Jeffrey D. Wilhelm's Current Projects
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Current Projects, Service,
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Current Projects

  • Serving as in-service director for national demonstration site in adolescent literacy project

  • Founding new National Writing Project site at Boise State University

  • Completing 3 books:

    1. Inquiring Minds Learn to Read and Write (Scholastic)
    2. Into the Flow (with Michael Smith)
    3. Teaching Language Usage (with Michael Smith)

  • Creating research project on alternative forms of student teaching experience
Standard Keynotes

  • Inquiring Minds
  • You Gotta BE the Book
  • Boys and Literacy: Lesson from Reading Don't Fix No Chevys
  • No Reader Left Behind: Teaching in the Time of NCLB
  • Meaningful Making
50-, 75-, and 90-Minute Workshops

TitlesPossible DurationsActivities
Reading IS Seeingalso half dayguided imagery, picture talks, central focus/main idea sequencing, picture mapping
Inquiring Minds:Inquiry and Designalso full day/ two days
Asking Better Questionshalf day/ full day
Symbolic Story Representationalso half day
Action Strategieshalf day/ full day
Think-aloudshalf day/ full day
Usage and Grammar: Inquiry into Languagehalf day/ full day
grammar and usage

  • teaching language use
  • teaching proofreading
  • teaching revision
Video and Hypermedia Designhalf daytext and task specific strategies for reading and writing
Issues of Censorship and the Canonhalf day/ full day
Into the Flowhalf day/ full day

1 Full Day/ 2 Day Workshops

Titles
Reaching Reluctant Readers


5-8 Day Institutes (with school year follow-ups based on national demonstration sites)

TitlesComponents
Improving Comprehension Across the Curriculumteacher research,
peer coaching

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