Conference Presentations: National and International

National Presentations

Writing Centers

• Sustaining Secondary Writing Centers in the 21st Century
• Starting a Writing Center and Making it Work
• Continuing Dialogues for Creating Effective Secondary School Writing Centers
• Writing Centers in the 21st Century, Using Writing Centers to Create Schoolwide and Community Connections
• What is a Writing Center?
• The Role of Computers in Leading Change Through Writing Centers
• What Keeps a Writing Center Going: Writing Centers and Their Place in the School
• The Writing Center: A Multifaceted Facility
• Writing Centers and Computers: A Natural Collaboration
• Peer Tutoring in Writing Centers
• The Role of the Writing Center in Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing
• Rogue Waves in Secondary School Writing Centers: Problems and How We Stay Afloat
• Secondary School Writing Centers in the 21st Century
• Role of the Guest Artist in the Writing Center
• Connecting Writing Centers in Secondary Schools, Colleges, and Universities: Collaborative Research into Practice
• Prioritizing in the Writing Center: Visions and Reality
• Organic Centers: Changing Ourselves, Our Goals and Our Interactions with Faculty and Students
• A Good Laugh is Sunshine in a House or a Writing Center
• Training Writing Center Staff   

Writing

• Opening the Floodgates: Giving Creative Writers Access to the Writing Center
• The Art of Composing: Writing, Music, Visual Media; Queen of the Prince Mines
• The Word in the World: Language, Spirit, and Writing

Technology

• Re-visioning Language, and Literacy: Hands On Technology Involvement and Integration Strategies for All Grade Levels
• Computers and the Classroom: Turning Possibilities into Reality
• Computers in the Writing Classroom
• Writing to the Max and More: Why Writing Matters to Us and Our Students
• Independent Writing Units

Writing Across the Curriculum

• Implementation and Evaluation of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
• Different Perspectives for Integrating Writing into Middle and Secondary School Science
• What is Dialogue? Why Use it as an Element of Writing Across the Curriculum?
• WAC and Writing Centers in Secondary Schools: Beyond Institutional Assumptions
• Cross-Disciplinary Activities to Improve Writing, Thinking and Learning
• Using Exit Interviews to Improve Teaching and Learning in the Sciences
• Cross-Disciplinary Activities to Improve Writing, Thinking and Learning
• Writing to Learn Math 

High School-College Collaboration

• Bridging the Gap: Two Programs for High School and College Articulation
• Catalysts for Change: The High School, Community College and University Writing Center
• WAC Links between Colleges and High Schools
• Andragogical Practices for Writing Centers: Are Students Prepared For College Composition and Literary Studies Through Technology and WAC Practices?

Writing and the Visual Arts

• The Democracy of Imagination: Exploring Language Through Visual Arts
• A Ninth Intelligence? Visual Processing Across Disciplines
• Variations on a Theme of Music, Art and Writing
• Expanding Our Palette: Using Visual Composing Strategies to Tutor Writing
• Articulating: Teaching Writing in a Visual Culture
• Innovations Through Writing in the Visual Arts

Faculty Development

• Composition and Lifelong Learning, Alternatives to Grading Student Writing
• Secondary School Collaborations for Faculty Development
• Race, Region, Religion, and Gender: Learning from Marginalizations on the Job
• Writing Center as Center of Faculty Development
• Shaping a New Generation of Teachers of Writing Through International Collaboration
• Whose Learning is it Anyway? Choices to Demonstrate Learning
• Writing Across the Disciplines for Faculty Development
• Secondary Teachers as Professional Writers Publishing Your Own Work