Past Colloquiums

Past Teaching Writing in Wyoming Lost in Transition Colloquiums

Fall 2014

	Lost in Transition: Writing and Literature in the 21st Century
Focus: Making it matter: How close reading and writing provide opportunities for deeper learning.

November 7-November 8th
Casper College Casper, WY 

Goals:

• Foster conversation and collaboration among language arts teachers across secondary and postsecondary levels.
• Extend discussions from Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 Lost in Translation events, specifically around close reading and the relationship between student reading and writing.
• Deepen teachers' (and ultimately students') understanding about the ways that reading and writing provide mutually reinforcing opportunities for learning and personal growth.
• Generate ideas to help students develop close reading skills and support their writing and textual evidence.
• Explore the CCSS components that create opportunities (and tensions) for connecting student reading and writing.

Main Events:

Friday

• Panel Discussion: Making it matter: How close reading and writing provides opportunities for deeper learning

Panelists:
Ryan Sennet and Malinda Garcia-Clapp, Wind River Middle/High School, Pavillion
Nicole Bryant, Laramie County Community College
Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming at Casper

• Close Reading: "In the Lab with Agassiz"
  
  
• Dinner Speaker- Jeff Lockwood

Saturday

• Table Discussion- Writing Assignments
  
  
• Table Discussions:
  • • On-screen/multimodal/non-traditional reading
    • Cross-subject collaborations
    • Reading as information literacy
    • Connecting "words" with "worlds"
    • Class-generated texts are reading

Fall 2014 By the Numbers:

46: Number of Participants
22: K-12 educators
6: community college educators
15: UW educators
2: Other

Evaluations

Full Agenda

Past TWW Colloquiums:

• Spring 2014- Video Conference

• Spring 2013- Lost in Transition: College and Career Ready Research
  

• 2012- Exploring the Transfer of Writing Skills

• 2011

For more details about these past TWW Lost in Transition Colloquiums, please visit the Wyoming School-University Partnership Lost in Transition English page.