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2018 VATE Conference: We Are The Change

10:00am EDT

Registration Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center

11:00am EDT

Building Enthusiasm for Writing and Analysis through Argument Salon CCrystal Gage Get WRITE into the Day. Salon ADonna Michael Write Now! Salon BJan Collins • Lynn Smith

12:00pm EDT

General Opening Session and Luncheon: We Are the Change: And ONLY We Together Focused Together On Our Students, Our Craft, Our Profession Will We Foment the Future. Let’s Get Busy! Turin Grand BallroomJocelyn Chadwick

2:00pm EDT

Digital Internships: Research from a Three Year Partnership Salon FJenny Martin Getting Past Chaos: Using Iterative Lit Circles to Energize Reading and Make the Teacher’s Job Easier Too Salon CJulia Franks Image Use for Social Justice Salon ABria Coleman • Katie Dredger • Erin Peate • Erin Taylor • Katie Twigg

3:00pm EDT

A Return to Nature: Helping Young People Develop a “Sense of Wonder” with Their Environment Salon CLaura Vernon Collaborative inquiry projects: Changing literature into science, and science into art Salon AMichelle Crotteau Designer Kids: Out Commercializing the Commercializers Salon FRobert Williams • Dan Woods Not Your Momma's English Class: Fostering a Culture and Love of Literacy Salon BDanielle Fowler

4:00pm EDT

Be the Change--Grammar Instruction Through Mentor Texts Salon ACarolyn Mathews • Meg Robertson • Alison Sockman-Gillis • Kyle Walker Never Too Old for a Makeover Salon BDonna Ogle • Sonya Redd Secondary Literacy Teams - Everyone teaches literacy Salon FPaige Whitlock The Hate U Give and All American Boys: Multi-Genre Projects with a Focus on Theme and Voice Salon CMary Beth Cancienne

6:30pm EDT

Dinner with a Board Member Various Locations

7:30am EDT

Registration Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center

8:00am EDT

Early Vendor Time Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center

9:00am EDT

ACT now: Important Points for Creating Engaged and Critical Readers Salon DKylene Beers • Robert (Bob) Probst

10:30am EDT

General Session: Best Practices for Teachers (Higher Ed) Salon 3 & 4Jocelyn Chadwick • Cheryl Golden General Session: Best Practices for Teachers (K-12) Salon DJocelyn Chadwick • Cheryl Golden

11:00am EDT

Vendor Time Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center

12:00pm EDT

VATE Awards and Luncheon Turin Grand Ballroom

1:00pm EDT

Concept Based Curriculum Planning Tools Salon BStacey Kiggins Improving Listening Skills Through Interactive Read Alouds Salon ADonna Foglesong The Efficacy of Personal Literature: How English Teachers Can Save Our Troubled Boys and Girls Salon CAuthor, Rhino the Bully The Monomyth Framework Salon FTrevor Aleo • Clare Gillespie VCEE: Envision the Future Mnemonic Theatre

2:00pm EDT

Complicating the Canon: Discovering and Developing Student Voice through Living Poets Salon FAdrian Nester Creative Writing Instruction within the ESL Classroom Salon ARenée Flory Project LIT Community: Empowering Readers and Leaders in Schools and Communities Salon BLisa Newman • Josh Thompson Pump Up the Volume! Using Music as an Effective Instructional Tool in the ELA classroom Salon CRobin Woodfolk VCEE Annual Meeting Directors Suite

3:00pm EDT

Gaming: The System Salon CRodney Ray Integrating Literacy in the Content Areas Salon FPeggy Gearhart • Rachael Moore Teaching Nonfiction, Teaching Diversity: Fostering Understanding and Empathy with Nonfiction and Texts from Different Cultural Traditions Salon BSam Hamilton • Ashley Lauro The Rhetoric of Moral Panic- Framing the News for Analysis Salon ATerri Penick

4:00pm EDT

Box of Chocolates: Using Games to Support the Writing Process Salon CLindy Johnson • Anna Wong Going Beyond the Core Curriculum Salon AJennifer Fulton Intro to Google Draw for English Teachers Salon BMarynn Dause The FRAME Salon FAngela Moore

7:30pm EDT

Wine, Books, and Chocolate Event Botany Ballroom

8:00am EDT

Panel: The Role of English in a Climate of School Insecurity Salons A, B, and CJocelyn Chadwick VATE Board Meeting Directors SuiteVATE