Using the Essential Literacy Skills to Engage Your Students

BOS Center, B1

All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this interactive presentation, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Comprehension is based on skill-building strategies that encourage purpose and engagement; as a result, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically. In this presentation, I will offer of the seven essential literacy skills where educators will discover how to: expand their teaching methods to include literacy skills, introduce literacy into daily lesson planning, embed reading comprehension into any subject area, and scaffold instruction using literacy strategies to boost subject-area comprehension. (Based on Peg’s book, Clearing the Path for Developing Learners: Essential Literacy Skills to Support Achievement in Every Content Area.)

How to Design a Note-taking Lesson for Student Success

March 13, 2026 8:30-9:30 am

BOS Center, B1

In this interactive and hands-on presentation, I will demonstrate how students can rotate among four stations of note-taking practice: annotation, concept mapping, magnet summaries, and Cornell notes Each station will give students the opportunity to self-assess their own note-taking skills to determine which note-taking station works best for the particular text. Participants will have a chance to rotate among the stations, much like their students, to determine which station works best for them and for the text. Participants will offer feedback and reflection regarding the process.