Rhetorical Flows and Pivots: Reading, Writing and Mindfulness in a Time of Transition
*Link to Printable Program HERE;
*For Continuing Education Credits, see bottom of page.
Conference Dates and Times:
Thursday, June 16: 10-16:15
Friday, June 17: 10-16:30 with Elections at 14:45; Fireside Social with Toby Kaplan at 16:30 until 18:00
Saturday, June 18: 10-12 with Board Meeting at noon.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
10:00-10:15 Introductions & Opener by the Executive Board Zoom Link HERE or Meeting ID: 827 3633 1063 Passcode: YRC2022 Elections and board positions. Please, propose names of candidates for the three positions by filling out our nomination form HERE.
10:15-11:15 Keynote Speaker Nelson Graff from CSU Monterey Bay
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Dr. Graff’s Presentation Materials HERE!
45 minutes with 15 minutes for Questions & Answers
Nelson Graff, Ph.D., associate professor and director for the Communication Across the Disciplines program at CSU Monterey Bay, is recognized for implementing the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework in courses across disciplines.
Since his first year on campus in 2015, Graff has centered reading practice as the foundation of education at CSUMB. As a response to assessments identifying reading as the most significant hurdle encountered by students, Graff brought the RA program to multiple disciplines on campus, including First-Year Seminar and freshman mathematics and statistics. He has also collaborated with CSUMB’s tutoring center in bringing RA to tutoring practice. In addition to his campus leadership, he has become a system leader in RA efforts, presenting in several webinars and at RA conferences.
Graff transformed reading and written communication instruction when he created CSUMB’s two semester “stretch” course, incorporating RA routines and strategies. Following the CSU’s elimination of non-credit bearing remedial writing courses, Graff’s stretch model proved to be successful, with all students of various levels of academic preparation passing the course at the same rate.
Graff’s successful implementation of stretch courses earned him an invitation from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to provide professional development in RA to faculty redesigning math courses in response to Executive Order 1110. In addition, four courses meeting CSUMB’s quantitative reasoning GE requirement were completely redesigned while Graff trained faculty in RA.
Graff’s efforts have already shown a positive impact on student success: In fall 2018, pass rates for students enrolled in the co-requisite, credit-bearing support courses were 2 to 6% higher than students who had been enrolled in the remedial course during the prior semester, suggesting that the credit-bearing, co-requisite support course was more effective than the non-credit bearing remedial course that was eliminated by EO 1110.
11:15-11:30 Break to Chat & Socialize
11:30–12:15 If They Think Reading Is Boring, Maybe We’re Doing It Wrong? Four Ways to Motivate Students to Read with Jolie Goorjian from San Francisco State University (45 minutes)
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In this workshop, we will explore and discuss four ways students feel professors can motivate them to read in their classes and discipline (Hoeft 2012). Participants will be introduced to different activities focusing on these four suggestions that invite students to read. The workshop will close with participants sharing and brainstorming activities that address these four suggestions.
Moderator: Clara Weygandt from University of California Santa Cruz
12:15–12:45 Lunch
12:45–13:30 A Humanizing Approach to Establishing a Classroom Writing Community with Ashna Singh from Stanislaus State University (45 minutes)
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How can first-year writing instructors produce inclusive environments where first-generation college (FGC) students can preserve their ambitions as individuals and as academics? This interactive session examines how I fulfilled the role of an identity agent who fostered FGC students’ funds of knowledge through embodying a daily contemplative writing practice in my first-year composition course.
Moderator: Amber Sylva from San Jose State University
13.30-13:45 Break and more to come…
13.45-14.30 Integrating Anti-Racist Pedagogy into an Environmental Justice Course with Sharon Radcliffe from Cal State East Bay and Ohlone College (45 minutes)
Zoom Link HERE or Meeting ID: 781 416 7285 Passcode: YRC2022
This case study, describes how a faculty member at a medium-sized state university with a highly diverse student population, incorporated anti-racist pedagogy into an upper division course, focused on environmental justice. The course, INFO 310 Sustainability and information literacy, which met upper division social science and sustainability general education requirement, incorporated a critical discourse analysis approach to understanding the climate change debate and a range of environmental justice topics.
Moderator: Rebecca Penrose from California State University Bakersfield
14:30-15:00 The Circle Game: Supporting Faculty in Crisis with Teaching Circles with Jackie Hendricks and Maura Tarnoff from Santa Clara University (30 minutes)
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Jackie and Maura’s Slides HERE
Teaching Circles began as a year-long program during the pandemic to support faculty who faced a year teaching online. Within the English department, the program has expanded, offering both informal channels to collaborate on teaching questions, and monthly meetings to create a safe space for faculty to share their struggles. In this presentation, we will explain the structure of our Teaching Circle program and discuss its effectiveness so attendees might be able to establish a similar program at their institutions.
Moderator: Ashna Singh from Stanislaus State University
15:00-15:30 Youth Spoken Word Poetry with Patrick Ohslund from Bay Area Creative (30 minutes)
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A professional spoken word poet presents creative writing work done by youth ages 10-18. Topics of writing investigate social justice and social emotional issues in rhetorical lenses.
Moderator: Dan Curtis-Cummins from San Francisco State University
15:30-16:15 Pre-service Writing Teachers Wrestle with the Meaning of ‘Good Writing’ with Robert Kohls, Katelyn Endow, Kimani Lincoln, Mona Shaath, Rachael Tupper-Eoff, and Monique Ubungen from San Francisco State University (45 minutes)
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Before first or second-language writing teachers step inside of the classroom, they should have some idea of what writing and language mean to them and the role they play in their lives and in the lives of their future students. In this presentation, the presenters (five graduate students and their professor) report on a collaborative project in which they examine what good writing means to them and what they want to teach their future students about good writing.
Moderator: Ashna Singh from Stanislaus State University
**Earn Continuing Education Credits for your participation in YRC! CSU Bakersfield Registration Form LINKED HERE.
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