The National Writing Project in Vermont presents
Saturday Specials 2006 - 2007
An Educator Workshop Series of
Writing & Teaching Ideas for Vermont Teachers K - 12

Also sponsored by the Vermont Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts
&
The Bread Loaf Teacher Network

Marty Gephart is a  lifelong writer, ELA teacher grades 6-12 for 23 years at the Rochester School, Vermont Institute ELA consultant for 3 years and Writing Assessment Coordinator at DOE for two years (networks meetings, NECAP development, PD in reading/writing).

Rebecca Reimers began her teaching career in 1998 in New Jersey after completing her student teaching in a public high school in the Bronx. In 2002, after fourteen years of teaching in New York state and Middlebury Union High School, Vermont, she retired in 2002 and is currently home full time raising three children and focusing on early childhood education. 

Come and celebrate writing through art, music and literature. This workshop explores how to teach young children the craft of writing.  Together we will experience various activities that make the writing process a positive and successful one.

Instructors: Instructors: Katie LeFrancois, NWP-VT and Violetta Powers

Katie LeFrancois is a first grade teacher at Northfield Elementary School.  She has been a classroom teacher for grades K-3 and received her Masters in Creative Arts and Learning from Lesley University.  She has been a National Writing Project Teacher Consultant since 2003.  Violetta Powers is a K/1 multiage classroom teacher and assistant principal at Thorpe Elementary School in Danvers, Massachusetts.  She received her Masters in Special Education from New York University and is currently finishing a Certificate in Advanced Graduate Studies at Salem State College.

Saturday January 27th
Reading/Writing Connections

We have traditionally thought of reading and writing as opposites – reading was considered a receptive skill and writing as productive. We approach reading and writing tasks differently even though we use the same kinds of cognitive strategies when composing or making meaning of text. In this workshop, we will view reading and writing as connected. Participants will engage in various reading and writing activities, with a focus on multicultural literature, to make more explicit the reading and writing connection. We will explore how to make more visible for students what it is that experienced readers and writers do when they compose and when they make meaning from texts.

Instructor: Cynthia Reyes, University of Vermont; Co-Director, NWP-VT

Cynthia Reyes is an assistant professor of middle level and secondary literacy education at the University of Vermont. As a middle grades public school teacher, Cynthia taught Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies in 5th, 7th, and 8th grade bilingual classrooms.  Her research interests include literacy, writing development of refugee and immigrant students, and exploring multicultural identity through narrative writing.

Saturday March 10th
Digital Storytelling

Pablo Neruda wrote, “All paths lead to the same goal:  to convey to others what we are.”  In this workshop, teachers will walk the path of digital storytelling, developing a familiarity with the potential of multimedia projects–– ones that combine images, music, and the spoken word–– to relate an important event or experience.  

Instructors: Julia Hewitt, Cabot School and NWP-VT
& Heidi Ringer, Warren School and NWP-VT

Julia Hewitt reads and writes with her high school students at Cabot School and has been affiliated with the National Writing Project in Vermont since 1997, as teacher consultant, technology liaison, and co-director.  Heidi Ringer teaches at the upper elementary level at The Warren School, and has been a National Writing Project teacher consultant since 2001.  In this capacity she has facilitated Open Institutes, Young Writers’ Institutes, and inservice series, and most recently, with Julia, has co-directed NWP-VT’s Invitational Summer Institute.

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