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NJCTE Fall 2018 Conference: Registration Open!
Save the Date! 9/29 NJCTE Fall Conference
Be sure to save Saturday, September 29th for the NJCTE Fall Conference: Approaches to Writing! We are putting together a fantastic program of professional development and networking to re-invigorate you and help you grow in your practice. Look for a registration link soon at https://njcte.com!
Follow us on Twitter with the hashtag #NJCTEFall18!
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Join the NJCTE Slow Chat on Twitter
For the next five days, NJCTE Board Member Joe Pizzo will be leading us in a Slow Chat. We hope our questions will get your ideas flowing and you will use this chat to help us think about what you want to see at our upcoming fall conference: Approaches to Writing. We also hope that you might be inspired to submit a proposal yourself and share your best practices and ideas. Submissions are due May 15 at http://bit.ly/NJCTEFallConfProposal.
You can expect a different question posted each day on Twitter. What answers do you have? What additional questions do our questions provoke for you? Please join in and respond to each day’s question. There are no time limits for posting a response. Be sure to post your response with A:1 at the front to respond to the first day’s question. Conclude your response with the hashtag #NJCTEFall18. For questions posted sequentially on subsequent days, use the appropriate day’s number (A:2, A:3…).
Again, we hope you join the conversation!
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NJCTE 2018 Fall Conference “Approaches to Writing”: Call for Papers
YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL TO PRESENT!
Submit your proposal by May 15, 2018 at http://bit.ly/NJCTEFallConfProposal
On September 29, 2018, we will gather together at the Kenneth R. Olson Middle School in Tabernacle, NJ to focus on teaching writing, K-16.
We have developed several topics we hope our presenters and participants will explore together. Please feel free to submit a proposal for a presentation on a related topic. We welcome the contributions of all educators.
- Writing Identities
- Our Writing Lives
- Writing to Develop Student Voices
- Writing to Develop Teacher Voices
- Reading and Writing
- How We Use Literacy to Shape the Life We Want to Be
- How Writing Stories Helps Students Read Deeply & Critically
- Writing in Our Digital World
- Handling the Grading Load
NJCTE invites educators of all types (public, private, cyber, charter, elem. – univ., etc.) to submit session proposals to collegially share
1) successful and trusted approaches for the teaching of writing that have evolved from or been improved by collaboration among colleagues;
2) examples of literacy instruction meant to develop students’ abilities to read, write, and think critically while adhering to the Common Core/New Jersey Student Learning Standards;
3) ways teachers can reach out to and include leaders in our communities (public librarians, local historians, business people, etc.) in order to enrich our students’ literacy education; or
4) any related presentations on the teaching of writing.
BASIC CONFERENCE INFORMATION
New Jersey educators gather at the NJCTE conference to benefit from professional programs, panels, discussions, exhibits of books and materials, idea exchanges, guest speakers, and shared classroom experiences. Additionally, many opportunities exist for educators to participate as speakers, chairpersons, recorders, and to assist with conference preparation.
Educators at any level and at any phase of their career, including pre-service teachers, are encouraged to attend and/or present.
The conference is an affordable professional development opportunity. Conference registration includes a light breakfast and boxed lunch and an NJCTE membership.
ALL PRESENTERS WILL RECEIVE FREE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND A LIGHT BREAKFAST AND BOXED LUNCH AT NO ADDITIONAL COST.
As a presenter, you have the unique opportunity to influence a wide body of educators.
We expect that you will join us as an active member if you are selected to present.
Half-year memberships are available for the discounted rate of $15.
PLEASE NOTE In accordance with the policy of the National Council of Teachers of English, and as a non-profit educational organization, NJCTE is unable to reimburse participants for travel or lodging.
Questions? Contact:
Joe Pizzo: joseph.pizzo@chester-nj.org
Twitter: @ProfJPizzo
Denise Weintraut: NJCTEMembership@gmail.com
Twitter: @SmilingTeach
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NJCTE Spring Conference – Questions and Answers
How can I deepen students’ engagement with texts by viewing them as windows, mirrors, and doors?
How can I organize virtual author visits for my own classroom?
How can I build a culture of independent reading, assess student progress, and still address the standard curriculum of my school?
What role can interactive read-alouds play in supporting student comprehension and building a culture of reading in my classroom?
What kind of digital tools can I use to help students comprehend complex texts and to support their learning from upper elementary through high school?
Is there harmony between English language arts and technology, and what kind of easy-to-apply digital tools can I integrate into the classroom to improve learning?
How can I encourage students to write unique stories starting with two simple words: What if?
How can I provide the attention, encouragement, and challenge students need to become lifelong readers who continue to read for pleasure?
What kind of games, discussions, and self-assessments can I use to improve literacy engagement and create a participatory culture in my classroom?
How can I encourage the free, open discourse fundamental to a democracy and still handle unwanted and offensive speech?
In our current climate where immigration can be a heated topic, what strategies and resources can I use to help students understand the important role immigration continues to play in our culture?
Is poetry dead along with all the poets? Are there resources to help students become better poets and develop their own creative voices?
Come to the NJCTE spring conference to hear discussion and answers to these and other questions. Go to the NJCTE website conference page and scroll to the bottom of the page to register.
Written by Patricia Schall, NJCTE board member
Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE
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NJCTE Spring Conference – Sessions for Teachers at all Levels!
We have an engaging spring conference planned with a variety of session topics. Sessions on literacy will appeal to teachers at all grade levels, especially middle school and high school.
We look forward to a diversity of speakers and presenters. We have sessions that directly address advocacy issues, such as a presenter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Philadelphia) discussing “free, open discourse in schools in a functioning democracy” and providing suggestions for teachers on “how to handle unwanted or offensive speech.”
Sessions will help teachers advocate for and develop a “liberation pedagogy” that will support students’ literacy and learning and put teachers in the position of professional decision-makers and collaborators as they help students make choices about their own learning.
We have presenters from NY, PA, and even from Minnesota. From NJ, we have presenters from schools in Morris, Ocean, Union, and Essex Counties. We are also lucky to have two NCTE Lead Ambassadors who will attend the conference; one is giving a session on “Poetry Isn’t Dead (and Neither Are the Poets).”
Laura Nicosia and Jim Nicosia have, as usual, worked hard on all the arrangements for this conference at Montclair University.
Written by Patricia Schall, NJCTE board member
Click on the conference poster (at right) to go to the NJCTE website. Scroll to the bottom of the page to register.
Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE
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NJCTE Spring Conference – Coming Soon
Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE
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NJCTE Fall Conference – This Saturday!
There is still time to register! Sign up now for 3 PD hours, a bento boxed lunch prepared by Wegman’s, and a whirlwind of SPARKs.
Here again are the details.
WHEN: October 28, 2017 from 8:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
WHERE: Chapin School, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ
WHAT: You’ll see SPARKs and hear “make it and take it” classroom suggestions about writing. “Warming Up to Writing” will start the day with Dana Maloney.
This conference will give inside tips on writing — for the journal; for e-Focus, the NJCTE Newsletter of Excellence; for our newly established NJCTE blog, and for helping students to enter our NJCTE Writing Contest.
You will hear from Kate Baker, Tina Monteleone, Christina Regua, and Joseph Pizzo. Patricia Schall will discuss intellectual freedom. And more!
Liz deBeer, editor of the New Jersey English Journal, one of seven journals named a Journal of Excellence by NCTE, will recognize contributing writers and award certificates for the editorial staff and for the journal contributors. Journals will be on sale.
Register at NJCTE.com/fallconferences. The price for non-members is $20. The price for members is $10.
Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE
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Our Conference is Fast Approaching: Register Now!
English Language Arts the Write Way: Transformative and Digital
THREE Professional Development Hours
Co-Chairs: Joseph Pizzo and Shawn Berger
October 28, 2017
Visit our website njcte.com to register online and pay with a credit card or paypal. Choose vegetarian or traditional small sub boxed lunch when you register. Wegmans will make one just for you.
Or, mail $20 check payable to NJCTE
to Denise Weintraut, 8 Elizabeth Place, Sicklerville, NJ 08081
Join us at Chapin School for cutting edge ideas!
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540
8:30 until 1:00 P.M.
Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE
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