Conversational Seminars
My current work in literacy and leadership involves interactive, online seminars with educators--teachers, principals, coaches, superintendents, and leaders at all levels-- where we discuss and demonstrate current literacy issues and principled practices that lead to greater engagement, excellence, achievement, joy in learning, and equity for ALL learners. This literacy and leadership professional learning is fully demonstrated and discussed in the video-based Transforming Our Teaching literacy series (Heinemann) and is also described in Read, Write, Lead (ASCD 2014), Literacy Essentials (Stenhouse, 2018), and The Heart-Centered Teacher (Routledge Eye on Education, 2023). For more information, see Professional Learning or Contact Regie through this website.
March 4, 2024
In this video interview and conversation, lifelong educator, coach, and author Matt Renwick and I discuss the importance of building trusting relationships schoolwide, the role of coaching in professional learning, using instructional walks to highlight students’ and teachers’ strengths and efforts, collaborating with students and the school librarian to build a school library where students are empowered to set the budget, order books, and make decisions about how the library works best, and growing professionally and personally—to name some topics we discuss.
For more information on the implementation of a School Library Project and its results, check out the following links:
- Guiding Readers to More Complex Texts (Read by Example): https://readbyexample.substack.com/p/guiding-readers-toward-more-complex
- The School Library Book Budget Project: Empowering Readers through Responsibility, Support, and Trust (Bring Me a Book): https://www.bringmeabook.org/the-school-library-book-budget-project-empowering-readers-through-responsibility-support-and-trust/
- The School Library Book Budget Project Toolkit (Bring Me a Book): https://www.bringmeabook.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BMAB_TOOLKIT_Uppena_v1.pdf
- Empowering Kids to Make School Decisions (MiddleWeb): https://www.middleweb.com/50133/empowering-students-to-make-school-decisions/
Transcript --> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ojwloy_sl2lQr4-toX3DJivtJXOma23Pz68_MZrYvpg/edit?usp=sharing
October 28, 2023
In this recorded conversation with Matt Renwick, Regie talks about her process for writing The Heart-Centered Teacher. She also shares advice for teaching, learning, and living with joy in uncertain times.
September 22, 2023
Video interview and conversation around my latest bookThe Heart-Centered Teacher: Restoring Hope, Joy, and Possibility in Uncertain Times with renowned educators Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher. "Seeing" our students, making stories central, co-creating a joyful culture, living "the good life", and much more.
Conversational seminar and Q & A for K-8 Administrators and Leaders
with Shelley Warkentin, Divisional Principal; Lorelei Bunkowsky, K-8 Principal; and Joey Robertson, K-5 Principal
Seven Oaks School Division, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Leading with an Urgency, Equity, and Agency Mindset
September 3, 2021
Shared Reading--Discussion and Demonstrations
2-hour workshop with Katie Algrim, Director of Innovative Professional Learning
Kane County Regional Office of Education, Geneva, IL
Virtual Seminar for K-5 teachers and leaders
Equitable, Expert, Responsive Teaching in Action
May 3, 2021
Conversational Seminar and Q & A for K-12 educators
For attendees to April 17, 2021 virtual keynote, Seward, NE
Response to keynote with Assistant Superintendents Jason Drysdale & Karen Boyd
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Authentic and Responsive Teaching in Action with focus on Reading
April 17, 2021
Plum Creek Children's Literacy Festival, Seward, NE
Annual conference for K-12 educators
Virtual keynote for K-6 educators
What Matters Most for Our Vulnerable Readers and Writers:
Authentic and Responsive Teaching in Action
January 27, 2021
Comprehensive Literacy and Reading Recovery Conference
Annual conference for K-12 educators
National Louis University, Lisle, IL
Virtual Session for K-8 teachers and leaders
What Matters Most for Our Vulnerable Readers and Writers:
Equitable, Responsive Teaching in Action