Events

Professional development opportunities for K-12 educators in all areas related to literacy.  We sponsor three annual professional development events:

• Our Teacher-to-Teacher conference where members volunteer to present workshops in which they share expertise and best practices from their own classrooms with their colleagues.
• The Mid-Winter Conference, where an outside speaker will present on a relevant and timely topic related to literacy instruction, featuring strategies for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and/or technology.
• Our Spring Fling Conference where an author of a professional, children’s, or young adult book will address our community over dinner. These speakers motivate us in our work with the children we teach by engaging us in conversation and activities focused on inspiring our students to become better readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers.

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​Calendar of Events
​2019-2020

October 3rd  - 4:30: Board meeting
October 17th  - 4:30-7:00: Teacher2 Teacher at Clinton Township MS 
January 9th - 4:30 - Board meeting
January 15th Mid-winter Conference 
​4:30-6:30 p.m. @ CTMS
(Mid-winter Conference snow date Jan 29th)  
March 5th-  4:30 - Board meeting
March 18 4:30-6:30 Spring Fling @ Mtn. View Chalet (Snow date 3/25)
April  8th - YA entries due   
April 24th-  YA Scoring
May  14th- 4:30 Board meeting /YA folders 
May 21st - 6:30-8:30  
Young Authors Awards Ceremony 

2019 School Year Kickoff Event!​
Teacher2Teacher Conference 

Thursday, October 17th
Clinton Township Middle School
​4:30-6:45 p.m.
$0.00 fee with a paid Tri-county membership 

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Save the Date! Mid-Winter Conference January 15, 2020

 Tri-county’s Winter Conference on Wednesday, January 15,2020 (snow date on Wednesday, January 29th.)  We are pleased to feature BJ Ward, noted poet, who will present on the topic of free verse poems.  He will focus on the elements of line breaks. Whether you’ve heard or worked with BJ in the past or teach K-12, you’ll have a greater understanding of the poet’s choice of line breaks.  He comments, “This kind of attention to the shaping of the silences/white space of a free verse poem, often leads to greater pleasure and enthusiasm for poetry in the classroom.” What teacher of literacy doesn’t want that?