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ILA Next Main Stage + Middle Pathway

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Our most comprehensive package, you’ll have access to not only all 13 Main Stage sessions but also the Middle Pathway Workshop series. Learn at your own pace and come back to each session as many times as you want. Access is available on demand through August 15, 2021.

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    Date
    October 1, 2020

    ILA Next kicks off with a power-packed Main Stage Session, featuring keynotes from ILA President of the Board Stephen G. Peters, Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator Dan Santat, and Push Through Organization founderJasmyn Wright, and a special presentation from Made for Learning: How the Conditions of Learning Guide Teaching Decisions authors Debra Crouch and Brian Cambourne.

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    Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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    Author, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
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    Literacy Consultant, Teachingdecisions.com
    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: A.S. King and Nic Stone in Conversation
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    This session features Printz Medal winner A.S. King (Dig) and #1 New York Times best-selling author Nic Stone (Dear Justyce) in conversation about identity and injustice and the intersection of the two in their writing. A Q&A session with the authors follows the conversation.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: Family Literacy--Past and Present
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    It has been proven over time that students’ academic success depends on building relationships with families and communities. In this presentation, we will focus on how family literacy can bridge the connection between home and school in meaningful ways.

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    Speaker Image for Marliese Peltier
    Doctoral Student, Michigan State University
    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: How Do We Best Support Children's Vocabulary Development: Lesson from Research and Practice
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    The session will highlight the research on early vocabulary development, and discuss strategies to promote its development in classrooms for young children. 

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: How to Build a Culture of Literacy Live or at a Distance
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    Research shows that the greatest variations of instruction happen within a school building as opposed to school to school. How does a school leader create a culture of literacy that is collaborative and consistent among teachers? This session will discuss tips for building a culture of literacy live and at a distance.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: Opportunity-Centered Teaching in the "New" Focus on Race
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    The Black Lives Matter movement has been amplified dramatically this year, as millions of people in the United States took to the streets to protest police violence. Schools have an incredible opportunity to use this momentum and movement to deeply reimagine the curriculum and teaching in schools. Rather than returning to normalcy—to stale, dated, predetermined, irrelevant, under-responsive, disconnected, and “racially neutral” curriculum and instructional practices that maintain a white-centric status quo—teachers have a chance instead to address what I call opportunity gaps in education through opportunity-centered practices. In this session, I will describe and discuss major features and examples of these practices with connections to language and literacy.

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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: Pushing on Multiple Levers to Meet the Needs of All Readers
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    For many years, a profound research-to-practice gap has existed between what we know about reading development and the implementation of evidence-based, effective practices in school settings. This has differential impacts on particular subgroups of students. This session will look at how the education system uses the existing evidence base in reading acquisition, assessment, and intervention to thoughtfully plan instruction, and will examine how we can think about training for both practicing and future teachers in a way that is supported by this evidence. In order to address the reading needs of all students, multiple levers must be pushed simultaneously. This presentation will focus on those levers, with a specific focus on students who demonstrate difficulties with reading. The role of translational science will also be discussed in the context of bridging the research to practice gap.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: Speak a Different Language: Changing the Grammar of Schooling
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an incalculable impact on education—one that is unprecedented in the history of our field. At the same time, the disruption of COVID-19 presents an opportunity to rethink the what, how, and where of learning. In this session, Yong Zhao looks at how we can reimagine education in terms of today’s context and tomorrow’s needs, as well as advocate for schooling that prioritizes the perspectives of our children.

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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: The Pandemic, the Protests, the Fires, the Election, the Teaching, the Fatigue: How We Move Forward From Here
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    It’s true: 2020 has shifted the very foundations of our profession. Understandably, educators are longing for a return to "normal." In this session, Cornelius Minor poses the question: What if, instead of returning to normal, we returned to better? What are the practices, approaches, and habits that we can abandon, and what are the new kid- and community-centered structures that we can erect in their place? How can we cultivate the heart to hear and to see what our communities need from us? And what knowledge and methods are needed to sustain powerful learning at this time of constant change?

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: The Research-Practice Conversation: Understanding and Bridging the Divide
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    There is constant pressure to use research- and evidence-based practices when teaching reading and writing, but the findings of published research may not always provide obvious or straightforward answers to some of the most pressing questions about practice. Join us for a conversation between a teacher of literacy, and a literacy researcher as they explore and critical questions about the persistent divide between research and practice, the role of evidence in everyday instruction, and what research can and cannot tell us about effective practice.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Main Stage: Writing Makes Better Readers and Reading Makes Better Writers
    Date
    October 1, 2020

    This session will explore how writing supports reading, reading supports writing, and the two together support learning. Graham will first examine why this is the case conceptually, and then share briefly data from multiple meta-analyses that support these interconnections among reading, learning, and writing. The session will focus primarily on providing examples of successful classroom applications.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Middle Pathway Workshop: The Power of a Literate Life
    Date
    October 6, 2020

    Join us in our workshop as we share how to use the Notice and Note Signposts for fiction and nonfiction as a way to empower readers. Participants who have not yet used the Signposts will receive a brief overview, while participants skilled with the Signposts will learn new ways to use them. We'll discuss both fiction and nonfiction and provide examples that are appropriate for face-to-face or distanced instruction. We'll move into complex texts as well as visit how picture books provide a good introduction for students. Join us as we share how to help students discover the power of a literate life.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Middle Pathway Workshop: Concept-Based Literacy: Creating Multiple Pathways to Ignite Understanding and Transfer
    Date
    October 13, 2020

    How can concepts be leveraged to promote access, student choice, personal relevance, and transfer in a literacy classroom? Inductive inquiry-based learning experiences in a literacy classroom allow students to be actively engaged in the construction of meaning through the exploration of rich text examples across a range of genres. In this workshop, you will learn how to weave together current literacy practices with inductive inquiry to deliberately leverage students’ conceptual understanding of what it takes to be a capable reader, writer, speaker, listener, and viewer. See why concept-based literacy is one of the keys to designing dynamic learning experiences in which authentic contexts and thinking become the catalyst to mastering literacy skills.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Middle Pathway Workshop: Building a Community of Readers and Writers: How Exploring Identity Helps Us Better Understand the World Around Us
    Date
    October 20, 2020

    In this workshop, we'll explore how to build and grow a community of readers and writers by focusing on identity work in the classroom. Through self-awareness and understanding, students become better equipped to identify and address topics related to social justice.

    $2000
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  • Thumbnail for Middle Pathway Workshop: Building Digital Literacy Skills Using Culturally Relevant Literature for the Middle School Learner
    Date
    October 27, 2020

    This workshop will focus on using culturally relevant literature to build digital literacy skills. Digital literacy entails the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Using literature that is inclusive and that empowers students to use their cultural schema to build their digital literacy skills will lead to not only increased student engagement but also strong classroom culture during virtual and face-to-face instruction.

    $2000
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