HONORING
STUDENT AGENCY
through Inquiry, Voice, and Choice
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Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 Literacy Journey / Overview
9:00 - 10:00 Blogfolios for Reflection
10:00 - 10:15 Bio Break
10:15 - 11:45 Trending Topics for YA Lit
11:45 - 12:15 Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 Stories that Move Us
Lessons from “Snow Fall”
1:30 - 1:45 Bio Break
1:45 - 2:45 The Open Writing Workshop
2:45 - 3:15 One Little Word
3:15 - 3:30 Writing Out of the Day
Andy Schoenborn
@aschoenborn
MCTE past-president
MRA Region 10 Rep
Chippewa River WP TC
#TeachWrite co-facilitator
ELA Teacher
Mt. Pleasant High School
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“Remember How We Forgot” by Shane Koyczan accompanied by Hannah Epperson
Poem to Begin the Day
A LITERACY JOURNEY
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Overview of the Day
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BLOGFOLIOS FOR REFLECTION
A Promising Semester Framework
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INVITING HABITS OF MIND FOR WRITERS
Curiosity – the desire to know more about the world.
Openness – the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.
Engagement – a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
Creativity – the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.
Persistence – the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
Responsibility – the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
Flexibility – the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
Metacognition – the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.
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METACOGNITION:
A Neglected Habit of Mind
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An intentional process of reflection transforms a student’s action in the classroom from the empty satisfying of a teachers assignments to a real learning experience that...builds something lasting for the writer.
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Anne Whitney, Colleen McCracken, & Deana Washell
Teaching Writers to Reflect, 2019
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A Natural Flow of Reflection
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An ELA Journey: Generating Literacy Goals
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Sharing Literacy Goals: A Letter to Future Me
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Ten minute quickwrite
+ ELA Journey Post
+ Final Exam date
= Student Example
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An Immersion in Beautiful Words: Creating Sacred Spaces
72 minute class periods
Silent Reading: 15 mins x 3 days/week = 45 mins/week
Creative Writing: 15 mins x 2 days/week = 30 mins/week
Writing Identities: Leaning on Mentors
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Writing Identities: Crafting Confidence
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HD Summative image
+ Revise/Edit CW piece
+ words from the author
+ Revision Decision
= Student example LiveWrite
Writing Identities: Reflecting on Moves as Writers
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Reading Identities: Reflecting on Reading Strides
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Learning Identities: Reflecting on Growth Territories
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Learning Identities: Reflecting on Growth Territories
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+ HD summative image
+ 3-5 areas of growth
+ 1 screenshot of growth area
+ one standard met for each area
Tying it All Together: Return of the Future Me Letter
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Tying it All Together: Looking Back to Look Ahead
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Tying it All Together: In Their Own Words
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Bio Break
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“The Danger of Silence” by Clint Smith
Poem After Break
TRENDING TOPICS
Blending Student Voice and Choice with YA Lit
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Reading. Collaborating. Learning. Publishing.
Finding Yourself in a Book
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“When students are lost in a book, they stand a good chance of finding themselves.” (Kylene Beers and Bob Probst, Disrupting Thinking)
THINK. PAIR. SHARE.
What are the topics trending in your life?
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Topics Trending in the Lives of Students
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“Start with Why” by Simon Sinek
Embracing Vulnerability and Learning to be Brave
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Getting to the Heart of Our Why?
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Calling All Readers!
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Authentic Book Clubs = Choice
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Book Head Heart Framework
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SHARED insights from texts
Maintaining Reading Flow with #Booksnaps and BHH
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Confer with Students
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Mentor Texts
Revise/Resubmit and Reviewer Comments
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Getting Published: YOU are a Writer!
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Pairing Books with Topics
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Ask your PLN
NBC Top Ten Lists
Trending Topics: High School Perspective
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Students
Questions?
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“Reading belongs to readers, not to teachers. If we want children to see reading as anything more than a school job, we must give them the chance to choose their own books and develop personal connections to reading, or they never will.”
Donalyn Miller, “Let My People Read,” Nerdy Book Club post, 2013)
Lunch: 12:00-12:45
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“Shake the Dust” by Anis Mojgani
Poem After Lunch
STORIES THAT MOVE US
Multimedia Mentors that Complement Strengths and Interests
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Model pieces of writing--or excerpts of writing---by established authors that can inspire students and teach them how to write.
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Allison Marchetti & Rebekah O’Dell,
Writing with Mentors, 2015
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Multimodal Mentor Text
NY Times
“Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”
by John Branch
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Our “Snow Fall” Project: A Twist on Teamwork
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Inquiry and action
Inviting students to engage in research, encouraging them to share with wider audiences, and celebrating their success.
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Place your screenshot here
Multimodal Mentor Texts
Stories that Move Us: Unexplained Mysteries as a Vehicle for Story
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Bio Break
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“Fire” by Judy Sorum Brown
THE OPEN WRITING WORKSHOP
Inviting Breathing Spaces to Reflect and Process
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Creative Writing / Reading Analysis / Future Me
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ONE LITTLE WORD
Synthesizing, Sharing, and Celebrating
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Poem at the End of the Day
WRITING OUT OF THE DAY
What challenged, changed, or confirmed your thinking today?
What are your next steps?
Where would you like your learning to take you?
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Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 Literacy Journey / Overview
9:00 - 10:00 Blogfolios for Reflection
10:00 - 10:15 Bio Break
10:15 - 11:45 Trending Topics for YA Lit
11:45 - 12:15 Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 Stories that Move Us
Lessons from “Snow Fall”
1:30 - 1:45 Bio Break
1:45 - 2:45 The Open Writing Workshop
2:45 - 3:15 One Little Word
3:15 - 3:30 Writing Out of the Day
Andy Schoenborn
@aschoenborn
MCTE past-president
MRA Region 10 Rep
Chippewa River WP TC
#TeachWrite co-facilitator
ELA Teacher
Mt. Pleasant High School
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CREDITS
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HONORING
STUDENT AGENCY
through Inquiry, Voice, and Choice
@aschoenborn
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