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from ASCD site
from ASCD site

1. Over the three days there were  over 400 sessions on content, teaching, learning, and educational issues! All of the sessions varied from sessions ranging from “The Strategic Teacher: Research-Based Strategies for Meeting the Challenges of the Common Core” to  “Powerful Best Reading Practices for Struggling Readers.” In addition to the sheer amount-of sessions there were differentiated sessions geared toward classroom teachers, principals and  district leadership . I was so glad I wasn’t forced to sit in a session that was aimed at managing a school when all I really wanted to know was reading strategies for kids with reading difficulties. In addition, I loved that there were large sessions and smaller more intimate sessions!

For fifteen years Franchesca taught English/Language Arts in two urban districts in Atlanta, Georgia,...

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