Summer 2021- June and July

 Summer 2021 Reading

No matter your plans this summer, these booklists and ideas for educators and kids will serve your needs with novels, non-fiction, and professional development.  Read to learn, advance your knowledge and action in social justice, escape, or find adventure.

Institute for Arts Integration in STEAM Summer 2021 Reading List 

Random House Teachers and Librarians Summer 2021 Reading List

NEA Get Serious About Summer Reading

Teachers, Books, Readers Blog

MDE Summer 2021 Early Reading Guidance

 Check your local library for summer reading programs:

• Ann Arbor District Library

• Northfield Township Area Library 

• Dexter Library Summer Reading Family Events

• Saline District Library Imagine Your Story

• Chelsea Library 

• Manchester Library 

• Ypsilanti Library 

• Milan Public Library 

Summer Literacy Learning for Kids

Summer Learning

Self Guided Book Studies @ WISD

This summer, read these educator titles at your own pace with the self guided book studies.  Content will be posted in late July for self guided study and online discussion with others.   

Then, we'll have one synchronous live meeting in August for each book.

Books will be provided for Washtenaw County educators

Register HERE for all 

  

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy 

by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad

    

Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst

    

The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop, (and you can too!) A Must Have Resource for Teaching Writing in grades K-12 , by Kwame Alexander

We Got This. Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, by Cornelius Minor

Responsive Teaching Coalition CountyWide Opening Day! 

August 23

Join us for an amazing professional learning session with Dr. Bettina Love and Dr. Christopher Emdin, as they offer keynote addresses on how educators can achieve educational equity by centering students, families, and the community. 

Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia. Her writing, research, teaching, and educational advocacy work meet at the intersection of education reform, anti-racism, carceral studies, abolition, and Black joy. The aim of her scholarship is twofold: firstly, to advance how the field of education understands and critiques the systemic and structural racism of public education within the U.S.; and secondly, to advocate for abolitionist approaches in the field of education that seek new possibilities for educational justice. 

Dr. Christopher Emdin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University; where he also serves as Director of the Science Education program and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He is the author of the award winning book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation and the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach In the Hood and the Rest of Ya’ll too. 

 FREE for WISD educators- register HERE

Bringing Joy to Your K-5 Classroom with Diverse Books-  August 16 (repeat session)

You’ve heard the buzz about diverse books, but what does that mean? How and why do you use these books in the classroom? Join instructional coaches and teachers from Washtenaw County to learn the multiple purposes diverse texts can serve and how to honor student identities through text. 
Register HERE
 
A limited number of books will be raffled off during the session. 
 
WASHTENAW Educators Only. Limited to 30.
 

State Provided Professional Learning

Disciplinary Literacy- Offered to Secondary Educators by the Disciplinary Literacy Taskforce

PreK, K-3, Coaching and Schoolwide Essentials Online Modules

August

Literacy, Equity and Engagement Tools 

While I am feeling inundated by a plethora of resources coming through all social media and e-mail, there are a few that catch my eye as they relate to literacy, equity and building community in classrooms- virtual or face-to-face: 

All Students Need Anti-Racism Education

Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive

First Week of School Stations

EduTopia Learning Stations to Kick off The Year

How to Make a Digital Bookshelf in Google Slides

We know articles and activities certainly don’t solve the multiple challenges we are facing right now, my hope is that they may allow some reflection and help in planning at some point in the near future.

 

WISD Professional Learning in August 

August 10, 13, 18, 20, 21 Cultivating Genius Book Study

August 13th Essential Instructional Practices in Literacy Grades 4-5

August 14th Essential Instructional Practices in Literacy Grades K-3

August 19th Back to School EdCamp

August 20th Socially Just Assessment and Grading 

*Register for all in the WISD ABC System

*Please contact Melissa Brooks-Yip for Literacy topics and Amy Olmstead Brayton for Assessment 

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Register HERE

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 Summer Literacy Learning in our Community

AADL Summer Game

Northfield Township Area Library Summer Reading Club

Dexter Library Summer Reading Family Events

Saline District Library Imagine Your Story

Chelsea Library Summer Reading Program

Manchester Library Youth Summer Reading Registration

Ypsilanti Library Summer Challenge

Milan Public Library 

February

 What are Teachers Reading? 

Teachers in The Study of Early Literacy (SOEL) 3 are reading Write Now! Empowering Writers in Today's K-6 Classroom by Kathryn Ganske.  With a focus on writing instruction, Write Now! details:

• What writing instruction should look like in the age of high standards
• The power of mentor texts to teach narrative and informational writing skills
• Strategies for teaching argumentative and persuasive writing
• Vision, choice and identity in motivating writers
• Multi-genre projects to integrate social studies and science

Upcoming Literacy and Technology Professional Learning

IDLL hosts Dr. Liz Kolb on Learning First, Technology Second

March 22 at Huron High School, Ann Arbor

Hosted by the Inquiry into Disciplinary Literacy and Learning teacher network-  all are welcome! 

REGISTER HERE

*THIS IS RESCHEDULED FROM DECEMBER 14th. 

Learning with technology doesn't happen because a specific tool “revolutionizes” education. It happens when proven teaching strategies intersect with technology tools, and yet it's not uncommon for teachers to use a tool because it's “fun” or because the developer promises it will help students learn.

Learning First, Technology Second offers teachers the professional learning they need to move from arbitrary uses of technology in their classrooms to thoughtful ways of adding value to student learning.

*About the Author:  Liz Kolb is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books, and the creator of the Triple E Framework for effective teaching with digital technologies.

Dr. Ernest Morrell on Every Child a Super Reader

SOEL and Responsive Mathematics once again host Dr. Ernest Morrell on March 13th at EMU.

Register HERE

Dr. Morrell will continue working with participants around the 7 Strengths Framework, on how to foster:

• belonging
• curiosity
• friendship
• kindness
• confidence
• courage
• hope

 SUMMER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

SAVE THE DATES

• August 1, 2, 3:  SOEL Summer Institute at WISD- for educators focused on PreK- 3 (with a focus on early literacy instruction and the PreK-3 Essential Instructional Practices) along with Teacher Action Research.

                 Pre-register HERE

• August 21: EdCamp as WISD- for all educators

July

Summer Reading for YOU!

For Literacy Instruction

Elementary:

 The Not This, But That Series

"By the end of each book in this series you will understand both what not to and what to do to improve student learning."
-Nell Duke and Ellin Oliver Keene, Series Editors

Much like the diet phenomenon Eat This Not That, this series aims to replace some common, existing teaching practices with approaches that are more effective—healthier, if you will—for our students. We hope to draw attention to widespread practices around important instructional topics that have little support in research or professional wisdom and offer alternatives that have greater support. Each text is collaboratively written by authors representing research and practice. By the end of each book, you will understand both what not to do, and what to do, to improve student learning (from Heineman.com)  

* These texts will be among the book club choices for the SOEL network. 

Secondary

This is Disciplinary Literacy: Reading, Writing, Thinking and Doing... Content Area by Content Area

Disciplinary Literacy is about to go from theory to game plan—taking students from superficial understanding to deep content expertise. And guess what? ReLeah Lent’s big secret lies in highlighting each content area’s differences—advancing a discipline-specific model in which literacy is used as a tool for strategic thinking, reading, writing, and doing within each field.
That’s right—no more reading strategies used uniformly across the curriculum. Instead, This Is Disciplinary Literacy helps content-area teachers put into action the key literacies of their specialties. Teaching science? Students must evaluate evidence and question as they read. History? Comparing and contrasting sources and interpreting the import of events are key. Writing in Math? Accuracy is favored over elaboration and craft. Reading fiction in ELA? Synthesizing and attuning to voice and figurative language reign supreme. Students fully own knowledge because your instruction zeroes in on the academic habits that matter most.  

* This text will be a book club choice this year for the IDLL network.

For Pleasure Reading

NPR's 100 Best Summer Beach Reads Ever!  

Looking for something to read on the beach?  These 100 titles are recommended by NPR listeners!  

Summer Professional Learning

May

Crafting Digital Writing

     April 23 was a day of Crafting Digital Writing with Dr. Troy Hicks for over 75 teachers of Washtenaw and Livingston County.  Our day is documented on Troy's Wikispace designed especially for that day. Through careful consideration of our Mode, Media, Audience, Purpose and Situation, we explored multiple digital tools to use for our own writing as well as in K-12 classrooms. After a look at many real-life student and teacher examples, we had time to explore and create.  A group favorite was WeVideo, a tool for creating digital stories. 

*Save the date for October 8th, 2015 when Troy returns to work with us on Digital Reading! 

Upcoming Professional Learning Opportunities

     May 16, 17, 18- virtual and free! 

   This virtual conference is hosted by the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Education and School of Information. The WISD and LESA is proud to partner in 4T.

The conference is FREE and OPEN to all educators.   The sessions target K-12 practicing and preservice teachers.   Links to the virtual rooms are found on the conference schedule page.  SCHECHS are available.  Register today! 

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  Writing Collaborative

June 16, 17, 18     WISD     8:30-3:00     Open to all grade 4-12 teachers      $125

REGISTER HERE

 Helping teachers and students understand writing in the content areas in order to make explicit the processes and strategies needed to improve student writing.

**All trainings are three days in length: 

 Lunch not provided.  SCHECHS available.

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The Study of Early Literacy  

 August 3-7    8:30-3:30  WISD   FREE

 ( Open to PreK-3 Livingston and Washtenaw Educators only) 

The Study of Early Literacy (SOEL) is a committed group of PreK-3 educators learning, researching, and applying best practices in the teaching of early literacy.  While SOEL gears up for our third year, we are pleased that our work has led to a publication in the Michigan Reading Journal.  Interested in joining us this summer and for the 2015-2016 school year?  Read and complete this form or contact me at mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org or 734-994-8100 ext. 1266.

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Echoes and Reflections:  Holocaust Education

August 27, 2015   8:30-3:30 at WISD. 
Open to any Social Studies teacher in grades 6-12  
FREE 
SCHECHS available
Lunch not provided.
Echoes and Reflections is a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of resources for middle and high school teachers. Echoes and Reflections prepares educators to teach about the Holocaust in a way that stimulates engagement and critical thinking while providing opportunities for students to see the relevance of this complex history to their own lives. 

See more information HERE 

REGISTER HERE