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The talk itself was informative and interesting. Linda Christensen, the author of Teaching for Joy and Justice was the keynote speaker. Other speakers were Aimee Marsland, an excellent English teacher at North Providence High School and Brittany Richter, an equally excellent middle school teacher.
Linda touched on many subjects including teaching students with different backgrounds and understanding where different vernaculars come from. She broke the speech up with things like a video of a slam poet defending her mother's accent and an activity in which we would take on a role of a person whose language was silenced.
I learned a lot from the speech including how to reach students of many different backgrounds. The speech was ended by an incredible performance by Brittany's students. They all worked for hours on several slam poems. Each one focused on different topics such as how the military is viewed and how they themselves are viewed in society. Each poem gave me goosebumps. 😊
Sarah, Kelli, and I attended The Importance of Putting Down Roots: Greek and Latin Roots Studies. This was an interesting talk held my Mary Rafferty and Kimberly Reynolds. It focused on a small lecture followed by a few literacy games. One involved creating new words using roots such as pre- and anti-, base words, and suffixes such as -ology and -able.
The conference was a great and fun experience overall, I plan on returning next year! 😁
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