Proposal Review Questionnaire

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Thank you for your help in planning a successful program for the IATE 2026 Fall Conference: Rethinking Education:  Pedagogical Moves to Create a More Equitable Classroom.

Answer the questions below to rate the presentation proposals you received.  Your responses will help the Conference Planning Committee prioritize presentations with respect to scheduling at a suitable time and in a suitably-sized room for each presentation.  Your input will also be helpful in ensuring clarity in program descriptions.
Please complete this form separately for each of the proposals you review (e.g., if you receive ten proposals, submit this form ten times, once for each proposal).  Please select the best answer according to your professional judgement.  Provide comments when necessary.  It is not expected for you to comment on every question, only for the answer selections that ask for clarification.
Please answer honestly using your best professional judgement.  The Conference Planning Committee asks you to provide your name and email address below for the purpose of our contacting you for clarifications. Your name may be listed in the conference program to recognize your contribution to the conference planning, but IATE does not reveal who reviews a specific proposal.
Names of presenters will not be revealed, but if you recognize the session description of a colleague you know personally, we ask that you recuse yourself from reviewing that proposal (but you may continue reviewing other proposals).  Please contact Planning Committee member Andrew Rodbro at arodbro@iateonline.org, so another reviewer can be assigned to that proposal.
DEADLINE:  18 April 2025
If you will not able to complete all of the reviews by the deadline, please contact Andrew Rodbro at arodbro@iateonline.org so that another review can be assigned to your reviews.

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Winter Retreat Leadership Volunteer

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Join the IATE Leadership Team!

Please fill out the form below to attend the 2026 Winter Leadership Retreat.  You will receive further information after submitting your form.  

For questions, please contact IATE President Andrew Rodbro at arodbro@iateonline.org.

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2026 IATE Winter Retreat

Date:  21 February 2026

Time:  9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Location:  Moraine Valley Community College, Conference and Business Center

Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

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Creative Writing Teaching Strategies Virtual Workshop

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USING CREATIVE WRITING TO UNLOCK YOUR STUDENTS’ INNER WRITERS

A workshop with creative writing education nonprofit Cosmic Writers

Many students identify as reluctant writers, but love to paint or play video games or design Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.  When it comes to these students, creative writing education nonprofit Cosmic Writers has found that many of them aren’t “reluctant writers” as much as they are “writers who haven’t fount their niches yet.”  The painter has the potential to become a visual poet; the gamer an interactive-fiction writer; and the DnD-er a creator of lushly-described fantasy worlds.  And if you can link writing to the hobbies and skills that your students are already excited about, you can unlock their potential to become excited about writing, too.

In this 1-1/2 hour professional development workshop, we will discuss ways to use creative writing to help students recognize their inner writers and take pride in their communication abilities.  We will also discuss how to integrate creative writing with standard English class content, such as literary analysis, to ensure that students are building core skills at the same time as honoring their creativity.

This virtual workshop will be conducted by Rowana Miller of Cosmic Writers, Inc.

Rowana Miller has a decade of experience working in writing education and writing young adult fiction. She is the founder and Executive Director of Cosmic Writers, a registered 501(c)(3) that provides children with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities to write creatively. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls, is forthcoming from Sourcebooks in Fall 2025. She writes about goblins, secret societies, and strange magic.

She has presented on literacy, creative writing education, and collaborative learning at conferences including those hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, and the Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. She has developed and run professional development for organizations ranging from the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools to the New York Public Library.

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