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North
Carolina
English
Teachers
Association
NC
ENGLISH
TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION
42ND
ANNUAL
FALL
CONFERENCE
UNC-­‐C
CITY
CENTER
CAMPUS,
CHARLOTTE,
NC
FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER
28-­‐
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER
29
www.ncenglishteachersassociation.org
Co-­‐Sponsoring
Literacy
Across
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Curriculum

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The notion of literacy sponsorship (Brant, 1998) speaks to the power of individuals
and institutions to support literacy learning. Sponsors take responsibility for ushering
outsiders into their communities and provide them with tools for understanding the
community’s norms, values, and beliefs—the ways of knowing and doing that are
coded in language practice.
For too long, many have mistakenly believed that school-based literacy instruction
was the work of Language Arts and English teachers. While we are powerful
sponsors who help students learn how texts work, we do our students and our
profession justice when we reach out to others down the hall and across disciplinary
boundaries to co-sponsor student literacy in the arts and humanities, in the social
sciences, in the natural sciences and mathematics, and beyond.
At last year's conference, attendees said again and again, “less training, more
inspiration, more conversation, more networking opportunities.” That desire on the
part of NC English teachers matches well with our interest this year in literacy
sponsorship. So in the spirit of inspiration, networking, and collaboration, NCETA is
pleased to host a diversity of teachers at the 2012 Annual Conference, Co-
sponsoring Literacy Across the Curriculum. While we will continue to focus on
the success of students and teachers inside English studies curricula and classrooms,
we recognize the need to grow both vertically and horizontally, across contents areas,
grade levels, and institutions.
As we come together in Charlotte, let’s take advantage of this time together to
showcase, interrogate, and sketch new visions for the multiplicity of ways that we are
sponsoring and can continue to sponsor literacy in our classrooms, our schools, and
beyond. It is a pleasure to be part of such an important moment in our state and our
profession and an honor to serve as NCETA Conference Director.
Welcome from Conference Director, Stephanie West-Puckett

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Patricia A. Dunn is a former high school
teacher and two-year college instructor. Since
receiving her doctorate at The University at
Albany (SUNY), she has taught at Utica
College, in upstate New York, where she also
directed the Writing Center and chaired an
interdisciplinary committee on writing across
the curriculum. At Illinois State University for
six years, she taught courses in composition and
rhetoric. Now at Stony Brook University in
New York, she teaches methods of teaching
English and composition to pre-service high
school and middle school teachers, as well as
courses in young adult literature. She has three
books: Learning Re-Abled: the Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies (1995),
which has recently been republished online at the WAC Clearinghouse. Her second
book, Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing, was
published in 2001. Her third book, published in 2011, was co-authored with Ken
Lindblom: Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students
Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing. She has also published a number of
book chapters, as well as articles in English Journal, College Composition and Communication,
Kairos, Rhetoric Review, and JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Politics.
Patrica’s keynote address, Multiple Literacies for Writing and Revising Across
the Curriculum, is scheduled on Saturday, 10:45am-12:00pm, 2nd
floor auditorium.
Both Patricia and her collaborator Ken Lindblom will be available immediately after
the keynote to sign copies of their books.
She will also co-present a session titled Grammar Rants on Friday, from 3:30pm-
4:45pm in Room 204.
Conference Keynote Speaker

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Joseph Bathanti is North Carolina's current poet
laureate and is the author of six books of poetry:
Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints,
This Metal (nominated for the National Book Award),
Land of Amnesia, and Restoring Sacred Art (winner of the
2010 Roanoke Chowan Prize). His novel, East Liberty,
won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award. His latest novel,
Coventry, won the 2006 Novello Literary Award. His book
of stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize.
He is the recipient of Literature Fellowships from the
North Carolina Arts Council in 1994 (poetry) and 2009
(fiction); the Samuel Talmadge Ragan Award, presented
annually for outstanding contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina over an
extended period; the Linda Flowers Prize; the Sherwood Anderson Award; the
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize; the 2011 Donald Murray Prize; and
others. Named the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the Western Region for
the North Carolina Poetry Society for 2011-12, Bathanti is Professor of Creative
Writing and Writer-in-Residence of Watauga Global Community at Appalachian State
University.
Joseph and NCETA’s Dr. Sally Griffin will facilitate a Foundations session on Friday
morning at 9:30 titled Bathanti in the ELA Classroom. Don’t miss this opportunity
to talk with Joseph and learn how you and your students can engage poetry and place
through an exploration of Joseph’s work.
In addition, Joseph will accept the Ragan-Rubin award and read from his work on
Friday during the luncheon scheduled from 12:15pm- 1:45pm in the 2nd
floor atrium.
Tickets are required for the luncheon and were available to the first 70 conference
registrants who so requested.
Ragan-Rubin Award Winner

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Steve Fulton is an eighth-grade
English teacher at Kannapolis Middle
School where he has taught for nine
years. He earned his Bachelor of Science
degree in middle grades education from
Ohio University and his Master of
Education degree from UNC-Charlotte.
He also has earned certification from the
National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards, which is teaching’s
highest credential. He is an active
participant in the UNC-Charlotte Writing
Project where he works with other
teachers to explore digital writing and
teaching practices for middle grades
educators.
Steve will co-present a session titled ‘There's an app for that!': The use of iPad
online applications for the consumption and production of media in today's
middle school English language arts classroom with Dr. Heather Coffey on
Saturday from 3:00pm-4:15pm in the 2nd
Floor Auditorium.
2011-2012 Outstanding English Teacher

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Ken Lindblom has taught English
from grades 7 through the doctoral level at
several schools for almost 25 years.
Beginning at Columbia High School (in
upstate New York), he moved to college-
level instruction after earning a doctorate in
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at
Syracuse University. Since then, he has
taught English, writing and methods of
teaching English courses at Illinois State
University and at Stony Brook University,
where he is currently Associate Professor of
English and Director of English Teacher
Education. At the upcoming New York State English Council conference, he will be
honored as a 2012 Educator of Excellence. Ken has published on the history, theory,
and practice of writing instruction, conversation analysis, and the teaching of English
in forums such as Rhetoric Review, College English, Journal of Pragmatics, and English Journal.
In 2011, he co-authored Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can
Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing with his frequent
collaborator, Patricia A. Dunn, through Heinemann Boynton/Cook Publishers. He
has been editor of English Journal, the National Council of Teachers of English’s 100-
year-old peer-reviewed journal for secondary and middle school English, since 2008.
Ken will present two sessions, one titled Grammar Rants on Friday, from 3:30pm-
4:45pm in Room 204 with keynote Patricia Dunn and another titled Publishing in
English Journal: A Conversation with the Editor on Saturday from 9:00am-
10:15am, also in Room 204.
Special Guest Speaker

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About Us
NCETA is the professional organization of North Carolina English Language Arts
educators. Our mission is to promote quality instruction and to empower teachers to
be educational leaders by providing professional development that addresses the
demands of 21st century teaching and learning. NCETA is an affiliate of the National
Council of Teachers of English. NCETA hosts conferences, issues a newsletter,
manages a web site, funds action research through a grant system, and sponsors
awards to recognize excellence in teaching and writing. As an affiliate of the National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), NCETA is pleased to offer for exhibit some
resources from the national organization. If you are not a member of NCTE, check
out the organization at www.ncte.org.
Membership
All 2012 Fall Conference registrants receive a complimentary one-year membership to
NCETA, beginning October 2012-October 2013. Visit our Registration Table in the
lobby to learn more about our ongoing initiatives and find out how you can get
involved.
Digital Presence
We are pleased to continue developing our web presence at
www.ncenglishteachersassociation.org and invite you to join us
building a dynamic, interactive space for connecting and sharing
news, ideas, and resources across our state. Learn more about
the site’s features and functionality during the Foundations
session NCETA: An Introduction to Your Professional
Organization in Room 806, Friday from 9:30-10:30am.
Please use your camera at this year’s conference! We’ll have a gallery set up on our
webspace for you to share your photos and tag your colleagues. SmileJ
Twitter Feed
Got a Twitter account? Ready to meet your NCETA Tweeps? Tag your NCETA
Conference-related posts with #NCETA12 to join the electronic conversation.
NCETA 2012 Fall Conference Notes

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Conference Registration Desk
The registration desk is located in the lobby of the UNC-C City Center Building and
will open at 8:00 am on Friday, September 28. If you have any questions, the
Registration Desk Volunteers can help.
Exhibitors and Vendors
Education-related exhibits are located in the lobby. We are pleased to have exhibitors
display their products and services at our conference, and we appreciate their
sponsorship of events and their sharing of professional materials and ideas. However,
such presence or sponsorship does not imply endorsement by NCETA.
This year, we are also pleased to have local vendors with us selling their wares. Please
shop with them on 3rd
floor in Room 303. You might just find the perfect souvenir to
commemorate your time with us in Charlotte.
Exhibitor Visitation Drawing
Visit each exhibitor’s table to receive a signature on your Exhibitor Visitation
Drawing form, located in your conference materials. Completed forms should be
turned in at the registration desk by 4:15pm on Saturday. Participants completing the
form will be entered into a drawing for a variety of items donated by exhibitors and
vendors. You must be present to win or ask a colleague to collect your prize.
Silent Auction Baskets
NCETA Regional Representatives from across the state have pounded the pavement
and begged the generosity of craftspeople, merchants, and businesses statewide to fill
a lovely assortment of Silent Auction baskets. Stop by the Registration Desk to place
your bid before 4:15pm on Saturday. The highest bidders will receive their wins
during our closing session on Saturday at 4:30pm in the 2nd
floor auditorium.
Continuing Education Unit Credits
Conference participants attending ten hours of sessions qualify for one CEU toward
certification renewal. A certificate is included in the back of your program. Please fill
out the number of hours that you attended. Submit this form to your LEA and
follow local procedures for obtaining CEUs. Our luncheon on Friday will count as
two hours. You may count one hour of time spent viewing exhibits toward the
required ten hours.

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Conference Evaluation Form
This year’s conference evaluation form is digital and will be available on the NCETA
website. Please take a few minutes to complete an evaluation before you leave
campus on Saturday. We appreciate your feedback.
Acknowledgements
• UNC-C College of Education and Department of Continuing Studies for
co-sponsoring our conference at the beautiful City Center campus.
• Exhibitors and Vendors whose support has enabled us to host a Teacher
Appreciation Reception at the Levine Museum of the New South on
Friday evening, 5:30-7:30pm.
• Presenters at this conference deserve our special thanks. They are asked to
register for the conference and are given no compensation for their time or for
the handouts they provide, yet they willingly share their ideas and expertise with
us all. Please take time to thank them for their efforts; they are the heart of our
conference.
• Keynotes speaker Patricia Dunn, Ragan-Rubin Award Winner Joseph
Bathanti, Featured Presenter Ken Lindblom, and Outstanding English
Teacher Steve Fulton are wonderful additions to this year’s conference
program. We are pleased to have them and look forward to their presentations
and time with us.
• Merchants Across the State who have contributed to our Silent Auction
Baskets. Don’t forget to stop by the Registration Desk to place your bid before
noon on Saturday.
• JH Rose High School Printing & Graphics Department for designing,
printing, and mailing our conference materials.
• All Board Members who have dedicated countless hours to the planning and
delivery of a successful conference, especially our Executive Director, Julie
Malcolm.

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We encourage you to visit our Registration Desk to learn more about these awards
and gather materials that can help you to promote them in your schools and districts.
These awards provide excellent opportunities for young writers, and we enjoy hosting
them and celebrating their work each year at our Fall Conference.
Poet Laureate Award
Kathryn Stripling Byers, North Carolina Poet Laureate, has established a trust in
memory of her father through which NCETA will recognize one outstanding high
school poet and one outstanding middle school poet each year. Students will earn a
cash prize and have their winning poems published on broadsides, courtesy of the NC
Arts Council. Thank you to Mrs. Byers and her family for making this recognition
possible.
Watterson-Timberlake Award
To honor their 60+ combined years of service teaching English and their dozens of
exemplary student writing award submissions, NCETA honors William Watterson of
Watauga High School in Boone and Betty Timberlake (retired) of Enloe High School
in Raleigh through the Watterson-Timberlake non-fiction contest. Thank you to both
of them for their many contributions to the field.
The Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award
The Wade Edwards Foundation awards the annual Wade Edwards Short Fiction
Award to the North Carolina high school junior who submits the year’s most
outstanding original work of short fiction. The award is intended to reward
excellence in creative writing and to encourage contemplation of virtues among high
school students. In their submitted short fiction, students are encouraged to consider
and address one or more of the qualities associated with Wade Edwards – humility,
strength of convictions, loyalty, honor, charity, determination, the value of friendship,
and the obligations of friendship and community.
Amy Charles Award
Amy Charles directed the NCETA writing contests for twenty years, beginning in
1961. “A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Charles received her BA from
Westminster College (1943) and her MA from the University of Pennsylvania (1944).
After her tenure at Westminster, she completed her PhD at the University of
Pennsylvania (1955). A year later, she moved to the Woman’s College (subsequently
Student Writing Awards

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UNC-Greensboro), where she taught until shortly before her death, March 24, 1985.”
(1993* The North Carolina English Teacher 11*). The contest was named the Amy
Charles Writing Awards in 1985 and merged with the North Carolina Writing Awards
in 1992 at the request of NCDPI, who had previously administered those awards. In
2007, the NCETA Board of Directors added the middle school contest and made the
award exclusively a short fiction contest. The contest is open to all North Carolina
students in grades 6-8 and 9-12. Both the First Place High School and Middle School
Award winners receive $250 and publication on the NCETA web site.

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Castle Software/Learning Online
Jason Stanton
800.345.7606
jstanton@castlelearning.com
Sadlier
Loren Breland
803.345.3100
loren@hickoryhill.us
Bread Loaf School of English
Deborah Alcorn
802.443.5418
deborah_alcorn@breadnet.middlebury.e
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Everbind Books
Marc Callahan
800.842.4234
mcallahan@everbind.com
www.everbind.com
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Kedrick Lewis
(704) 441-4353
kedrick_lewis@mcgraw-hill.com
www.mheonline.com
Worldstrides International
Becky Lewis
540.885.4564
blewis@casterbridgetours.com
Studium Educational Resources
Kathleen Skotcher
336.993.4370
kskotcher@aol.com
NCShakes
Ivey Harris
Emily Morrison
336.841.2273
ivey.harris@ncshakes.org
King’s College
Jamie Bluto,
703.372.0266
jbluto@kingscollegecharlotte.edu
www.KingsCollegeCharlotte.edu
My Educational Partners
Rick Harlow
919.341.1350
rharlow@myedupartners.com
NCWrite
Trish Martin
(919) 683-2100
tmartin@measinc.com
LEARN NC
UNC School of Education
http://www.learnnc.org/
NC Council on Holocaust
Pamela Pate
www.ncpublicschools.org/
holocaust_council
NC Writing Projects
Tar River Writing Project @ ECU
www.trwp.org
UNC-C Writing Project @ UNC-C
http://wordpress.unccharlottewritingproject.net/
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Friday Schedule
7:15- 8:30 am Exhibitor Set-Up, Lobby
8:00 am Registration, Lobby and Refreshments, 2nd
Floor, Exhibitor
Networking in Lobby
9:00- 9:20 am Opening Remarks, 2nd
Floor Auditorium
9:30-10:30 am Foundations Sessions
10:45- 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions A
12:15- 1:45 pm Buffet Lunch and Presentations, 2nd
Floor Atrium
2:00-3:15 pm Concurrent Session B
3:15-3:30 pm Refreshments, 2nd
Floor
3:30 -4:45 pm Concurrent Session C
4:45- 5:15 pm Exhibitor Networking
5:30-7:30 pm Teacher Appreciation Reception, Levine Museum of the New
South, 200 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
Saturday Schedule
8:00-8:45 am Regional Meetings, Issues Forums
9:00-10:15 am Concurrent Session D
10:15 am Exhibitor Networking, Break
10:45-12:00 pm Keynote Address with Patricia A. Dunn, 2nd
Floor Auditorium
12:15- 1:15 pm Boxed Lunch/Networking, 2nd
Floor Atrium
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1:30-2:45 pm Concurrent Session E
3:00-4:15 pm Concurrent Session F
4:15-4:30 pm Break
4:30- 5:00 pm Closing Session, Prize Drawings
5:15 pm Exhibitor Break-down

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Conference Strands
Conference Strands
Global and Digital Citizenship (GDC)
Discourse Communities and Funds of Knowledge (DCFK)
Transfer of Learning (TL)
Transliteracies, Multimodalities, and Multimedia (TMM)
Content Area Literacies (CAL)
Common Core Literacy Strands (CCLS)
Reading and Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines (RWQD)
Visual and Performance Literacies (VPL)
Interdisciplinary Literacy Partnerships (ILP)
Community/ Family Literacy Partnerships (CFLP)
K-12 & Higher Education Partnerships (K12HEP)
NC Writing Project (NCWP)
Times Session Titles Comments/Choices
Friday 8:00-9:00 am Register, Visit Exhibitors
Friday 9:00-9:20 am Opening Remarks, 2nd
Floor
Auditorium
Stephanie West-Puckett,
Conference Director
Julie Malcolm, Executive Director
Friday 9:30-10:30 am Foundations Sessions
F1: Grant Writing for Educators,
Michelle Eble, East Carolina
University (K12HEP)
Facilitator: Theresa Redmond
Room 1104
F2: SET: Social Studies, English,
and Technology, Jennifer Ricks,
Department of Public Instruction
(CAL)
Facilitator: Wendy Sharer
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Room 1105
F3: Foundations
Tackling Text Complexity, Anna
Frost, Department of Public
Instruction (CCLS)
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
2nd
Floor Auditorium
F4: Foundations
Bathanti in the ELA Classroom,
Sally Griffin, Forrestview High
School & Joseph Bathanti,
Appalachian State University
(CAL)
Facilitator: Donna Duncan
Room 805
F5: Foundations
NCETA: An Introduction to
Your Professional Organization,
Julie Malcolm, Elaine Cox,
Jennifer Sharpe, and Jonathan
Bartels, NCETA Board of
Directors
(NCETA)
Facilitator: Debra Pagona
Room 806
F6: Foundations
Using the Levine to Foster
Literacy and Historical
Engagement, Levine Museum
(CFLP)
Facilitator: Mitch Cox
Room 204

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Friday 10:45 am-Noon Concurrent Sessions: A
A1: Literacy Leadership Teams:
The Secret to Successful
Secondary Schools, Laura Mayer
and Kenny McKee, Buncombe
County Schools (ILP)
Facilitator: Annie Hovis
Room 1104
A2: Multi-Modal assignments in a
hybrid classroom (Sponsored by
the Triangle Community
Foundation), Ann Barksdale,
Green Hope Elementary School
and Megan Poole, Wake County
Public Schools, NCSU Borchardt
Grant (TMM)
Multimedia, Traditional Texts,
and the New Literacy Landscape
(Sponsored by the Triangle
Community Foundation), Sara
Lee, Hobbton HS and Michael
Cook, Clemson University, NCSU
Borchardt Grant (TMM)
Facilitator: Courtney Clark
Room 1105
A3: Fostering Inclusive Media
Production in a 21st Century
Classroom, Damiana Gibbons,
Appalachian State University &
Mark Maya, Two Rivers
Community School Boone
(TMM)
Facilitator: Elaine Cox
2nd
Floor Auditorium
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Antoinette Melvin and Chelsea
Coleman, Heide Trask High
School, (ILP)
Weather Literacy in the
Classroom, William Nelson, East
Carolina University (CAL)
Facilitator: Jeff Carpenter
Room 805
A5: Peter Elbow’s "Vernacular
Eloquence" Across the
Curriculum, Gail Russell,
Teachers College, Columbia
University (ILP)
Planting and Cultivating the
Rhetorical Vision in a High
School Culture, Valerie A Person
and Linda Kimble, Currituck
County High School (ILP)
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
Room: 806
A6: Curriculum Mapping and the
Common Core in English
Language Arts: Start at the Very
Beginning, Kelly Roberts,
Meredith College (CCLS)
Facilitator: Lisa Wall
Room: 204
Friday 12:15- 1:45 pm Ticketed Buffet Lunch
2nd
Floor Atrium
Amy Charles Short Prose
Award
Presented by Delores Cupo, Vice
President, NCETA
Recipient: Tanner Sciara,
“Personality of the Night”,
Watauga High School, Teacher

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Mary Kent Whitaker
Wade Edwards Short Fiction
Awards
Introduction by Elaine Cox,
NCETA President
Presented by Betsey McFarland,
Executive Director, Wade
Edwards Foundation
3rd place, Samantha Reid, "The
Pain of the Bullet", Needham
Broughton High School, Teacher
Chelsey Saunders
2nd place, Christopher Killen,
"Snow", South Caldwell High
School, Teacher, Dolores Cupo
1st place, Fiona Dunn, "The Rot
and the Rose", Needham B.
Broughton High School, Teacher,
Christine Molloy
Entries Judged by Marianne
Gingher, Bowman & Gordon
Gray Distinguished Professor,
Dept. of English & Comparative
Literature, The Creative Writing
Program, Co-Director, Thomas
Wolfe Scholarship University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
NCETA Classroom Grant
Awards
Presented by Julie Malcolm,
NCETA Executive Director
Recipients: Danielle Lewis, Renee
Gliddon, Michelle Sims, Linda
Dextre, Legacy Garden Project
Wendell Middle School
Lisa Burke, Classroom Lending
Library, Wildwood Forest
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Outstanding English Teacher
Address
Introduction, Jennifer Sharpe,
NCETA 2nd
Vice President
Address Steve Fulton, 2011-2012
OET
Ragan-Rubin Award
Presented by Sally Griffin,
NCETA Past-President
Acceptance Address: Joseph
Bathanti, Appalachian State
University, NC Poet Laureate
Friday 2:00-3:15pm Concurrent Sessions: B
B1: CYO - See You Online:
Where Common Core and Web
2.0 Meet, Elizabeth Joyce and
Tonisha Walden, Rockingham
County Schools (CCLS)
Facilitator: Marcia Long
Room 1104
B2: Researching Your Research:
Teaching Students about Source
Credibility in the Age of the
Internet, Mitch Cox, Orange High
School (CCLS)
Cultivating Inquiry-Oriented
Classrooms to Teach the
Common Core, Mary Kendrick,
J.M. Alexander Middle School
(CCLS & NCWP)
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
Room: 1105
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School and College, Wendy
Sharer, East Carolina University,
Meg Morgan, UNC- Charlotte,
and Tony Adkins, UNC-
Wilmington, and Tracy Morse,
East Carolina University (TL)
Facilitator: Tanya Watson
2nd
Floor Auditorium
B4: The Lightning Thief, Elyse
Durham, Hiawassee Dam Schools
(CAL)
Using MultiMedia to Promote
Reading, Sherrill Jolly, South
Brunswick High School (ILP)
Facilitator: Sarah Cannon
Room 805
B5: Teamwork Makes the Dream
Work: ELA & Social Studies
Integration (Sponsored by the
Triangle Community Foundation),
Leigh Ann Alford, and Anna Gay,
Knightdale HS, NCSU Borchardt
grant (CAL)
Social Injustice Thematic Unit,
Marcia Long, Devona Graham,
and Faydra Womble, SandHoke
Early College (GDC)
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 806
B6: Teaching the Best Young
Adult Fiction of 2011/2012 -
Alan Brown, Joan Mitchell, &
Students, Wake Forest University
(CAL)
Facilitator: Kelly Roberts
Room 204
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C1: Teach the Election with
LEARN NC!
Kimberly Hirsh, LEARN NC
Managing Editor;
Jonathan Bartels, LEARN NC
Research Assistant;
Summer Pennell, LEARN NC
Research Assistant
(K12HEP)
Facilitator: Mary Kendrick
Room 1104
C2: Pearson: The Documentary,
Todd Finley, East Carolina
University and John Suralik, Early
College East (TMM)
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 1105
C3: Social Studies and Literacy:
Recognizing and Interrupting
Single Stories in Our Classrooms
Christina Tschida and Caitlin
Ryan,
East Carolina University (GDC)
Facilitator: Karen Lands
2nd
Floor Auditorium
C4: Putting Together the
Puzzle: Crafting Lessons To
Combine Common Core Strands,
Donna Duncan and Lisa Wall,
Burke County Public Schools
(CCLS)
Corkscrew: Opening the
Common Core and Essential
Standards in a Small School PLC
Structure, Annie Hovis-Williams,
Orange Charter School (CCLS)

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Facilitator: Mark Maya
Room 805
C5: Enhancing Writing
Instruction, Peer Editing &
Assessment with Google Forms,
Jeff Carpenter, Elon University
(GDC)
The Things We Take With
Us: Writing as Praxis in the
Classroom, Kerri Flinchbaugh,
East Carolina University, Patrick
Bahls, UNC-Asheville, and Laura
Bokus Benton, Caldwell
Community College and
Technical Institute (GDC)
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
Room 806
C6: Grammar Rants, Patricia
Dunn and Ken Lindblom, Stony
Brook University (CAL)
Facilitator: Danielle Ange
Room 204
Friday, 5:30-7:30 pm Teacher Appreciation
Reception, Levine Museum of
the New South,
200 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte
Free food, drinks, and admission
to Permanent Exhibit for all
conference registrants!
Saturday, 8:00-8:45am Regional Meetings
Regions 1 & 2
Room 1104
Facilitator: Debra Pagona

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Regions 3 & 4
Room 1105
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
Regions 5 & 6
Room 805
Facilitator: Marcia Long
Regions 7 & 8
Room 806
Facilitator: Keia Pannell
Saturday, 9:00-10:15
am
Concurrent Sessions: D
D1: Lesson Design with the
Common Core State Standards,
Anna Frost, Department of
Public Instruction (CCLS)
Facilitator: Renee Gliddon
Room 1104
D2: Collaborative Media Literacy
Education at the Middle Level,
Theresa Redmond, Appalachian
State University (TMM & NCWP)
Facilitator: Megan Firestone
Room 1105
D3: A New Way to Text:
Choosing Texts for the Common
Core, Christina Adams Purgason
& Karyn Dickerson, Grimsley
High School (CCLS)
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
2nd
Floor Auditorium
D4: Word Painting: How Rebecca
McClanahan's Methods Help
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McClanahan, writer, John York,
Penn-Griffin School for the Arts
(CAL)
Facilitator: Sarah Cannon
Room 805
D5: Tackling a Common Core
Career Project -- Collaboratively!,
Helena Venakides and Billy
Giblin,
Chapel Hill - Carrboro City
Schools (CCLS)
Digital Video Productions in Core
Subjects (Sponsored by the
Triangle Community Foundation),
Cindy Francis and Susan Szap,
Apex HS, NCSU Borchardt grant
(CAL)
Facilitator: Rob Puckett
Room 806
D6: A Conversation with the
Editor, Ken Lindblom, Stony
Brook University (K12HEP)
Facilitator: Will Banks
Room 204
Saturday, 10:45- Noon Keynote Address
2nd
Floor Auditorium
Introduction, Will Banks,
Keynote Address, Multiple
Literacies for Writing and
Revising Across the Curriculum,
Patricia A. Dunn
Book Signing: Patricia A. Dunn
and Ken Lindblom
Saturday, 1:30-2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions: E
E1: Engaging Writing in the
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Bahls, UNC-Asheville (RWQD)
Facilitator: Kerri Flinchbaugh
Room 1104
E2: Learning the Basics of
Helping Struggling Readers:
Lessons from the Targeted
Reading Intervention, Kathryn
Ohle and Mandy Bean, UNC-Ch
(ILP)
Facilitator: Debra Pagona
Room 1105
E3: Teaching Students with
Learning Disabilities and
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder in the Content Areas
Kathy Bonyun, Buncombe
County Schools, (DCFK)
Facilitator: Tracy Morse
2nd
Floor Auditorium
E4: Sacred Place, Type Faces:
Writing, Designing, Rethinking
Place with Google Maps, Robert
Puckett, JH Rose High School
(CCLS & NCWP)
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 805
E5: Artist Romare Bearden as
Literacy Sponsor: What the
American Master Artist Can Add
to the NC English Classroom
This Year, Gail Russell,
Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Services, Kathleen
Hutton, Reynolda House Museum
of American Art (TMM)
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Clark, The News and Observer
(CAL)
Facilitator: Sally Griffin
Room 806
Saturday, 3:00-4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: F
F1: Informational texts and NC’s
Digital Heritage with LEARN NC
Kimberly Hirsh, LEARN NC;
Managing Editor
Jonathan Bartels, LEARN NC
Research Assistant;
Laina Stapleton, LEARN NC
Research Assistant (K12HEP)
Facilitator: Christina Tschida
Room 1104
F2: The Demonstration Model:
Turning the Classroom into a
Space of Problem Posing and
Thinking Together, Megan
Firestone, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte (DCFK &
NCWP)
Let the Ideas Flow! Using Idea
Circles to Promote Collaborative
Engagement and Content
Learning, Lois Huffman, NC
State University, (CAL)
Facilitator: Susan Szep
Room 1105
F3: 'There's an app for that!': The
use of iPad online applications for
the consumption and production
of media in today's middle school
English language arts classroom,
Heather Coffey, UNC-Charlotte
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Middle School (TMM)
Facilitator: Kathy Bonyun
2nd
Floor Auditorium
F4: Read Aloud as Instructional
Tool in Middle and High School
English/Language Arts Teachers
(Sponsored by the Triangle
Community Foundation), Tanya
Watson, NC State University and
Sarah Cannon, Garner Magnet
School, NCSU Borchardt Grant
(CAL)
‘All These Boys Do is Talk
Sports’: Promoting Critical
Literacy through Sports-Related
Content, Alan Brown, Wake
Forest University (CAL)
Facilitator: Elizabeth Joyce
Room 805
F5: Poetry Reading and Open Mic
for Participants, John York, Penn-
Griffin School for the Arts and
Nancy Posey, Caldwell
Community College and
Technical Institute (CAL)
Room 806
F6: Creating a Legacy Garden:
Reading, Writing, Planting,
Reaping, Danielle Lewis, Renee
Gliddon, Michelle Sims, Wendell
Middle School
Facilitator: Caitlin Ryan
Room 204
Saturday 4:30-5:00pm Closing Session
Exhibitor Recognition
Exhibitor Drawings
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Saturday 5:15- 6:00pm Exhibitor Break-down
Saturday 11:30-12:00 Visit Exhibitors & Make Final
Bids on Silent Auction Baskets
Please show courtesy to our presenters and to other conference attendees. We ask
that conference participants attend sessions in their entirety. Sessions marked with
the symbol “ƒ” have been chosen as Featured Sessions.
As an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English, we expect participants
to abide by the ethical policies set by NCTE and NCETA:
• Unauthorized commercial solicitation is prohibited at all conference sessions.
• Speakers and participants are expected to show respect for everyone and to
avoid pejorative and prejudicial remarks.
Room 1104 Foundations 1
Grant Writing for Educators (K12HEP), Michelle Eble, East Carolina University
Need the cash to make your project happen? This session will cover successful
approaches to designing projects and proposals that will captivate the interest of
funding agencies. Participants will learn basic approaches to successful grant writing
in this informative session led by an experienced grant writer and professor of
technical and professional communication.
Facilitator: Theresa Redmond
Room 1105 Foundations 2
Social Studies, English, and Technology: Using Socratic Seminars and Writer’s
Workshops in the English Classroom (CAL), Jennifer Ricks, NC DPI
DPI Instructional Coaches will model interdisciplinary lesson design utilizing Wiggins
& McTighe’s Understanding by Design framework. Participants will work in
collaborative groups to create a lesson that incorporates English Language Arts, Social
Studies and Information and Technology.
Facilitator: Wendy Sharer
2012 Fall Conference Session Detail
Foundations Sessions 9:30- 10:30 am
Friday, September 28, 2012

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2nd
Floor Auditorium Foundations 3
Tackling Text Complexity (CCLS), Anna Frost, NC DPI
The Common Core State Standards state that students must be able to read and
comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Text Complexity plays an integral role in choosing texts. This interactive session will
take participants through the process for evaluating the complexity of texts.
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 805 Foundations 4
Bathanti in the ELA Classroom (CAL), Sally Griffin, Forrestview High School &
Joseph Bathanti, Appalachian State University
Don’t miss an exciting opportunity to meet with NC Poet Laureate, Joseph Bathanti,
and learn how you can incorporate his work into your ELA Classroom.
Facilitator: Donna Duncan
Room 806 Foundations 5
NCETA: An Introduction to Your Professional Organization, Julie Malcolm,
Elaine Cox, Jennifer Sharpe, and Jonathan Bartels, NCETA Board of Directors
New to NCETA? Unsure how NCETA can serve you, your students, and your
school? Join us to learn more about our organization and current service
opportunities that can help our organization grow while growing your network and
professional leadership skills.
Facilitator: Debra Pagona
Room 204 Foundations 6
Using the Levine to Foster Literacy and Historical Engagement (CFLP), Levine
Museum of the New South
Learn about the Levine Museum of the New South and how educators far and near
can take advantage of this community resource to build historical engagement and
foster social literacies.
Note: Conference participants can experience the museum’s permanent exhibit first-
hand at the Teacher Appreciation Reception Friday evening, 5:30-7:30pm.
Facilitator: Mitch Cox
1104 A1 ƒ
Literacy Leadership Teams: The Secret to Successful Secondary Schools (ILP),
Laura Mayer and Kenny McKee, Buncombe County Schools
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Literacy Teams are powerful groups of interdisciplinary teachers who positively
influence both school culture and instructional effectiveness. This highly engaging
session, led by two seasoned Literacy Coaches, will enable participants to learn what
literacy teams are, how to develop them, and what they can do to systematically
improve schools.
Facilitator: Annie Hovis
Room 1105 A2
Multi-Modal Assignments in a Hybrid Classroom, Sponsored by the Triangle
Community Foundation (TMM), Ann Barksdale, Green Hope Elementary School and
Megan Poole, Wake County Public Schools, NCSU Borchardt Grant
As we incorporate more and more digital assignments into our classrooms, how do
students share their online work? Teachers in this session will show how students use
a variety of online tools such as Glogster, ToonDoo, Xtranormal, Google maps, and
Timetoast to explain their learning. Collaborative group work and online assignments
are combined in this hybrid classroom. Student work is posted on a Weebly page so
teacher can assess and other students can view to enrich learning.
Multimedia, Traditional Texts, and the New Literacy Landscape, Sponsored by
the Triangle Community Foundation (TMM), Sara Lee, Hobbton High School and
Michael Cook, Clemson University, NCSU Borchardt Grant
This session will present several ideas for multimedia and video projects. With just a
few guidelines and assistance, students can actively participate in the creation of
multimodal projects in their English language arts classes to represent their personal
narratives or to demonstrate their understanding of a class text.
Facilitator: Courtney Clark
2nd
Floor Auditorium A3 ƒ
Fostering Inclusive Media Production in a 21st Century Classroom (TMM),
Damiana Gibbons, Appalachian State University & Mark Maya, Two Rivers
Community School, Boone
In this interactive session, we will showcase how a classroom teacher fostered media
literacy in a classroom with students with severe to moderate disabilities and with
General Education students as he used media production and social media to connect
his students to their school and to the global community.
Facilitator: Elaine Cox
Room 805 A4
Breaking Boundaries: Where English and Science Meet (ILP), Antoinette Melvin
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Using literacy in science is easy! All it takes is collaboration, integration, and
motivation. In this session science meets language arts and breaks the boundary
between quantitative and expressive learning. Utilizing 21st century skills, these
teachers incorporate reading and writing to enhance literacy cross-curricularly.
Weather Literacy in the Classroom (CAL), William Nelson, East Carolina
University
We posit the study of weather information freely available on the Internet as a useful
means of bolstering both English and scientific literacy in the primary and secondary
education classroom. Students can thus gain skills that translate to other subjects and
also enhance their weather savvy and personal safety.
Facilitator: Jeff Carpenter
Room 806 A5
Peter Elbow’s "Vernacular Eloquence" Across the Curriculum (ILP), Gail
Russell, Teachers College, Columbia University
Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing (2012) gives theory and
practice that will help participants to co-sponsor literacy across the curriculum. It is a
must read for anyone who wants to support the content area teaching of writing. In
this session, I will give an overview of Professor Elbow’s new book and include
highlights from a speech and writing symposium that he hosted at UMASS-Amherst
this spring.
Planting and Cultivating the Rhetorical Vision in a High School Culture (ILP),
Valerie A Person and Linda Kimble, Currituck County High School
Presenters will share their narrative of what has worked, is working and will work in
establishing a writing culture at their high school. Successes and disappointments will
be included as Kimble and Person share their journey of how to foster a writing
community within their classrooms as well as in their building and community.
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
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Curriculum Mapping and the Common Core in English Language Arts:
Start at the Very Beginning (CCLS), Kelly Roberts, Meredith College
In this interactive workshop, teachers will walk away with a better understanding of
common core 6-12 ELA AND a template for planning units and years. After a
crosswalk through the standards and seven planning tips, teachers will plan a core-
centered unit. Don’t know where to start? We can help!
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CYO - See You Online: Where Common Core and Web 2.0 Meet (CCLS),
Elizabeth Joyce and Tonisha Walden, Rockingham County Schools
Participants will examine how to integrate Web 2.0 technologies to create authentic
learning experiences in secondary classrooms to meet the English Common Core
Standards. Presenters will discuss strategies for using digital literacies as catalysts for
students’ critical thinking and learning. Students will share their knowledge and
collaborate effectively with a real world audience.
Facilitator: Marcia Long
Room 1105 B2
Researching Your Research: Teaching Students about Source Credibility in the
Age of the Internet (CCLS), Mitch Cox, Orange High School
How often have we read papers including sources that left us asking: What possessed
her to use that? How do teachers move beyond assessing a student’s ability to use
MLA bibliographies and citations to evaluating a student’s own skill to evaluate? This
session offers activities to develop student evaluative skills.
Cultivating Inquiry-Oriented Classrooms to Teach the Common Core
(CCLS/NCWP), Mary Kendrick, J.M. Alexander Middle School
Participants will unpack CCR writing standard seven (W7): “[Students will] conduct
short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions,
demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.” Participants will
then explore how an inquiry-oriented classroom can help students acquire the skills
and understandings required by standard W7.
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
2nd
Floor Auditorium B3 ƒ
Student Writers on the Move: Connecting Curricula across High School and
College (TL), Wendy Sharer, East Carolina University, Meg Morgan, UNC- C, Tony
Adkins, UNC-W, and Tracy Morse, East Carolina University
This session examines the challenges that student writers face as they attempt to
bridge the gap between high school and college and the means by which college and
high school educators might collaborate to facilitate transfer of learning about writing
across that gap.
Facilitator: Tanya Watson
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Room 805 B4
The Lightning Thief (CAL), Elyse Durham, Hiawassee Dam Schools
Do you have students in your classroom who always finish first? Then you need an
enrichment course like The Lightning Thief. Using Moodle technology the class
incorporates a nine week study on Ancient Greek culture to go with the book. It is
appropriate for students in grades 5-8.
Using MultiMedia to Promote Reading (ILP), Sherrill Jolly, South Brunswick High
School
Students in Honors and AP courses at our schools participate in summer reading.
When they return in the fall, they open kiosks and "sell" the book they were required
to read. In addition, they create commercials for their reading, Facebook pages for
characters, and wall art that peaks the interest of students in the hallways. Opening up
student minds to how and why reading can be important has changed my approach to
teaching literature. It has also brought study from history, science, and marketing into
my classroom.
Facilitator: Sarah Cannon
Room 806 B5
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: ELA & Social Studies Integration (CAL),
Sponsored by the Triangle Community Foundation, Leigh Ann Alford, and Anna
Gay, Knightdale HS, NCSU Borchardt grant
Looking for a way to integrate new Common Core Standards through an
interdisciplinary approach? This “tag-team” between an ELA teacher & Social Studies
teacher will provide practical and strategies for teaching historical non-fiction in the
ELA classroom, as well as ways to collaborate between disciplines. Leave this session
with ready-to-implement lessons for your classroom!
Social Injustice Thematic Unit (GDC), Marcia Long, Devona Graham, and Faydra
Womble, SandHoke Early College
The session will share an awesome unit revolving around the broad concept of social
injustice that integrates reading literature, database research, writing, technology, and
presentation skills with an emphasis on global awareness.
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 204 B6 ƒ
Teaching the Best Young Adult Fiction of 2011/2012 (CAL), Alan Brown, Joan
Mitchell, Beau Burns, Kaylin Bugica, Caroline Fisher, Christina McClain, Michael
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During this session, current and former students of the English Education program at
Wake Forest University will explore some of the best award-winning young adult
fiction from 2011/2012 while suggesting connections to classic texts, works of
nonfiction, and other academic content areas.
Facilitator: Kelly Roberts
Room 1104 C1
Teach the Election with LEARN NC! (K12HEP) Kimberly Hirsh, LEARN NC
Managing Editor; Jonathan Bartels, LEARN NC Research Assistant; Summer Pennell,
LEARN NC Research Assistant
LEARN NC is a digital resource providing lesson plans, professional development,
and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-
12 education in North Carolina. In this session, discover informational texts from
LEARN NC’s election guide and The Mini Page archive for teaching literacy
throughout the 2012 election season.
Facilitator: Mary Kendrick
Room 1105 C2 ƒ
Pearson: The Documentary (TMM),Todd Finley, East Carolina University and John
Suralik, Early College East
Pearson, the world's largest education company, reported $9 billion in revenues from
its K-college curriculum, online courses, test preparation and scoring services. The
company also tests Pearson-trained teachers’ use of Pearson materials and contributes
to a narrowed curriculum that is based on fossilized assumptions about literacy. This
session will premier a student-researched documentary on these issues. View our
short movie and participate in the lively conversation that follows. the world's largest
education company, reported $9 billion in revenues from its K-college curriculum,
online courses, test preparation and scoring services. The company also tests Pearson-
trained teachers’ use of Pearson materials and contributes to a narrowed curriculum
that is based on fossilized assumptions about literacy. This session will premier a
student-researched documentary on these issues. View our short movie and
participate in the lively conversation that follows.
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
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Floor Auditorium C3 ƒ
Social Studies and Literacy: Recognizing and Interrupting Single Stories in
Our Classrooms (GDC) Christina Tschida and Caitlin Ryan, East Carolina
University
This interactive presentation introduces teachers to the dangers of having “single
stories” about groups of people, historical events, and cultural situations. Using
videos, books, and participants’ own experiences, we explore how teaching with
multicultural children’s literature can expand single stories and instead foster complex
thinking and social justice.
Facilitator: Karen Lands
Room 805 C4
Putting Together the Puzzle: Crafting Lessons To Combine Common Core
Strands (CCLS), Donna Duncan and Lisa Wall, Burke County Public Schools
This session will share activities that integrate cross-curricular informational texts,
nonfiction, the visual arts, and research with traditional literature to focus on multiple
Common Core Standards. The literature component will highlight American and
British selections including various genres. Teachers can utilize activities from this
workshop to make students active learners.
Corkscrew: Opening the Common Core and Essential Standards in a Small
School PLC Structure (CCLS), Annie Hovis-Williams, Orange Charter School
The Corkscrew Meeting is a structure for Professional Learning Communities within
smaller schools. This presentation outlines how to use structures to build democratic
communities of teachers, administration, parents and students in small schools while
maintaining professional development and vertical curriculum alignment to enhance
student learning using the Common Core.
Facilitator: Mark Maya
Room 806 C5
Enhancing Writing Instruction, Peer Editing & Assessment with Google
Forms (GDC), Jeff Carpenter, Elon University
Google forms can be used for the purposes of writing self-assessment, peer editing,
and teacher grading. The data forms gather can be tailored for different assignments,
and be used to enhance writing instruction and expedite assessment methods. Sample
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The Things We Take With Us: Writing as Praxis in the Classroom (GDC),
Kerri Flinchbaugh, East Carolina University, Patrick Bahls, UNC-Asheville, and Laura
Bokus Benton, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
After a 30-day writing adventure, these instructors recognized its potent educational
potential. This session will explore how this writing exercise encourages writers to
reflect meaningfully as authors of their own work and to integrate themselves into a
community of interacting coauthors. Participants will engage in a sample activity,
reflect together, and discuss adapting for their classrooms.
Facilitator: Jennifer Sharpe
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Grammar Rants, Patricia Dunn and Ken Lindblom, Stony Brook University (CAL)
How can teachers satisfy demands to “teach grammar” and teach writing responsibly-
-as well as inference and critical thinking? By having students read and analyze
grammar rants--published complaints about other people’s language use: letters to
editors, blogs, online comments, syndicated columns, and news features. Join the
authors of the wildly popular new book for an exciting session on how to help
students to “make informed, savvy choices about their writing”. (Adapted from
NCTE 2011 Conference Notes.)
Facilitator: Danielle Ange
Room 1104 D1 ƒ
Lesson Design with the Common Core State Standards (CCLS), Anna Frost, NC
DPI
What do the standards look like in the classroom? This session will provide
participants with key components of a lesson to effectively teach the Common Core
State Standards using a complex text. Participants will have an opportunity to engage
in a lesson and collaboratively discuss its implications on classroom instruction.
Facilitator: Renee Gliddon
Room 1105 D2
Collaborative Media Literacy Education at the Middle Level (TMM), Theresa
Redmond, Appalachian State University
Providing insight into media literacy education as a way to address multiple literacies
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and multimodal learning in middle school level curricula, the proposed presentation
shares case study research that investigated how teachers implemented media literacy
in an urban, public middle school, including not only what they taught, but also how
they taught it. Descriptive data of three veteran teachers’ collaborative classroom
practice was gathered through extensive field observations, interviews, and document
analysis. The Core Principles of Media Literacy Education in The United States
(CPMLE) is employed as a conceptual framework through which teachers’ media
literacy practice is grounded and investigated. The barriers and constraints to media
literacy education are also explored.
Facilitator: Megan Firestone
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A New Way to Text: Choosing Texts for the Common Core (CCLS), Christina
Adams Purgason & Karyn Dickerson, Grimsley High School
Learn about text selection in regard to the Common Core Standards, including literary
nonfiction, graphic novels, and non-print media. Skills covered include analysis of
non-print media, including artwork, photographs, and political cartoons; appropriate
implementation of graphic novels; understanding the difference between nonfiction
and literary nonfiction; and locating nonfiction sources on the web. The session will
focus on literacy both in the English classroom and across the curriculum.
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 805 D4Word
Painting: How Rebecca McClanahan's Methods Help Students and Teachers
Become Better Writers (CAL), Rebecca McClanahan, writer and John York, Penn-
Griffin School for the Arts
For over fifteen years, Rebecca McClanahan was Writer-in-Residence in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Since her tenure in Charlotte, she has
published many books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as an
excellent resource for teachers, Word Painting. Whether we write poetry, fiction, or
nonfiction, we can benefit from increasing our skills in description. Based on Word
Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively, this workshop focuses on using
“word pictures” to shape authentic, effective literary pieces in all forms.
Facilitator: Sarah Cannon
Room 806 D5
Tackling a Common Core Career Project-- Collaboratively! (CCLS), Helena
Venakides and Billy Giblin, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Why should 8th grade students tackle a Career Project? In this session, we will present
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and present a future career of their choice. In this project, students also explore the
biography of a recognized expert within their chosen career. This project caters to
every section of the Language Arts Common Core Standards and several components
of the NC Essential Standards for Social Studies. Ultimately, students take on the role
of an expert in their chosen field and teach the class about their career for 30 minutes.
Students must provide a warm-up, notes/ lecture/ power-point, an activity and a final
assessment. The "real" teacher acts as a student!
Digital Video Productions in Core Subjects (CAL), Sponsored by the Triangle
Community Foundation, Cindy Francis and Susan Szap, Apex High School, NCSU
Borchardt grant
Learn how to seamlessly integrate themes across the curriculum using core subject
curricula and digital video production. Students choose a theme studied in core
subjects and use it as a springboard to generate a capstone project: a four minute
documentary that expresses how the theme (topic) is relevant today. Hear how the
project’s various elements—initial pitch, interviews, script, storyboard, digital images,
and final cut—come together to generate a core curricula engaging experience.
Facilitator: Rob Puckett
Room 204 D6 ƒ
Publishing in English Journal: A Conversation with the Editor (K12HEP), Ken
Lindblom, Stony Brook University
Join English Journal Editor Ken Lindblom to talk about taking your teaching ideas and
practices from the classroom to the pages of one of the field’s most respected
journals. Don’t miss this opportunity to pitch your ideas and find potential
collaborators interested in publishing the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Facilitator: Will Banks
Room 1104 E1 ƒ
Engaging Writing in the Quantitative Classroom (RWQD) Patrick Bahls, UNC-
Asheville
Join author of the new book Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines: A Guide
for College Faculty to talk about why writing is relevant to the STEM disciplines and
how STEM teachers can support better writing in their disciplines. Learn how using a
Writing-to-Learn and Writing-in-the Disciplines approach can benefit students,
making their math-related study more rigorous and relevant at all grade levels.
Facilitator: Kerri Flinchbaugh
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Room 1105 E2
Learning the Basics of Helping Struggling Readers: Lessons from the
Targeted Reading Intervention (ILP), Kathryn Ohle and Mandy Bean, UNC-Ch
The Targeted Reading Intervention is a federally-funded randomized control trial that
delivers one-on-one instruction to struggling readers. This presentation will give an
overview of the key skills struggling students need to become successful readers, a
diagnostic model, and a suggested set of activities to help teach and reinforce these
skills.
Facilitator: Debra Pagona
2nd
Floor Atrium E3 ƒ
Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities and Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Content Areas (DCFK), Kathy Bonyun,
Buncombe County Schools
Participants will learn characteristics of students with ADHD and various learning
disabilities. Teachers will participate in simulations that mimic the experiences of
students with disabilities in the classroom environment and will be given strategies
that help all learners meet Common Core Literacy Standards in all content areas.
Facilitator: Tracy Morse
Room 805 E4 ƒ
Sacred Place, Type Faces: Writing, Designing, Rethinking Place with Google
Maps (CCLS/NCWP), Robert Puckett, JH Rose High School
This project encourages students to redefine the notion of place in their own terms
while pushing through the restrictive nature of digital composing sometimes found in
classroom settings. In this session, participants will explore student projects and
create their own collaborative Google Map that brings together digital art and digital
writing. Participants should have a Google Account set-up prior to session.
Facilitator: Bob Alexander
Room 806 E5
Artist Romare Bearden as Literacy Sponsor: What the American Master Artist
Can Add to the NC English Classroom This Year (TMM), Gail Russell,
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, Kathleen Hutton, Reynolda
House Museum of American Art
Native to Charlotte, Romare Bearden has a gallery dedicated to his work at the Mint
Museum, and his work is featured in Charlotte’s main library. In this session,
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hosted by Reynolda House in Winston-Salem this fall and winter. We position the
collection within Bearden’s oeuvre and show why it is particularly important to North
Carolina English teachers. We will close with a Q&A about the extensive availability
of Bearden’s work in North Carolina and how his work might sponsor a range of
literacies in NC English classes this year. It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself an
“art” person or not. We plan for you to experience Bearden’s art as your students’
might experience it. The session will promote lively experiential discussion around
participants’ responses to this very special collection.
News You Can Use (CAL), Courtney Clark, The News and Observer
In this session you will learn how to access the FREE e-edition of The News &
Observer. You will also gain access to lesson plans and additional resources to
support the use of newspapers to reach your curriculum goals. NIE is an acronym for
Newspapers in Education, a worldwide effort that supports the use of newspapers as
supplementary text in schools. NIE is a non-profit that provides the newspaper, along
with training and support, to schools in North Carolina. We provide all of these
services at no charge to schools. NIE works to encourage young people to become
lifelong readers and learners, capable writers, informed, involved adults, thoughtful
consumers of the news, and creative contributing citizens. Come find out how to
integrate newspapers into your classroom.
Facilitator: Sally Griffin
Room 1104 F1 ƒ
Informational Texts and NC’s Digital Heritage with LEARN NC (K12HEP),
Kimberly Hirsh, LEARN NC Managing Editor; Jonathan Bartels, LEARN NC
Research Assistant; Laina Stapleton, LEARN NC Research Assistant
LEARN NC is a digital resource providing lesson plans, professional development,
and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-
12 education in North Carolina. In this session, explore primary source materials and
related lesson plans from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and LEARN
NC.
Facilitator: Christina Tschida
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Room 1105 F2
The Demonstration Model: Turning the Classroom into a Space of Problem
Posing and Thinking Together (DCFK/NCWP), Megan Firestone, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte
Learn about a new curriculum for First Year Composition, called the Demonstration
Model, that has students build knowledge together by discussing and reflecting on
their funds of knowledge. This curriculum brings students together as a community of
learners and encourages them to share and develop a willingness to think out loud.
Let the Ideas Flow! Using Idea Circles to Promote Collaborative Engagement
and Content Learning (CAL), Lois Huffman, NC State University
Idea circles are small-group, peer-led discussions fueled by interaction with multiple
print and digital informational materials. Join us as we engage in one of these inquiry-
based discussions and explore how to use Idea Circles to build conceptual
understanding and intrinsic motivations for literacy across the curriculum.
Facilitator: Susan Szep
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'There's an app for that!': The use of iPad online applications for the
consumption and production of media in today's middle school English
language arts classroom (TMM), Heather Coffey, UNC-Charlotte & Steve Fulton,
Kannapolis Middle School
In this roundtable session, participants will have the opportunity to explore the many
ways in which classroom teachers are already using the iPad™ both as a teaching tool
and as a way to develop skills with 21st Century learners. More specifically, we will
discuss how teachers might integrate the iPad™ into classrooms in order to meet the
English teaching standards as outlined by the NCTE and IRA. Participants will also
be able to experiment with the various iPad™ “Apps”, like the e-readers, dictionaries,
and flash cards and discuss how they might assist in the acquisition of skills required
by the national and local learning standards. We will also share the possible
disadvantages to using this technology as well as invite the suggestions and
experiences of those who are currently using the Ipad™ in their classrooms.
Facilitator: Kathy Bonyun
Room 805 F4
Read Aloud as Instructional Tool in Middle and High School
English/Language Arts Teachers (CAL), Sponsored by the Triangle Community
Foundation, Tanya Watson, NC State University and Sarah Cannon, Garner Magnet
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Elementary teachers commonly use read-aloud and write-aloud to engage and
entertain. This session offers specific read-aloud and write-aloud applications as
instructional tools for middle and high school students to balance efferent strategies
(i.e., reading for facts; writing informational text) and aesthetic strategies (i.e., reading
for enjoyment; writing for personal exploration) with the goal to promote stronger
comprehension.
‘All These Boys Do is Talk Sports’: Promoting Critical Literacy through
Sports-Related Content, Alan Brown, Wake Forest University (CAL)
Whether you love sports or hate them, this is the session for you. This interactive
presentation will examine the position of sports in secondary schools while providing
attendees with ideas and resources for engaging some of your hardest to reach
students—sports-minded adolescent males—in reading, writing, and critical literacy.
Facilitator: Elizabeth Joyce
Room 806 F5
Poetry Reading and Open Mic for Participants (CAL), John York, Penn-Griffin
School for the Arts and Nancy Posey, Caldwell Community College and Technical
Institute
NCETA members Nancy Posey and John York have recently published poetry
collections. They would like to invite members to a reading and ask them to read or
recite favorite poems or their own work, or just listen, if they prefer.
Facilitator: John York
Room 204 F6 ƒ
Creating a Legacy Garden: Reading, Writing, Planting, Reaping (ILP), Danielle
Lewis, Renee Gliddon, and Michelle Sims, Wendell Middle School
Session facilitators will share research, accomplishments, and challenges in creating a
Legacy Garden at Wendell middle school and discuss methods for creating project
based, cross-curricular learning for students.
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Executive Director
Julie Malcolm
5227 Koster Hill Place
Cary, NC 27518
1.919.896. 6989
Julie.Malcolm@dpi.nc.gov
President
Elaine Cox
7891 Old Hwy 16
Crumpler, NC 28617
1.336.384.3591
Ashe County Middle School
elaine.cox@ashe.k12.nc.us
1st Vice President
Dolores Cupo
7035 Spartan Drive
Hudson, NC 28638
South Caldwell High School
1.828.396.2188
dcupo@caa.k12.nc.us
2nd Vice President
Jennifer Sharpe
5852 Daughtridge Rd.
Rocky Mount, NC 27803
1.252.908.1350
jennifer.lee.sharpe@gmail.com
Conference Director
Stephanie West-Puckett
Department of English
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
1.252.737.1089
westpucketts@ecu.edu
DPI Representative
Anna Frost
Anna.Frost@dpi.nc.gov
Secretary
Christy Shivar
363 Billy Price Road
Seven Springs, NC 28578
Spring Creek HS
1.919.751.7160
christyshivar@wcps.org
Past President
Dr. Sally Griffin
1125 Edgewood Circle
Gastonia, NC. 28052
1.704.861.2625
1.704.953.7328
sgsallyg@gmail.com
NCTE Director
Dr. Joe Milner
2125 Royal Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Wake Forest University
1.336.759.5341
milner@wfu.edu
Writing Project Representative
Dr. Will Banks
East Carolina University
2210 Bate Bldg, Mail Stop 555
Greenville, NC 27858
1.252.328.6674
banksw@ecu.edu
NCETA Notes Editor
Melissa Armbrester
Hugh M. Cummings, III HS
2200 N. Mebane St.
Burlington, NC 27217
Melissa_Armbrester@abss.k12.nc
.us
Webmaster
Jonathan Bartels
UNC, Chapel Hill
School of Education
CB 3500 Peabody Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
jtbartels@gmail.com
Colleges/Universities
Director-West
Vacant
Colleges/Universities
Director-East
Dr. Sheryl Long
longs@chowan.edu
Colleges/Universities
Director-Central
Dr. Kelly Roberts
robertsk@meredith.edu
Independent Schools Director
Vacant
NCETA Board of Directors
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CertificateofAttendanceandCompletion
NorthCarolinaEnglishTeachersAssociation
2012FallConference
Co-sponsoringLiteracyAcrosstheCurriculum
September28-September29
UNCCharlotteCityCenterCampus
Charlotte,NC
AttendeesNameNumberofHours
JulieMalcolmSeptember29,2012
ExecutiveDirectorDate
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