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Sunday, February 3, 2019

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

– 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

– 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

– 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

– 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

– 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

– 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

– 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

Subject to change

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