1st Annual Hiatt Partnership Best Practice Workshop

December 12, 2007, Jonas Clark Hall, Clark University

Schedule

2:45-3:55 Workshops

Writing with Attitude: Using Grammatical Structures as Catalysts for Generating Sentence Style
 Chad Malone (Claremont Academy) Room 102

Giving Vent to Your Voice: Experimenting with Character Point-of-View to Find the “You” in Writing
 Karen P. Higgins (Clark M.A.T. ’04; Leicester Middle School) Room 104

Improving Numeracy in the Physical Sciences
 Richard Bickford (Claremont Academy), Fjedor Islamaj, Ann Nann, Tara Vaidya (South High) Room 106

Literature Circles in the Content Areas (History & Science as examples)
 Jody Bird and Ricci Hall (UPCS) Room 118

4:00-4:45 Workshops

Powerful Questioning: Alternatives to the Guessing Game
 Peter C. Weyler (UPCS) Room 102

Infusing Art into Literature: Using Art-Making as a Means of Expression and Engagement in the English classroom
 Pascalia Mattioli and Leann Ledoux (South High) Room 104

Mathematics Learning in a Friendly-Letter Way
 Kate Shepard (UPCS) and Adelina Zaimi (Claremont Academy) Room 106

CSI Science Class: Case Study Investigation in the Science Classroom
 Joann Foley (Claremont Academy), Carmen Davila & Sue Zendzian (South High), Jody Bird (UPCS) Room 118

Using Touchstone Texts to Build a Reading-Writing Community in an Elementary Classroom
Jennifer Conlon and Susan Allen (Hiatt Elementary) Room 120

4:45-5:30 Workshops

This We Believe: An NPR-inspired Reading-Writing Unit
 Dan St. Louis (UPCS) Room 102

Not Another Test! Using Alternative Assessments
 Kitren Farrell (South High School) Room 104

Representing Algebraic Thinking: Math and Minds in Motion
 Shannon Hammond (UPCS) Room 106

Developing Historians in Elementary School: Examining the Johnstown Flood of 1889
 Martha Dewar (Hiatt Elementary) Room 117

Beyond the Field Trip: Resources for Educators in Informal Education Settings
 Chelsea Kammerer-Burnham (Clark M.A. ‘06; Boston Museum of Science) Room 118

Bring Science Ideas to Life: Inquiry-Based Experiments for Elementary & Middle School
Patricia McKeon (Claremont Academy) and Bruce McGuire (Sullivan Middle) Room 120