
Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning®
2023 Schedule
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 |
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Hamish Brewer |
Break
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST |
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Thought Leader Sessions
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Effective Tutoring: A Powerful Partnership with Preservice Teachers to Meet the Moment Katie 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, Danielle 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 |
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Zaretta Hammond |
Break
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST |
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Thought Leader Sessions
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Malcolm Mitchell |
Break
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM CST |
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Breakout Session I
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM CST |
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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 |
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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 |
*SUBJECT TO CHANGE