NCTE Chat
Bud Hunt has set up a chat for us at NCTE at Chatterous.
I am submitting a presentation proposal for NCTE 2011 on teaching the hero’s journey. I think the presentation would work well with the conference theme of “Reading the Past, Writing the Future.” If you are interested in and knowledgeable about the hero’s journey, archetypes, and the like, I would like to invite you to present…
If you’re planning to go to NCTE this year, I’d love to connect! I am presenting three sessions. On November 20, 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, I’ll be presenting a poster session, Where Words Become Witness: Imagining Justice across Literature and History in Hall A. This session focuses on a cross-curricular course in Social Justice in Literature…
I spent one week in Charlotte, five full days, in the Schools Attuned Subject Specialist course. I need to complete a practicum and portfolio in order to earn CEU credit, which will be quite a few credits. Plus, I can do this online, so that works out great. My first thought on completing the course…
I am so excited! Some time ago, I mentioned that two English teachers I’d love to see blogging are Jim Burke and Carol Jago. Jim Burke has created a Ning for English teachers, where, presumably, we can all look forward to regular posts in the form of blogs or forum posts from Jim! And Carol…
As you may recall, I am reading Penny Kittle’s Write Beside Them as part of a professional development project along with several other teachers this summer. I am very excited about this project. Using my experience with the UbD Educators’ wiki coupled with this upcoming experience, I plan to present a session at the next…
This post is the second in a series about my experiences at the NEH workshop Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry, and Place last week. If you haven’t read the first post, you can access it here. The second day of this workshop was one of my favorite days. We opened, as usual, with some time to…