Summer Professional Development Opportunities for Literacy
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Reading Apprenticeship (Middle and High School): WISD August 19, 20 and September 24. Learn the framework that both teachers and students use to grow as literate thinkers and in their comprehension as they speak, read, write, and listen across the curriculum.
Washtenaw Writing Collaborative (Middle and High School): WISD August 21, 22, and September 25. Learn best practices in writing built on the spirit and principals of the Reading Apprenticeship framework, and develop an implementation plan for your classroom.
Michigan Model ELA Model Curriculum: Professional Learning for Literacy Leaders (K-12): Lansing, MI June 24-27. Learn the writing units aligned to ELA CCSS with current reading and writing theory and practice supporting UDL and RtI approaches, formative and summative assessments.
11th Annual Summer Literacy Conference- RLTC (K-8) August 13, 14, 15, 2013 in Hillsdale, MI. Attend 1, 2, or all 3 days. Topics include Writing and the CCSS, Close and Critical Reading, and Nonfiction. Nell Duke is the guest speaker on Day 3.
Internet Resources
In his Knowledge Quest article, Michael
Edson (Smithsonian Institution) recommends several websites with resources for
librarians, teachers, and students:
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The Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/about
has a wiki
page for every species on Earth.
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Zooniverse http://zooniverse.org enables
citizens to
contribute to scientific research (for example, accurately
modeling
global climate change).
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OpenStreetMap www.openstreetmap.org
is a free,
worldwide map in the fashion of a wiki.
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Ancestry.com http://ancestry.com has 900,000
participants who have created more than 26,000,000
family trees.
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Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com is a
crowd-funding
project that has raised $319 million for various projects.
Pedagogy Wheel
This wheel, originally designed to show Blooms Taxonomy levels, was adapted to consider pedagogy possibilities for mobile devices. It gets us thinking about how Bloom's levels from 1956 can be pulled into the 21st century with the technology that exists today for students and teachers.
SBAC Resource
The SBAC Practice Test is set to be available today!
Available nearly two years before the assessment system is implemented in the 2014-15 school year, the Smarter Balanced Practice Tests allow teachers, students, parents, and other interested parties to experience the features of online testing and gain insight into how Smarter Balanced will assess students’ mastery of the Common Core.
The Smarter Balanced Practice Test is available to schools and districts for practice and training purposes, professional development activities, and for discussions with parents, policymakers, and other interested stakeholders.
You can find the practice test at: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/Practice_Test/default.html
