OG Canada invites you to join us for our annual Spring Conference with 2 exciting presentations from Dr. Erin FitzPatrick and Dr. Maryanne Wolfe on April 12, 2025. This will be a great day of learning.
Dr. Erin Fitzgerald - SRSD
8:30 PDT to 10:00 am PDT
"Do your students struggle to start writing tasks? Do final products never reach the point of initial expectations? Do you avoid writing instruction for various reasons – time, lack of student interest, or even challenges with self-confidence regarding your own writing? Self-regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) can support educators in addressing these challenges and others. SRSD is consistently rated as the instructional strategy for writing with the strongest impact on students’ performance across several meta-analyses (e.g., Graham et al., 2012). It was created to support the adoption of new learning and has been declared an evidence-based practice to improve student writing by multiple entities (e.g., National Center on Intensive Interventions, 2016).
The framework includes explicit instruction to support students in self-regulation throughout the writing process while
addressing deficits in initial schema, genre knowledge, and self-efficacy. SRSD works for students in general education (e.g., McKeown et al., 2023), students with learning disabilities (FitzPatrick & McKeown, 2021), students with behavioral challenges (Ennis et al., 2013), students with Attention Deficit Disorders (e.g., Reid et al., 2014), struggling writers (Lane et al., 2006), and across genres including narrative (e.g., Saddler, 2006), informative (e.g. Mason et al., 2006), and persuasive (e.g., Harris et al., 2002). Studies have included students from first grade
(e.g., Collins et al. 2023) through college (e.g., Ray et al., 2021).
In this presentation, we will review the scientific findings supporting SRSD, the six stages of SRSD, share
experiences and artifacts from implementing SRSD in classrooms, and provide resources for further exploration."
Biography
Erin FitzPatrick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include evidence-based writing instruction and practice-based professional development . Her work has been featured in leading education journals such as Contemporary Educational Psychology, Reading and Writing, and Reading and Writing Quarterly. Previously, Erin served as a public school teacher for 11 years and has been licensed as an elementary Reading Specialist. She serves on the editorial boards of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, Teacher Education and Special Education, and Remedial and Special Education. She also served on the International Literacy Association’s Writing Task Force.
45 min to 1 hour break
Dr. Maryanne Wolf 11:00 am to 12:30pm PDT
Learn about the revised definition of dyslexia
Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and the former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. She has authored over 170 scientific publications; Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (15 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture (12 translations; HarperCollins, 2018). She is co-author with Martha Denckla of the RAN/RAS naming speed tests, a universal predictor of dyslexia, and the creator of the RAVE-O Intervention Program for all struggling readers. She has received multiple awards for her contributions to the neuroscience of reading; the major awards from the International Dyslexia Association and the Einstein Award from the Dyslexia Foundation for her dyslexia research; and the Walter Ong Award and the Alfred Korzybski Award for her work on the effects of different mediums on the intellectual development of the species. Most recently, she was elected a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.
Note: Recorded version of the webinar will be available for two weeks after the event. If you would like to receive the recording, please sign up for the event. The link to the recordings will be circulated AFTER the event.
Participation in this event counts for 11 credits in OG CANADA pro-d policy.
