Save the Date... MTS PD Day 2024 with Ellin Oliver Keene

The Reading Council of Greater Winnipeg will welcome Ellin Oliver Keene to Winnipeg for MTS PD Day, Friday, October 25, 2024. We return to the Caboto Centre for a day of professional learning packed with strategies and ideas. 

Ellin will present "Integrating Reading and Writing for Engaged Learning," a day-long presentation geared toward Grade 3-9 teachers. 

Teachers are all too familiar with the complex issues in teaching reading and writing; how do we teach standards effectively; how do we differentiate meaningfully; how do we engender deeper thinking in students? Perhaps our greatest challenge in literacy instruction, though, is the tyranny of time. We struggle to find time for students to read and write independently, time to confer with individuals and meet with small groups, and time to provide meaningful, in-depth instruction when there are so many standards and curriculum objectives. 

Most of us learned to read and write as separate subjects making it difficult to craft instruction that integrates reading and writing but when we do make integration work, the impact on students is enormous. We find that students are far more engaged and their learning more permanent when they understand how the same objective or standard impacts them as readers and writers. We can help students craft more potent written pieces and comprehend more deeply if we integrate instruction. Let’s talk about the nitty gritty of launching a Literacy Studio in your classroom.

As with last year, lunch will be included in the registration fee! More information and registration information will be posted in the summer.