Description:

• The workshop, “Leading Social Class-Sensitive Schools” (instructed by Mark Vagle) is an exciting, stimulating, and practical workshop for district level administrators, building principals and assistant principals, counselors, and instructional coaches. The participants will learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students; develop strategies for evaluating and coaching teachers with class-sensitivity in mind; design ways to make school improvement plans sensitive to social class; and examine how to make broad district, school, and classroom policies and practices anti-classist and anti-poverty.
• The workshop, “Turning Around Readers and Reading with a Social Class-Sensitive Approach” (instructed by Stephanie Jones) is a workshop for teachers, instructional coaches, and anyone interested in helping all students become powerful readers. Participants will learn about the social class-sensitive, five-part framework for differentiated instruction in reading; examine how social class and poverty play a role in reading and language in the classroom; analyze social class and poverty in popular culture, media, and literature through critical reading practices; design learning opportunities around working-class children’s literature; create a concrete plan for individualizing reading instruction for “struggling” readers and enhancing literacy for all students.

Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education

Cost: $145 (includes a copy of the book The Reading Turn-Around, A Five Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction)

Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Workshop Flyer

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