CONFERENCE: Active Literacy in Every Classroom Reading, Writing, Speaking – Literacy as a School Wide Initiative Featuring Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Amy Benjamin, Jeanne Tribuzzi, Nicki Newton, plus Practitioner Breakout Sessions

PRE-CONFERENCE: Curriculum Mapping 101 The Nuts and Bolts of Curriculum Mapping Featuring Jeanne Tribuzzi

Dates: Pre-Conference: May 13, 2009 Workshops and Clinic: May 14 - 15, 2009

Location: Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT 06117.

Conference Special: Groups of seven - the seventh reservation is free.

CONFERENCE: Active Literacy in Every Classroom - Reading, Writing, Speaking – Literacy as a School Wide Initiative

Please join us for a dynamic and practical conference on how to formally integrate specific, consistent, and clear literacy strategies
in every classroom between grade levels and across departments systemically K-12. Outstanding educators will present specific strategies in practical workshops.

After years of work with K-12 vertical planning through her curriculum mapping model, Dr. Jacobs has developed a set of seven essential literacy strategies to be employed school wide. Participants will learn how to analyze assessment data to determine with greater precision which strategies are needed in a school. Dr. Jacobs will be joined by several nationally recognized curriculum mapping leaders:

• Jeanne Tribuzzi will also help participants with the challenge of unpacking ELA standards and how to develop core maps during the two-day conference.
• Amy Benjamin’s groundbreaking work in helping high school and middle school teachers in ALL subjects assist their learners with language fundamentals will be featured.
• Nicki Newton's successful work with urban schools, and specific vocabulary building strategies for teachers will be a highlight of the program.

Participants will examine how to

• Employ seven specific school wide active literacy strategies for ALL learners.
• Integrate core adopted materials into school and district curriculum maps for ALL learners.
• Analyze assessment data for subject matter, skill needs and literacy needs.
• Align to specific state standards.
• Assist middle and high school subject area teachers on how to integrate literacy strategies without taking away from subject area instruction.
• Prepare for test-taking environments.
• Gain strategies for developing independent test-takers.
• Improve note-taking strategies developmentally and consistently in each class.
• Examine and critique various CM software.
• Get started with a CM initiative that focuses on active literacy.

PRE-CONFERENCE: Curriculum Mapping 101 -The Nuts and Bolts of Curriculum Mapping

For those of you wishing to learn the nuts and bolt of Curriculum Mapping, nationally recognized CM leader Jeanne Tribuzzi will be there to give you a solid grounding at our special pre-conference workshop.

Questions that will be addressed in this one-day workshop include:

• What is Mapping?
• Why Map?
• What are basic tasks schools carry out with Mapping?
• How can Mapping impact student performance?
• How can Mapping serve as a HUB for all school improvement efforts?

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs has served as an education consultant to schools and educational organizations nationally and internationally. Dr. Jacobs' new book, "Active Literacy K-12: Cross-disciplinary Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening in Every Classroom" was released in April 2006 by Eye-on-Education, Inc. She will take you through the process of Curriculum Mapping based on her best-selling books: "Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12" and "Getting Results With Curriculum Mapping," plus the video series "Curriculum Mapping: Charting the Course for Content," all published by ASCD. She is based in Rye, New York.	Dr. Ann Johnson is currently the Director of Professional Development for CMI and a national consultant. She has trained leadership teams in developing implementation plans, a training design, and support structures to sustain short-term and long-term change. Ann co-authored a chapter on implementation in Heidi Hayes Jacobs' book, "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping" and was featured in ASCD’s new DVD, "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping." She and Heidi have co-authored a training manual "Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Training Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation" to be published by ASCD late this fall.	Jeanne Tribuzzi is the Director of Language Arts, ESL and Foreign Language in the West Seneca Central School District in West Seneca, NY. She has served in a variety of roles in the West Seneca district for the past 17 years as a primary teacher, a middle school English teacher, the Director of Staff Development and is currently the ELA Director. Jeanne began mapping three years ago and is helping to lead that work in the distroct. She lives in Orchard Park, NY with her family.	Earl Nicholas serves as Director of Communication for Curriculum Designers. An experienced mapper and curriculum mapping facilitator, he is a 35-year veteran classroom teacher. Earl has also served as a software consultant since 1979, and as the district-wide mapping facilitator for a large suburban K-12 school system. Earl’s effective combination of technology expertise, classroom experience, and light-hearted story-telling have brought him high praise from both administrators and teachers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Libertyville, IL.