PEBC’s authors are available to come to your school or district for speaking engagements.  1 and 2 day events are available, customized to your educator’s needs.

Patrick A. Allen

Join Patrick and discover new insights about developing student understanding within the reader’s workshop.  Understand why Patrick says student conferences are the key to teacher instruction.  Explore how conferring plays a central role in assessment, understanding, and the reader’s workshop.  Learn how to establish a classroom culture and structure that supports student learning.  As a classroom teacher, Patrick brings his own experiences to you and helps you discover how to incorporate your learnings in your own classroom.  Take your professional learning to a deeper level with his energetic and thoughtful presentations.  His engaging and hands-on approach will leave you feeling inspired and ready for meaningful conferences with your students.  Patrick is available to present at your school, conference, workshop, or in-service day.

Speaking Topics Include:

• Bringing Conferring to the Forefront of Reader’s Workshop
• Creating classroom structures that strengthen conferring
• Bringing Thoughtful Structure to Our Conferring
• Conferences: Cultivating Rigor, Nurturing Inquiry, and Developing Intimacy
• What Emerges from Reading Conferences?
• Conferring and Its Role in Assessment
• Developing Depth of Understanding Through Reading Conferences

Patrick A. Allen has been an elementary teacher for more than twenty years, and a Public Education & Business Coalition national staff developer and lab host for nearly fifteen years.  He is author of Conferring: The Keystone of Readers’ Workshop (Stenhouse, 2009) and co-author of Put Thinking to the Test (Stenhouse, 2008).

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