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2019 Conference Roundtable Discussions

The Purpose of Discipline led by Riina Hirsch. Riina will cover classroom rules versus procedures, the goal of discipline, and student self-regulation.
• Excite, Engage, Excel: How to Cure the Apathy Epidemic led by Myriah Miller and Laura DeJour-nett. This session aims to reignite educators’ passion for teaching which will, in turn, reignite stu-dents’ passion for learning. Myriah and Laura will focus on how to excite and engage students through the of “out-of-the-box” instructional strategies.
• What’s New in Young Adult Literature? led by Mary Pensel. Mary will book talk about current fic-tion, nonfiction, and audiobook favorites. Walk away with lists for your students, your book club, or yourself.
• The Passion Project led by Ashley Raney, Jenn Lipe, and Allison Centanni. These ELA teachers invite you to join them as they describe how they give up some of their much-loved control to allow stu-dents to become involved and explore a topic they are truly passionate about.
• The One Point Rubric led by Amanda Robins. Single point rubrics are grading tools that focus on only one criterion at a time and can be used for both formal and informal writing. Learn how to spend less time grading.
• Sage/Rookie Question and Answer hosted by Misty Everett and Ashley Scheffer. Bring questions about classroom management, teaching the standards, time management—no teaching topic is taboo at this roundtable.
• Tips for Success as a Young Teacher led by Chase Guercio. Chase will cover differentiation instruc-tion ideas and how to adapt in order to connect with today’s students.
• The Reading Rainbow: LGBTQ + Affirming Literature for the ELA Classroom hosted by Kirsten LaMantia and Shannon Clapsaddle. Learn about exploring diversity through literature while affirm-ing marginalized student populations. Your classroom can become a safer environment for all stu-dents.
• Infusing Creative Writing in a Jam-packed Curriculum presented by Abigail Beckwith. Learn strate-gies and receive prompts for ways to help students develop their personal writing styles and be-come richer writers in formal compositions also.
• Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Teaching artists from SFSL will share a collection of activities which can easily be used in your classroom to introduce students to
Shakespeare’s or other classical texts.
• Tech Tools for ELA led by Danna Bruns. Technology in the classroom should be an invisible en-hancement to our lessons. It should add to the lesson rather than being the focal point. Danna will show some new and upgraded tools to add to lessons.
• Fresh, New ELA Instructional Strategies offered by Joey O’Neal. Are you looking to freshen up your ELA curriculum? Don’t miss this session on curriculum ideas and both tech and non-tech strategies.

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For more information about any of these roundtables, please contact Chris Warren  at cwarren.semo.edu

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