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MATE
Manitoba Association of Teachers of English
and Canadian Council of Teachers of English
Engaging Readers and Writers
West Kildonan Collegiate, 101 Ridgecrest Avenue
(off Main St.)
October 23, 2014
7:00 pm.
Pre-Conference Event
Manitoba authors Meira Cook, Patrick Brisson, Karen Smith and Daria Salamon will be sharing their insights and reading from their work.
Award Presentations and readings
will be followed by a wine and
cheese reception. RSVP by email to
Linda Ferguson at [email protected].
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park Shopping Centre
October 24, 2014
9:00–10:00 a.m.
Keynote: Penny Kittle
10:00–10:30 a.m.
Health Break
10:30–11:30 a.m.
Morning Sessions (marked A1–A8)
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Lunch: a list of restaurants is
provided in your folder
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Afternoon sessions (marked B1–B7)
Stories that Teach: Following
our Students to Build Energy
and Sustain Hope
Penny Kittle
We can lead students to read, write, and revise every day in our classrooms through layers of practice that support the varied needs
and abilities of our students, but it isn’t enough.
Teacher energy is a key factor in learning and our
energy comes from listening to children and seeking ways to reach them. We need a better balance
between leading students and following them in
the tradition of Donald Graves. I will share the
stories of recent students who have challenged
and inspired me to be a better teacher.
As a professional development coordinator for the
Conway, New Hampshire, School District,
Penny Kittle acts as a K–12 literacy coach
and directs new-teacher mentoring. In addition, she teaches writing
at Conway’s Kennett High School and in the Summer Literacy Institutes at the
University of New Hampshire. Penny is the author and coauthor of numerous
books with Heinemann including Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion
in Adolescent Readers; Children Want to Write (coauthored with Thomas Newkirk);
Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, which won the 2009
James N. Britton Award from NCTE; The Greatest Catch, and Public Teaching. Penny
coauthored two books with Donald H. Graves—Inside Writing and Quick Writes. As
an in-demand Heinemann Professional Development Provider Penny delivers PD
workshops, webinars, and on-site seminars and consulting services.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Afternoon sessions (marked C1–C6)
2:00–2:15 p.m.
Health Break
2:15–3:15 p.m.
Afternoon sessions (marked D1–D4)
8:30 a.m.–2:15 p.m.
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10:30–11:30 a.m.
Morning Sessions
A1 Using the Graphic Novel
in the Classroom (EY/MY/SY)
David Alexander Robertson
The graphic novel is an incredible tool for education. Not only does it powerfully motivate
students to read, and become better readers,
the graphic novel can make learning easier
and more effective in all subject areas. David
Robertson will discuss how his personal history, growing up detached from culture, led
him to write graphic novels, and will use his
graphic novels as a case study on how the
graphic novel can be used in the classroom.
David A Robertson is a graphic novelist
and writer who has long been an advocate
for educating youth on indigenous history
and contemporary issues. He has created
several graphic novels, including his newest series, Tales From Big Spirit, as well as
the bestselling 7 Generations series. He
was a contributor to the anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land
of Water (2012) and is currently the cocreator and writer for the upcoming television series The Reckoner. His first novel,
The Evolution of Alice, will be published in
fall 2014. David lives in Winnipeg with his
wife and four children, where he works in
the field of indigenous education.
Code: A1
A2 Shakespeare in Action
(MY/SY)
Shakespeare in the Ruins
Shakespeare In The Ruins not only performs
the works of the Bard, but also teaches students how bring the text to life! Join us for
a “Shakespeare In Action” Workshop, designed to give students the chance to participate in basic techniques and exercises
used by a professional actor when tackling
a scene from Shakespeare: thereby demystifying the language, and offering them the
visceral thrill of power and discovery that
comes with harnessing Shakespeare’s language to a dramatic action. “Shakespeare In
Action” Workshops are an affordable and
effective way to break through student’s
preconceived ideas about the Bard.
Code: A2
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A3 Read Write Revise: The
Power of Daily Practice in
Writing (EY/MY/SY)
A5 Reading Visuals:
Preparing for the Grade 12
ELA Exam (SY)
Penny Kittle
It's a no-fail zone: the writing notebook.
Notebooks anchor the daily work in my
classroom and lead students to improve
voice and clarity in their writing. We will
explore how to use quick writes, re-reading, and revision to motivate students to
invest more in their writing. Breathe life
into your writing workshop with notebooks for gathering thinking. Teach students to craft sentences with intention.
My students practice imitation of beautifully crafted sentences to learn the flexible
thinking required when using conventions
to assist readers. We practice sentence
study across genres, moving to writing beside charts, tables, and graphs to improve
research writing.
As a professional development coordinator
for the Conway, New Hampshire, School
District, Penny Kittle acts as a K-12 literacy coach and directs new-teacher mentoring. In addition, she teaches writing at
Conway’s Kennett High School and in the
Summer Literacy Institutes at the University of New Hampshire. As an in-demand
Heinemann Professional Development
Provider Penny delivers PD workshops,
webinars, and on-site seminars and consulting services.
Code: A3
Paul Reimer
Reading visuals plays the largest role in our
reading lives. We read visuals almost 100%
of our waking hours, even when there isn’t
a book near us. Teaching students how to
read and how to interpret visual images, and
then how to respond in such a way that they
can accurately and successfully complete the
Provincial ELA exam’s question on a visual
text, is a crucial skill. Just as important, is
teaching teachers to do this properly. As an
ELA teacher, a photography teacher, and in
his job as a professional photographer, Paul
has a well-developed vocabulary and set of
principles to follow when reading a visual.
Students who learn to read visuals with language that is specific to such interpretation,
typically do really well on that exam question. The aim of this session is to help teachers teach students to do well, while learning
to read visuals for themselves.
Paul Reimer is a photography teacher at the
Steinbach Regional Secondary School, a professional photographer and a long-time member of the provincial ELA exam program.
Code: A5
A4 Alive and Kickin’ (EY/MY/SY)
Mark Essay
Join Mark as he shares strategies to increase engagement in the classroom. Delve
into the world of humour and find moments in your day to just laugh and enjoy
the profession that sometimes challenges
us more than we can handle.
Mark Essay is a high school educator at
Portage Collegiate Institute who has travelled the world sharing his strategies with
educators and corporate trainers.
Code: A4
A6 Engaging Students
Through Relationships (SY)
Krista Vokey
Relationships are the foundation of learning. It is through the process of creating
and developing relational classrooms that
teachers are able to provide critical thinking and learning environments. Through
the lenses of social and restorative justice
approaches, participants will explore philosophies and practices of restorative justice and strategies to support and extend
relationships in the classroom. Relationship with the self will also be explored
with references to mindfulness.
Krista Vokey is currently a senior high
school principal in St. John’s, NL. Former
roles in education include assistant principal, provincial English Language Arts
curriculum developer, district English Language Arts program specialist and Department Head of English.
Code: A6
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A7 The School Yearbook
as a Teaching Tool (MY)
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
B3 Northern Storytellers
(EY/MY/SY)
Dave Gowriluk and Gwen Toonstra
A good yearbook should be interesting, informative, and full of wonderful memories.
It can also be a means by which your class
can demonstrate a number of curricular
outcomes and have the experience of creating a lasting memory of their years at
school. In this session, participants will examine the possible uses of a yearbook as a
teaching tool, and learn just how easy it is
to create a yearbook for the entire school.
Dave Gowriluk is a Grade 7 and 8 classroom teacher at Shamrock School in Louis
Riel School Division. Gwen Toonstra is a
yearbook representative for LifeTouch.
Code: A7
Consult restaurant list in program
Dr. Carolyn Creed
The lessons Cree elders convey have been
collected on a project called VOICE. I facilitated a course in Oxford House, MB,
that allowed me to elicit and record teachable stories I will share, from elders of that
community and Grand Rapids.
Carolyn Creed is a Career Educator and
Associate Professor at University College
of the North.
Code: B3
A8 Building a Classroom
Library on the Cheap: A
Winnipeg Guide (MY/SY)
Elizabeth Bourbonniere
More middle and high school teachers are
starting to build classroom libraries of
high-interest books to encourage students
to read. Unfortunately, books are expensive, and the task of building a great classroom library can seem daunting, especially
when schools and divisions aren’t providing unlimited funds. Which books will
students like to read? Where can a teacher
get these books at bargain prices? What
can teachers do to encourage students to
develop an interest in books and reading?
Elizabeth will share her book-buying secrets and tell you when and where to get
the best deals on books in Winnipeg--even
where to buy brand-new books for a fraction of the prices they sell for in stores.
She will share the titles of books that have
been popular with her students and talk
about some of the strategies she uses to
motivate students to read.
Elizabeth Bourbonniere, an avid bargain
hunter, teaches senior years ELA at River
East Collegiate, where she has a classroom
library of a thousand books, all of which
were gathered in the past two years.
Code: A8
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Lunch
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions
B1 The Canadian Museum
for Human Rights: Virtual
Tour and Education Program
Offer (EY/MY/SY)
Mireille Lamontagne, CMHR
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
is the first museum solely dedicated to the
evolution, celebration and future of human
rights through a uniquely Canadian lens.
Our aim is to build not only a national hub
for human rights learning and discovery, but
a new era of global human rights leadership.
This presentation will provide participants
with a virtual tour of the Museum’s galleries
and exhibits and an overview of school programs to be offered in January 2015.
Mireille Lamontagne is the Manager of
Education Programming for the Canadian
Museum of Human Rights. She has 20
years of experience working in museum
education and interpretation, museum
practice, as well as ancient indigenous cultural heritage.
Code: B1
B2 From Africa With Love
(EY/MY/SY)
Nina Logan and Deb Radi
Learn how community based organizations
can turn the tide of HIV/Aids in sub-saharan Africa. Along with 20 other women
selected from over 150 "Grandmothers"
Groups across Canada, Deb and Nina were
part of a Social Justice educational experience. They connected with the Grandmothers and the children in their care in
Ethiopia, Rwanda and South Africa who are
supported by the Stephen Lewis Foundation through community initiated projects.
Deb Radi currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg and Nina Logan is a Reading Recovery teacher in Pembina Trails
School Division. They are both volunteers
with Grands 'n' More Winnipeg.
Code: B2
B4 Teachable Books for
Reluctant Readers (MY/SY)
Colleen Nelson
As a Middle Years Teacher for many years,
Colleen believes that every student can be
a reader, they just need to find the right
book. This session will look at a variety
of novels that might just be ‘the’ book to
hook your reluctant readers. (While my YA
novel, The Fall, will be discussed, this isn’t
a sales pitch for it. I promise!)
Colleen Nelson is a Winnipeg-based author and educator.
Code: B4
B5 Write on Target: Seeking
Confidence in our Writers
(MY/SY)
Margaret Murray
This one hour session will provide strategies for teachers to build self-confidence in
student writers and to provide examples of
student writers’ notebooks.
Margaret Murray is a high school English
teacher in the River East Transcona School
Division who motivates her students to be
actively engaged in reading and writing.
She will share ideas that have worked for
her high school students.
Code: B5
B6 It’s Good for All Learners:
Inquiry-Based Learning
in the ELA Classroom (MY)
June James
Inquiry-based learning increases student
engagement and motivation. Participants
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will learn the theory behind inquiry-based
learning, as well as practical ways to implement inquiry in the ELA classroom.
June James teaches at Guildford Park Secondary School in Surrey, British Columbia
and is the Past President of CCTELA.
Code: B6
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions
C1 Stripped Down Macbeth
(MY/SY)
Shakespeare in the Ruins
Shakespeare In The Ruins is proud to
present Stripped-Down Macbeth, the onehour, nothing-but-the-hits version of the
Bard’s famous tragedy. Performed by a
cast of four professional actors, the show
is set in a murky, post-apocalyptic land
with the three Weird Sisters planning the
rise and fall of Macbeth. Complete with
sword fights & quick costume changes,
the Stripped-Down series of plays makes
Shakespeare enthralling for students and
adults alike! This production tours schools
in Winnipeg, rural Manitoba, Ontario and
Saskatchewan.
Code: C1
C2 Writing with Passion
in Research: Stories as
Evidence to Support Ideas
(EY/MY/SY)
Penny Kittle
This session will show how students combine narrative and research to connect
with and challenge their readers. Drawing
on extensive reading in literature and in
non-fiction supporting a topic they’ve chosen to study, students develop and answer
essential questions that arise as they write
to learn. Students are taught to read their
work to anticipate misunderstandings and
to create duets of voices between writer
and sources.
As a professional development coordinator
for the Conway, New Hampshire, School
District, Penny Kittle acts as a K–12 literacy
coach and directs new-teacher mentoring. In
addition, she teaches writing at Conway’s
Kennett High School and in the Summer
Literacy Institutes at the University of New
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Hampshire. As an in-demand Heinemann
Professional Development Provider Penny
delivers PD workshops, webinars, and onsite seminars and consulting services.
Code: C2
C3 Using (Auto)biography
to Teach Writing (EY/MY/SY)
Mark Reimer
As the expert in the content of your life,
you have the best opportunity to put that
story into words. The events of your life
will become the primary content around
which we will practice writing and design
a series of writing lessons for use in our
classes. We will also listen to readings
from memoirs, biographies, autobiographies and books about writing along the
way to help gain ideas about how we can
write, and to build a resource library list to
support the writing lessons we build. This
unit design can be adapted for use at any
grade level. Come prepared to write.
Mark Reimer read Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott) and started writing stories about
his own life and designing ways of using
biographical writing to teach his students
how to improve their reading and writing.
Code: C3
C4 Thinking Together About
ELA Curriculum Renewal (EY/
MY/SY)
Karen Boyd and Shelley Warkentin,
Manitoba Education
This round table session will provide participants the opportunity to hear the thinking around and with the English Language
Arts curriculum renewal. It will also provide time for feedback and questions.
Karen Boyd and Shelley Warkentin are the
Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning English Language Arts and Literacy
Consultants.
Code: C4
C5 Intro to Photography
(EY/MY/SY)
any necessary cables, etc. to facilitate some
photography and editing during this session. Come prepared to recharge your batteries and hone your
photography techniques.
After 24 years of teaching English and
doing photography, Paul is now teaching
full-time photography in Hanover School
Division and taking photographs as a sidebusiness. He leads international photo
trips almost every spring break, most recently to Machu Picchu in Peru.
Code: C5
C6 Launching a School
Literary Anthology:
A Performance Piece
for the ELA Program (SY)
Shaena Oberick and Lisa Whiteside
As the teacher advisors for the Garden
City and West Kildonan literary anthologies, we hope to share the success we’ve
had in publishing an anthology of student
work. Too often, our student writers go under the radar, with their artistry confined
to their own journals and their teachers’
file folders. A literary anthology is a fantastic opportunity to create that “performance piece” or real world opportunity to
write for an audience. In this session, we
will share the inspiration behind our own
literary anthologies, and we will walk you
through a step-by-step process of creating your own school edition. Chris Dueck
from Friesens is also willing to join us for
an informational piece on working with
publishers.
Shaena teaches Gr. 9–12 ELA at West
Kildonan Collegiate and has been the
teacher advisor for the two editions of
Spark: The West Kildonan Collegiate Literary Anthology. Lisa currently teaches
Grade 12 ELA at Collège Garden City Collegiate and is one of the teacher advisors of
Threads. The project has run for four years
at Garden City and was inspired by a previous SAGE presentation.
Code: C6
Paul Reimer
In this session, Paul will guide teachers
who are looking to improve their photography skills through the basics. Participants
are encouraged to bring their cameras and
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2:15–3:15 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions
D1 Use Your Imagination: Twelve
Concepts of Imagination for
Your ELA Class (MY/SY)
Karen Smith
The strength of literary work lies in the
imagination. Yet, if we limit the development of imagination to the singular dictionary meaning, we are unlikely to take
our students into the depths of the realms
of imagination so eloquently expressed by
writers throughout history. In this session
you will expand your notions of imagination and experiment with your own imagination through hands-on activities.
Karen E. Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Education, University
of Manitoba.
Code: D1
MATE Membership..........................$20
MATE Student Membership...........$10
Conference Fees
MATE Full Membership Fee and
SAGE Conference...........................$60
Conference Only (Non-Member)...$59
MATE Student Membership Fee and
SAGE Conference...........................$20
Onsite Registration
MATE SAGE conference and
one-year membership....................$65
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D2 Handing them the sword:
Empowering students to read
and write with real purpose!
(MY/SY)
Anne-Marie Rochford
This presentation will provide practicing
teachers with lesson-ready ideas for supporting reading and writing in classrooms
through authentic activities that support
text. Nothing encourages students to engage in reading and writing more than having a genuine, captivating and meaningful
purpose. The use of debate, mock trials,
demonstrations, community service projects, propaganda experiments, talk shows
and social media provide some color to
the processes of reading and writing and
provide a unique forum for students to address themes, topics and issues, especially
those relating to social justice.
Anne-Marie Rochford has been teaching
for 15 years in Northern Saskatchewan and
Northern Manitoba where she completed
research for her M.Ed and currently works
as a high school ELA teacher and department head in Cranberry Portage.
Code: D2
Send completed registration form and
cheque or money order payable to
MATE to:
Linda Ferguson
10-730 River Road
Winnipeg, MB R2M 5A4
[email protected]
204-255-1676
Please Note:
Where seating is limited, those who
have registered in advance will be seated
before those who register onsite.
D3 Strengthening Adolescent
Literacy Skills (MY)
Valdine Bjornson, Heather Khan
and Rosana Montebruno
Presenters will review and describe assessments and strategies to build upon adolescent students' literacy skills especially
those who struggle with reading, writing
and comprehension—EAL students will
also be discussed.
Valdine Bjornson, Heather Khan and Rosana Montebruno are Reading Clinicians in
St James-Assiniboia School Division.
Code: D3
D4 The Desire to Inspire:
How To Motivate Students To
Write (MY/SY)
Colleen Nelson
Award-winning YA author and educator,
Colleen Nelson, will present a workshop
to help teachers inspire and coach students
through the writing process. As a facilitator for creative writing workshops in many
schools, Colleen brings her knowledge of
the writing and publishing processes to
students who are both reluctant and gifted writers. Her two books, Tori by Design
and The Fall were both published by Great
Plains Teen Fiction. Her third book, 250
Hours will be released in October, 2015
Code: D4
Parking
Please note that parking attendants will
be directing conference participants to
nearby parking, as parking bans have
been lifted for the day.
Additional parking available at the Red
River Community Centre parking lot at
the corner of Main St. & Murray Ave.,
and across Main St. at the Kildonan
Community Church, 2373 Main St.
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