Presentation Topics

• Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers (preK, K, 1st- 3rd grade)
• Where’s the Phonics (and other stuff people always ask you)?: Understanding and Articulating the Breadth and Depth of Children’s Learning in Semantically-Rich Classrooms
• “They Come From Brilliance”:  Home and Community Language and Literacies and Implications for Learning in the Lives of All Children
• Developing and Maintaining Professional Study Groups: Structures and Strategies for teachers and administrators 
• Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching (several possible workshop structures):
  • Supporting New Teachers: A Workshop for School and District Administrators
  • Hanging On to the Vision: A Workshop for New Teachers and Their Colleagues
  • Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: A Workshop for New Teachers, Their Colleagues, and Administrators
• English Language Learners:  Embracing Multiple Languages in PreK and Elementary Classrooms