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Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: Nurturing a Powerful Culture of Reading in Our Digital and Physical Classrooms
Presented By Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen
Four, 75-minute webinar sessions from 5:00pm to 6:15pm Eastern Time (ET). Please note that this webinar series is scheduled for Eastern Time (ET). If you are in a different time zone, please plan your schedule accordingly. Are your students journeying through reading as though they were commuters, not explorers? Have you had book clubs fade or fizzle in your classroom? Or perhaps you've avoided book clubs altogether, unsure about the benefits of students taking on such an endeavor. In this four-part webinar series, Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen share their research and experienced vision about the power of book clubs. Participants will oscillate between being teachers in this space as well as members of a book club to live this experience through the eyes of students. Sonja and Dana address ways to create a culture of reading through book clubs that extends throughout the year, how to get book clubs up and going, and strategies to support and deepen student discussion and comprehension of texts. They will demonstrate the power and purpose of book clubs to help students delve deeply into issues related to equity and justice. And in this digital landscape, Sonja and Dana provide the best tips and tech for virtual book clubs. This webinar series, presented by the coauthors of Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers, is chock-full of their best tips for bringing joy and depth to student-led, blended-learning book clubs. Whether you are looking to breathe new life into book clubs or to begin implementing them in your classroom, this webinar series will give you the insights and practical guidance needed for success. SESSION 1 Why book clubs? Organizing and setting up clubs. Clarifying roles of teacher and students in book clubs. SESSION 2 Getting clubs up and going. Helping clubs develop identities. Teaching into talk. SESSION 3 Reading the word and the world. Supporting students as change makers who read to forge an antiracist future. SESSION 4 Studying and coaching into clubs. Taking a blended-learning, inquiry-based approach. Dana Johansen has taught elementary and middle school for more than fifteen years. Dedicated to the ever-expanding applications of technology in the classroom, she presents at national conferences on the use of blogs, digital texts, and flipped learning in literacy instruction. She is the coauthor, with Sonja Cherry-Paul, of the titles Breathing New Life into Book Clubs; Flip Your Writing Workshop; and Teaching Interpretation: Using Text-Based Evidence to Construct Meaning. Follow her on Twitter: @LitLearnAct. Sonja Cherry-Paul is the director of diversity and equity at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project as well as the cofounder and cofacilitator of the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy. Dr. Cherry-Paul leads presentations at national conferences and provides professional development for educators on reading and writing instruction and equity and inclusion. Her most recent books are Critical Literacy: Unlocking Contemporary Fiction (with Mary Ehrenworth and Heather Burns), and Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Teaching Interpretation: Using Text-Based Evidence to Construct Meaning (with Dana Johansen). Follow her on Twitter: @LitLearnAct @SonjaCherryPaul. Classroom teachers of grades 3-8, literacy coaches, reading and language arts specialists, curriculum coordinators, and administrators. The cost of this four-part webinar series is $125.00 per person. Tuition also includes access to the webinar series recording for 60 days. To support your learning in this webinar, we highly recommend Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers. Registrants will receive multiple emails from Heinemann, including enrollment confirmation, which also serves as your tuition receipt and contains some basic instructions. If you have not received your confirmation email within 48 hours of your registration, please contact us at workshops@heinemann.com or 800-541-2086, ext. 1151. Approximately two days prior to the event date you will receive an email with the PD event's Zoom link and log-in instructions. We highly recommend you test your computer readiness by clicking on this link. If your computer needs any software upgrades, Zoom will walk you through the updates. Note: We encourage group participation; however, we require that each person be registered and provide a unique email address. Our Registration Form is now standardized to be used for any Heinemann PD Services open-enrollment event. Download our new PD Event Registration Form here.Date and Time
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03/04/2021-03/25/2021 - Starts March 4, 2021- 5:00-6:15pm EST
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