2010 Annual Fall Conference
Please join us for the
2010 Tucson TAWL
Fall Conference
“Rescuing Critical Thinking”
Saturday, October 16, 2010
at
Cragin Elementary School
2945 N. Tucson Blvd.
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
featuring a keynote by
Dr. Richard Meyer
University of New Mexico
“Telling Our Truths as Teachers and Learners”
and breakout sessions with local and nationally known presenters
and an interactive panel discussion, “Rescuing Critical Thinking,” moderated by Dr. Flory Simon, Co-Director of the Southern Arizona Writing Project
Rick Meyer is a professor at the University of New Mexico in the department of Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies. He works with writers of many ages and interests in his research in other’s classrooms, in his classes, and as Director of the High Desert Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. He has published widely about children’s writing, their lives, and, most recently, their telling their truths.
In his keynote address, Dr. Meyer will discuss his work with a group of fifth and sixth grade students who are “officially” designated failures. They live in an economically poor community with a high presence of drugs, gangs, and other symptoms of poverty. By studying themselves and their community and presenting their findings in multiple settings, the children learned of the strength of their individual and collective voices. The work has one guiding premise, “Tell the truth.” The complexity of such a premise for the children and their families will be explored, and its implications for us, as teachers and learners, will be considered.
Breakout Sessions
Rick Meyer, Professsor, UNM, “Writing Our Truths in Hard Times”
Kathy Short, Professor, UA, “Going Global: Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Literature”
Yetta Goodman, Professor Emerita, UA, “Using Music and Literature for Reading Instruction”
Ken Goodman, Professor Emeritus, UA, “Pedagogy of the Absurd: Further Conversations on
Current Issues in Education”
Bob Wortman, Adjunct Professor, UA, “Helping Students Use Dialogue in Their Writing”
Caryl Crowell, Teacher, Borton Primary Magnet School, “Let’s Get to the Bottom of This: Using Systems Thinking Tools to Study and Resolve Social Issues in the Classroom”
Prisca Martens, Professor, Towson University,
Chicanos por la Causa
Tellers of Tales
Directions to Cragin
Elementary School
2945 N. Tucson Blvd.
Tucson, Arizona
Out of town:
From 1-10, exit east on Grant Road. Turn
north on Tucson Blvd. The school is on the
west side of the road.
In-Town:
From Grant, turn north on Tucson Blvd.
The school is on the west side of the street.
