Practice strategies anchored in brain research and proven to produce success for all students. Each workshop guides teachers through the “Plays” for top reading and writing performance. Join us in-person or online.
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“The Best of the Best— informative, fun, relaxed.” Thomas Burns, 8th grade teacher “Excellent, very engaging,
Improve your ability to deliver timely and effective feedback that quickly translates into observable student improvement
“Excellent content with valuable instructional practices that I can integrate into my AP Lang classes.”– Kellie
“It was 10/10–very useful and excellent fun.” Mariel Hesley “This will help me teach sub-skills that
The “college essay” & AP argument –Practice the strategies of elaboration that elevate student essays to
Through Dr. Degen’s workshop I learned an approach for helping my students develop their analytical voice, a task which can often feel mysterious and frustrating to students. Dr. Degen provided detailed feedback and encouragement that helped me grasp and apply material. I now have powerful tools to help my students enter the world of interpretation, and am excited to bring what I learned back to my classroom!
Dr. Degen–this has been a tremendous three days. Your brain research information, coupled with your techniques of teaching has been encouraging and clarifying. Enlightening. I feel like I actually have many things to bring back to school and implement immediately. I am grateful, to say the least.
I think the way you “trick” the kids into recognizing themes and the big ideas in literature and poetry is great. I am going to try giving the kiddos smaller chunks of writing, so that they can make the associations on smaller sentences, phrases, and such. I think especially for my 8th graders when they approach difficult text, it is easy for them to give up and say they don’t get it. The smaller bites will allow all of them to feel some success and allow them to build on it. I can see where this will be helpful for all of them, but most especially for those students who are struggling with literature.
I finally, finally understand how to teach a student to develop a line of reasoning. The chart, although creating one is not my go-to move, will help kids develop their own lines of reasoning.
Thanks for what you do and thanks for sharing with me!
Excellent workshop, so much to integrate into my classroom. Thank you Dr. Degen!
Thank you so much for the session, and for you patience while I was participating on the road! I solidified a lot of elements I only got a partial hold of two summers ago, and I feel confident about implementing much of this in my 7th grade English classroom. Thanks, Dr. Degen!
You really have a wealth of knowledge and I appreciate all that you shared with us!
Great conference with fantastic and useful information. Thank you.
