Workshops
The professional-development workshops feature creative ways for keeping literature and books valuable sources of knowledge and creativity in high school education. Each helps educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course while strengthening literacy and cultural identity.

Spring 2011 Professional-Development Workshops
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Deadline: December 15, 2010

The Literary Freedom Project is currently accepting proposals for professional-development literature workshop scheduled to begin in February 2011.

LFP workshops present creative ways for keeping literature and books valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. Our workshops help educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course work that focuses on explorations of history, geography, economics, government, and civics. The mission is to present new, unique, and exciting ways educators can inspire young people to read.

The workshop will invite adults (primarily secondary-school educators) to explore various narratives, characters, and themes in facilitator-selected books, and how books and reading can connect to New York City Department of Education secondary school coursework. The reading selections should be diverse and incorporate novels, short stories, or excerpts written by authors of various ethnicities, genders, or nationalities.  Workshops that focus on using new technologies to promote reading are also encouraged.

The facilitator must submit a list of reading material(s), design a syllabus, and create a post-workshop reading list of ten books that will serve as suggested reading for the workshop participant’s students.

The workshop's lesson plan will also be posted on MosaicMagazine.org's to further engage a wider audience, and be supplemented with regular updates on Facebook.

The goal is to expand the conversation on how literature can serve to connect different cultures and be used to help educators and administrators promote "out-of-school-time" reading. The workshops will also

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree
• Three-years of teaching experience
   

Forward proposals (and questions) to Ron Kavanaugh, ron@mosaicmagazine.org

• Mosaic Literary Conference
  MLC provides a platform for literature-based creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year we invite educators, community and arts organizations, and artists to participate in various professional-development workshops.
   

• Lesson Plans
  Mosaic supplements its editorial content with lesson plans that are developed based on the content of Mosaic. These lesson plans, developed for secondary school educators, demonstrate how Mosaic’s content can serve as a connective tool to explore educational subjects such as history and social studies while also serving to increase the importance of literature in the classroom.