Policy, Practice, and Power: Upholding Our Convictions in Demanding Times

October 19, 2012
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

• Conference Flyer (PDF)
• Conference Program (PDF)
• On-Site Registration Available

On Friday, October 19, 2012, we will welcome two inspiring voices to East Lansing, Michigan:

Jim Burke – teacher and author of almost twenty books, including The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession and What's the Big Idea? Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking.

Dr. Anne Ruggles Gere, Professor of English, Professor of Education, President of The James R. Squire Office of Policy Research in the English Language Arts, Director of the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan, and author of Writing on Demand: Best Practices and Strategies for Success.

We invite educators to submit presentation proposals that highlight new ideas and best practices for teachers, instructors, professors, and other practitioners in Language Arts. Please consider submitting a proposal that highlights:

• The challenges of differentiating instruction in your classroom.
• How best to address issues of diversity, identity, and social justice in the classroom
• How best to guide students toward critical, multi-faceted views of the English Language Arts.
• Creating engaging lessons while attending to Michigan Content Standards and/or Common Core Standards Ways you and your colleagues are working out the new core content standards to improve education.
• Young Adult and Children’s Literature.
• The implications of Web 2.0 and/or incorporating New Media into the classroom.
• Or just something great that you are doing in your classroom that you’d like share with others!