Second Annual Saturday Seminar

Saturday, February 2, 2008

At the National Hispanic Culture Center

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker by Harvey Daniels

Harvey "Smokey" Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored two bestselling books on content-area literacy: Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, and the companion volume, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. 

http://pd.heinemann.com/authors/996.aspx

A Presentation by Members of the Albuquerque Slam Poetry Team

The Albuquerque Slam Poetry Team.  2005 National Poetry Slam Champions, ABQ Slam Poetry Team are a very talented community of local writers and performers.  They have been organizing poetry events in the area since 1995.  Their presentations are motivating, providing lots of strategies to use in classrooms.

http://www.abqslams.org/

Schedule of Events:

8:00 a.m. - Registration

8:30 - Albuquerque Slam Poetry Team

9:30 - Break

9:45 - Breakout Sessions (see below for details)

11:15 - Keynote Speaker Harvey Daniels