Keynote Address: How the Stories of Us Shape Our Schools: Affirming Our Identity and Our Impact in Challenging Times

Cornelius & Kass Minor

In this 45 minute workshop-style keynote, participants will explore how identities and life experiences shape the values educators hold most dear, and inform how those values are sustained within a school community. Kass and Cornelius will use story-telling methods that can live within a variety of learning spaces, particularly during challenging times, to demonstrate how holding on to who we are, modeling our vulnerability, and surfacing our core values provides a foundation for teaching and learning that can survive pushback, pandemics, exhaustion and uncertainty. Participants will receive a variety of resources to incorporate story-telling and the oral tradition within their learning spaces to inspire, engage, and generate literacy practice for youth in their learning spaces.

Choose a breakout session from one of the following:

Special Education

Facilitators: Kim Zajac and Dr. Patricia Mason

K-2 Elementary – Sponsored by Renaissance Learning

Facilitators: Chantei Alves and David Anderson

3-5 Elementary

Facilitators: Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse and Ayesha Farag

Middle School – Sponsored by MyFlexLearning

Facilitators: Craig Martin and Tracy Sockalosky

High School – Sponsored by CDW.G

Facilitators: Stephanie Sibley and Kerry Gallagher

Central Office – Sponsored by zSpace

Facilitators: Grace Wai and James Jette

Library, Digital, and Instructional Specialists – Sponsored by ProAv Systems

Facilitators: Jennifer Thomas and Johanna Wilson

Closing Smackdown! – Sponsored by Framingham State University

Facilitators: Martin Geoghegan and Brian McCann

Individual rate: $35

Group rate: 5 or more attendees from the same school, district or organization: $25 per participant. All registrants must be on the same purchase order.

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Please contact Shelley Chamberlain, Executive Director of MassCUE, for more information.