2024 CEA Convention: Full Schedule

10:45am PDT

Learning to Write and Writing to Learn: Exploring Writing Across Disciplines

Thursday October 24, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

Explore why writing belongs in all disciplines (not just English class!), what that writing should look like, and how teachers can effectively assess that writing on a reasonable timeline. Leave with some practical ideas for how to implement writing to improve student thinking and learning, starting next week!

Chairperson

Jennifer Lewis

Western MI Christian High School

Speakers

Abby DeGroot

Associate Professor of Education, Dordt University

Dr. Abby De Groot is an Associate Professor of Education at Dordt University and former high school English teacher. She and her husband Jason live in Iowa with their three active kids and one lazy dog. In addition to her family, friends, and work, she loves good books, stimulating... Read More →

Thursday October 24, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
311 Sewing room, 3rd floor

Session

Audience 6th - 12th
Subject English
Area Dordt University Staff

1:50pm PDT

Reclaiming the Courage to Teach: Empowering Self and Empowering Others

Thursday October 24, 2024 1:50pm - 2:50pm PDT

260

Teaching is wonderful and beautiful and hard and complex. There are days when all is as it should be in the classroom, and there are days it can leave us questioning who we are and why we do what we do. In this session we will discuss how having a strong sense of identity, purpose and security as teachers and as people made in the image of God can spur us on in our work, and how we can help each other remember who we are and whose we are.

Speakers

Matthew Beimers

Director of School Leadership, Assistant Professor of Education, Dordt University

Matthew is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of School Leadership at Dordt University. He has previously served Christian schools in Montana and British Columbia in a variety of roles, including teacher, coach, assistant principal and principal. He began teaching in... Read More →

Thursday October 24, 2024 1:50pm - 2:50pm PDT
260 Fireplace Common, 2nd floor

Session

Audience General
Subject Professional Development
Area Dordt University Staff