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Saturday, October 28, 2017 ~ Eastern Community College, Bangor Annual Literacy Conference Program 8:15 – 8:45 Registration & Breakfast 8:45 – 8:55 Opening

TRACK 1: TRACK 2: TRACK 3: TRACK 4: BASIC LITERACY ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP SPECIAL TOPICS

Decoding and Encoding: Phonemic Cultural Humility & Bangor’s Building Relationships Framework for a Collaborative 9:05 – 10:35 Awareness, Phonetic Analysis and Spelling NEW Maine Multicultural Center to Build Resilience Approach to Tutoring in Writing Session 1 Dee Nichols & Rachael Kellogg • Room 221 Carin Sychterz & Edward French • Room 222 Sue Mackey Andrews • Room 226 Lisa Tissari & Gillian Jordan • Room 224

10:45 – 11:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Kevin Mannix & Linda Rota, authors of Weathering Shame

11:30 – 12:15 Lunch & Book Signing

Teaching Writing as a Thinking Process Tips and Techniques for Advanced RESILIENCE: The Film Poetry for Everyone 12:20 – 1:50 (to Basic Literacy Students) English Language Learners Session 2 Dr. David Prescott • Room 226 Claire Levesque • Room 222 Kimberley Moran • Room 221 Barbara Heal Miller • Room 224

“It’s for the Children.” Teaching Writing as a Thinking Process Understanding the Importance of Class in 2:00 – 3:30 (to English Language Learners) Relationships for Student Success Susan Bennett-Armistead • Room 226 Session 3 Sponsored by: Kimberley Moran • Room 221 JoAnne Rollins, Eileen McAvoy, Marie Keane, & Claire Levesque • Room 222 3:30 – 3:45 Closing

Thank you to the Tutor Training Committee for their help in planning this event:JoAnne Rollins, Chair; Mary Folsom, Phyllis Hanscom, Marie Keane, Claire Levesque, Eileen McAvoy, Lisa Tissari, & BrendaWillis WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

Session 1

Decoding and Encoding: Phonemic Awareness, Building Relationships to Build Resilience Phonetic Analysis & Spelling - Sue Mackey Andrews - William Dee Nichols and Rachael Kellogg Resilience is the mental reservoir of psychological This 90-minute workshop will start by taking a look strength that we call on in times of stress and hardship. It at assessments for auditory discrimination, phonemic helps us overcome some of life’s most serious challenges awareness, word recognition accuracy and automaticity so that we not only survive, but thrive. Research shows and spelling development. The discussion and activities that the strongest contributing factor to developing will be contextualized in Chall’s stages of literacy resilience is successful relationships. Together we will development. The conclusion of the workshop will explore how Adverse Childhood Experiences can focus on developmentally appropriate activities that will influence our lives and long-term health, and how we support both decoding and spelling development. promote resilience and make a difference in the lives of others. Cultural Humility & Bangor’s New Maine Multicultural Center Framework for a Collaborative Approach for - Carin Sychterz & Edward French Tutoring in Writing Please join the Maine MultiCultural Center as we explore - Gillian Jordan and Lisa Tissari culture and diversity in the greater Bangor area with This interactive workshop focuses on tutoring with a a panel of community members representing diverse collaborative approach. You will learn about the writing cultural perspectives. This session will also include an process, the collaborative process, tips and strategies for abbreviated Cultural Humility Training class presented effective tutoring, elements for critique, and much more. by Catholic Charities as well as a discussion of the importance of diversity to our economy.

Session 2

Teaching Writing as a Thinking Process RESILIENCE: The Film (to Basic Literacy Students) Understanding How Childhood Experience - Kimberley Moran Influence Adult Behaviors Writing is an exercise in thinking. It’s an important - Dr. David Prescott piece of the literacy picture. Reach your student through RESILIENCE: the Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope is a one-hour writing using social media and other engaging writing documentary that delves into the science of Adverse techniques. We’ll dive deeply into activities that are Childhood Experiences (ACES) and the birth of a new transferable to your lessons and provide clear steps to movement to prevent and treat toxic stress. This film help students learn to communicate through writing. chronicles efforts of pediatricians, therapists, educators Please bring a laptop or tablet to this session, if you and communities who are using science to alter the have one. cycles of violence, addiction, and disease and reverse the lifelong effects on health and behavior. A facilitated discussion of the film follows the screening. Tips and Techniques for Advanced English Language Learners - Barbara Heal Miller Poetry for Everyone Participants will interact using online and paper-based - Claire Levesque activities helpful for all advanced English Language Reading and writing poetry—especially shorter texts— Learners. We will play Kahoot!, watch an EdPuzzle can be an accessible, engaging way to help learners video, take a Quizlet test, export out vocabulary words develop fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. to Puzzle-maker, summarize a reading within groups, This workshop will share ideas to get adult learners at and practice creating high level text-based questions. all skill levels interested in poetry. We’ll look at several We will also brainstorm many ways to differentiate our types of poems, discuss how to incorporate them into instruction. Bring your favorite wireless device if you can! lessons, and even try our hand at writing a few verses! WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

Session 3

“It’s for the children”: How families can Understanding the Importance of Class in support their children and advance their own Relationships for Student Success. literacy at the same time - JoAnne Rollins, Marie Keane, Eileen McAvoy, & - Susan Bennett-Armistead Claire Levesque This session will focus on promoting language and Values, motivations, and lived experience contribute literacy development among young children and ways to the way we think. Different ways of interpreting the we can encourage our families to support their youngest world are sometimes the result of class differences. In learners. It will also address some of the challenges that this workshop, we’ll explore the nuances of social class families face when trying to support their children and and begin to understand some key differences that may strategies to overcome those issues. prevent us from developing the kinds of relationships with our students that can lead to their success. Teaching Writing as a Thinking Process (to English Language Learners) - Kimberley Moran See session 2.

2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kevin Mannix is best known as one of Maine’s most popular television weathermen. Serving the broadcasting world for over 40 years, Mannix was part of the WCSH 6 Portland and WLBZ 2 Bangor weather teams from 1989 to 2014, where he forecast the weather for Maine and New Hampshire on the NEWS CENTER Morning Report. Prior to joining WCSH, Mr. Mannix was a weather forecaster in Presque Isle, Maine and Phoenix, Arizona. He was also a radio personality and television news anchor in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Northeast Broadcasting School in Boston with a certificate in Broadcasting. Kevin and WCSH received the 2014 Maine Association of Broadcasters for the Commitment to Community Award for “Kevin’s Story” ---- the series that led to he and Linda co-authoring Weathering Shame.

Linda Rota, LSW has been a social worker for more than 30 years. She is a 1982 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Southern Maine where she earned a B.A. in both social welfare and criminal justice. After college she served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Ms. Rota’s social work has been concentrated in the areas of child protection and community support services. She helped develop and implement three community integration programs and worked on several grants dealing with child abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health issues. Her work currently is focused on child protection casework. Linda was the Children’s Advocacy Council’s Child Prevention Award Honoree in 2008 and was a contributing author in several national publications. PRESENTER BIOS

Sue Mackey Andrews helped Claire Levesque is a Literacy Dr. David Prescott is an assistant to found the Maine Resilience Volunteers of Bangor tutor and member professor and Director of Healthcare Building Network, which works to of Literacy Volunteers’ Tutor Training Studies at Husson University in conversations about Adverse and Support Committee. She has a Bangor. He is a licensed psychologist, Childhood Experiences (ACE) across B.U.S. in Elementary Education and with a Ph.D. from the University multiple sectors throughout Maine, Secondary English and taught Adult of Nebraska, who has devoted as well as supporting a variety of Education for over 13 years. She 17 years to The Acadia Hospital local ACEs and resilience-focused enjoys teaching and learning with a and still works there part-time. His initiatives. She has a BS in Human special interest in writing and poetry. areas of professional work have Development from UMass-Amherst Eileen McAvoy enjoyed a long included: improving the integration and did graduate work at UMass career as a teacher and an advocate of primary care and mental health, Medical Center in pediatrics. for young children and their families. improving healthcare quality and Susan Bennett-Armistead, She is currently working as an organizational performance, and Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Adjunct Faculty at Eastern Maine the use of measurement and applied Literacy as well as the Supervisor Community College orienting new research in healthcare settings. His of the Lifespan Literacy Community students to the college experience. clinical interests include bariatric at the University of Maine. She She enjoys sharing her love for books surgery, group psychotherapy, and the publishes articles and books and and reading with others as a Basic treatment of schizophrenia. speaks internationally on working Literacy Tutor with Literacy Volunteers JoAnne Rollins is a Literacy with children and families. She is the of Bangor. Eileen is a graduate of the Volunteers of Bangor tutor and mother of seven children. University of Maine at Farmington. board member. JoAnne is certified Gillian Jordan is Associate Barbara Heal Miller has been in Moderate Special Needs and Professor of English and Director of teaching international students for has a master’s degree in Elementary the Bangor Writing Center. She has over 30 years for Bangor Adult Education from Fitchburg State taught in the University of Maine Education at The Learning Center as College. She is retired after three System and been involved in writing well as for various intensive English of teaching special center work for over 30 years. college programs. She has also taught education and 3rd grade. She has also served as the Bangor languages in middle school and high Carin Sychterz is the director Campus Dean, Interim Dean of school in Maine, as well as English as of Maine Career Connect, a the College of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Language in Rennes, France. local nonprofit working closely Coordinator of Humanities, and Kimberley Moran is an editor with businesses and organizations President of the Northeastern Writing at weareteachers.com, an online recruiting and helping new Mainers. Center Association. community for educators committed to She is a founding member of the Marie Keane has over 40 years one of the toughest, most rewarding Maine Multicultural Center. She of experience in Speech and jobs out there. Her work has appeared has over a decade of nonprofit Language Pathology. She holds in parent.co, Good Magazine, Public Radio and business writing experience, a master’s degree from the State International, and Hack Learning. Her decades of event planning and University of New York. Since moving book Hacking Parenthood: 10 Mantras You Can Use project development, and years of to Maine in 2014, she has tutored Daily to Reduce the Stress of Parenting is coming public presentations. Carin completed adults from Mexico, Cameroon, out in October 2017. her undergraduate degree in Santa India, and the U.S. Barbara, California and a graduate William Dee Nichols is a professor degree in Washington. Rachael Kellogg is a doctoral of literacy education and former Dean student in the Literacy Cohort of the of the College of Education and Lisa Tissari is a senior at the College of Education at the University Human Development at the University of University of Maine at Augusta, of Maine. She is in her 11th year Maine. He teaches undergraduate and where she is earning her Bachelor’s of teaching, and currently teaches graduate courses in the areas pertaining Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. 7th/8th grade ELA, math, and to literacy, as well as young adult She has been a work-study student social studies at Ella Lewis School in literature. His research interests include at the University’s Writing Center on Steuben, Maine. Rachael’s current fluency development, vocabulary the Bangor campus for the past two research interests include the interplay instruction, and reading comprehension. years. After graduation, Lisa plans between poetry use in the classroom, Dr. Nichols received the outstanding to earn a Master’s Degree in Social student perceptions of ability, and alumni award from the College of Work. student motivation. Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University in 2013.