Name: Make it Matter. Aligning CCSS with students' interests and bridging the gap between curriculum and what is relevant to today's students.
Start: 2025-02-14T09:20:00-0600
End: 2025-02-14T10:05:00-0600

Friday February 14, 2025 9:20am - 10:05am CST

Room B128

With the 2010 inception of the ELA CCSS, the push for a cohesive, common curriculum and literacy experiences came to the forefront of schools. However, the resources and materials of the past do not necessarily connect with our current demographic of students. Research shows that students are motivated and engaged in texts and tasks when they perceive them as pertinent to their lives. Literacy instruction should include the cultures, backgrounds, and language practices of all students. This session will provide strategies for bridging CCSS standards and texts with multimodality and relevancy that appeal to students’ interests, identity formation, and range of ability levels to account for multiliteracies and view language as a resource. These facilitate students’ self-efficacy, a primary motivational determinant of achievement and a critical precursor to student success.

Speakers

Yvonne Schmid

Reading Specialist, CCSD 46

I have taught ELA and reading for 31 years and my passions are helping students feel more confident in their reading skills and finding ways to make what they read relevant and meaningful to them. I am working on my dissertation for my PhD in Reading, Language, and Literacy with a... Read More →

Jennifer Everett

Reading Specialist, CCSD 46

My name is Jennifer Everett, I am the 7th grade reading specialist at Grayslake Middle School.

Friday February 14, 2025 9:20am - 10:05am CST
Room B128 1350 W Hawley St, Mundelein, IL 60060

Instruction

Lake County Institute Day 2025 Grade 6-12/K-12 Fine Arts/ K-12 Librarians

Yvonne Schmid

Jennifer Everett

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