letter Lessons and First Words: New Ideas and Extensions (Repeated from June 9) Audience All The big messages about phonics instruction have been well-established---Make sure that students get solid phonics instruction (Lonigan & Shanahan 2009; Mesmer & Griffith, 2005; Snow, Burns, and Griffin, 1998). Unfortunately, the more nuanced and sophisticated messages about phonics instruction have not reached all classrooms and all teachers. This session will focus on teaching techniques that can be used in any phonics curriculum. For example, in primary classrooms children read orally to their teachers, but what do teachers say and do when they don’t know a word or make a mistake? Similarly, we want children to sound out words that they know, but how does a teacher get a child from pronouncing individual sounds /c/ /a/ /t/ to blending the word together? Likewise, teachers know that they must use explicit language, words that directly tell children what sound a letter group makes (e.g. sh = /sh/) but when is it important let students figure things out? Finally, we know that Letter-of-the-Week is not a good practice, but what does a kindergarten teacher do to bring everyone up to speed with the alphabet?

12:45 PM Clare Landrigan Using Mentor Texts to Scaffold Writers Audience All The right book at the right time can make all of the difference in our writing instruction. Mentor texts serve as an additional teacher in the room when we model how to use them to lift the quality of writing and support new learning. Join us as we share ways to use mentor texts with students to scaffold learning how to write different genres; apply new instructional standards; and connect curriculum from year to year.

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June Pre-Recorded Sessions Emerging Voices Mona Zignego and Dana Hagerman Journey to Literacy Audience All Historically speaking, reading is a fairly modern invention that consists of many complex processes which ultimately lead to comprehension.

Learn about the foundations of our reading and writing system along with the simple view of reading model. The session will touch on some areas of reading that students can struggle with, such as dyslexia.

Mona Zignego Make, Play, and Connect the Dots Audience K-2, Title I, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Title I, Curriculum Director, Teacher Educator, Consultant Begin your summer with this fun webinar! Connect the dots with games, strategies, and other engaging activities designed to improve literacy skill acquisition for students alongside the existing curriculum.

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October 14, 2020

12:45 PM

Ralph Fletcher

For young writers in grades 3-6

Ralph Fletcher at 12:45 for grades 3-6

The Power of the Writer's Notebook Are you a collector? Well, the writer's notebook is a great place to collect interesting bits from your life: quotes, moments, artifacts, memories, dreams, as well as seed ideas for stories and poems you might like. In this session we'll talk about all the ways you can use a writer's notebook to jumpstart your writing life. Then a writer's notebook is not a scripted program. It's really just a blank book, but those pages are a passport into a world of writing. Ralph Fletcher is the author of A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within.

Educators who register a grade band for this field trip by September 24, 2020 will receive a free copy of Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within.

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January 27, 2021

12:45 PM

Ralph Fletcher

For young writers in grades 3-6

Ralph Fletcher at 12:45 for grades 3-6 How to Write a Memorable Memoir Memoir continues to be enormously popular.

Everybody has a story to tell. Even an ordinary life provides all the fuel you need to write a strong memoir, if you know how In this session we'll explore this fun but challenging genre of writing.

Participants will also spend time writing short memoir of our own. Ralph Fletcher has published several memoirs including Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid and Marshfield Memories: More Stories About Growing Up. He is also the author of How To Write Your Life Story.

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January 13, 2021

9:00 AM

Janet Wong

For young writers in grades K-3

Janet Wong at 9:00 for grades K-3

Building Your Poetry Suitcase How can we make lifelong learners? The extra time spent at home during the social distancing of the past year highlights the importance of finding inspiration for learning in everyday objects. Building a Poetry Suitcase as a class—and then guiding students to build one at home—is a terrific way to encourage at-home learning. Objects in the Poetry Suitcase can be as personally meaningful or as simple as a favorite stuffed animal, a potato, a marshmallow, or a twig. In this session Janet Wong will share her own Poetry Suitcase—and inspire us to make our own suitcases, with our own poems and stories inside, too.

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January 13, 2021

10:45 AM

Janet Wong

For young writers in grades 3-6

Janet Wong at 10:45 for grades 3-6

HOP TO IT! Harnessing the Power of Poetry to Get Your Students Moving Poems that incorporate movement can help younger children “get the wiggles out” and can ease the stress that older children feel—preparing everyone for a better learning experience. Poet Janet Wong will share a wide variety of poems that make us feel more joyful and alive, while also touching on topics across the curriculum, from science and math to social studies and language arts instruction. Learn more about Janet's work at janetwong.com and pomelobooks.com.

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February 11, 2021 10:45 AM Zephaniah & Zion Singh Ponder For young writers in grades 3-6

Zephaniah and Zion Singh Ponder

at 10:45 AM for grades 3-6

Small Hands, Big Change We tell our students all of the time that they can change the world. We mean it, too! In this session, brothers Zephaniah (age 12) and Zion (age 8) Singh Ponder will share how they are making a literal imprint on the world by writing a chapter book called Small Hands, Big Change.

During this session, they will help participants quickly bring their ideas to life by creating a storyboard. They will also share what their publishing journey has looked like.

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February 10 and 11, 2021

12:45 PM

Phil Bildner

For young writers in grades 3-6

Phil Bildner at 12:45 *Live webinar only for grades 3-6

Your Middle Grade Bookshelf (Repeats on February 11) Let's talk about the books that belong on your bookshelf. I mean, really talk. You know the books I'm talking about.

The ones you want to read, but when you pick them up, some grown-ups say, "are you sure that book's for you?" or "I don't think you're ready for that" or "why don't you try something else?" My new book middle grade novel A HIGH FIVE FOR GLENN BURKE is one of those books.

Why? Because it has an LGBTQ main character and LGBTQ themes. Today we're going to talk about why it's so important you have access to these types of books and why you must be allowed to read these books. Reading is not a choice. What you read is a choice. Your choice.

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March 10, 2021

12:45 PM

Mitali Perkins

For young writers in grades K-3

Mitali Perkins It's Just Fiction, Right? for grades K-3 Why is there so much controversy over books for young readers? Words like "banning" and "censorship" are hurled in fiery discussions about which books to include in a school library or reading list. In a challenging, inspiring, practical talk, Mitali presents eight questions that empower attendees to take a closer look at issues of race, culture, and power in fiction for young readers.

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March 24, 2021

12:45 PM

Mitali Perkins

For young writers in grades K-3

March 24 Mitali Perkins for grades K-3

Code-Switchers Rule the World Using a personal, humorous slide show, Mitali shares candidly about her experience of growing up in a traditional Bengali home and a California suburban school. This presentation illuminates why and how mastering the skill of "code-switching," both by crossing cultural borders in real life and through books, is part of an excellent education that shapes leaders for life.

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March 24, 2021

10:45 AM

Juana Martinez-Neal

For young writers in grades K-3

March 24 Juana Martinez-Neal for grades K-3 Live webinar only

Exploring Zonia's Rain Forest Let’s explore the rainforest of Peru with Zonia, an Asháninka girl, and Juana.

Together we will learn about the Peruvian Amazon and the inspiration behind Juana’s new book.

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