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2023 Schedule

Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning®

2023 Schedule

2023 Program

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST Early Registration Packet Pickup
1:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST Exhibitor Setup/Check-In

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Breakfast

7:00 AM – 7:45 AM CST Grand Salon & Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Welcome

7:50 AM – 8:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Keynote Address

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor
Hamish Brewer

Break

9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST

Thought Leader Sessions

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST
The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Comprehension
Doug Fisher
Moving from a Reactive to a Proactive Model in Education: How a Neurobiological Framework of Typical and Atypical Reading Development Can Inform Educational Practice and Policy 
Nadine Gaab
Literacy is the Bridge to Equity: The Journey Towards a Comprehensive, Evidence-Based and Equitable Approach for English Learners
Elsa Cardenas-Hagan
Covid Learning Loss: The Urgent Need for Research-Aligned Tutoring 
Katie Pace Miles
The Expectation Gap: ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’
Kareem Weaver

Break

10:30 AM – 10:50 AM CST

Breakout Sessions I

10:50 AM – 12:05 PM CST
What’s New and What’s Enduring in Reading Instruction?
Doug Fisher
Dyslexia: What Does it Take to Scale Literacy Responsibly and Sustainably for All?
Tracy Weeden & Rebecca Tolson
The Writing Rope: A Framework for Explicit Writing
Joan Sedita
The Power of How: Bridging Knowledge to Practice with Instructional Routines
Pam Kastner
Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9: What Research Tells Us
Anita Archer
Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The mission IS possible!
DeJunne’ Clark Jackson
Words to the World: The Psychological Processes that Turn Ink into Ideas
Devin Kearns
Making Spelling Instruction Stick
Michael Hunter
Literacy Rich Environments
Rachel Giannini
The Science of Reading Plus English Language Development: Best Practices for Serving Your English Learner Population
Kerri Whipple
The Power of Sustained Professional Learning to Enhance Student Growth: Focus, Focus, Focus
Daryl Michel
Nurturing Teachers and their Students: Creating a safe space for teaching and learning 
Ana Dodson and Judi Dodson

Lunch Break

12:05 PM – 1:20 PM CST Grand Salon & Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Breakout Sessions II

1:20 PM – 2:35 PM CST
From Assessment to Instruction: 3 Case Studies
Linda Farrell
Foundational Reading Instruction: Three Approaches and How
Nora Chahbazi
Advanced Readers- Are They Being Served?
Nancy Young
The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension
Susan Lambert
Spelling and Writing Development Among English Learners
Elsa Cardenas-Hagan
REPEAT: The Power of How: Bridging Knowledge to Practice with Instructional Routines
Pam Kastner
Addicted to Complexity: The Importance of Synthesis and Usability Within Reading Initiatives
Kareem Weaver
Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices
Joan Sedita
What the “PHuss” about Phonemic Awareness and What Do We Need to Know?
Lucy Hart Paulson
“Is She on Grade Level?”: Taking Another Look at Reading Levels
Jan Hasbrouck
Improving Organizational Policies and Procedures to Support Effective Implementation
Caryn Ward
Sight Word Instruction in the 21st Century 
Janee’ Butler

Break

2:35 PM – 3:00 PM CST

Breakout Sessions III

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM CST
Effective Tutoring: A Powerful Partnership with Preservice Teachers to Meet the Moment
Kati
e Pace Miles
Skill and Thrill: Demystifying Effective Phonics Lessons
Laura Stewart
How To Lead From Where You Are: Igniting Literacy Change in Your Current Role
Terrie Noland
Teaching Beyond Decodables
Judi Dodson
Making Words Stick
Lyn Stone
The Center Staff- Literacy Wraparound Success
Carolin Purser, Dani
elle Fontenot, Liza Kostreva
Literacy P.O.W.E.R for the New Teacher
Iantha Ussin
Integrating Dialect into Literacy Instruction
Carla Burrell Stanford & Julie Washington
The Science of Reading: Moving Away from Ambiguity to Real Classroom Practices
Mary Dahlgren & Antonio Fierro
Using Assessment Data to Boost ALL Students’ Growth and Achievement
Lyn Sharratt
The Hidden Message in Student Orthography and What You Can Learn Through Spelling
Alana Mangham
The Building Blocks of Literacy & its Connection to CLASS
Courtney Babin & Lindsey Vicknair

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Breakfast

7:00 AM – 7:50 AM CST Grand Salon & Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Welcome

8:00 AM – 8:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Keynote Address

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor
Zaretta Hammond

Break

9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST

Thought Leader Sessions

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST
Neurodiversity and Dyslexia: A Lived Narrative Grounded in Psychological Science 
Tim Odegard
Using SEL to Guide Students From Passion to Purpose
Jorge Valenzuela
What if I Told You There Was No “Complex Code”?
Lyn Stone 
Whole Child, Whole Process
Yaacov Petscher
Translanguaging and Dialect Variation: Reducing the Cognitive Load
Julie Washington

Break

10:30 AM – 10:50 AM CST

Breakout Sessions I

10:50 AM – 12:05 PM CST
Building Word Wealth: The Power of Word Study to Accelerate Learning
Zaretta Hammond
Teaching Phonemic Awareness in 2023: Teaching PA to Support Decoding
Jane Ashby
Choosing and Using Decodable Texts
Wiley Blevins
Language Comprehension: One of Two Essential Components of Reading Comprehension
Maria Murray
High Impact Instructional Coaching Practices
John Bennetts 
Using Screener Data to Guide Implementation of Effective Intervention Supports
Emily Solari, Carlin Conner, Alisha Demchek
ELs and Reading Science: The Top 5 Things Every Teacher Should Know and Can Do Tomorrow
Antonio Fierro
The Ladder of Reading and Writing: Who? When? Why? How?
Jan Hasbrouck & Nancy Young
The Science of Instruction: Not just What to Teach BUT How to Teach
Anita Archer
Creating Your Parent-Teacher Playbook
Megan Lorio
How to Eliminate Three Cueing and Sight Words
Denise Eide
Beyond Topsoil Teaching: Tending to the Roots of Reading in the Brain
Carolyn H. Strom

Lunch Break

12:05 PM – 1:20 PM CST Grand Salon & Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Breakout Sessions II

1:20 PM – 2:35 PM CST
REPEAT: How to Eliminate Three Cueing and Sight Words
Denise Eide
Science of Reading and the Reading Brain
Tim Odegard
From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Valuing Multimodalities in Language Development
Margo Gottlieb
Achieving Adolescent Reading Proficiency: Phonics to Comprehension
Janee’ Butler
REPEAT:Using Screener Data to Guide Implementation of Effective Intervention Supports
Emily Solari, Carlin Conner, Alisha Demchek
Using Family Assets to Support Literacy and Foster Family Engagement 
Klem-Mari Cajigas
Fact: The Science of Reading Includes Comprehension!
Nancy Hennessy
Tier 1 Instruction is Risk Reduction
Stephanie Stollar
Making the Shift: Transforming Early Literacy from Policy to Practice
Kymyona Burk & Casey Sullivan-Taylor
The Heavy Hitters of Intermediate Literacy: Multisyllabic Decoding and Morphology
Laura Stewart
Developing Proficient Writers: What does the sentence have to do with it?
Amy Siracusano
Strategies for Activating SEL Across the Curriculum 
Jorge Valenzuela

Break

2:35 PM – 3:00 PM CST

Breakout Sessions III

3:00 PM – 4:45 PM CST
The Truth About Reading Documentary Screening

Friday, March 10, 2023

Welcome

8:00 AM – 8:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor

Keynote Address

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM CST Grand Ballroom 1st Floor
Malcolm Mitchell

Break

9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST

Breakout Session I

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Beyond the Basics: The Science of Reading, Knowledge, and Comprehension
Dan Willingham & Sonia Cabell
The Benefits of Using a Sound Wall for ALL Students
Mary Dahlgren & Rhonda Ayers
Language: The Critical Foundation of Reading
Danielle Thompson
STOP! In the Name of LEARNING! Providing Corrective Feedback
Pam Austin
REPEAT: Tier 1 Instruction is Risk Reduction
Stephanie Stollar
The Catalysts and Inhibitors of Workplace Wellbeing: Cultivating the Conditions for Humans to Thrive and Not Merely Survive
Kristin Anderson
Revisiting RTI: Where Are We Now?
Heidi Beverine-Curry
REPEAT: Developing Proficient Writers: What does the sentence have to do with it?
Amy Siracusano 
From the Sound Up: Cross-Language Connections to Accelerate Foundational Literacy Skills
Nicole Kingsland
Morphological Awareness: What Does it Look Like in K-3 Classrooms?
Deb Glaser 

Brunch

10:55 AM – 12:00 PM CST Grand Salon 1st Floor

Breakout Sessions II

11:55 AM – 1:15 PM CST
Teaching Students How to Avoid Distraction
Dan Willingham
Understanding and Addressing Word-Level Reading Problems
David Kilpatrick
Literacy as a Human Right- Our Collective Moonshot
Tracy Weeden
What Instructional Feedback Should Principals Provide to Educators to Enhance Reading Achievement?
Pati Montgomery & Angie Hanlin
Content-Rich Literacy Instruction in the Primary Grades 
Sonia Cabell
Improving Comprehension through Building Vocabulary and Knowledge
Amy Elleman
Morphological Awareness and the Adolescent  – What Teachers Can Do About It
Deb Glaser

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