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TRANSFORMATIVE LITERACY: Theory, Research, and Reform 63rd Annual Conference • December 4-7, 2013 Dallas, Texas • www.literacyresearchassociation.org aboUT Literacy Research Association (LRA) TABLE OF CONTENTS The Literacy Research Association, a non-profit professional organization, is composed of individuals General Information ................................................................. 1 who share an interest in advancing literacy research and practice. LRA sponsors a conference each year. The About LRA program consists of paper sessions, plenary addresses, Book Display, Silent Auction, & Exhibits roundtable discussions, sessions with alternative Cyber Café formats, and symposia. In addition to sponsoring the annual conference, Welcome .................................................................................. 4 LRA publishes a quarterly journal, Journal of Literacy Research, and the Yearbook, which contains peer- reviewed papers selected from the previous year’s In Memoriam ........................................................................... 6 conference, as well as a newsletter. It also sponsors a website and listserv. To support these activities, LRA maintains a full-time administrative staff in Altamonte Major Addresses ....................................................................... 8 Springs, Florida. For more information, contact LRA Headquarters at Study Group Organizers ........................................................... 9 222 S. Westmonte Dr., #101, Altamonte Springs, Florida 32714, Phone: 407-774-7880, Fax: 407-774-6440, www.literacyresearchassociation.org. Schedule at a Glance ...............................................................10 BOOK Display, SILENT AUCTION & EXhibits Wednesday Schedule ...............................................................15 Wednesday–Friday The Silent Auction provides a unique and fun way to add Thursday Schedule ..................................................................51 to your professional library while bringing much-needed revenue to LRA. Professional books authored by LRA members will be displayed throughout the conference. Friday Schedule ...................................................................... 79 Each book will have a bidding sheet inside of it. If you wish to bid, add your name to the end of the list of bids. The highest bid wins the book. Bidding closes at Saturday Schedule ................................................................ 113 3:30 pm on Friday. Names of the highest bidders will be circled on the bidding sheet. You may purchase books on Friday from 4:00 pm–7:00 pm and Saturday from LRA Leadership and Honorees ...............................................125 8:00 am–11:00 am. Payment for books can be made via cash, credit card, or check (payable to LRA). LRA Committees ....................................................................127 Please visit our exhibitors: Teachers College Press, Guilford Publications, Routledge, and Holcomb Hathaway Publications. 2013 Area Co-Chairs ..............................................................129 CYBER CAFÉ 2013 Proposal Reviewers .......................................................130 In the Cyber Café, you will have access to computers and a printer, or bring your own laptop and take advantage of the free wireless access. Hotel Maps ............................................................................132 Participants Index .................................................................135 Transformative Literacy: Theory, Research, and Design 63rd Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association l December 4 - 7, 2013 l Dallas, TX 3 WELCOME Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Members of the Literacy Research Association, Welcome to the 63rd Annual LRA Conference at the Omni University and past President of the American Education Dallas Hotel. I have enjoyed planning and working on this Research Association. Our second invited plenary will be year’s conference with my Co-Chair, Janice Almasi, along with Friday afternoon and will feature Teresa McCarty, G. F. Kneller the Kautter Management Group team of Barbara Beatty, Julie Chair in Education and Anthropology, University of California- Dross, Lynn Hupp, and Sasha Jaquith. Los Angeles. The final plenary is the Integrative Research Review on Saturday morning. This session features a panel of We received a record number of conference proposals, 884 total distinguished scholars: David Bloome, College of Education submissions; 687 of which were accepted for an acceptance and Human Ecology and Distinguished Professor of Teaching rate of roughly 77%. We have 361 Submissions (not including and Learning at The Ohio State University; Kris D. Gutiérrez, the Plenary, Award, Invited Sessions). These Submissions Professor of Literacy and Learning Sciences and Provost’s Chair include: 687 individual papers, 45 Alternative Format Sessions, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, past President of the and 52 Symposia. We are providing 17 Study Group Sessions on American Education Research Association; Carol Lee, Edwina S. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In addition, the conference Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern program includes 15 Roundtable Sessions, with 147 individual University, and past President of the American Education roundtables, averaging 9.8 papers per Roundtable Session. Research Association; and Robert Tierney, Honorary Professor & Former Dean, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The LRA Area Chairs have done an outstanding job of organizing University of Sydney and past president of Literacy Research reviews of proposals, arranging themed sessions, and selecting Association. Georgia E. Garcia, professor emerita, University of invited sessions. They are to be congratulated for their excellent Illinois, will chair and moderate the panel’s presentation. work. I am very grateful to them for their commitment, diligence, and oversight of the proposal review process. Thank Attend an Area Chairs’ Invited Speakers Session: you so much for making the conference a memorable event. The Area Chairs (3, 5, 9, and 11) have selected an outstanding proposal from among the proposals submitted to their areas The conference theme “Transformative Literacy: Theory, and elevated the proposal to an Invited Session. In addition, the Research, and Reform” is drawn from my own research and Area 1 Co-Chairs have invited a panel of speakers to address interests advocating for literacy access that is democratic, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report. I progressive, and socially just; exposure of barriers and encourage you to attend each of these special sessions. contexts that inhibit equitable access to literacy; and support of critical and emancipatory theories of literacy that inform Attend the Conference Chair Symposium: research and reform efforts. As such, many sessions consider The Conference Chair’s Symposium features a panel of scholars: how literacy researchers are examining and critiquing the ways David Kirkland, New York University; Jason Irizarry, University in which culture, knowledge, language, and power intersect of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Lisa Patel, Boston College. The literacy access, equity, and social justice in an age of reform. I panelists will share excerpts from their research that align, selected this theme given the numerous literacy reform efforts challenge, critique, and envisage the conference theme as they that are underway in this era. As literacy researchers, we are discuss “Transformative literacy research as praxis.” positioned to inform and expand theories, innovate and re- imagine research, and shift reform paradigms to become more Attend the Presidential Reception: inclusive and socially just. The plenary speakers will engage On Wednesday, December 4, following the Presidential Address and interrogate this theme during their presentations as well. by LRA President Richard Beach, please come join us at the Presidential Reception. Dr. Beach’s reception will be held in CONFERENCE TO-DO LIST the Dallas Ballroom Foyer from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Heavy hors The following are some of many ways to enhance your d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be available. Please be sure to participation at this year’s conference. You may want to use take this opportunity to thank Richard Beach for his amazing the SCHED app to help plan your conference schedule: http:// leadership and stewardship of the organization. sched.literacyresearchassociation.org/ Attend the Newcomers’ and Graduate Students’ Breakfast: Attend the Plenary Speaker Presentations: If you are an LRA conference newcomer or a graduate student, The plenary sessions begin with Richard Beach, University of you are cordially invited to attend the free Newcomers’ and Minnesota, professor emeritus, who will share his scholarship Graduate Students’ Breakfast Buffet on Thursday, December 5, during his LRA Presidential Address on Wednesday afternoon. from 7:30 – 8:30 a.m., in the Dallas Ballroom. Jennifer Jones, Thursday morning’s plenary presentation, the Oscar S. Causey Chair of the LRA Field Council, will share information about Address, will be given by Jerome Harste, Indiana University, becoming involved in the LRA Field Council. Dr. Jones has professor emeritus. Our first invited plenary will be Thursday an agenda that includes welcome comments from our LRA afternoon and features Arnetha F. Ball, Professor Stanford President Richard Beach and President-Elect Arlette Ingram Transformative