On Friday, April 26^th UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator from English, Prof. Scott Campbell and Graduate Assistant Adam McLain met with a group of almost 80 UConn ECE certified English Instructors for an in person professional development workshop on UConn’s Hartford campus.

The theme for the Spring 2024 conference was “Inquiring About Writing: Syllabi and Texts in the ECE English High School Classroom”. The conference brought together ECE English teachers to reflect on how to improve syllabi, use different texts with teaching, and implement first-year writing in high school classrooms for the next school year.

Sessions included:

"Barbie, Literary Theory, and Art" Course Unit Discussion

Advisory Board Member Kevin Barbero provided an example of a course arc focused around Barbie, literary theory, and art, showcasing his assignments and syllabus architecture for this unit. Teachers engaged in a workshop discussion about course inquiry and teaching units in the ECE English high school classroom with Kevin's example as the jumping off point.

Wadsworth Atheneum: Engaging with Inquiry, Identity, and Writing

Arri Weeks took a group to the Wadsworth Museum in downtown Hartford. The group thought about inquiry, texts, identity, and writing as it relates to an exhibit in the museum.

New(er) Teacher Intensive Workshop

Kyle Candia-Bovi and Alexa Kydd works with new(er) ECE English teachers thinking about the yearlong ENGL 1004 or 1007 classroom in the high school setting. They provided examples from their syllabi about how to turn the usually semester-long ENGL 1007 into a yearlong course.

Group Working Room

Emily Genser and Ramona Puchalski-Piretti hosted a session for those looking to have some quiet time to work on course materials in an hour-long guided working session.

"The Good Place, Literary Theory, and Philosophy" Course Unit Discussion

Kristen Rotherham provided an example of a course arc focused on The Good Place, literary theory, and philosophy, showcasing her assignments and syllabus architecture for this unit. Teachers engaged in a workshop discussion about course inquiry and teaching units in the ECE English high school classroom with Kristen's example as the jumping off point.

UConn English courses offered through ECE

On Friday, October 6^th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English, Profs. Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche, and GA Adam McLain met with certified ECE English Instructors at this professional development conference.

The theme was “Salutations, Congratulations, and Critiques”

The conference built on the work of Deonna Smith on joy and the anti-racist classroom, Gholdy Muhammad on cultivating genius and unearthing joy, and Felicia Rose Chavez on the anti-racist writing workshop in a series of workshops that brought together the community of ECE English teachers to share in the delights and failings of giving feedback.

For additional details see: https://ece.english.uconn.edu/fall-2023-conference/.

UConn English courses offered through ECE.

On Tuesday, April 18^th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English, Profs. Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche, and GA Maddie Gehling met with certified ECE English Instructors at this professional development conference.

Topics for the day included, reading in ECE English, using UConn library resources, and building text into the course inquiry. After a working lunch a brief Q&A period occurred before the day concluded.

For additional details see: https://ece.english.uconn.edu/spring-2023-conference/

UConn English courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Wednesday, March 29th, UConn Early College Experience English Instructors and faculty from the English Department met for a virtual professional development workshop. The topic was “Infographics in ENGL 1007”.  Infographics can be a powerful tool for remediating one’s original written work, can be used to interpret data or other textual information, or can stand on their own as a way to present information to the audience in an engaging way. Visual design is a broad topic, and infographics can include anything from maps and graphs, to illustrated recipes, to collages! The group discussed these diverse examples and what tools/platforms can be used to design infographics, the affordances, and limitations of visual genres, and what it means to do visual in the composition classroom.

UConn English courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Tuesday, October 18th , UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English, Associate Professor, Scott Campbell, met with ECE certified English Instructors for their annual fall professional development conference.

The group discussed Studio Pedagogy: Creative Experimentation and Making Contact with the World: Field Research/Documentary in First Year Writing Courses.  

UConn English Courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Thursday, March 31^st  UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinators from English, Profs. Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche, and GA Kari Daly met with certified English Instructors for their professional development conference.

The group discussed what’s new—particularly UConn’s ENGL 1007: Seminar and Studio in Academic Writing and Multimodal Composition course. Topics included, the studio experience, designing studio activities, and designing course inquiry. Instructors worked in small groups throughout the day connecting and learning from each other as we prepare for the shift to ENGL 1007 for 2022-2023.

UConn English courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Friday, October 22nd,  UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English Associate Prof. Scott Campbell met with certified English Instructors for their professional development conference. The theme for the conference was "Teaching for Joy and Justice".

UConn English courses offered through ECE.

On Thursday, April 8th, UConn Early College Experience and UConn ECE Faculty Coordinators for English Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche met with ECE English Instructors for their spring professional development conference.

UConn English courses offered through Early College Experience.

ECE English website

On Monday, November 16th UConn Early College Experience and UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English Prof. Scott Campbell. met with ECE English Instructors for their semi-annual professional development conference.

The them for the conference was Thinking Beyond Curriculum: Anti-Racist Writing Assessment. The morning consisted of short panel presentations by: Arri Weeks, Jason Scavotto, Lalitha Kasturirangan, Elizabeth Maurer, Mary Rose Meade, Ann Trapasso, Scott Campbell, Danielle Pieratti.  Later Instructors were split into smaller breakout groups for readings and discussion.

UConn ECE English site

UConn English courses offered through UConn ECE.

On Friday, October 25th UConn Early College Experience and the English department invite all certified UConn ECE English instructors to campus for their professional development conference. This year's theme was Connecting Literature and Composition Pedagogies--Writing Through Literature: Not Just for 1011. 

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Many thanks to Faculty Coordinators, Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche and Graduate Assistant Hannah Taylor for their efforts putting together the scholarly day.

UConn English classes offered through ECE.

UConn ECE English Website