During this session, teachers will learn how to combine SEL behaviors and ELA curriculum. We will explore ways to take an SEL framework and use it as a lens for analyzing literature.
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Featured Speaker, Briana Morales, 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year
Briana Morales is a proud Latina and freedom fighter for students in alternative education, where she has spent her career loving and learning alongside students furthest from justice in East St. Louis, IL. Throughout her career she has helped students turn pain into power through narrative poetry of witness. Briana was honored in 2021 as a NCTE Early Career Educator of Color and more recently as the 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year.
The Ethical Frame: Understanding the Relationship of Discourse and the Ethical Basis of an Argument
For teachers who teach argumentation. In addition to effective argument processes (claim, evidence, warrant; logos, ethos, pathos), the way a speaker frames an argument can determine a speaker’s success with an audience. This frame is built with a speaker’s discourse–deliberate and purposeful language choices of a speaker to present an argument. Effective deployment of a particular discourse can redraw the moral and ethical lines that make an argument appealing. This session will provide teachers with a vocabulary and knowledge base for teaching the concept of discourse and the way a speaker’s choice of discourse frames an argument.
Illinois State Readers’ Choice Awards
Want to learn about the Readers’ Choice Awards for Illinois? Did you know that they exist for all ages from k-12th grade? Find out which program is for you and learn about strategies for using the lists in your classroom and a sampling of books from the lists.
Challenged and Challenging Texts and Teaching
Carol Jago taught middle and high school for 32 years in Santa Monica, California. She has served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English and on numerous committees including the College Board’s English Academic Advisory committee, ILA Adolescent Literacy Interest Group, and NAEP Writing Standing Committee.
Carol Jago has published a number of books on literacy and English pedagogy, including her most recent book The Book in Question: Why and How Reading Is in Crisis (Heinemann, 2019). She has written for the Los Angeles Times and many educational journals and online forums.
Carol is the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader award and the NCTE Exemplary Leadership Award.
Book signing to follow