| Friday, July 26 | Saturday, July 27 |
| Breakfast 7:30 am – 8:00 am | Breakfast 7:30 am – 8:00 am |
| Literacy: A Window into Hearts and Minds Featured Speaker: Maria Nichols 8:15 am – 9:15 am | The Story Behind the Story Featured Speaker: Matt de la Peña 8:05 am – 9:15 am |
| Break 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Break 9:15 am – 9:30 am |
| Session #1 9:30 am – 11:15 am | Session #3 9:30 am – 11:15 am |
| Lunch 11:15 am – 12:45 pm | Lunch 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Author Signing: Matt de la Peña 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm |
| Reading Our Way to Language Proficiency Featured Speakers: Dr. Yvonne Freeman & Dr. David Freeman 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm | Session #4 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Break 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Break 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm |
| Session #2 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm | Focusing on Literacy Work That Matters Featured Speaker: Dr. Mary Howard 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Closing Remarks Pat Eastman (Okapi) & Cherissa Kreider-Beck (SDCOE) 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm |
Session 1
Assessing and Evaluating Reading Processes (K–2)
This panel session will explore making decisions for students in grades K-2 based on assessment data—both quantitative and qualitative. Through looking at case studies for two students, we consider what our individual assessments tell us and what those same assessments tell us when we consider them collectively. This session will also explore examples from an entire classroom of students and the possible whole and small group learning needs. Bring your questions and bring your ideas for this interactive panel discussion around using assessment to guide instructional planning!
Presenter: Nilaja Taylor
Room 201
Developing Biliteracy Through the Use of English and Spanish Paired Guided Reading Texts (K–5)
Supporting learners to see themselves as competent thinkers and talkers goes beyond just asking great questions. This session will focus on the role of teacher facilitation with emergent bilinguals in meaning-making while also extending their linguistic repertoire. Additionally, implications for cross language transfer will be shared.
Presenters: Vivian Pratts & Debra Crouch
Room 202
Guided Reading: Reading, Thinking, and Talking Together in Small Group (K–2)
Supporting our youngest learners to orchestrate the skills, strategies, and thinking work involved in reading begins with our own understandings of the development of the reading process. This session will focus on understanding reading behaviors across a continuum of reading stages, text selection to support children’s development of these reading behaviors, and lesson design that enables learners to co-construct meaning through talking with others.
Presenter: Lyn Reggett
Room 203
Joyful Learning through Shared Reading (K–2)
How do we support learners to understand how to use language, print concepts, rhyme, and rhythm in service of meaning? This K–2 session will explore how shared book experiences build children’s reading processes as they co-construct meaning through talking with others and offer teachers the opportunity to demonstrate how skills and strategies help us get to meanings in texts.
Presenter: Ann Stewart
Room 204A
Bringing Writing Workshop to Life (K–5)
Come think and talk together about creating, managing, and using a writing workshop model in an elementary classroom. Through instructional strategies and structures of a workshop, we create an intentional space for learners to construct and convey their ideas as they apply their ever-developing understandings about writing. This session will support teachers to work with colleagues to problem-solve and plan with the unique issues of workshop in mind.
Presenter: Tammy Jones
Room 204B
Unlocking the Secrets of Comprehension (K–5)
Comprehension, comprehension, comprehension…but do our students know what it is, why it matters, and how important it is for success in life? In this session we will experience and deepen our understanding of levels of comprehension and how they support our learners. We’ll explore ways to apply this knowledge to our planning and instruction that will deepen student thinking, instill a love of reading, and engage students with the world around them.
Presenter: Cherissa Kreider-Beck
Room 205A
Finding Your Voice as a Leader of Balanced Literacy Instruction (K–5)
How does an educational leader find their voice—within a classroom, a school, a district, and the profession? Being able to articulate our beliefs and understandings alongside our confusions and challenges means understanding ourselves and the communities we serve. Come think together about the decisions we need to make, the ones we don’t, and everything in between!
Presenters: Maria Iams & Dr. Mary Howard
Room 205B
Fomentar habilidades fundamentales en español (K–2)
¿Conocen el proceso de adquirir lectoescritura en español? Durante esta presentación divertida repasaremos el desarrollo de habilidades fundamentales para adquirir alfabetización en español, incluso acentuación ortográfica. Exploraremos recomendaciones para enseñar los estándares esenciales para aprender español, con sugerencias prácticas y sencillas. Esta sesión se impartirá totalmente en español.
Strengthening Foundational Reading Skills in Spanish (K–2)
Do you know the pathway of acquiring language arts in Spanish? During this fun presentation, we will review the development of foundational skills for acquiring Spanish literacy, including accents. We’ll explore some recommendations for teaching essential Spanish language arts standards, with simple and practical suggestions. This session will be presented entirely in Spanish.
Presenter: Jorge Cuevas Antillón
Room 207
Session 2
Bringing Reading Workshop to Life (K–5)
Come think and talk together about creating, managing, and using a reading workshop model in an elementary classroom. Through instructional strategies and structures of a workshop, we create an intentional space for learners to co-construct meaning and apply their ever-developing understandings to texts. This session will support teachers to work with colleagues to problem-solve and plan with the unique issues of workshop in mind.
Presenter: Maria Iams
Room 201
Cross-Language Transfer Through Shared Reading (K–2)
Shared Reading is an essential component of balanced literacy in the Dual Language classroom. Considering our students from a holistic bilingualism perspective invites us to be strategic in teaching for language transfer to empower them to draw from all their linguistic repertoires. This session will explore what it means to teach for language transfer, why it’s important, and how it can be implemented in our daily Shared Reading lessons. This session will model how to help students “notice and make connections” of similarities and differences across the languages.
Presenter: Paulina Rodríguez Cañizares
Room 202
Guided Reading: Reading, Thinking, and Talking Together in Small Group (K–2)
Supporting our youngest learners to orchestrate the skills, strategies, and thinking work involved in reading begins with our own understandings of the development of the reading process. This session will focus on understanding reading behaviors across a continuum of reading stages, text selection to support children’s development of these reading behaviors, and lesson design that enables learners to co-construct meaning through talking with others.
Presenter: Lyn Reggett
Room 203
Running Records en dos idiomas (K–2)
Maestros de escuelas bilingües and fellow teachers in Spanish-English dual language programs: come learn the basics of administering a useful classroom formative assessment process via student books—Running Records y/o registros continuos. This session will explain why they are important and offer you time to practice applying this classic and powerful literacy analysis with videos of real students. Habrá muestras en español and also in English, so bring your teaching partner. Especialmente útil para maestros de primaria. Examples will focus on Kinder, 1st and 2nd grades in both languages.
Presenters: Jorge Cuevas Antillón & Cynthia Craft
Room 204A
Meaningful Phonics and Spelling Instruction (K–1)
How does the graphophonic cueing system support meaning-making? In this session, we will think about what it means to teach phonics and spelling in thoughtful and intentional ways. Come learn how to support our earliest learners to use what they know about letters, sounds, and words in service of meaning.
Presenter: Tammy Jones
Room 204B
Teaching with the Standards in Mind (K–5)
Can I use balanced literacy approaches and still “teach” standards? Confusion and misconceptions surround standards, text complexity, and student-centered instruction. Join us in this session as we explore instruction that is responsive, engaging, AND standards-based! Leave feeling empowered and confident about text selection, instructional planning, and facilitating instruction…and meeting standards!
Presenter: Cherissa Kreider-Beck
Room 205A
Nurturing Conditions of Learning in a Balanced Literacy Classroom (K–5)
How do we design instruction to nurture student learning? This session will explore creating spaces and opportunities to support the Conditions of Learning to develop to their fullest potential. We will identify and reflect on the Conditions, consider teacher language and its role in learning, and explore teaching decisions within balanced literacy practices that foster (or hinder) student learning.
Presenter: Debra Crouch
Room 205B
La lupa y la pluma: Desarrollo del lenguaje a través del análisis literario en dos idiomas (3–5)
Entender y analizar literatura, especialmente poesía, no es fácil para los niños. El lenguaje figurado, el simbolismo y los recursos literarios son difíciles para cualquier lector, especialmente si se está leyendo en su segundo idioma. El objetivo de esta sesión es mostrar un proceso estructurado en el cual el maestro apoya a los alumnos mientras analizan cada vez más profundamente un texto y los conduce gradualmente hacia mayor autonomía lectora. También se presentan ideas para la escritura y la extensión del aprendizaje a través de la creatividad. Esta sesión se impartirá totalmente en español.
La Lupa y La Pluma: Language Development Through Literary Analysis in Two Languages (3–5)
Understanding and analyzing literature, especially poetry, is not easy for children. Figurative language, symbolism, and literary devices are difficult for any reader, especially those learning a second language. The goal of this session is to share a structured process during which the teacher supports students as they analyze a text, going ever more deeply in to it, gradually guiding them towards greater reading autonomy. Ideas will also be shared for writing and creative extension activities. This session will be presented entirely in Spanish.
Presenter: Dr. Eva Pando Solís
Room 207
Session 3
Teaching About and Through Purposeful Talk (K–5)
What does it mean to think and talk with purpose? And, what becomes possible when classrooms are alive with talk? This session explores purposeful talk as a dynamic, constructive process, within single texts and across multiple sources, and offers strategies for engaging children productively
Presenter: Maria Nichols
Room 201
Cross-Language Transfer Through Shared Reading (K–2)
Shared Reading is an essential component of balanced literacy in the Dual Language classroom. Considering our students from a holistic bilingualism perspective invites us to be strategic in teaching for language transfer to empower them to draw from all their linguistic repertoires. This session will explore what it means to teach for language transfer, why it’s important, and how it can be implemented in our daily Shared Reading lessons. This session will model how to help students “notice and make connections” of similarities and differences across the languages.
Presenter: Paulina Rodríguez Cañizares
Room 202
Thinking and Talking Well in Nonfiction Texts (K–5)
What does comprehension sound like when reading nonfiction texts? How do I get past “just the facts”? And, what is there to teach beyond text features? Come explore how nonfiction texts work and how to get kids thinking about the ideas in texts. This session will address text structures and organization, questioning for understanding, and co-constructing meaning with our learners.
Presenter: Lyn Reggett
Room 203
Assessing and Evaluating Reading Processes (3–5)
This panel session will explore making decisions for students in grades 3-5 based on assessment data—both quantitative and qualitative. Through looking at case studies for two students, we consider what our individual assessments tell us and what those same assessments tell us when we consider them collectively. This session will also explore examples from an entire classroom of students and the possible whole and small group learning needs. Bring your questions and bring your ideas for this interactive panel discussion around using assessment to guide instructional planning!
Presenter: Nilaja Taylor
Room 204A
The Power of Interactive Writing (K–1)
Support our youngest learners in developing their reading and writing abilities through multiple and engaging opportunities to apply skills and strategies in context. This session will focus on the power of and teaching opportunities in the Interactive Writing approach as teachers and students craft a text together – from generating ideas and constructing the print, to conveying the message through multiple readings to ensure meaning is clear.
Presenter: Cherissa Kreider-Beck
Room 204B
Guided Reading: Reading, Thinking, and Talking Together in Small Group (3–5)
Supporting learners in grades 3–5 to orchestrate the skills, strategies, and thinking work involved in reading begins with our own understandings of the evolution of the reading process. This session will focus on constructing and expanding thinking across a continuum of reading stages, text selection to encourage flexible use of strategies, and lesson design that enables learners to co-construct meaning through talking with others
Presenter: Ann Stewart
Room 205A
Thinking and Talking Well Using Picture Books (K–5)
Come read and think together on engaging learners during Read Aloud using picture books (and meet lots of standards in the process!). This session will take you through a process for planning and teaching in ways that support students to think well and talk well about their thinking.
Presenters: Debra Crouch, Matt de la Peña
Room 205B
Translanguaging Strategies to Develop Simultaneous Biliteracy (K–5)
Emergent bilinguals possess a unique linguistic repertoire composed of all of their languages. This session is grounded on translanguaging theory and will explore how paired guided reading texts can be used strategically to support students’ biliteracy development. Preview-View-Review will be shared as bilingual pedagogy that leverages students’ bilingualism for learning.
Presenter: Vivian Pratts
Room 207
Session 4
The Power of Musicality in Story
In this session we will explore the important role musicality plays in story and how it can work hand in hand with tough subject matter. We will also explore ways to nurture an environment that leads to writers to “write for real” instead of just writing for school.
Presenter: Matt de la Peña
Room 201
Enseñanza recíproca: Una estrategia poderosa para lectoescritura (3–5)
Este presentación cautivadora explicará la importancia de la estrategia de enseñanza recíproca. Mostrará como implementarla en el salón para fomentar meta-cognición y comprensión entre alumnos. A través de textos, modelos y práctica durante esta sesión, se aprenderá cómo aplicarla en su escuela. El enfoque será para los alumnos del tercer grado o mayor, con textos de ciencia y de literatura. Esta sesión se impartirá totalmente en español.
Reciprocal Teaching: A powerful strategy for language arts (3–5)
This engaging session will explain the importance of the Reciprocal Teaching, an instructional strategy. The application of the strategy to strengthen metacognition and comprehension among students will be showcased. Through texts, models and practice during the session, participants will learn how to implement it in their schools. The focus for this session will be supporting upper grade students, with texts that range from science to literature. This session will be presented entirely in Spanish.
Presenter: Jorge Cuevas Antillón
Room 202
Integrating Content, Literacy and Language in Dual Language Classrooms (K–5)
How often do you experience learning a new language? We invite you to get out of your comfort zone and embrace powerful content, literacy, and language learning that will empower you to rethink instruction in your district, school or classroom. In this session, participants will gain understanding of the Six Cueing Systems and their impact on integration of content, literacy, and language in dual language or general education classrooms.
Presenters: Liliya Stefoglo and Pam Schaff
Room 203
Joyful Learning through Shared Reading (K–2)
How do we support learners to understand how to use language, print concepts, rhyme, and rhythm in service of meaning? This K–2 session will explore how shared book experiences build children’s reading processes as they co-construct meaning through talking with others and offer teachers the opportunity to demonstrate how skills and strategies help us get to meanings in texts.
Presenter: Ann Stewart
Room 204A
Meaningful Phonics and Spelling Instruction (K–1)
How does the graphophonic cueing system support meaning-making? In this session, we will think about what it means to teach phonics and spelling in thoughtful and intentional ways. Come learn how to support our earliest learners to use what they know about letters, sounds, and words in service of meaning.
Presenter: Tammy Jones
Room 204B
Guided Reading: Reading, Thinking, and Talking Together in Small Group (3–5)
Supporting learners in grades 3–5 to orchestrate the skills, strategies, and thinking work involved in reading begins with our own understandings of the evolution of the reading process. This session will focus on constructing and expanding thinking across a continuum of reading stages, text selection to encourage flexible use of strategies, and lesson design that enables learners to co-construct meaning through talking with others.
Presenter: Nilaja Taylor
Room 205A
Coaching: It’s All About Relationships
What are the varied roles and relationship of a coach and how do you navigate within them? This session will explore the multiple roles and relationships in student-centered coaching. Come learn how to establish coaching in a reasonable time frame and structure ongoing support in meaningful and relevant ways to empower our adult learners.
Presenter: Maria Iams
Room 205B
Translanguaging Strategies to Develop Simultaneous Biliteracy (K–5)
Emergent bilinguals possess a unique linguistic repertoire composed of all of their languages. This session is grounded on translanguaging theory and will explore how paired guided reading texts can be used strategically to support students’ biliteracy development. Preview-View-Review will be shared as bilingual pedagogy that leverages students’ bilingualism for learning.
Presenter: Vivian Pratts
Room 207