WCTE
Annual Convention
English . . . for a Change!
At the beautifully renovated downtown
Milwaukee Hyatt Regency
October 23,
2009
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Session Handouts
Convention Program
Featuring:
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Schedule of
Events
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Keynote
Session
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30+ Breakout
Sessions
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Luncheon
Speaker
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Exhibitors
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Questions about registration and billing
for the 2009 State Convention should be directed to
WCTE 2009 Conference Registration
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Enderis 310
UW-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Visit the
Hyatt
Regency Website or call
414-276-1234
for questions regarding your stay at the convention hotel. |
How do our
English Studies classrooms reflect the world around us? How do we help
students become literate problem-solvers as society becomes increasingly
complex? As our school populations change, how do we alter our classroom
practices to provide equitable learning opportunities for all our students?
How do we keep ourselves professionally current, and what forms of
professional development do we value? How do we incorporate “best” practice
into our teaching as our discipline debates and refutes it? How do we
incorporate social justice initiatives into our practice that lead to
anti-biased, anti-racist teaching? How do we teach for change?
These and other important questions, engaging ideas, and new
strategies filled the day as over 300 English teachers from around the state
attended sessions and talks given by leaders in English Studies.
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Convention Speakers |
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Christensen |
Linda
Christensen, of
Rethinking Schools and the Oregon Writing Project, addressed a general session on the topic "Putting
Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat: Teaching about Language and Power"
and offered individual workshop.
The luncheon speaker was
Brenda Cárdenas, author of Boomerang and From the Tongues
of Brick and Stone and editor of Between the Heart and the Land
View the complete convention program here.
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Cárdenas |
