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Insights From ILA’s Award-Winning Scholars

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Overview

In this on-demand webinar, join Zoi Traga Philippakos, ILA Board member-at-large and chair of the ILA Awards & Grants Committee, as she introduces the 2024 recipients of ILA’s research awards and grants. You’ll hear from

  • Jonathan M. Kittle, recipient of the Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship for “Reading Specialists’ Knowledge of Spanish to English Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Instruction”
  • Tobias Kroll, recipient of the Elva Knight Research Grant for “Cognitive-Linguistic and Auditory Subskills in Struggling Elementary-Age Readers”
  • Amber Lawson, recipient of the Dina Feitelson Research Award for her Reading Research Quarterly article “We Can Draw and Think About It Ourselves: Putting Culture and Race in Phonics Instruction”
  • Xiaomeng Li, recipient of the Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award for “The Effects of L1 Writing System and L2 Linguistic Knowledge on L2 Word Recognition”
  • Caroline Rabalais, recipient of the Helen M. Robinson Grant for “Critical Literacy in Action: Taking Back Power and Control in the English Language Arts Classroom”

Each of these emerging scholars will share how their work is addressing critical issues in today’s classrooms and what future, long-term changes they hope to inspire.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about and celebrate their contributions to advancing equitable and effective literacy education for all learners.

Who should register: School-based educators, principals, teacher educators, and preservice teachers

FREE for EVERYONE

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