Rick Wormeli

Topic: Differentiated Instruction: Tiering Assignments & Walking Through Lessons

Date(s): Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Target Audience: K-12 Educators

Directions:

Directions to McKimmon Center
1101 Gorman Street
Raleigh, NC 27606

Parking:

Visitor Parking is designated by distinctive green striping.  Parking in the front lot of the McKimmon Center is free and usually plentiful.  There are three smaller parking lots on each side of the Center with white stripes that are reserved for University employees.

Visitors are asked to park in the green-lined designated visitor parking spaces in order to avoid ticketing.

Map Link:

Maps

Registration Information:

100 seats will be sold to educators outside the Triangle High Five School districts.  If you do not work in one of the Triangle High Five School districts, you may register online at Event Registration.

This event is open to K-12 educators in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Durham Public Schools, Johnston County Schools, Orange County Schools, and Wake County Public Schools. In order to register for this event, please contact the Triangle High Five Working Group Representative from your school district – Contact Us on the Triangle High Five website.

Registration Deadline: February 9, 2012

Speaker Bio:

One of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, Rick Wormeli brings innovation, energy, validity and high standards to both his presentations, and his instructional practice, which includes 30 years teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history and coaching teachers. Rick’s work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC’s Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and the Washington Post. Rick Wormeli is a columnist for the National Middle School Association’s Middle Ground magazine, and he is the author of the award-winning book, Meet Me in the Middle, as well as the best-selling books, Day One and Beyond, Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12, Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject, all five from Stenhouse Publishers, as well as Summarization in any Subject, published by ASCD, and the Homework foldout from Incentive Publications. His classroom practice is a showcase for ASCD’s best-selling series, “At Work in the Differentiated Classroom,” and Rick Wormeli is a contributing author to Middle School Matters and Because You Teach, published by Incentive Publications.

With his substantive presentations, sense of humor, and unconventional approaches, he’s been asked to present to teachers and administrators in all 50 states, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, the Middle East, and at the White House. Rick Wormeli is a seasoned veteran of many international Web casts, and he is Disney’s American Teacher Awards 1996 Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation. He won the 2008 James P. Garvin award from the New England League of Middle Schools for Teaching Excellence, Service, and Leadership, and he has been a consultant for National Public Radio, USA Today, Court TV, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural Partners Program and their search for the Giant Squid. Rick Wormeli lives in Herndon, Virginia with his wife and two children, one in high school, one in college, where he is currently working on his first young adult fiction novel. His new book on homework practices in the 21st century will be released in 2011.