ELA Innovation Showcase Sessions - December 11, 2013
Location: Statesville Middle School
What to Bring: Charged Laptops
Parking & Logistics: If you park in the bottom parking lot behind the school, you’ll need to climb stairs to the
top floor. If you park in the upper parking lot, come in the front door. All sessions will be on the top, first floor
or in the library. Come to the front of the school for the sign in and out table.
Session 1 (1:00-1:50)
Opening Session
Session 2 (2:00-2:50)
Session 3 (2:55-4:00)
Closing Session & Survey
Layered Curriculum
Sherrard Lewis (Room A10)
Virtual Session on differentiated
instruction for personalized
learning – Multiple Intelligences
meshed with Bloom’s Taxonomy
A Plethora of Strategies
Morrison (Room A4)
Literacy, Formative Assessment
and Developing
Homework "Buy-in"
Language Arts and the
Humanities
Brinkley (Library - Lab)
Implementing an Interdisciplinary
Newspaper Project
Bringing the Read 180 Model
into the ELA Classroom
Zurich (Room A7)
Easy implementation of datadriven groups including tips for
group management and creating
content for your stations
"International Winter Holiday"
Project and Essay
Owen & Crater (Room A8)
Help foster a love for writing
using a writer’s workshop
method for sparking
high student engagement
Teacher Created Materials
Bullock (Room A3)
Differentiated teacher created
materials with best practice
alignment and active learning
Teacher Created Materials
Bullock (Room A3)
Differentiated teacher created
materials with best practice
alignment and active learning
A Plethora of Strategies
Morrison (Room A4 )
Literacy, Formative Assessment
and Developing
Homework "Buy-in"
Snowmen of Characterization
Johnson (Room A6)
A paper doll approach to
teaching characterization
Language Arts and the Humanities
Brinkley (Library - Lab)
Implementing an Interdisciplinary
Newspaper Project
Bringing the Read 180 Model
into the ELA Classroom
Zurich (Room A7)
Easy implementation of datadriven groups including tips for
group management and creating
content for your stations
The Diary of Anne Frank:
An Interdisciplinary Unit
Meyer & Rowland (Room A10)
An overview of unit activities
including: virtual tour of the
Annex, animated geography
lesson, and Holocaust
literature/informational text
A Living Newspaper Project
Roncone & Hoffman (Room A11)
Modeled after Theodore
Roosevelt's Living Newspaper
Project, students will create an
interdisciplinary video newspaper
"International Winter Holiday"
Project and Essay
Owen & Crater (Room A8)
Help foster a love for writing using a
writer’s workshop method for
sparking high student engagement
A Living Newspaper Project
Roncone &Hoffman (Room A11)
Modeled after Theodore
Roosevelt's Living Newspaper
Project, students will create an
interdisciplinary video newspaper
BREAK
10
minutes
Snowmen of Characterization
Johnson (Room A6)
A paper doll approach to
teaching characterization
The Diary of Anne Frank:
An Interdisciplinary Unit
Meyer & Rowland (Room A10)
An overview of unit activities
including: virtual tour of the Annex,
animated geography lesson,
and Holocaust
literature/informational text
Integrating Technology:
Collaborative & Non-Collaborative
Heather Forbis (Room A10)
Virtual Session on integrating
multiple ways to use Google Docs to
facilitate learning and collaboration
-Using Google Forms to create
evaluations for student
learning and reflection.
"The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have." Leonard Nimoy