Audience: Classroom Teachers, Early Literacy Coaches, Reading Recovery® Teachers & Administrators
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
Location: Memorial Union, Emporia State University
To find your way...
- directions to Emporia
- campus map
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Special Guest:
Lisa Campbell Ernst is nationally recognized for her picture books and stories for young people. Among her many honors are a Parent’s Choice Award, Booklist’s “Pick of the List,” and a Horn Book Honor Book Award. She has written and illustrated over 20 picture books, including Stella Louella’s Runaway Book, which won the Children’s Choice Award in Kansas, and the ever-popular Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Kansas City, Missouri.
Featured Speakers:
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David Booth, Keynote Speaker - Teaching in Reverse: Creating Plans and Strategies for Literacy Learning after the Literacy Event
David Booth is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where he teaches graduate courses in education
and literacy education. For over 40 years David has been involved in education as a classroom teacher, language arts consultant, professor, speaker and author. His students have included teachers and administrators enrolled in the pre-service, master’s and doctoral programs in education. He has authored many teacher reference books and textbooks in all areas of language development: early literacy, reading, writing, speaking and listening, drama, and media.
Presentation Topic: What Do 22 Boys Have to Tell Us about Literacy?
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Beth Swenson
Beth Swenson is a literacy collaborative district trainer in Brainerd, MN. Beth is currently the director of an approved Response to Intervention model that uses Literacy Collaborative and Reading Recovery in the state of Minnesota. Beth helped develop a tool called North Star that uses the Observation Survey as a progress
monitoring tool.
Presentation Topics:
- Working Together Works: Response to Intervention (RtI) Using Reading Recovery
- Going Deeper with RtI: Using the Observation Survey as a Progress Monitoring Tool
- Lotta Larson
Lotta Larson teaches Language Arts Methods to pre-service teachers at Kansas State University. Her research involves how to best assist teachers as they integrate technology and children’s literature into their classrooms to meet the needs of a wide range of learners.
Presentation Topics:
- Integrating Technology to Motivate and Engage Young Readers
- Meeting the Needs of Linguistically Diverse Readers
- Allyson Matzuk
Allyson Matczuk is the trainer/coordinator for the Western Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery and the Early Literacy Intervention Consultant for Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth in Winnipeg, Canada. She has worked in the classroom at every grade level and as a Reading Recovery Teacher/Teacher Leader throughout the region.
Presentation Topics:
- Writing for Success: Building on Strong Beginnings in the Writing Process
- There Is No Wishing and Hoping in Reading Recovery: Arranging for Success
- Janet Behrend
Janet Behrend is a Reading Recovery trainer on staff at the Center for Literacy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She worked in the Kansas City, MO, School District for 23 years as a classroom teacher, Title I teacher/instructional facilitator, district reading resource teacher, and Reading Recovery teacher leader.
Presentation Topics:
- Sequential and Spatial Processing in Learning to Look at Print
- Analyzing Running Records for Strategic Activity
- Connie Briggs
Connie Briggs is a professor of reading at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and serves as a comprehensive literary consultant to area schools. Connie is president of the North American Trainers Organization and past president of the Reading Recovery Council of North America. She was director of the Kansas Regional Reading Recovery Training Center at ESU from its inception in 1998 until December 2007.
Presentation Topics:
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Implementing a Successful Reading Recovery Program within a Comprehensive Design (for administrators)
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The Importance of Dialogue in Professional Development
- Betsy Kaye
Betsy Kaye is a trainer of Reading Recovery teacher leaders at Texas Woman’s University and a faculty member in TWU’s department of reading. Her research interests include early intervention and systematic observation of early reading.
Presentation Topic:
Increasing Complexity in Writing: Are We Missing the Boat?
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