In mid-July I found out that several colleagues and I received a Project:Connect reward as part of the 5th Digital Media and Learning Competition.

The daylong event that we are hosting as a result of this reward is taking place on August 8th on the Colorado State University campus, here in Fort Collins. This is a daylong event for students, teachers, and families called “Making Equity.” If you are reading this and have the means of getting to FoCo on the 10th, we would love to have you participate in our day of making. The event is from 9am-4:30 (registration at 8:30).

The “Making Equity” event is connected to the Saving Our Stories project–a summer program that the CSU Writing Project offered to help local ELL kids “save the stories” of the Fort Collins Latino community. Some activities that day will include making cardboard cities, book sculptures, quilts out of foam squares, computer games, Ipad stories, tweets, and more.

In the afternoon there will also be professional development breakout groups to help teachers learn how to incorporate making activities with an equity focus in their classrooms. If you are in contact with any teachers, please let them know we will have PD certifications of participation for attending the breakout sessions. Speakers from the National Writing Project, will be flying in for this event and helping facilitate these sessions.

This event is free to all and includes breakfast muffins and pizza and cookies for lunch.

For more info please download this poster or visit our information page. Please help us spread the word, and we hope to see you there!