Annual Conference
Literacy For A Lifetime
September 25th - 27th, 2008
Louisville, KY
The Galt House Hotel
CONFERENCE PREVIEW
General Session Speakers
- September 26th & 27th
Linda Diamond – Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE) CEO and one
of the original founders of CORE. Ms.
Diamond has both Elementary and Middle School Education Professional backgrounds:
serving as
teacher and
principal in each setting. She
has served on the California State Superintendent’s
Task Force on
Reading
and was co-author
of Building a Powerful Reading
Program, which
helped establish the foundation for reading policy and
legislation in
California
. In addition Ms. Diamond has co-authored CORE
Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures and the nationally acclaimed
CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook and most recently the
Vocabulary Handbook.
Laura Robb –
Author, teacher, and
coach, Laura Robb has been an educator for 43 years. She currently serves as Literacy
Coach to Powhatan Schools in
Boyce, Virginia
, where she coaches teachers in grades K-8. She has written 14 books for teachers-
her most recent titles include: Nonfiction Writing
From the Inside Out and Teaching
Reading
in Middle School. Sponsored by : Scholastic
Linda Gambrell -
2007-2008 IRA President, Professor of Education in the
Eugene
T.
Moore
School
of Education at
Clemson
University
,
Clemson, South Carolina
. Linda received the IRA Outstanding Teacher Educator Award and in 2004 was elected
to the Reading Hall of Fame. She has written books on reading instruction and published
articles in journals such as Reading Research
Quarterly The Reading Teacher, and
The Journal of Educational Research.
Richard Allington -
Former IRA President, Dr. Allington is a professor of Education at the
University of Tennessee
. His publications include over 100 articles, chapters, monographs and books. Dr. Allington is a noted national speaker
and member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Among his recent publications are:
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers and
Big Brother and the National
Reading
Curriculum.
Taffy Raphael –
Taffy
is a
professor in Curriculum & Instruction at the
University of Illinois
, Language and Literacy Education. She is a 2007-2008 IRA Board Member; who has
researched and published on various aspects of literacy teaching and learning, including
inquiry and conversational learning methods. Taffy has done extensive work with
Professional Learning Communities (PLC s) in
Chicago
’s Urban Schools.
Pre-conference Sessions - Evening
of September 25th
Will feature Linda Diamond of
CORE and Valerie Ellery author
of IRA book,
Creating Strategic Readers and
Laura
Robb sponsored by
Scholastic
Featured Speakers - September
26th & 27th
Janet Allen - A renowned international, literacy consultant
and
author of numerous literacy works including:
Words, Words,
Words;
Reading History;
The Scholastic Read Aloud Anthology and
It’s Never Too Late,
Dr. Allen currently
serves as Senior Program Consultant for McDougal Littell’s 2008 Literature Program
(grades 6-12).
Freddy Hiebert - is currently an Adjunct Professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, she has worked in the field of early reading
acquisition for 35 years and has published over 130 research articles and chapters
on how instructional and assessment practices influence literacy acquisition, especially
among low-income children. Sponsored by: Pearson
Valerie Ellery – Author of International Reading Association’s Creating
Strategic Readers , which is organized around the five essential
components of reading instruction, Valerie is a National Reading Consultant and
experienced featured speaker.
Marie Bradby –
Author of many books for Children and Young Adults among them:
More Than Anything Else.
Allison Hart –
Author of Gabriel’s Horses (first book in the
trilogy), currently on the
Bluegrass
Children’s Book Award List, and various other novels for Young Adults.
Nancy Polette --
Author of over 150 books professional
books and including picture books;
The Little
Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything.
Nancy
is a Professor at
Lindenwood
University
and
St. Charles Community College
in addition to presenting workshops at national and state conferences and school
districts.
Jacquie McTaggart
– Author of
From the Teacher’s Desk,
shares a wealth of wisdom acquired from her 42 years experience as an educator in
Iowa
.
D. Anne Love
–
The award-winning author of numerous
novels for middle grade readers and young adults including;
Semiprecious and
Defying the Diva,
currently on the Bluegrass Children’s Book Award List.
Marie Mitchell & Mason Smith- Authors of Newspaper in Education Serials:
The Lost Dispatch and
Forty-Eight Hours. Along with NIE Serial Illustrator:
Ryan Lanigan
For more information about the conference, please contact:
Tammy Board, Conference Chair
859.749.3814 Cell or 606.365.8272 Office
tammy.board@lincoln.kyschools.us