Workshops

Schedule of Engagements

Upcoming Workshops (Scroll down for workshop descriptions)

2009

• January 31, 2009 – Harris County Department of Education, Early Childhood Winter Workshop – 20 Easy-to-Make Puppets that Promote Fiction and Nonfiction Across the Curriculum
  

2007 - 2008

• January 24, 2008 - Conroe ISD, Library Lessons Make and Take
  (Thank you Follett for co-sponsoring)


• January 14, 2008 - Victoria, Region III ESC, Literature: What's New and Useful
  Cindy Franklin, 361-573-0731 ext. 277


• December 3, 2007 - Corpus Christi, Region II ESC, Pairing Fiction & Nonfiction and Seasons & Celebrations
  Kim Picozzi, 361-561-8670


• October 15, 2007 - Victoria, Region III ESC, Stretchy Library Lessons
  Cindy Franklin, 361-573-0731 ext. 277

• August 8, 2007 - Library Sparks Road Show, Somerset, NJ


• July 27, 2007 - Library Sparks Road Show, Houston, TX


• July 26, 2007 - Library Sparks Road Show, Dallas, TX


• April 11 - 14, 2007 - Texas Library Association Conference, San Antonio, TX

2006

• November 23 - Tennessee Library Association Conference, Chattanooga, TN


• July 24 - Region VII Educational Service Center Paired Reading: Fiction and Informational Books, Kilgore, TX


• July 13 - LibrarySparks Road Show A Library for Every Learner, Doubletree Hotel, Arlington Heights, IL


• June 5 - Region IV Educational Service Center Make and Take: Lessons and Props , Houston, TX


• April 27- Capstone Press Breakfast Teaching with Nonfiction, Texas Library Association, Houston, TX

Workshop Offerings

Thank you for considering me as a presenter. I have given nearly 50 workshops on a variety of topics at the local, district, state and national level. Choose from the following, or I can design one for you based on your needs. Most listed below are half day that can be extended to whole day. Or combine two half day topics into one whole day. References provided on request.

Read some recommendations from past attendees of my workshops. Booking inquiries may be sent to me via email.

Building Collaborative Bridges — Whether you are flying solo or have the whole staff on board as co-pilots, this workshop offers lessons and activities to make collaboration easier for both you and your teachers. Good for first steps or continuing journeys and tied to standards. This workshop is for K-2. With co-presenter Aileen Kirkham, it extends to gr. 5.*

AN LMC for Every Learner — Reach your disinterested readers through their many intelligences. Learn to do that through games, songs, plays, book talks, contests, puppetry and storytelling.

20 Easy-to-Make Puppets that Promote Fiction and Nonfiction Across the Curriculum — Learn how to use simply made puppets to integrate fiction and nonfiction trade books into your science, social studies, and language arts units. Lengthy Handout includes patterns, lesson ideas, and activities. Puppets are easy enough for students to make.

Make and Take Library Lessons —- Participants will leave with a gem-studded story box, stick and glove puppets, games for genres and seasons, author manipulatives, origami for dental health and much more to use with cross-curricular lessons that are included. ($12.00 fee per person required for supplies. Size limit: 20 Can expand to 40 if co-presenter, Aileen Kirkham, is hired. *We would split the fee, but her expenses would be additional.)

Recipes for Success — You’ll Wonder How You Did Lessons Without These—This workshop give recipes for making 15 props for lessons and is useful when the group is too large for a traditional make and take.

Librarians: The Ace Up Your Sleeve — Teachers, tap into the expertise of your LMS for help with technology, reading motivation and collaborative planning and instruction.

Storytelling with Props — Storytelling has survived into the X-Box generation for powerful reasons. Take advantage of them in this workshop. Handout includes techniques, patterns and activities.

Loving the Little Ones — Lessons and activities to keep those five-to-seven year olds entertained and involved.

Rousing the Reluctant Reader — Authors and publishers are making even greater efforts to produce books to appeal to the “I Hate Reading” crowd. Discover books that make a child itch to read them. Extensive annotated book list and activities provided.

Your Own Personal Tech Team: Let Technology Make Your Job Easier — The job of an LMS is never-ending. Come learn about 50 sites that can make all aspects of your job easier and make you a hit with your teachers and learners.

Literature Across the Curriculum — Whether it’s fractions, basketball, nutrition, or main idea, there is a book to help teachers lead into the lesson. Presentation is organized by curriculum area and includes the newest and the reliable to involve literature across the curriculum.

Stretchy Library Lessons — Based on my series of six books by the same name, this workshop will give you a wealth of lessons, K-5, that begin at 30 minutes, but can be stretched to 45, 60 or two 30-minute sessions.

Seasons and Celebrations — While you are busy teaching TEKS and district curriculum, are your students still enjoying the library? This lesson was inspired by fifth grader who saw me doing a puppet show for primaries and commented that big kids didn’t get to have fun any more since TAKS was invented. Lessons will be both fun AND correlated to TEKS, and fit each month of the year.

Dynamic Duos: Pairing Fiction with Nonfiction — TAKS assesses reading via paired fiction and nonfiction selections. Do you help prepare students for this kind of reading? Numerous fun and tested activities for using paired fiction/nonfiction at all elementary levels will be shared.

Media Magic with Readers’ Theater and Storytelling — Participants will learn to write their own scripts after reading and performing a variety of them. Storytelling techniques will be shared as well as stories on a variety of curriculum topics. Handout will include scripts, masks, and a list of storytelling resources and favorite tales to tell.

Around the Curriculum with Multicultural Literature — People are more similar than different, and activities in this workshop will point up both through books, activities, games, and lessons designed to teach skills as well as tolerance while enjoying excellent literature.

Reading, Writing, and Research — Activities will be based on a variety of reading, writing and research experiences using primary sources, books and online resources. (Gr. 3 - 6)

What’s New and Useful in Children’s Literature — Of the 2000 titles published annually, which are the best to tie in with curriculum and library objectives? Activities included.

Swimming Upstream: Collaborating with the Reluctant — What are the Top 10 Roadblocks to Collaboration and how does one overcome them and still have energy and joy in the job?