In this thought-provoking one-day workshop, teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, social workers, family engagement specialists, advocates, and educators in community based organizations will:

• Learn about connectional and critical literacy as ways to teach and teach students on the margins;
• Be exposed to research-based findings that examine some of the social, emotional, and psychological aspects of race, class, and gender identities that are connected to literacy and language teaching and learning;
• Analyze representations of race, class, and gender in popular culture and historical trade books commonly used in reading and social studies classrooms;
• Explore recently published books and examples of text sets that can be used in the reading and writing workshop and in disciplinary literacies across the curriculum;
• Design a useful curriculum plan integrating literature, art, and technology that expands critical literacy and close readings of texts that address Common Core Curriculum Standards as well as some of the social, emotional, and psychological gaps in literacy influenced by race, class, and gender;
• Become more confident in facilitating difficult conversations about race, class, and gender when they emerge in the classroom and/or are prompted by curriculum.

Instructor: Dr. Roberta Gardner, an educational consultant and researcher who develops school, family, and community based partnership opportunities, and provides staff development and professional learning seminars for school districts and parent groups.

Cost: $125 (includes instructional materials)

UGA Gwinnett Campus
Lawrenceville, GA

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Registration Deadline: August 16, 2013