UNIT ORGANIZER ROUTINE – Teachers use the Unit Organizer Routine to plan units; introduce and maintain the big ideas in units; and show how units, critical information, and conceptsare related.

CONCEPT MASTERY ROUTINE – Teachers use the Concept Mastery Routine to define, summarize, and explain a major concept and where it fits within a larger body of knowledge.

FRAMING ROUTINE – Teachers use the Framing Routine to transform abstract main ideas and key topics into a concrete representation that helps students think about and talk about the key topic and essential related information.

Cost: $275 (includes refreshment breaks, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction.)

Successful completion of  both workshops will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.

Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus

For more information and to register online, visit the website.

2014 Journal of Language & Literacy Education Conference

“Literacy and/for Social Justice: Inspire, Engage, Create, Transform”

Georgia Center

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Due by Oct. 1, 2013

As educators, students, researchers, community members and others expand notions of what “literacy” means, they must also increase efforts to ensure that literacy opportunities are equitable for and welcoming to all.

The JOLLE Conference theme this year, “Literacy and/for Social Justice: Inspire, Engage, Create, Transform” emphasizes the role of literacy, both as a means of incorporating social justice into curriculum and as a method for performing socially just practices.  This theme welcomes wide-ranging notions of how one might define or practice literacy, and of how one’s understandings of literacy might include or address issues of social justice.   The JoLLE@UGA Conference established itself last year as being action-oriented, bridging theory and practice, informed by research and practice, and also inventive and creative.

Submissions
We invite practicing teachers, researchers, professors, community organizers and students to explore the following: How are you addressing social justice through literacy? In what ways are you learning about social justice issues from literacies found in schools, communities, or other places?  In what ways do forms of social justice shape literacy?  In what ways do literacies shape understandings of social justice?

Proposals for the conference should be submitted online at:
http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/conference/

This strategy is designed and found to be most appropriate for students in grades 6 through 12 (although some have taught the strategy successfully to 4th graders). Students who can write complete sentences and well-organized paragraphs respond most successfully to instruction in the Theme Writing Strategy.

Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Cost: $275 (includes refreshment breaks, parking pass, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction.)

Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.

For more information or to register online visit the website.

Stegeman Coliseum
100 Smith St.
Athens, GA

Performing Arts Center
Hodgson Hall

230 River Road
Athens, GA

Please note:  Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy, the precursor to the Paragraph Writing Strategy, in order to provide students with the minimum sentence writing skill prerequisites needed to successfully write paragraphs.  The Sentence Writing Strategy Workshop is scheduled for September 26-27, 2013 at River’s Crossing in Athens.

Cost: $275 (includes instructor’s and student lessons manuals (The Instructor’s Manual features a systematic sequence of instructional procedures; the Student Lessons Manual features exercises that correspond to the instructional procedures), packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoints (support teacher development and implementation of the Paragraph Writing Strategy) sent electronically following the workshop.

Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.

Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus

For more information and online registration visit the website.