Summer 2012 Literacy Institute

The Language of Teaching: Planning, Instructing, and Assessing Writing

Dates and Location

• Monday to Thursday, July 9–12, 2012
  
• 8:00 am–3:45 pm (Registration opens at 7:30 am on day one.)
• Lesley University
  University Hall Amphitheatre (2nd floor)
  1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140

Description

The Summer Literacy Institute is designed to engage primary, intermediate, and middle school educators in thoughtful learning experiences and hands-on work.  Each year, different experts in the field of literacy will guide participants in thinking about best practices of literacy teaching and learning. Available for 2 or 3 graduate credits for an extra fee. All keynote speakers and topics will be announced by March 2012. Please keep checking this page for details as they unfold.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Katie Wood Ray, Writer and Researcher

After leaving Western Carolina University where she was an Associate Professor of language arts education for eight years, Dr. Katie Ray is now a full time writer and researcher of the teaching of writing. With a focus on the study of writing craft, she leads teacher workshops and summer institutes across the nation. Katie is the author or co-author of eight books on the teaching of writing, including:

• Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classroom (NCTE, 1996)
• Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom (NCTE, 1999)
• The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts) (NCTE, 2001)
• What You Know By Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop (Heinemann, 2002)
• About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers (Heinemann, 2004)
• Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop (Heinemann, 2006)
• Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten (Heinemann, 2008)
• In Pictures and in Words (Heinemann, 2010)

Lesley University's Literacy Collaborative faculty members will present primary, intermediate, and middle school small group sessions: