Workshop 1: The Power Of Feedback: Two Easy Pieces moderated by Tom Fanning -----

Grant Wiggins, in his article "Seven Keys to Effective Feedback,"  writes that “decades of education research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning.” In this workshop, you will use two Google tools that provide feedback in remote and in-person settings: Google Forms and Google Classroom. Once you’ve learned these processes, you have the opportunity to systematically apply the power of feedback to your learning activities.

Workshop 2: Teaching Students to Write for Real: Real Audience, Real Purposes and Real Genres moderated by Jennifer DiGrazia and Catherine Savini ------

How can we get students excited about writing and teach them to write in a variety of contexts? One avenue for this is to provide students the opportunity to write in a variety of genres, for a variety of audiences and purposes. The focus of this workshop will be on teaching students how to conduct genre analyses.  Students who learn how to gain access to unfamiliar genres and who understand how genre, audience, and purpose shape discourse, are better prepared for college and beyond. Participants in this workshop will leave with a useful exercise that they can easily adapt for their classrooms.

Workshop 3: Educators Speak Out moderated by Momodou Sarr and Kelly Norris ------

This breakout session will highlight the individual experiences of educators and students as we navigate school during the time of Covid-19. The presentation is based around a Rethinking Schools article which asked teachers and students to recall moments of solidarity they've witnessed, inequalities they’ve seen, examples of lives they've seen affected, and their hopes and fears for public education in a post-pandemic world.