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Sunday, February 3, 2019

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Early Registration Packet Pick-up for Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning


Monday, February 4, 2019

7:00 am – 7:55 am Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:10 am Welcome General Session
8:10 am – 9:10 am KEYNOTE:  – The Learning Challenge: Guiding Students Through the Learning Pit
9:10 am – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 10:30 am Thought Leaders
 – A Fresh Look at Phonics  – Teaching Students to Teach Themselves
 – Who’s Missing from College? A Conversation about Citizenship, Immigration, and the American Dream  – Improving Executive Capacities through Bridging Strategies
 – Innovations to Increase Informational Text Achievement
10:30 am – 10:50 am Break
10:50 am – 12:10 pm Concurrent Sessions I 
 – Recent Advances in Understanding Word-Level Reading Problems:  Implications for Instruction and Intervention  – Finally! The Big Picture of Reading Instruction:  How All the Pieces Fit Together
 – Seven Steps to Feedback Success  – Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning K-5 Classroom
 – Is It the Context, the Text, or the Task? Strategies to Minimize Struggle While Learning  – Writing to Improve Reading Comprehension
 – Word Level Reading Disabilities (Dyslexia): Identification, Etiology, and Treatment
 – Making Connections: Developing and Maintaining Effective Mentor-Coaching Relationships in Early Childhood Settings with CLASS
 – The Simple View of Reading: Important and Practical Research for All Reading Teachers  – What is Wrong with the Way We Think About Reading Comprehension?
– The Developmental Web: A Practical Approach to Learning and Behavior Disorders
 
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm – 2:35 pm Concurrent Sessions II
 – Things that Make You Go Hmmm: Literacy Practices that Need to be Rethought  – Understanding the Role of Phonemic Proficiency in Boosting Reading Skills in Struggling Readers
 – Teaching Students How to Take Notes  – Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Middle and High School Classroom
 – A Fresh Look at Phonics: Digging Deeper  – Servant Leadership: How One District Created Transformation
 – Strategies for improving Reading Skills of Dyslexics with Poor Executive Capacities  – The Language of Learning: How to Reinforce the Behavior You Want to See
 – Reading and Trauma – How Do They Fit Together? – Keys to Comprehension: Main Ideas, Notes, Summary
2:35 pm – 2:55 pm Break
2:55 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions III
 – Can Minority Children Achieve the American Dream? Strategies to Build a Path to Success and  –
Growing Up Illiterate: The Stories of Two Lifelong Learners Who Persevered and Learned to Read as Adults
 – Text Level Reading Disabilities (SRCD): Identification, Etiology, and Treatment  – It All Begins with Language
 – Does Critical Thinking in Your Classroom Actually Lead to Deeper Understanding? Looking for Rigor with Productive Struggle and Transfer in Mind – One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Ensure that Students Get the Interventions They Need
 – Stop Arguing with Me! Crafting Opinion/Argument Texts  – You Can’t Do Bloom’s Until You’ve Done Maslow
– The ABC’s of ADHD  – The Memory Connection: Multisensory Strategies for Boosting Students’ Working Memory


Tuesday, February 5, 2019

7:00 am – 7:55 am Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:10 am General Session
8:10 am – 9:10 am KEYNOTES:   and – Deep Learning: Global Competencies to Engage the World and Change the World
9:10 am – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 10:30 am Thought Leaders
 – Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Grades  – Chasing Imperfections
 – Helping Behaviorally Challenging Youth: Shifting from Power and Control to Collaboration and Problem Solving  – The Impact of Cultural Dialect on Reading and Writing
 – Lessons from Inside the Finnish School System
10:30 am – 10:50 am Break
10:50 am – 12:10 pm Concurrent Sessions I
 – Getting Them All Engaged  – Early Identification of Dyslexia
 – Why Are We Still Teaching Reading Wrong?  – 10 Success Factors for Getting the Best Results from Your Literacy MTSS
 – Nuance: Why Some Leaders Succeed While Others Fail  – The “Talk” Needed for Nurturing Social Emotional Learning
 – Approaches to Phonics and Vocabulary Instruction: Word Study that Works!
– Building Equity through Social Emotional Learning
 – One Teacher at a Time: Supporting Teachers’ Knowledge of the Science of Reading
 – Benchmarks? Cut Scores? Norms? Oh, My!
 – Sad Kid, Bad Kid, Mad Kid…It’s All About Perspective
 
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm – 2:35 pm Concurrent Sessions II
 – What the Science Actually Says: The Truth about Reading First and the Dyslexia Debate  – Lose the Rules: Reading and Spelling Multi-syllable Words Made Easy
– Close Reading with Below Level Readers in the Intermediate Grades
 – Factors Influencing Reading Among Low Income African American Children
 – How to Lesson Plan for Any Subject, Any Student, Any Time of the Year  – Setting the Stage for Accurate and Fluent Reading: Decoding Foundation Skills K-2
 – Deep Learning: Strategies for Your School or Classroom  – How Finland Prioritizes the Joy of Learning
 – Unleashing Your Personal Power  – DIY Literacy: Creating and Using Teaching Tools to Help Students (Happily) Hold on to Writing and Work to Their Fullest
2:35 pm – 2:55 pm Break
2:55 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions III
 – Taking a Gradual Release of Responsibility Approach to Teaching with Complex Text  – The Kids We Lose
 – Building Vocabulary and Literacy Skills through “The Science of Talk”  – Teacher, It’s Your Move
 – Why Reading Fluency Should be Hot  – “But Teacher, I Don’t Know How to Write…..”
 – Morphology – It’s a Game Changer and It’s Fun!
 – Orthographic Mapping: WHY It’s Important and HOW to Teach It
 – Presentations that Make an Impact  – Keys to Writing from Sources


Wednesday, February 6, 2019

7:00 am – 7:55 am Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:10 am General Session
8:10 am – 9:10 am KEYNOTE: – Increasing Student Ownership in Learning: Assessment-capable Learners
9:10 am – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 10:50 am Concurrent Sessions I
 – Words, Words, Words: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction  – A Practical Approach to Better Behavior
 – Teacher Clarity: A Key to Student Success
  – English Learners Spelling and Writing Development
 – The Tenacious Mindset: Understanding and Enhancing Resiliency in Fragile Learners  – Multisensory Magic: How to Engage the Senses so that Learning Will Stick
 – Coaching Works! But NOT if it is Just Supervision in Disguise
 – Understanding the Difference between Balanced Literacy and Explicit, Systematic Early Reading Instruction and Why It Matters
 – How to Intervene with Students Struggling to Think About Grade Level Text  
10:55 am – 11:55 am Brunch
11:55 am – 1:15 pm Concurrent Sessions II
– Improving Written Compositions One Sentence at a Time  – Through the Eyes of a Struggling Reader: Three Simulations that Help Others Understand
– From Words to Works: Building Competence in Young Writers  – Cultivating Geniuses
 – Meeting the Challenge of Struggling Adolescent Readers  – Five Practical Tools for Enhancing Oral Language Development Efforts

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