TWU announces 2022 Spicola Forum

The keynote speaker for the 55th Rose Spicola Forum in Literacy Learning will be Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D., the John C. Hungerpiller Professor of elementary education at the University of South Carolina.

This year’s Spicola Forum is Saturday, April 2 from 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at MCL Denton Campus. Compton-Lilly, also an Emerita professor in literacy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be presenting:

Confluences of Possibility: Intriguing Examples of Child-Centered, Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Through examples in multiple real-world contexts, Compton-Lilly will broaden thinking around child-centered and culturally responsive teaching to help students be more agential around anti-racist, abolitionist, and culturally sustaining ideas in classrooms.

There are additional opportunities at the 2022 Spicola Forum:

Select two from multiple breakout sessions led by DFW teachers
Graduate student seminar in synthesizing research
Free professional learning sponsored by TWU Literacy and Learning and organized by the TWU Spicola Graduate Student Committee.