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The Maryland Writing Project’s fall conference

LEARNING AND THE BRAIN
ENGAGE THEIR BRAINS – INGNITE THEIR LEARNING

November 1, 2008

Featured Speaker

Dr. Judy Willis, a board certified pediatric neurologist, a middle school teacher, and National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, is uniquely qualified to connect brain research to classroom instruction. Dr. Willis was in private practice for 15 years before going back to school to become a teacher. She has taught in elementary, middle and graduate school.

Other speakers include

• Gloria Neubert will speak about the Brain & Reading.
• Thomas Baumgardner, a neuropsychologist, will tal kabout the Teenage Brain.
• Suzie Henneman, a Dance Specialist with the Baltimore County Public Schools who has been trained by the BrainGym Group, will give a presentation on the Brain/Body Connection.
• Daniel Rozmiarek will talk about how to design "Brain Friendly" PowerPoint Presentations.
• Dr.Michael Salcman, former chairman of neurosurgery at UM and a published poet, who would speak about Creativity, Visual Systems, and the Brain.
• Sharon Delgado will talk about "Boy Brains; Girl Brains.

NWP Ambassador Fellowships

Five Fellowships are in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with the Department of Education for one year. Twenty fellowships fund collaboration with other teachers.

Link:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/teacherfellowship/index.html

Interested in publishing?
Thanks to Dr. Barbara Bass of Towson State and Michelle Krut for this announcement. If you have been writing, you might enjoy meeting 30 different publishers and editors at this all-day event and also learn more about getting your work published. The event is sponsored VisArt of Rockville on the evening of April 4 and by Johns Hopkins University and Montgomery College on April 5. Registration is $45, and it includes a subscription to a literary magazine and a book. Click to learn more about the publishers, the magazines, and the day's schedule.

Contact:
• Dr. Joseph McCaleb : jlm@umd.edu
• Dr. Patricia Lambert Stock : plstock@umd.edu