Two English Teachers To Present at Professional Conference in February

English Teacher Jared Friebel
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Veteran English Teachers Angelique Burrell and Jared Friebel recently found out that they will be presenting a seminar entitled "Zeroing Out Stress" at the 2015 English Language Arts County-Wide Institute Day at Wheaton North High School on February 27.  

Here's an overview of what sounds like a fabulous presentation:

"How can we best create a classroom environment that focuses on skills, not just homework? How can we encourage students to take intellectual risks without fearing failure? We will share ideas on how we can facilitate grading procedures that work toward these goals while also decreasing student and teacher stress."

This year's annual regional conference is entitled: "Celebrating Language Arts: Getting Serious About Humor Redux."  It attracts teachers and administrators from all around Chicagoland.  More information about this year's conference here.

Jared and Angelique had presented at several other state and national professional conferences.  You can read about some of them here and here and here.  

You can contact Angelique here and Jared here.

Two English Teachers Present at National Teacher Leadership Conference

Jared Friebel
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David Lange
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Two veteran English teachers, Jared Friebel and David Lange (me!), presented at the national Conference on English Leadership in Washington, DC today. Sarah Johnson, who taught in the English Department at Central for a decade, and who now is the Department Chair at Riverside-Brookfield High School, presented with them.

More information to come!

English Teacher and Librarian Selected to Present at IATE Conference in the fall

Congratulations to English teacher Jared Friebel and Librarian Kerrin Riley on being accepted as speakers at the Illinois Association of Teachers of English annual conference to be held in Crystal Lake, Illinois on October 17^th and 18^th, 2014.    Their session “Reaching Beyond the Classroom to Teach Information Literacy” focuses on the inter-departmental work going on between Central's English Department and Library and Media Center, specifically about the two-year informational literacy curriculum and assessment developed collaboratively with the two departments and led by Jared and Kerrin.  These assessments are an objective measure of how students are learning to be smart consumers of digital information.  This is a great example of how teachers take on important curriculum projects that turn theory into practice at Hinsdale Central.