This session equips middle school educators with trauma-informed strategies based on Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners. Educators will reflect on trauma’s impact, explore its relevance to their practice, and learn actionable ways to create supportive, inclusive classrooms. Through reflection and data-informed interventions, participants will gain tools to enhance student resilience, engagement, and connection while adopting mindset shifts that prioritize regulation, relationships, and responsibility in their teaching.
Literature Circles, in my experience with teachers, have had hit or miss success. If you are committed to embracing the energy and power of student choice but not sure what’s getting in the way of these units fully clicking into place, this session is for you. In this session we will design Essential Question threads that unite book choices and give teachers the opportunity to focus on skill building and supplementary content. You’ll walk out of our session with at LEAST one fully planned unit!
Curriculum Designer & Podcast Host, Mud and Ink Teaching
Amanda is a former veteran high school English teacher from the Illinois/Wisconsin border. Amanda specializes in backwards design, inquiry based curriculum and authors many articles on her website to help other teachers get started. She has taught AP Language, co-taught at multiple... Read More →
Friday February 14, 2025 10:10am - 11:00am CST
Room C2031350 W Hawley St, Mundelein, IL 60060
Literature Circles, in my experience with teachers, have had hit or miss success. If you are committed to embracing the energy and power of student choice but not sure what’s getting in the way of these units fully clicking into place, this session is for you. In this session we will design Essential Question threads that unite book choices and give teachers the opportunity to focus on skill building and supplementary content. You’ll walk out of our session with at LEAST one fully planned unit!
Curriculum Designer & Podcast Host, Mud and Ink Teaching
Amanda is a former veteran high school English teacher from the Illinois/Wisconsin border. Amanda specializes in backwards design, inquiry based curriculum and authors many articles on her website to help other teachers get started. She has taught AP Language, co-taught at multiple... Read More →
Friday February 14, 2025 11:05am - 11:55am CST
Room C2031350 W Hawley St, Mundelein, IL 60060
