Past Colloquiums
Past Teaching Writing in Wyoming Lost in Transition Colloquiums
Fall 2014
In Fall 2014, TWW and the Literature Summit teamed up to present the Lost in Transition: Writing and Literature in the 21st Century.
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Lost in Transition: Writing and Literature in the 21st Century
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Focus:
Making it matter: How close reading and writing provide opportunities for deeper learning.
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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:
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- 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
Past TWW Colloquiums:
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Spring 2014- Video Conference
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Spring 2013- Lost in Transition: College and Career Ready Research
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2012- Exploring the Transfer of Writing Skills
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2011
For more details about these past TWW Lost in Transition Colloquiums, please visit the Wyoming School-University Partnership Lost in Transition English page.