[LIT] final list, topics for this year

[Bill IVEY]

a very good lens to use for the year- what we feel we need to do for our
students (reader's and writer's notebooks a la Atwell and Fletcher) versus
what we're required to do by our districts. Are they complementary or how
can we make them so?

- how other schools started in their new schools (first year--opening)
- Baseline Assessment-Various Models

- how others flip-flop reading and writing workshop (or how they work both
into their curriculum)

- student leadership
- Empowering students to have a voice in the decision making process of
clubs, projects, etc. in a school.

- By November, would like to discuss strategies on scaffolding instruction
with a focus in cultural diversity.
- differentiation that focuses on higher level thinking skills for
struggling readers
- scaffolding instruction, esp. w/ ESL and ESE populations, specifically
how do you begin pulling support away without causing the students to 
panic or disengage? 

- real-life activities for assessment 
- How do others work test prep into their workshops.

- Using Short texts for small group instruction
- Steph Harvey's new leveled (by grade level) NF short texts to accompany
lessons in her Comprehension Toolkit.
- periodicals that provide short non-fiction articles to support sci, ss,
math and lang. arts instruction and.can be thus used for response to
literature.   Muse, Calliope, Footsteps are excellent magazines for the
middle level. I know others have favorites. I'd like to hear how they use
them and share how we use them as well.

- Wisdom of using independent reading instead of class novels

- how teachers are team teaching/collaborative teaching.

- The Reading Zone