Donalyn Miller to Keynote 2012 Language and Learning Conference

The 2012 Bernadette Mulholland Glaze Language and Learning Conference will take place at George Mason University on Saturday March 24th.  Registration is now available. 

Held annually in March, and begun in 1987, the NVWP’s Bernadette Mulholland Glaze Language and Learning Conference has provided opportunities for more than 3,000 teachers to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about writing and the teaching of writing. The conference features national recognized educators in the field of writing, as well as exemplary demonstration lessons presented by NVWP Teacher Consultants.  This year’s conference features Donalyn Miller, author of “The Book Whisperer”.

“Reading is the inhale and writing is the exhale,” says Donalyn Miller, teacher-consultant with the North Star of Texas Writing Project. Miller is the author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child and was the keynote speaker at the 2011 National Writing Project annual meeting. A 6th grade language arts teacher at ISD’s Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Texas, Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn’t turn into a reader. No matter how far behind her students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller’s unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick out themselves. Her love of books and teaching is both infectious and inspiring. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended “kid lit” that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

Previous guest speakers at the Language and Learning Conference include: Jim Burke, Kelly Gallagher, Jane Hansen, Alfie Kohn, Tom Romano, Linda Rief, Peter Elbow, Mark Overmyer, Donald Graves, Donald Murray, Barry Lane, and Ralph Fletcher.  In 2006, The Language and Learning Conference was renamed the Bernadette Mulholland Glaze Language and Learning Conference, in honor of the conference’s founder, NVWP co-director Bernie Glaze.

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2012 Language and Learning Flyer