CAPTA 2017: People, Passion, and Purpose has ended

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CAPTA 2017: People, Passion, and Purpose

10:00am EST

Paired Presentations: 'A Community of All Languages: The Removal of Language Barriers' and 'Essential Skills to Learn: ELL Tutoring'FULL Room 311 Paired Presentations: 'High School Writing Centers: Redefining the Purpose' and 'Mad Life Skillz: A Tool Box for Tutor Enrichment 'FULL Room 312 Paired Presentations: 'Taking Off the Training Wheels: Successfully Training Writing Tutors' and 'Performance Enhancement: Taking an Unstandardized Approach to Standardized Testing'FULL Room 467 Paired Presentations: 'The Magic Eight Ball: The Solution to Your Tutee Drought' and 'Creating a Welcoming Writing Center Environment: Simple Changes, Big Benefits'FULL Room 308 Paired Presentations: 'We're All in This Together' and 'Psychological Benefits of Writing: With The Writing Center Comes Great Intelligence'FULL Room 310 Paired Presentations: 'Who Should Hold the Pen? Directive and Non-Directive Tutoring in Peer Tutoring Centers' and 'Questioning Questions'FULL Room 313

11:00am EST

Paired Presentations: 'Body Language: The Secret Conversation' and 'BLT Relationships- Building Long Term Relationships With the Tutee'FULL Room 318 Paired Presentations: 'Confidence, Trust, & Pixie Dust' and 'It's Not a Pigment of Your Imagination'FULL Room 320 Paired Presentations: 'Expanding the Services of the Writing Center to Meet the Needs of All Students' and 'How Passion Empowers and Motivates Tutors During Challenging Sessions'FULL Room 466

12:55pm EST

Paired Presentations: 'Branching Out: Getting Your Center Involved in the Community' and 'Learning the 'ABCs': A Better Connection to Our Future Writers'FULL Room 310 Paired Presentations: 'Help On All Fronts: Turning A Writing Center Into A Tutoring Center' and 'Writing Centers: It All Starts with the Tutors'FULL Room 311 Paired Presentations: 'Helping Students Find Their 'Happy Place' with Peer Tutoring' and 'Teacher's Pet: How to Use Feedback From Teachers to Improve Your Writing Center'FULL Room 308 Paired Presentations: 'How to 'Ad' Tutees to the Writing Center' and 'Questioning Questions'FULL Room 467 Paired Presentations: 'Improving the Tutor Through Tutoring Family Feedback' and "'Push Versus Pull': Developing an 'Outreach Program' to Serve the Writing Community'ALMOST FULL! Room 313 Paired Presentations: 'Watch and Learn: The Importance of Observation in Peer Tutoring' and 'Two Heads are Better than One: Making Writing Centers a Welcoming Place for Everyone'FULL Room 312

1:55pm EST

Paired Presentations: 'Fighting the ESOL Dropout Crisis: What Can We Do?' and 'Building Bridges Not Walls: How a Center Should Address English Language Learners' Room 466