Schoolwide Reading in K-8 Settings:  Expanding Possibilities

This one-day symposium will provide ideas that focus on student achievement in a K-8 setting. The presenters provide strategies that can be implemented schoolwide, in schools with a K-6, K-8 or other composition. It addresses the broad issues of K-8 schools and provides some new reasons for supporting this educational decision.

Who should participate?
This symposium is appropriate for K-8 teachers and for administrators in K-6 or K-8 buildings.  We recommend that school personnel attend the symposium in teams to be better able to incorporate these ideas into the school curriculum.

Program benefits

• Be prepared for the change to a K-8 school with appropriate schoolwide adaptations.
• Have the chance to discuss necessary changes with your colleagues
• Be challenged to think beyond the classroom to thinking of the entire school

Program schedule

8:30-9am	Registration
9-10am	Keynote address: Ten Good Things about K-8 Schools (and a Few Cautions) Micki Caskey, PSU, and Beth Madison, George MS
10:15-11:45am	Schoolwide-focus presentation: Comprehension and Vocabulary Instruction K-8, Susan Davis Lenski, PSU

Roundtable: Grade-level focus K-2, 3-5, 6-8

11:45am-1pm	Lunch (on your own)
1-1:45pm	Keynote address: Differentiated Classroom Instruction Joanne Yatvin, National Council Teachers of English
2-3:30pm	Schoolwide-focus presentation: Working with Words K-8, Sandra Wilde, PSU Roundtable: Grade-level focus K-2, 3-5, 6-8
3:45-4:30pm	Panel: Cross-Age Literacy Ideas Barb Ruben, Facilitator, PSU
4:30-5pm	Special meeting on credit requirements (credit participants only)

Location

328 Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway Avenue
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Fees

$319.50	Graduate (1 credit) (CRN 82653)
$114	Noncredit (KL038 - 4WP1)
$75	Full-time PSU students and Kappa Delta Pi members (KL038 - 4WP1) Group discounts availale. Contact Val Katagiri at katagiri@pdx.edu.