Donalyn Miller's Blog, page 12
November 21, 2009
Standing Room Only
While Donalyn was signing books at the Wiley booth, she and I thought it would be good for me to attend Kelly Gallagher and Jeff Anderson's session: Rethinking Literacy Instruction in the Age of Readicide. I got there just as...
NCTE: Student Identity and Beowulf
Donalyn Miller is on the go at NCTE: stalking authors and learning how to engage students with the classics.
What's On Everyone's Mind: Reading
Attended an interesting session this morning on "Reviving Reading in the Post-NCLB World." The discussion included 10 roundtable leaders speaking about: teacher and student agency. Very interesting what's happening in the classroom that runs parallel and counter to tests, tests,...
NCTE: High School Readers and Writers
Donalyn Miller learns how Penny Kittle and Jeff Wilhelm motivate high school students to read and write.
November 20, 2009
NCTE: Reading Identity
Miller discovers reading rock stars and NCTE.
Peace it Forward
Just left a pretty interesting session: Engaging the Community Through Photovoice Pioneer Middle School in Michigan has been taking a group of 8th graders to NYC to shoot photographs and write poetry. Last year, they decided to focus on pace...
It's a Ning Thing
In a session on engaging students in online literary responses, there were some interesting discussion points about the use of blogs for fostering literary interpretations (ie, students read To Kill a Mockingbird while writing personal blogs about their social world)....
NCTE: Intellectual Freedom
I just left a panel discussion on censorship and YA literature with Lauren Myracle, Jay Asher, and David Leviathan, authors whose books have been censored for exploring topics like suicide, puberty, and sexual identity. Each author described their experiences with...
Opening Sessions- National Council of Teachers of English
Donalyn Miller stalks authors at NCTE.
There's a Buzz in The Air...
After a private bus tour on the NCTE shuttle from the hotel to the massive Philly Convention Center (also hosting this weekend's marathon--about his busy-ness today the security guard at the door said, "They're getting their money's worth."), I have...
