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Nancy Sommers

Listed at 22 conventions, 1999–2027, 39 listings.

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speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
1999Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing: The Freshman YearPresenters Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2004Being a Writing-Program Administrator: Stories from the Field
“The Case for Research: One Writing-Program Administrator’s Story”
Presenters Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2005A Tribute to Steve WittePresenters Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2006Longitudinal Studies: Tales from the Field
“Following 400 Students: Methodological and Logistical Challenges”
Speakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2006Collaborating Across Institutions: A Roundtable on Future Longitudinal Writing ResearchRespondents Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2007Across the Drafts: Responding to Student WritingChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2007The Call of Research: A Longitudinal View of Writing DevelopmentSpeakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2008Writing with a Mission: The Calderwood Study of Writing
“How Does Writing Assigned and Produced at Community Colleges Compare with that at Four-Year Colleges?”
Speakers Cambridge, MA
2008Rhetorics of AuthenticityChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2009The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student WritingChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2010The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student WritersChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2011What’s Our Relation . . . to the Mean and the Median?Chair Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
2011Teachers’ Comments through Students’ Eyes
“Writing in the Margins: Why Students Find Some Comments Useful and Ignore Others”
Speakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2013The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student WritersChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2013The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student WritersSpeakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2014More than Robo-Graders: Responding to Student Writers to Encourage Habits of MindChair
2014More than Robo-Graders: Responding to Student Writers to Encourage Habits of MindDiscussion Leaders
2014Permission to Write: Teachers, Writing, and the Effects of Volition
“Arranging the Alphabet: A Teaching Narrative”
Speakers Harvard University, Boston, MA → Harvard University
2015Big Data and Deep Data: Disrupting Educational Grand Narratives of Student Writing Development and SuccessChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2015Postcards from the CCCC: A Workshop for Your WritingSpeakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2015Intentions and Revisions: A Workshop in Responding to Student WritersChair Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2015Intentions and Revisions: A Workshop in Responding to Student WritersDiscussion Leaders Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2016Response in Action: Negotiating the Intentions of Students, Teachers, and Peer ReviewersChair Harvard University → Harvard University
2016Between the Lines: Exploring Difference in Students’ Response to FeedbackRespondent Harvard University → Harvard University
2016The Pleasures of Writing for New Audiences: A Tribute to Sondra Perl
“Blogging for The Huffington Post: Finding a Public Voice”
Speakers Harvard University → Harvard University
2017Cultivating Responsive Pedagogy: Diving in with the Habits of Mind in the Two-Year CollegeChair Harvard University → Harvard University
2017Cultivating Response: Seeing Teacher Comments through Students’ EyesFacilitators Harvard University → Harvard University
2018Writing Teachers WritingWorkshop Facilitators Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2018Naming What We Don’t Know: The Possibilities of Writing
“The Secret Life of Objects: Writing about Family”
Speakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2019Writing Teachers WritingFacilitators Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2019Composing Literacy Narratives: Creative Nonfiction in Three ActsSpeakers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA → Harvard University
2020The Pleasures of Writing: Participate in CCCC as a WriterSpeakers Harvard University, Belmont → Harvard University
2022Tiny Teaching Stories LiveSpeakers Harvard Graduate School of Education
2024Abundance in Compression: Writing and Sharing Tiny Teaching StoriesSpeaker(s) Harvard University → Harvard University
2025Less Is More: Teaching and Writing Tiny TextsSpeaker(s) Harvard University → Harvard University
2026Old Friends and New Ideas, New Friends and Old Ideas: Practicing Rhetorics and Literacies of Generosity, Kindness, and Hope in Intergenerational ConversationsRoundtable Leader Harvard University → Harvard University
2026Expansion in Compression: Composing and Conversing about Tiny Literacy NarrativesPresenter Harvard University → Harvard University
2027Exploring the Past to Imagine the Future: Writing Tiny Teaching StoriesPresenter Harvard University → Harvard University
2027Imagining Future Initiatives for Intergenerational Collaboration to Build Disciplinary, Professional, Community, and Political PartnershipsFacilitator Harvard University → Harvard University

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