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BeelerROUGH DRAFT – TENTATIVE PROGRAM ARA LITERACY CONFERENCE Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez, Professor (Note: rooms TBA) Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA Co-Presenter(s): Elizabeth Manning & Carrice Cummins If corrections need to be made, please notify Susan - Thinking and Talking Your Way Through [email protected] Text Presenters will show how interactive read alouds and close reading of multiple texts can help all readers peel back the layers and make connections across texts to Thursday 8:00 – 9:30 discover and extend deep understandings. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Janet Cumbee, Regional Director Audience: Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers Center for the Collaborative Classroom, Ringgold, GA Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6) Co-Presenter(s): Rebecca McKay Best Practices in Reading Linda Lawrence, Consultant Grounded in best practices research and Community Education Advocate, Hot Springs, AR comprehension instruction, this session provides The Matrix Reloaded: Strategies to Engage participants the opportunity to engage with interactive materials that include a model lesson and a video to Reluctant Learners in Any Grade support their understanding of the practical application This fun and fast-paced participatory session includes of the latest research. use of storytelling, randomness, questioning, Focus Area: Content (K-12) brainstorming, and more to engage students of all Audience: All abilities and intelligences in learning. The use of visual, Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) audio, kinesthetic, and emotional responses inspires teachers to use their own creativity in new ways to Lisa Dryden, Professor accommodate their students! Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Helping Young Students Advance As Audience: All Level: All Language Learners: Practices for Comprehension Instruction Ruth Culham, Educational Consultant In this interactive, hands-on session, presenters will Beaverton, OR share research-based practices that enhance reading The Writing Thief comprehension and promote critical thinking. A variety Participants will learn how to use amazing books to of strategies will be presented including Literary Report bring energy and to build skills in the writing classroom. Cards, Character Portraits, Plot Profiles and Cubing. Learn to look at books through the lens of the traits: Focus Area: Instructional Strategies ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers fluency, and conventions (and presentation), and the Level: Primary Grades (1-3) modes: narrative, informational, and opinion argument. It is possible to use these texts to teach Alice Greiner, Adjunct Faculty/Literacy Coach students how writing works, not just for reading. Adams State College, Centennial, CO Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Clear, Concise Paragraphs - Guaranteed! Audience: All Never felt comfortable teaching writing? Attend this Level: All session! Learn a classroom-tested Writing Routine that can be taught tomorrow in ELA or content classes. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Administrators/Supervisors, Classroom Teachers, Title I Level: All

1 Tim Odegard, Director of Research and Evaluation Misty LaCour, Professor Wilson Language Training, Oxford, MA Kaplan University, Magnolia, AR An Overview of Developmental Dyslexia Co-Presenter(s): Laura Dees and Specific Reading Disability The Use of iPads in the Classroom: The presenter will review the cognitive and Increasing Word Study Skills in Elementary neurocognitive basis of dyslexia and summarize specific Students reading disability and the identification process. Case The researchers will share the details of a study studies of student profiles are provided, along with regarding the use of iPads to increase word study skills recommendations for addressing the instructional in elementary students. There was a significant needs of students with an SRD. difference in the scores for the post-test, indicating a Focus Area: Principles of learning/developmental positive impact on word study development. This study stages/diverse learners can be replicated in attendees' classrooms. Audience: All Focus Area: Next generation learning/ integrated Level: All technology Audience: All Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6)

Thursday 8:00 – 9:00 Susan Hall, President Clara Carroll, Assistant Dean 95 Percent Group, Lincolnshire, IL Harding University, Searcy, AR Cultivating Literacy Leadership Join Me in Learning How To Be National What do literacy leaders do to propel a building or Board Certified district to student gains? Dr. Hall has been working Recognized as the gold standard in teacher certification, with principals, superintendents, district curriculum NBCTs set the standards of accomplished teaching and directors, and teachers for 20 years. In this presentation advancing student learning. Join over 100,000 NBCTs she will facilitate an honest and open dialogue about representing 25 subject areas and developmental levels. what it takes to be a literacy leader based on a study by Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership/fiscal management the Wallace Foundation. Audience: All Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Level: All Audience: All Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6)

Shoudong Feng, Associate Professor Univ. of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR Vera Brown, Associate Professor Co-Presenter(s): Uma Garimella & Carolyn Pinchback University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR Close Reading and Text-Dependent Co-Presenter(s): Sherry Michelle Lang, Graduate Questions Student, Texas Women’s University & Rosalind Overall, Reading Adjunct Instructor, Brookhaven College The presenters will share their professional development experience with 25 5th-8th grade The Role of the Family in the Development teachers and discuss how to conduct close reading and of Literacy in Their Children: A Review of develop text-dependent questions. the Literature Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Presenters will review literature on 1) children's literacy Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers development 2) family challenges 3) the impact of Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle family programs, and 4) the intergenerational approach School (6-9) to literacy development, and personal and family narrative. The presenters will engage the participants in reflecting on their literacy development from the information shared during the presentation.

2 Focus Area: Parent involvement Thursday 11:15 – 12:15 Audience: All Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Angela Betancourt, Assistant Principal Intermediate Grades (4-6) Greenbrier Public Schools, Greenbrier, AR Co-Presenter(s): Stephanie Worthey, Principal Innovating Literacy Interventions with a Brenda Overturf, Author & Educator School Wide Program Louisville, KY Presenters will share their innovative program of Growing Vocabulary for Student interventions meeting the literacy needs of diverse Achievement learners. Scheduling, instructional planning, research Vocabulary development is vital for academic based interventions, and data-driven decision making achievement. In this session, Brenda Overturf will share are practical tools that attendees can implement in key ingredients to nurture effective, enjoyable their own schools. vocabulary instruction and assessment in today's Focus Area: Principles of learning/developmental classrooms. When we teach individual words and word- stages/ diverse learners learning strategies within a literate environment, Audience: All students learn. Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Intermediate Grades (4-6) Audience: All Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School Jennifer Bowman, Training Advisor (Grades 6-9) Early Care and Education Projects, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville , AR Brian Pinkney, Author/Illustrator Co-Presenter(s): Deniece Honeycutt Brooklyn, NY To Use or Not To Use Electronic Book The Rhythm of My Art Formats: That Is the Question Brian Pinkney, award-winning children's book author This session will address the myths associated with the and illustrator, delivers a motivating presentation using use of digital technologies (specifically e-books) with books he has written and illustrated. These books preschoolers in regard to early literacy development include Duke Ellington, Max Found Two Sticks, Sit-In, that is in line with current research. The importance of and Ella Fitzgerald. He will also speak on creativity, adult-child interactions during joint reading experiences inspiration, and imagination. will also be discussed. Make literacy experiences more Focus Area: Content (K-12) interactive and foster early literacy skills without Audience: All additional screen time. Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Intermediate (Grades 4-6) Audience: Reading Teachers, Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists ______Level: Preschool/Kindergarten General Session: 9:45 – 11:00 Keynote: Ruth Culham ______Anna Cline, Literacy Coach Center School District, Blue Springs, MO Close Reading This session will show teachers how to find complex texts for close reading, identify components of a close reading lesson plan, and provide tons of resources for grades K-5. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All

3 Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4- Using the new Arkansas Dyslexia Resource Guide, it is 6)Wendy Ellis, Director of Reading important for educators to understand how Section 504 Harding University, Searcy, AR impacts students who exhibit dyslexic characteristics. A Vision for Using Apps for Enhancing Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Instruction Audience: All Level: All When educators present a lesson with the aid of visuals and apps from iPads, today's tech-savvy students are Alyson Low, Youth Librarian more likely to stay on topic and focus on the lesson. Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville, AR Bring your classroom to life with iPad apps that enhance classroom instruction. The Latest and Greatest in Juvenile Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Nonfiction Audience: Reading Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, This presentation will provide educators with a lengthy Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists list of new, dynamic, juvenile nonfiction for inclusion in Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3) their lesson plans and classroom libraries. Focus Area: Content (K-12) Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Lisa Herrington, Clinical Instructor Media Specialists University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Multisensory Teaching of Reading Intermediate Grades (4-6) Comprehension Strategies Darcy Pattison, Author Using the book Comprehension Connections by Tanny North Little Rock, AR McGregor, participants will learn how to use a multisensory approach to engage learners in using Read and Write: Opinion & Narrative Essay reading comprehension strategies. Writing Made Fun Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Children's book author Darcy Pattison presents ideas for Audience: Reading Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, teaching kids to write essays, using her new Read and Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, Reading Write Series: I WANT A DOG: My Opinion Essay, I WANT Recovery A CAT: My Opinion Essay, and MY DIRTY DOG: My Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Narrative Essay. Intermediate Grades (4-6) Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Level: Primary Grades (1-3) Angela Johns, Teacher Harrisburg Middle School, Harrisburg, AR Brenda Overturf, Author/ Consultant The Impoverished Brain Literacy Perspectives, Louisville, KY The presenter will show how poverty affects the brain Growing Vocabulary for Student and will give research-based strategies for teachers to Achievement use in order to help these students succeed in school. In this session, Brenda Overturf, lead author of Word Focus Area: Cognitive Research Nerds: Teaching Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary, Audience: Reading Teachers, will demonstrate how to develop creative, flexible Administrators/Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, vocabulary instruction that improves K-5 students' word Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, Reading knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom Recovery, Title I community, and increases achievement. Level: All Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Tanda Jolley, Coordinator of 504 & Dyslexia Services Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School Texarkana School District, Texarkana, AR (Grades 6-9) Section 504 and the Dyslexic Student

4 Session options for those not attending a luncheon: Brian Pinkney, Author/Illustrator Brooklyn, NY Thursday 12:45 – 1:45 The Rhythm of My Art Brian Pinkney, award-winning children's book author Tammy Benson, Professor/Department Chair and illustrator, delivers a motivating presentation using University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR books he has written and illustrated. These books Co-Presenter(s): DeeDee Cain include Duke Ellington, Max Found Two Sticks, Sit-In, Digital Dyslexia: Apps That Can Help and Ella Fitzgerald. He will also speak on creativity, Children Read! inspiration, and imagination. This training shares some early signs of dyslexia, ways Focus Area: Content (K-12) communities can advocate for dyslexic children, and Audience: All strategies that will help children defeat dyslexia. Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Specific technology apps will be shared that have Intermediate (Grades 4-6) proven successful in helping children who are struggling with reading. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Carol Rasco, President & CEO Audience: All Reading Is Fundamental, Washington DC Level: All Summer Learning as a Means of Closing the Achievement Gap: The Recipe for Success Merica Howie, Literacy Specialist OUR Educational Cooperative, Harrison, AR Review RIF’s findings of a two-year research study on summer reading loss examining a sample of 33,000 A Framework for Close Reading children across 173 schools in 16 states; explore how a A significant body of research links close reading--for all low-cost program produced gain scores, even in the readers, both struggling and advanced--to gains in country’s poorest areas. reading proficiency. But what is close reading, and how Focus Area: Assessment/data-driven decision making do we support students in developing close reading Audience: All habits across the disciplines? Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6) Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Reading Teachers, ______Administrators/Supervisors, Curriculum Specialists, Literacy Luncheons (ticketed) Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers Level: Jr. High/ Middle School (6-9), High School (9-12) 12:30 – 1:45

Academic Conversations with English Elizabeth Manning, Assistant Professor Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA Learners – Lydia Stack Co-Presenter(s): Carrice Cummins & Kimberly Kimbell- Lopez Engaging Children in Making-Meaning – Symbols Support Structures: Visual Aids Linda Dorn That Strengthen Writing Success Presenters will describe the three types of writing Teach Reading Like a Jazz Musician – structures by using symbols that represent CCSS Matthew Gollub expectations as well as share examples of using mentor ______texts to produce richer, more successful student writing. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6)

5 Jackie Smith, Capacity Building Leader "Appy" Feet: Sliding into Winter with Arkansas Leadership Academy, Little Rock, AR Penguins Co-Presenter(s): Becca S. May A study of penguins demonstrates a unit of study in A Lens for Literacy Leadership which all curricular areas are integrated. Lesson plans Literacy Leadership Checkup - Walk-ins Welcome address Common Core State Standards for English Is your literacy leadership focused and clear? Join this Language Arts and Math, Next Generation Science interactive session to sharpen your acuity. Write your Standards, Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks, and own prescription for creating a culture for reading while Technology. building capacity in your school. Focus Area: Standards, frameworks, and curriculum Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership/fiscal management alignment Audience: Administrators/ Supervisors, Curriculum Audience: Classroom Teachers Specialists Level: Primary Grades (1-3) Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6) Stephanie Cork, Education Consultant Reading and Language Arts Centers, Inc. (RLAC), Sonia Gensler, YA/MG Fiction Author Bloomfield Hills, MI Norman, OK Dyslexia in the Schools – Whose Problem Is Co-Presenter(s): It Really? Hooking Young Readers with Gothic Dyslexia is one of the most common learning Literature disabilities, affecting as many as one in five students. A former English teacher and author of Gothic mysteries Many schools feel they are not equipped to reviews the elements of Gothic, discusses the genre's accommodate this population. Presenters will focus on appeal and value, and recommends classic and current current trends in legislation as well as the best research- Gothic kid lit (including Southern Gothic) that will spook based practices for struggling readers. and delight young readers. Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership Focus Area: Content (K-12) Audience: All Audience: Reading Teachers, Teacher Educators, Level: All Classroom Teachers, Title I Level: Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle Tracie Luttrell, Principal School (Grades 6-9), High School (Grades 9-12) Flippin Elementary School, Flippin, AR Dyslexia and Flippin School District - When Thursday 2:00 – 3:00 You KNOW Better, You DO Better! Susan Hall, President A year prior to dyslexia legislation, Flippin School 95 Percent Group, Linconshire, IL District began implementation. Now in our third year, there are numerous lessons we have learned that can Cultivating Literacy Leadership assist you in helping dyslexic students in your school. What does a literacy leader do that propels their This presentation reveals the ins and outs of our building or district to student gains? Dr. Hall has been implementation process and answers any questions you working with principals, superintendents, district might have. curriculum directors, and teachers for 20 years. In this Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership presentation she will facilitate an honest and open Audience: All dialogue about what it takes to be a literacy leader Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6) based on a study by the Wallace Foundation. Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership Audience: All Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6)

Michele Carroll, 1st Grade Teacher Forest Heights Elementary, Harrison, AR 6 Thursday 2:00 -3:30 Ouida Newton, Arkansas Teacher of the Year Using Formative Assessments in the Classroom Lisa Bailey, Literacy Specialist Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock, AR Formative assessments are ongoing assessments, observations, and reviews that inform the teacher of Dramatizing the Content students' needs and drive further instruction. In this Learn to use Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) session, teachers will experience several quick, low- to increase student motivation, engagement, and prep assessments that will help them meet students’ fluency. CBRT can be used to create scripts on any needs. Teachers will leave with assessments they can topic. It emphasizes spoken words and gestures and is add to their current assessment toolbox. easily incorporated into existing curriculum. Focus Area: Assessment/data-driven decision making Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Audience: Reading Teachers, Teacher Educators, Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle Classroom Teachers School (6-9), High School (9-12) Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle School (6-9)

Nancy Redican, Literacy Teacher Greenbrier School District, Greenbrier, Arkansas Merlina McCullough, ADE K-12 Literacy Specialist Co-Presenter(s): Stephanie Worthey, Principal Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock AR Close Reading or Listening? Motivating Writing Apps to Meet CCSS Writing for CCSS involves more than just pen and paper. with Music! A plethora of writing products and writing apps are Use music as motivation during close reading! available for educators. If you want to experience Assistance with planning will be given after viewing a writing and project-based learning using 21st century video of a close read and explanation of the planning skills, this is the workshop for you! process for song choices. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Reading Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Audience: Reading Teachers Classroom Teachers, Title I Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6) Level: All

Rebecca McKay, Regional Director Center for the Collaborative Classroom, Munford, AL Co-Presenter(s): Janet Cumbee Best Practices in Writing Emphasizing best practices in writing, this session provides participants an opportunity to experience a writing lesson to support writers and to build a sense of the classroom writing community. Focus Area: Content (K-12) Audience: All Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6)

Kim Wilson, Crayola Consultant; Professional Learning Network Organizer for ARA+ Schools

7 North Little Rock, AR Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle Employing the Power of Visuals School (6-9), High School (9-12) Visual literacy parallels reading/writing skills. Using hands-on experiences and illustrative examples from well-known books, participants will explore how to Kim Stilwell, Professional Development and Sales employ the power of visuals to teach language arts National Science Teachers Association, Blue Springs, skills. MO Focus Area: Instructional Strategies A Picture-Perfect Approach to Connecting Audience: Reading Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Reading Strategies and Science in the Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, Media Elementary Classroom Specialists Building an elementary program connecting literary and Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) science can be overwhelming. Learn how using Picture Perfect Science resources became part of the ______foundation to successfully connect literacy and science. ALTE MEETING - Arkansas Literacy Teacher Educators Leave with many useful activities, websites, and other 2:00 – 4:30 resources! ______Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All

Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Thursday 3:15 – 4:15 Intermediate Grades (4-6) Jackie Smith, Capacity Building Leader Arkansas Leadership Academy, Little Rock, AR Judy Young, Sleeping Bear Press Author Co-Presenter(s): Becca S. May Preston, ID A Lens for Literacy Leadership Poetry: Write in the Middle of Class Literacy Leadership Checkup - Walk-ins Welcome Learn how easy it is to get your students’ creative juices Is your literacy leadership focused and clear? Join this flowing as Judy Young, author of R Is for Rhyme, A interactive session to sharpen your acuity. Write your Poetry Alphabet, shares poetry pointers, ideas and own prescription for creating a culture for reading while poetry writing techniques you can use immediately in building capacity in your school. your classroom. Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership/fiscal management Focus Area: Content (K-12) Audience: Administrators/ Supervisors, Curriculum Audience: All Specialists Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Jr. High/Middle School (Grades 6-9) Intermediate (Grades 4-6)

Terri Beeler, Literacy Consultant Carla McClafferty, Author Houston, TX Benton, AR Writing Nonfiction Using Fiction Responding to the Writer Not the Writing: Techniques Better Writing Through Skillful Carla Killough McClafferty, 2015 inductee into the Conversations Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame, will give practical tips This session will focus on motivating and addressing the for writing nonfiction using fiction techniques, such as needs of individual writers through skillful conferring in setting, tone, character, tension, and for determining the writing workshop. Be prepared to stretch your when to quote or paraphrase. thinking as we explore ways to make your conferring Focus Area: Instructional Strategies more powerful and more engaging for students. Audience: Reading Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Focus Area: Instructional strategies Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, Media Audience: Specialists Level:

8 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Tonya Hill, ARA Family Literacy Chair ______ARA and Family Literacy Andrea Pinkney Breakfast 7:45 – 9:00 Help children develop literacy skills for life. Tonya Hill, ______ARA's Parents and Reading Chair, will discuss how ARA can help members get families involved in literacy at Options for those not attending the breakfast: school and help them learn new and interesting ways of keeping literacy alive at home. Friday 8:00 – 9:00 Focus Area: Parent involvement Audience: All Sonia Gensler, YA/MG Fiction Author Level: Norman, OK Hooking Young Readers with Gothic Literature Lynn Holmes, Teacher/Librarian A former English teacher and author of Gothic mysteries Eagle Heights Elementary reviews the elements of Gothic, discusses the genre's Accessing Accurate Information in the appeal and value, and recommends classic and current Digital Age Gothic kid lit (including Southern Gothic) that will spook In an age where students are connected to social media and delight young readers. every day, it’s important to learn ways to incorporate Focus Area: Content (K-12) news and current events into your lessons so students Audience: All know where to find accurate, up-to-date information. Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle This session will be a sharing of great media sites and School (6-9), High School (9-12) lessons (K-12) that can enrich your teaching and meet your students’ needs for informational reading and writing. Lydia Stack, ESL/EFL Consultant Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Stanford University, San Francisco, CA Audience: All Supporting Elementary English Language Level: All Learners (ELL) in CCSS Aligned Instruction Participants will explore new English Language Development CCSS activities all teachers can use to accelerate ELL language and content learning. Teaching strategies, such as era envelops, listen-read-retell, and other vocabulary expansion activities, will be demonstrated and discussed. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Level: Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School (Grades 6-9), High School (Grades 9-12)

Mary Jane Dove, Consultant and National Trainer Time To Teach, Bryant, AR Minimize the Drama Drama got you down? Keep drama out of your classroom and reduce discipline challenges 50% - 70%! Learn time-honored strategies that can change the tone of your classroom and your school. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Level: All

9 Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Amanda Ruff, Teacher Audience: All Literacy Coach for Glenview Elementary in North Little Level: Rock School District., AR Multicultural Books for a Diverse Margo Turner, Professor, Teacher Education Dept. Elementary Classroom John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR There is a need for multicultural literature in our Co-Presenter(s): JBU Students: Lucy Hubbard, Tara classrooms to support the diversity of our students, Sallee, Steven Hamilton especially the growing Hispanic population in our schools. This session reviews current, quality, Growing or Fixed? Changing Students' multicultural books reflecting the Hispanic culture. Mindsets About Literacy Focus Area: Content (K-12) Carol Dweck's Mindsets offers specific strategies for Audience: All moving students from a fixed mindset ("See, I told you I Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3) am not smart!") to a growth mindset ("I can learn from this mistake!") This session will focus on helping all students become better at thinking about and doing Jennifer Steele, 4th Grade Literacy Teacher literacy! Valley View Schools, Jonesboro, AR Focus Area: Instructional Strategies I Slept Through Tom Sawyer Audience: All How I changed from a nonreader to a National Board Level: All Certified literacy teacher who loves to read. Discover what worked for me and has worked for my students too. Mark Rorie, Author Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Batesville, AR Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers The Polk Bayou Kids – History Woven with Level: All Imagination The author of the Polk Bayou Kids books shares the Ann Stewart, Literacy Consultant development of his series, including his research of Hixson, TN historical figures in Arkansas for his newest book, The Strategies for Scaffolding Prior Knowledge Polk Bayou Kids and the Ghosts of the State Capitol. and Vocabulary Focus Area: Content Participants will be introduced to strategies that help Audience: All teachers plan carefully scaffolded concept and Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) vocabulary-building experiences designed to ensure that striving readers learn strategically – spontaneously attending to content-based vocabulary and applying Vicki King, Dyslexia Specialist meaning-seeking strategies. Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock, AR Focus Area: Instructional Strategies School-Based Identification of Dyslexia Audience: All This session will focus on identifying students who Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) exhibit the characteristics of dyslexia and the instructional implications of the individual student profile. Judy Young, Sleeping Bear Press Author Focus Area: Assessment/data-driven decision making Preston, ID Audience: All From Facts to Fiction Level: All Author Judy Young uses her award-winning books, Promise, The Lucky Star, Minnow and Rose, A Book for Black-Eyed Susan, and Tuki and Moka, to share how students can use research to generate ideas and facts to ______write fiction. Choose From One of These Mini – Keynotes 9:15 – 10:30 10 provide a sophisticated method of teaching basic decoding/encoding to older students who struggle with Donald Bear - Routines and Activities in Word reading and fluency. Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: All Instruction Level: Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle Level: All School (Grades 6-9), High School (Grades 9-12)

Terri Beeler - The Point Is To Get Better at Life: Teaching for Transfer Eilers, Clinical Associate Professor Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary, Intermediate University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR Co-Presenter(s): Assistant Professors Tracey Crowe, Angela Elsass, & Heather Kindall Maria Walther - Fifty Nifty Picture Books and Teaching the “Digital Native” to Navigate How to Use Them to Teach the Traits (K-2) the 21st Century Classroom This presentation provides a forum for discussion about Katherine McKnight - Closing the Achievement the push for new and digital literacies as we prepare Gap and New Educational Standards: teachers and students for the 21st Century. Topics Reading, Writing, Student Self-Regulation, include misconceptions related to the gap between the perceived knowledge and skills of the “digital native” and the Struggling Reader (4-12) and “digital immigrant.” The results of a study of digital ______literacies will be discussed. Practical ideas and strategies that develop and enhance digital literacies Friday 11:00 – 12:00 will be shared. Focus Area: Next generation learning/ integrated Amber Brantley, Instructional Supervisor technology Greenbrier Public Schools, Greenbrier, AR Audience: All Co-Presenter(s): Julie Wallace Level: All Google Interaction Learn how to engage your students with Google Apps and Interactive Notebooks in their daily routine. See how teachers are using Google drive, classroom, and Jennifer Hampton, Literacy/Dyslexia Specialist hangouts to increase student productivity to develop Guy Fenter Education Service Cooperative, Lavaca, AR 21st Century learners who are college and career ready. Co-Presenter(s): Jackie Roberts Lots of tips, samples, and resources will be shared. It Just Makes Sense! Multisensory Literacy Focus Area: Next generation learning/integrated Instruction technology Learn how the brain is built for learning through the Audience: All simultaneous activation of the body's senses. Leave Level: Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School with activities to immediately begin using in your (Grades 6-9) classrooms with all students. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Curriculum Specialists, Classroom Teachers, Stephanie Cork, Education Consultant Special Education Teachers Reading and Language Arts Centers, Inc. (RLAC), Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3) Bloomfield Hills, MI Is It Too Late? Reading Remediation at the Secondary Level Willie Kimmons, President/CEO Struggling readers often lack foundational skills, yet Save Children Save Schools, Inc., Daytona Beach, FL most secondary students don’t want to be taught from If Literacy Is Valued in the Home, It Will Be an elementary reading program. In this session, Valued by the Child participants will learn how the study of morphology can 11 This presentation will address strategies, Level: All recommendations and suggestions to be undertaken by home and school to help children discover the joy of literacy. Anne Treadwell, Senior Literacy Advisor/Literacy Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Specialist Audience: All Wilson Language Training, Oxford, MA Level: All Providing the Right Instruction at the Right Time: What Wilson® Programs Look Like Katherine McKnight, Author and Educator Within a Multi-tiered System of Support Distinguished Professor of Research, National Louis Supporting students within a multi-tiered system of University, Chicago, IL support (MTSS) or response to intervention (RTI) Get ‘Em Moving: Improv and Creative framework requires a research-based program with evidence of student success. During this session, Dramatics to Develop Literacy Skills participants will receive an overview of how Wilson’s® Improv and creative dramatics are enjoyable and three research-based programs work together effective ways to build communicative language, critical strategically to ensure that all students become reasoning, creative thinking, and problem solving successful readers. skills. Participants will experience how learners become Focus Area: Instructional Strategies more self-confident, expressive, and articulate through Audience: All improv and creative dramatics. The participants will be Level: All given a menu of activities based on her book, The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Trinka Hakes Noble, Author Audience: All New Jersey Level: The Learning Power of Story Join noted author Trinka Hakes Noble as she delves Debra Murphy, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & further into this statement using several of her books, Instruction including The Scarlet Stockings Spy, The Last Brother Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR and The Orange Shoes. Be inspired to use this learning WORD PLAY! Preparing Children for power in your classroom, using cross-curriculum, Beginning Reading Instruction picture book illustrations and her stories' central The central goal of beginning reading instruction is to messages. help students learn how to read printed texts. However, Focus Area: Content (K-12) learning to read begins long before children can read Audience: All printed text. What can we do to ready children for Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), reading? WORD PLAY! Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School Focus Area: Instructional Strategies (Grades 6-9) Audience: Reading Teachers, Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers Level: Preschool/Kindergarten Matthew Gollub, Author/Storyteller/Bilingual Presenter Matthew Gollub Communications, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA Raising Readers at School and en Casa! Amy Thompson, Clinical Instructor Find your most dynamic read aloud voice and inspire University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas students of all backgrounds! From story time to parent You + Me = NBCT outreach to challenges faced by Spanish speakers, you’ll Have you heard of the National Board process? take away practical ideas from a bilingual presenter Interested in becoming certified? Have burning who has spoken at 1,000 schools! questions that you would love to have answered? Come Focus Area: Instructional Strategies and find out how YOU can become an NBCT. Audience: All Focus Area: Advocacy/leadership/fiscal management Level: Audience: All 12 Greenbrier Public Schools, Greenbrier, AR Kathy Byrd, Reading Teacher Co-Presenter(s): Tricia Daniels Nettleton Junior High, Jonesboro,, Arkansas Get Connected: Literacy Learning Connects Co-Presenter(s): Allie Robbins & Scott Nichols Students Across the World 30 Years in History: Oppression, Presenters will describe how technology is currently Segregation and Intolerance in Our World being used in 5th grade classrooms to connect students 30 Years in History engages participants in significant in conversations with others from around the world. events in world history from 1939 to 1969. Learn how Practical solutions for obtaining devices and planning to create an interactive mini-replica museum, build a instruction for this program will be shared collaborative learning environment, and foster positive Focus Area: Next generation learning/ integrated relationships with peers and parents, while improving technology critical reading skills. See student-made artifacts and an Audience: All iMovie. Level: All Focus Area: Collaborative learning community Audience: All Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6), Jr. High/ Middle Tessa Dean, 4th Grade School (6-9) East Pointe Elementary, Greenwood, AR Co-Presenter(s): Megan Whitson & Stephanie Griffith Friday 12:15 – 1:15 Write, Tech, POW Presenters will show the work they have done in Julie Barker, Library Media Specialist collaboration adding writing with technology lessons Nettleton Public Schools: University Heights using POW TOON, Padlet, Haiku Deck, and more. Intermediate, Jonesboro, AR Broaden the audience, call attention to editing, and Co-Presenter(s): Hannah Deeter focus student responses on evidence with these Parent/Student Book Clubs: Building a engaging ideas. Community of Readers Focus Area: Next generation learning/ integrated Build a community that loves reading through a fun, technology engaging environment where parents and their children Audience: Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers, come together to discuss books. Parent/Student book Instructional Facilitators clubs are a great way to promote reading and foster Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) parent/student relationships! Focus Area: Parent Involvement/academic planning Kathy Mascuilli, Literacy Specialist and scholarship AR Dept of Education, North Little Rock, AR Audience: All Morphology Level: Intermediate Grades (4-6) This presentation will show strategies for helping all students to learn the critical skills and strategies of Terri Beeler using the units of meaning in words for reading. Responding to the Writer Not the Writing: Focus Area: Content (K-12) Better Writing Through Skillful Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) Conversations This session will focus on motivating and addressing the needs of individual writers through skillful conferring in the writing workshop. Be prepared to stretch your thinking as we explore ways to make your conferring more powerful and more engaging for students. Catherine Scott, Content Manager Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Neuhaus Education Center, Bellaire, TX Audience: Reading Teachers, Classroom Teachers Dyslexia 101 Level: The presenter will explore current knowledge about Angela Betancourt, Assistant Principal how children learn to read and some of the difficulties they may encounter. She will address what dyslexia is 13 and what kind of instruction enables children to learn to Join noted author Trinka Hakes Noble as she delves read. further into this statement using several of her books, Focus Area: Principles of learning/developmental including The Scarlet Stockings Spy, The Last Brother stages/ diverse learners and The Orange Shoes. Be inspired to use this learning Audience: All power in your classroom, using cross-curriculum, Level: All picture book illustrations and her stories' central messages. Margie Nanak & Ronda Hughes Focus Area: Content (K-12) ARA Award Representatives Audience: All 2015-16 CMS & Diamond Nominees Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Enjoy a review of this year's Charlie May Simon and Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Jr. High/Middle School Diamond Primary books. Find out how your students (Grades 6-9) can participate! Focus Area: Audience: All Carol Rasco, President & CEO Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6) Reading Is Fundamental, Washington DC Summer Learning as a Means of Closing the Achievement Gap: The Recipe for Liz Sidwell, Literacy Specialist Success Guy Fenter Education Service Cooperative, Branch, AR Review RIF’s findings of a two-year research study on Co-Presenter(s): Trish Carson summer reading loss examining a sample of 33,000 Beyond Turn and Talk: Effective children across 173 schools in 16 states; explore how a Collaboration in the Secondary Classroom low-cost program produced gain scores, even in the Participants will leave this session with a variety of small country’s poorest areas. group instructional strategies appropriate for secondary Focus Area: Assessment/data-driven decision making students to add to their tool chest. This session will be Audience: All interactive. Level: Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6) Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Classroom Teachers Level: Middle & Secondary Maria Walther, Author & Teacher Aurora, IL Assess, Decide, and Guide: The Keys to Tammy Gillmore, ARA Publications Chair Helping ALL Readers Succeed (K-5) Stop Reading Fast: Start Thinking More To help students become thoughtful, independent Learn ways to focus on methods that encourage readers, it's essential to know students' specific learning students to advance analytical skills in preparation for needs and surround them with targeted reading writing responses that require them to use multiple support. Join Maria as she shares a powerful texts. instructional framework and practical tips for using data Audience: Classroom Teachers to make informed decisions and guide readers. Level: Middle & Secondary Focus Area: Instructional strategies Audience: All Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6)

Friday 1:30 – 2:30 Friday 1:30 – 3:00

Trinka Hakes Noble, Author New Jersey Robert Brown, Band Director The Learning Power of Story White Hall High School, White Hall, AR

14 Music and Literature and Learning, Oh My! Deborah Goff, Literacy Facilitator K-5 Discover various ways to use music to introduce and Rogers Public Schools, Rogers, AR enhance literature. Learn about the correlation Tuning In and Speaking Clearly: Teaching between music and reading and how to use researched the Speaking and Listening Standards K-5 based methods to use music to stimulate learning. This presentation will include discussion of how to teach Focus Area: Instructional Strategies the CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards. There will Audience: All be opportunities for participants to role play in lessons Level: All and practice using rubrics and checklists for assessment. Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Audience: Curriculum Specialists, Classroom Teachers Karen A. Farmer - Wanamaker, Literacy Teacher Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3), Zion Christian Academy, Columbia, TN Intermediate Grades (4-6) From Sound Makers to Sense Makers with the Comprehension Kids Make friends with the Comprehension Kids who were Holly Aranda, MTSS Trainer created to provide concrete connections to the abstract Cradle to Career Literacy Center, Emporia, KS strategies in your existing reading program in order to Co-Presenter(s): Angie Schreiber meet the needs of the various learning styles in your In What Reading Quadrant Do Dyslexics classroom. Belong? Focus Area: Instructional Strategies Universal screening data provides baseline information Audience: All to begin instruction for all students. What traits do Level: Preschool/Kindergarten, Primary Grades (1-3) dyslexic students exhibit and in which ʺ Reading Quadrantʺ group should they be placed for maximum instructional help? Focus Area: Assessment/data-driven decision making Audience: All Level: Primary Grades (1-3), Intermediate Grades (4-6)