4th Adolescent Literacy Summit: Reflections 2

How has this Summit supported your understanding of

how educators can expand our students critical literacy?

To provide the talk for students to explore literature

Learned from guest speakers and students; choice in selection; what they
like; connections; emotional, reading as an escape, no boundaries.
Importance of book selection at all levels
Reaffirm; to hear from others from across NA- what they are doing in
classrooms.
We have a Gr. 5-8 plan based on ideas from the Summit
Student choice; it doesnt matter what they read as long as they are reading,
kids need to see themselves in books
Reinforcement of what I believe
Listen and trust students; importance of story in our lives and our students
lives
Resources; opportunity to meet and share with other teachers
I wouldve liked a few more practical ideas to use in classrooms
Write and read personal texts
Connect to the world around us-windows, sliding doors, etc.
Read, Write, Making Connections, school, community, world, purpose,
audience, infer, perspective, question
More opportunity for choice, exposure to social issues
Others perspectives to consider and opportunity for self reflection
Asking students how they feel
Listen, share, reflect is important in literacy
Clarifiying the essential need to let them read what they want; less
requirement for formal academic products after pleasure reading
Ss need to read more; read what they want; pick high interest
Supports the work we have done on our ELA pilot team; validate my feelings;
choice, voice, independence, relevance
Readers are thinkers; more time for reading
Good ideas for future planning
Tying ideas into real experiences; more experiential, less technical
Mostly by making me reflect; new resources; books, authors, websites
Dont choose their books
Importance of bringing different perspectives; different cultural perspectives
to our librairies
Texts need to be embedded into students lives; see themselves; celebrate
and talk back to the media (criticism)
Authors discussed how they honour and value literature to their students
Books to use right away
Learn to read, read to learn, find the right book to be inspired
 Sharing of experiences; high level presenters, time to discuss with other
educators
How building community is NB; Trust and voice to be developing; helping
students to do this
Free choice; finding that thing that will hook them and inspire them not the
level
Find more authentic stories by varied authors; social justice topics
Choice reading to engage; read for enjoyment
Yes
Free choice/ resident school and aboriginal authors/ student panel
Discuss topics that are relevant/ listen to their thoughts, opinions,
questionslearn from the students
Who is telling Canadas history? Which perspectives is being told? How doe
we get studnts to tell their stories?
Affirmations/ student choice/ time to read
Choice/ think about what we are putting in front of students/ who do they
represent?
Excellent ideas to share
Challenge students to learn about current events, large concepts, diversity,
various texts
Books written by authors of the cultures represented/ supports and
encourages learning
Students can go deepers; they can do more talking; reading, browsing,
checking, searching, many points of entry, many kinds of texts
Be creative in our teaching; listen to students keep their best interests in
mind; not always the easy choice or path to take
Pernille: reflect on our practices and the impact we have on the lives or our
Ss
Student choice = engagement which increases critical literacy
Choice
Reinforces my understanding; confidence to share with my colleagues
We have voices; lets use them
Reinforce my connects with students; relationships to build and foster
Choice, access, time to talk
Choice, do students feel supported, loved, valued?
Story, humour, and some very emotional moments
Pernilles picture books give us another way to explore big ideas
Give students their voices-valued and necessary
Nice balance of theoretical and practical new teachers need both
Excellent keynotes; I will ask myself if Id want to be in my classroom if I was
a student.
Connections with students; passion for the materials and subject for student
engagement
Loved the take home and inclusion of empirical evidence from speaker
Katherine Krisalovich
 Pernille-inspirational and affirming
Writing that really matters- examples and opportunity to practice critical
literacy. Opportunity to think how this could apply in our own classrooms as
well as a teaching development process groups with colleagues. Discipline
Literacies gave an opportunity to deconstruct texts so that we could then
look at ways to model ow to make meaning of texts to students.
Confirms some of my practices
Resources; like strategies from Linda C- easy to use; like the message of
using stories to promote critical literacy.
The importance of teaching why read as well as how to read
We know what has to be done; we need to be brave enough to do it.
Forced me to consider more closely the text I teach and how I teach them
Use picture books to increase global issues; Pernille
Great ideas for inquiry
Student free choice of books and valuable conversations are invaluable to
students thinking; wonderful choices of books
Linda Christensen
Rethinking, great ideas and great speakers
How I can encourage readers to develop the enjoyment of reading
Linda C- I will read her books
Picture books/ choice
Trust and community building/ for students to be confident in sharing and
developing their ideas
Linda C- grounded in research and practical strategies
Reinforced reading for fun, for cultural understanding, and as an agent of
change
Pernille: develop a creative , interactive classroom with student drive for
academic achievement; Katherine Kristonlovich- to get student lessons that
they can connect to
Appreciate the speakers/ strategies
Many ways to engage students with choice/ variety
Validated/ assurance
Choice
John Schu: smell of books, rubbing stickers; ELA renewal; Pernille
Thinking of my collection of literature: gender/ culture/ location of the
authors. Made me think. Im obligated to give more perspectives. To do
better every day.
Our #1 goal is to provide our students with the love of reading/ develop that
love.
Looking at historical patterns and using the perspective of characters; using
books that reflect the cultural, aspects of the lace I lives, so that its relevant
and meaningful for my students.