Summer Literacy Institutes

ENGL 919.01, Monday-Friday, 8:15am-2:30pm
       “There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story.”    
                                                    Sister Mary Lou Kownacki 

This course investigates the integral role of storytelling in fostering community, empathy and social cohesion. Students will explore how narratives—both personal and collective—shape identities, convey cultural values, and create a sense of belonging within various communities and classrooms. This class is suitable for teachers working in grades K-12. 

Through a combination of readings, discussions, writing exercises, and collaborative experiences, participants will have the opportunity to create their own narratives and explore how different mediums can enhance the storytelling experience. 

By the end of the course, participants will harness the pedagogical tool of storytelling as a means of fostering engagement, motivation, empathy, social change and more. 

Tomasen M Carey is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of New Hampshire where she is the Field Coordinator of the Learning Through Teaching Program and Director of UNH Writers Academy for youth. She is the voice behind the blog, Conversation Education (https://conversationeducation.com/) where she shares resources, questions the current state of education, and reflects on her work and her own literary life.

ENGL 920.01a, 8:15am-2:30pm in person plus two additional virtual classes. (3 credit)

The ELA standards can be daunting as a whole—especially if you are trying to simply tackle engagement among your students (and who isn’t?!?). In this course, we will navigate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in reading, writing, speaking, and listening, making sense of not only how they fit together, but how they amplify our outcomes for reading and writing achievement. 

With a focus on a Universal Design for Learning, this mindset will lead us to approach literacy full circle, addressing the full intention of the standards while honoring the genius of the learners in your care. 

Participants will: 

• Learn to deconstruct the opportunities the ELA standards present through a lens of multidimensional literacy. (For teachers in grades K-5, we will also consider how these ELA standards can be leveraged for the other content areas.)​​​​​​
• Practice ways humans interact with language through a receptive/generative language model. 
• Develop a broad definition of what it means to interact with text that includes—and transcends—the printed word.
• Construct and share text sets and sample lesson sequences that leverage reading, writing, speaking, and listening. 

Jaclyn Karabinas is an energetic, creative educator who was a classroom teacher until 2014. Now an independent consultant and instructional coach, she is passionate about mixing and matching skill sets from the worlds of educational technology integration, arts integration, and progressive literacy instruction. She holds a Master’s Degree in Arts Integration in Curriculum & Instruction, is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Heinemann Professional Development Online PD consultant, and UNH Learning through Teaching adjunct.

July 16-18^th, June 25-27^th, August 22-23^rd

UNH-Manchester and on-site in schools

Sponsored by a U.S. Department of Education grant, the SLATE Institute focuses on bringing together teams of ELA, STEM, and EL teachers from the middle-levels. Teachers will work on inquiry in science and writing, as well as building stronger practices for working with multilingual students in their classrooms. Instructors will include experts in literacy, writing, and STEM from UNH. Teacher teams will have time to develop interdisciplinary collaborative curricular units with their teams. One of the goals of the Institute is build student interest in STEM through inquiry, while at the same time, gaining valuable experiences in reading and writing in the Language Arts and beyond. The SLATE Institute is a collaboration between the UNH Leitzel Center, the UNH Community Literacy Center, and the NH Literacy Institutes. Application only and available in schools that are currently part of the SLATE program. For more information, see https://www.unh.edu/leitzel-center/programs/stem-language-arts-teaching…

For grantees only.

ENGL 911.01, 8:15am-2:30pm in person, plus two additional virtual classes. (3 credit)

Shelley Girdner

922.01a,  8:15am-2:30pm in person plus two additional virtual classes. (3 credit)

ENGL 920.03, 8:15am-2:30pm in person (UNH Manchester Campus)

Laura Smith, a Principal Lecturer in English at UNH, teaches courses in first-year composition, intro to literature, and English teaching, including Teaching Young Adult Literature.  She appreciates the welcoming and collaborative New Hampshire Literacy Institutes community and loves hearing your YA book recommendations!

922.03a,  8:15am-2:30pm in person plus two additional virtual classes. (3 credit)

Nawal Qarooni