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70th LRA Annual Conference (Virtual) NOV 30–DEC 5, 2020 All of Us are Smarter than Each of Us: Collaborate for IMPACT ABOUT LITERACY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (LRA) TABLE OF CONTENTS The Literacy Research Association is composed of scholars who share an interest in improving literacy General Information .............................................. 3 research and practices. LRA advocates research that enhances knowledge, understanding, and Welcome .............................................................. 5-6 development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world. LRA sponsors a conference In Memoriam .................................................... 7-11 each year consisting of plenary addresses, paper 2020 Area Co-Chairs ..................................... 12-13 sessions, roundtable discussions, alternative format sessions, and symposiums. Literacy Research: In addition to sponsoring the annual conference, Theory, Method, and Practice (LR: TMP) LRA publishes a quarterly journal, Journal of Literacy Call for Manuscripts and Reviewers ...................14 Research, and an annual conference proceedings, Plenary Sessions .............................................. 15-20 Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (LR: TMP), which contains peer-reviewed papers Events at a Glance ............................................21-25 selected from the previous year’s conference. LRA also publishes a newsletter, and sponsors a website and Study Groups ....................................................26-33 listserv. Monday Schedule ............................................35-36 LRA maintains a full-time administrative staff in Lagrange, GA, to support organizational activities. Tuesday Schedule ............................................37-41 For more information contact the LRA Headquarters Wednesday Schedule .......................................42-76 at P.O Box 3105 Lagrange, GA 30241. Phone: 706-443-1334, Fax: 706-883-8215, Thursday Schedule ........................................77-110 http://www.literacyresearchassociation.org Friday Schedule............................................111-137 Saturday Schedule .......................................138-140 LRA Leadership and Honorees ..................141-145 LRA Committees .........................................146-150 Past Presidents List ............................................. 151 Award Recipients .........................................152-155 2020 Proposal Reviewers ............................156-158 STAR Fellows & Mentors ...........................159-160 Participants Index ........................................161-171 On the Cover ....................................................... 172 All of Us are Smarter than Each of Us: Collaborate for IMPACT 70th Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association | November 30–December 5, 2020 (Virtual) 3 WELCOME Colleagues, Secondly, I WELCOME to our 70th Annual LRA Conference appreciate our (Virtual). It is with heartfelt gratitude and a spirit dream team of great expectancy that I write this welcome letter. of area chairs, Together, we are making history! This is the 70th Annual who planned LRA Conference and the 1st LRA Virtual Conference! a face-to-face and virtual As you know, 2020 has been a year of uncertainties. conference Political strife, social injustices, and a health crisis in the simultaneously, form of a global pandemic, have changed the landscape until final of our professional and personal lives. Yet, the Literacy decisions Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon Research Association has risen above our circumstances, were made and chosen to come together to share our research to go virtual. I have never worked with a more ideas, network with familiar and unfamiliar colleagues, dedicated, hard-working group of people, and I am and conduct the business of LRA. Why? The answer is eternally grateful. #LRA2020 Area Chairs are simply simple. Because we love what we do, we love who we are, phenomenal! The Technology Committee stepped in and value the opportunity to connect with others who early to assist with conference planning. Their skill set are passionate about literacy research that will ultimately was invaluable as we met with virtual vendors, and they impact the students, families, teachers, schools, and willingly provided guidance and support throughout communities we serve. the process; and e-Editors organized social media Those of you who know me understand that I must communications to market the conference and gave us begin my list of thanks with praising God for answering the boost that we needed to increase our conference my prayers and the prayers of everyone who joined with attendance. I would also like to thank the Field Council me by praying for LRA. When we did not know the who assisted with marketing our Call for Proposals and answer to many questions, my response has simply been, #LRA2020 planning throughout the year, and organized “Let’s pray about it”. To some, it may seem inappropriate, the Welcome Reception - one of our new conference but we bring our whole selves to the table when making events. I am also grateful to LRA past presidents, who decisions, and praying allowed me to have peace about responded to every email, text message, and phone call, making plans to do something that none of us had as well as proactively contacted me to offer support. done previously. Next, I want to send virtual hugs to Also, our ASG partners have worked tirelessly to ensure every person who offered their assistance. Planning a successful virtual conference. I sincerely appreciate a conference entails managing numerous moving you Kendra, Caitlin, Kelley, and VJ. Finally, I have to parts, and it is simply impossible to complete the work personally thank my amazing Associate Chair, David alone. First of all, I want to express special thanks to Yaden, who made this journey with me every step of our esteemed Board of Directors, who usually meet the way, asking critical questions, offering suggestions, bi-annually, but willingly met almost monthly (and and willingly attending numerous meetings that were sometimes bi-monthly) to complete the necessary work. scheduled in Eastern Time. In other words, the Thank you LRA Board for going above and beyond #LRA2020 Team is a fine-tuned, well-oiled virtual your listed responsibilities, to strategize and execute machine! plans that resulted in successfully cancelling a major The conference theme for #LRA2020, All of Us are hotel contract, securing contracts with virtual vendors, Smarter than Each of Us: Collaborate for Impact, disseminating and analyzing membership data, assisting challenges literacy researchers to intentionally seek with conference plans, filling in as discussants/chairs out colleagues with similar interests, who conduct and conference monitors, and for setting a collegial research from diverse paradigmatic, theoretical, and/ atmosphere for LRA. We came together as a team and or methodological perspectives. We summon all to sit cohesively addressed our organizational needs while at a welcome table where we capitalize on the expertise, balancing personal and professional responsibilities. ingenuity, and experiences of our fellow colleagues. The All of Us are Smarter than Each of Us: Collaborate for IMPACT 70th Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association | November 30–December 5, 2020 (Virtual) 5 proverb “iron sharpens iron” is made manifest when The Saturday Literacy Research Report Panel we share ideas and challenge one another as critical Presentation is designed to provide time for us to plan friends. The goal for each collaborative effort is to collaborative research studies and policy briefs that will identify “pockets of hope” where effective work is being provide critical information to diverse audiences from done in individual spaces, and collectively develop and our organization. Please attend! We need your voice implement plans and projects that will Impact the at the table. All of us are smarter than each of us. Let’s field. collaborate for impact. It is with this spirit of collaboration that my artist, Patrick Several new events have also been planned and I Jackson of NileRiverGrafix, approached the conference encourage you to join the #LRA2020 Team at each event: logo design. As you can see, diverse individuals are gathered together, hand-in-hand. On the side of the h Welcome Reception (organized by Field Council platform, someone is pulling another person up, while and the Technology Committee to welcome the person below gives them a boost. The idea is that attendees, help attendees understand how to navigate everyone can make it if we help one another. Once on the the virtual conference, and provide an opportunity platform, the characters raise up their collective strength, for attendees to learn how to become involved in th as an entity of collective power crashes through a glass LRA. (Monday, Nov. 30 @ 5:00 p.m.) ceiling, and shatters it. All of Us are Smarter than Each of Us: Collaborate for Impact! h A Space to Collaborate (designated cross- collaboration period for committees & ICGs & The conference has been planned to include topics members) (Tuesday, Dec. 1st @ 3:00 p.m.) that are of keen interest and importance in the field of literacy. I invite you to attend all of the plenary sessions. h Awards Ceremony- (LRA award winners will be They were planned to broaden our horizons and include st diverse voices in the field. Specifically, be sure to attend: recognized) (Tuesday,