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 |  | Katie is an educator whose experiences include working as a teacher in elementary, bilingual, international, and college level settings. Currently Katie works as a professor at DePaul University in Chicago specializing in literacy. She has co-developed and facilitated summer writing institutes, worked with diverse districts as a consultant, and has sustained working relationships with schools, teachers, and administrators through teacher research, study groups, critical literacy workshops, and collaborative writing for publication. Her recent book is entitled, What If and Why?: Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms, in addition to her numerous published articles.
Her presentation topics include: Writing, Writing Workshops; Reading, Comprehension, Engaging with Literature, Workshops; Multilingual Learners in Literacy Classrooms; On-going Assessment Informing Instruction; Critical Literacies; Teacher Induction; and Teacher Research. |
Katie Van Sluys's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
| Katie Van Sluys consults with teachers, administrators, and students at the elementary level as well as with pre-service teachers. Read the full list of presentation topics here.
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Prior Staff Development Experiences
| Van Sluys has taught courses, summer workshops, and presented at various conferences throughout the United States.
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Previous Presentations
| These presentations are just some of the many types of presentations Van Sluys offers.
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Workshop Descriptions
| Work with Katie Van Sluys in these workshops to pursue issues and strategies to help all students in becoming critical readers who use reading in their everyday lives for pleasure, problem solving, and action.
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NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs)
| Katie was a member of the NCTE ELL Task Force that created this position paper, and she offers workshops grounded in its principles, including the knowledge and skills mainstream teachers need in order to develop effective curricula that engage English language learners, develop their academic skills, and help them negotiate their identities as bilingual learners. |
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Published Works by Katie Van Sluys
Being and Becoming Multilingual Writers' Practice
|  This Language Arts article discusses a study that examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
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"Seeing the Possibilities": Learning from, with, and about Multilingual Classroom Communities
|  This article examines the lives of four multilingual students, their classmates, and teacher as they use a range of semiotic systems to learn from, with, and about each other and their surrounding social worlds. Research reveals how literacy practices not only built on students’ resources but also invited critique and change.
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ELL article in Classroom Notes Plus
|  In this excerpt from an issue of Classroom Notes Plus, Katie and Hadley Smillie detail a unit for studying poetry by building on students' lives and languages.
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Additional Publications
| Katie Van Sluys has published in numerous journals, developed Internet sites, produced teaching videos, and is in the process of writing a book on critical literacies.
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Related Resources
Van Sluys President of WLU
|  Katie is in her second year as WLU president. WLU is an NCTE Conference made up of whole language support groups and individual professionals interested in developing and implementing whole language in educational institutions. WLU is based on a view of whole language as a dynamic philosophy of education.
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Here's What Workshop Attendees Had To Say!
| At a recent writing workshop in the classroom for K-5 teachers, Katie received excellent feedback. Attendees loved the practical ideas and great organization of the day. Click here to read more.
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Writing Workshop Kit for K-8 Teachers
|  If you want to incorporate a writing workshop into your classroom or you are looking to improve workshop results, this kit can help. Katie can visit your school to discuss writing workshop and the kit is then important for continued conversations among teachers.
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Education and Professional Experiences
| During her consultations, Katie Van Sluys draws from her numerous educational and professional experiences.
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