March Liberating Voices Academy

But, there is no need to wait for March. Here’s why… When you register for the complete series for Raising Our Voices: Empowering All Learners Today to Change the World Tomorrow, you have access to all of the LIVE and RECORDED sessions from October to June. This session in the March Liberating Voices Academy is already up in WSRA’s Online Literacy Learning Academy.  Log in with your username and password at www.wsra.org Navigate to the Literacy Learning Academy in the main menu of the WSRA website. Click the March Liberating Voices Academy block. There you will find this inspirational, insightful presentation by Peg Grafwallner.

“Not Yet: Supporting Achievement in the Secondary Classroom”  presented by Author and Literacy Coach Peg Grafwallner

Audience 6-8, 9-12, Literacy Coach, Special Education, Principal/Administrator, Reading Teacher/Reading Specialist, Interventionist, Curriculum Director 

Description: We must create opportunities of "not yet," where educational setbacks are allowed, even encouraged in the classroom. We must design classrooms that normalize those experiences so they become part of the process and not the product for student learning; that use setbacks as trial-and-error opportunities that assist students in process learning; that highlight the positive aspects of "not yet" as it offers opportunities to learn, and finally, empower students to realize that setbacks are often a beginning point to learning and seldom the end. Attend this session to learn how to create a classroom of "not yet" utilizing pedagogy, resources, strategies and reflections meant to highlight the challenges and successes in middle and secondary classrooms.