Join Terry Roberts and the staff from the National Paideia Center for a two-day intensive training on planning, facilitating, and assessing Paideia Seminars in your classroom.  The Paideia Seminar is a formal, intellectual dialogue facilitated through open-ended questions about a text.  According to the 2012 book titled Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21^st Century Literacy, the Seminar is perhaps the best strategy for consistently teaching your students to think with clarity, coherence, and sophistication. In addition, the Seminar cycle is the most successful strategy for teaching the full range of state literacy standards: close reading of demanding text, collaborative speaking and listening, and effective writing.  During this two-day event, you will: participate in a model Paideia Seminar cycle, learn how to select powerful texts for discussion, write evocative, open-ended questions, practice your facilitation skills, and plan the first Seminar for your classroom. At the end of these two days, you will be fully prepared to begin implementing this profound teaching strategy in your classroom. This workshop could count towards your literacy requirements.  For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org /828.774.5681, ext 20.