WVRA2018ConferenceHighlights

BecomeapartofWestVirginiaReadingAssociation’shistorywhileattendingthe63rdAnnualWVRAConferenceonNovember15thand16thattheGreenbrierResortinWhiteSulphurSprings,WVandcelebrateWVRA’s50thAnniversary!

TheConferenceCommitteeisproudtoannouncetheplanstoprovide

Professionaldevelopmentopportunitiestoachieveyourannualstaffdevelopmentgoals. Additionalopportunitiestoexploreideasandtoolstoimplementinyourclassroom. Opportunitiestoshareandnetworkwithcolleaguesinaprofessionallyrelaxedatmosphere.

ImportantDatesandDeadlines

EarlyRegistrationfortheConferenceOctober31st,2018$110.00 LateRegistrationfortheConferenceafterNovember1st,2018$170.00 LinkforConferenceRegistration RoomreservationfortheGreenbrierResortOctober14th,2018atthereducedconferencerate.

LinktoreserveroomsattheGreenbrierResort

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2018 Keynote Speakers

Thursday 8:30 – Opening Session in Chesapeake Room Dr. Timothy Rasinski from Kent State University.

Dr. Timothy Rasinski will identify the key components of foundational reading and will share methods that have been proven effective for improving students’ foundational reading competencies.

Dr.TimothyRasinskiaprofessorofliteracyeducationatKentStateUniversityanddirectorofitsaward-winningreadingclinic.Dr.Rasinskihasreceivedthefollowinginternationalawards. 2012BrockPrize:BrockInternationalPrizeFinalistfortheBrockInternationalPrizeinEducation 2010InternationalReadingHallofFame:InternationalReadingAssociationElectedtoMembership 2010LiteracyLeaderAward:InternationalReadingAssociation

Thursday 11:00 – General Session in Chesapeake Room Nell Duke from the University of Michigan

Nell Duke will be presenting on using project-based learning as a key to literacy and a five-part framework for structuring projects.

NellDukeaprofessorfromtheUniversityofMichigan.Ms.Dukehasreceivedthefollowingawards. MichiganAssociationofIntermediateSchoolAdministrators’Fellow2017 MichiganReadingAssociationAdvocacyAward2016P. DavidPearsonScholarlyInfluenceAward,LiteracyResearchAssociation2014 ExcellenceinTeachingAward,MichiganStateUniversityCollegeofEducation2010

Friday 11:00 – General Session in Chesapeake Room Michael Shoulders an author of 21 books from Clarksville, Tennessee

Michael Shoulders will be highlighting “Four Keys to get Students Interested in Reading”. He has a NEWS FLASH: Programs don’t teach kids … TEACHERS DO!

MichaelShouldershastraveledtheworldpromotinghisbooksandpromotingwritinginschoolandduringprofessionaldevelopmentforeducators.Mikehasspokenatthefollowingevents EuropeanPTAAssociation InternationalLiteracyAssociationNationalConferencesinChicago,Orlando,Atlanta,&Boston InternationalLiteracyAssociationStateConferencesinAR*,CO,FL,MD,MI,MO*,MS,NC*,NY,SC,TN*,VA,&WV*(*Keynotepresentations)

Concurrent Sessions

The WVRA Conference Committee has chosen 53 sessions presented by 78 presenters to occur over the course of the two-day conference. We have Literacy Leaders coming from California, Utah, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and North Carolina; as well as many Mountain State Literacy Leaders from right here in West Virginia. After reading these proposals you will have a difficult time trying to choose which session you want to attend.

Literacy Leaders Committed to Providing Exceptional Professional Development at the

2018 WVRA 63rd Annual Conference

AmyBurrios ElizabethW.English KristiMullenax RuthannArnesonAngelaPeery EmilyK.Milleson LeAnnAJohnson SabrinaRunyonAnnetteBrumfield ErinSponaugle LesliePhares SaraHarrisDailyArmellaBlanco GabeMaynard LisaThomas SharaCurryBarbaraMaynard GloriaWinland LoisJatman ShelbyBellomyBarbaraOrnstein IsaacWillisLarison LuisJ.PentonHerrera ShellyRatliffBethanyChaney JanetS.Lohr MaggieLuma StaceyLoushBrandieTurner JenniferBlake MargaretMiller StanMaynardBrookeLightner JenniferKulick MariaSkowronski StephanieBurdetteCarrieGue JenniferMoore MarisaRusso TarabethBrumfieldChelcieGore JessyMoore MeganDiLorenzo TashaAdkinsCherylHEllis JoyMarieHunt MeganPosey TimothyRasinskiChristySchwatz JuliaElbon MindyAllenger TracyKomorrowskiClaytonSwisher KarenMiller MorganDolly TravisMyersConnieStoutO'Dell KathrynNester NancyL.Peterson WendyChapmanCristaGood KathyChapman NatalieDillinger WilliamBingmanDanaZambito KelleySoloman OlivaRichardson ZachLyonsDerbyHammond KeriMeason PatriciaLevac ZanaSuemeElizabethCrawford KimTowe RachelHeller ElizabethHouck KimberlyMcFall RachelleKuehl

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Author’s Luncheons

Thursday 12:00 in the Crystal Room - $45.00 Deanna Edens Author of Jinx at the Greenbrier, Sweet Springs: A Novella, and You are Cleared to Land that are all centered on the southeastern area of WV. Deanna will be expounding on the background stories that inspired her to write these stories set in WV.

Friday 12:00 in the Crystal Room - $45.00

Anna Smucker & Marc Harshman Co-Authors of Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece a non-fiction picture book. Anna and Marc will do a brief reading of the text then discuss their research and explore the complex issues they faced writing collaboratively to create a text that mimics in its sparseness

and poetic lines.

Sad,Mad,Glad–TheMusical-Play

Aspecialmusical-playwillbeperformedFridayafternoonat2:30.Thismusical-playfeatures5talentedstudentsfromWestVirginiathathavebeenworkingveryhardwiththeplaywriterandmusicalproducertobringlifeto

thevisionoftheauthors,ChuckStumpandJimStrawn.

ExhibitHallCheckouttheExhibitHallfeaturingallthelatestbooksandclassroomresources!

Pearson LakeshoreLearning KaplanEarlyLearning UniversalPrinting VariquestLearningTools WVWriters,Inc. CurriculumAssociates McGraw-HillEducation MaryRuthBooks

HoughtonMifflinHarcourt AFT-WestVirginia FourDolphinPress Zaner-Bloser LearningA-Z CengageReading Scholastic CenterfortheCollaborativeClassroom

AuthorTablesVisitauthorsattheirtables.Taketheopportunitytopurchaseandgettingtheirbookssigned.

SabrinaRunyan AnnaSmucker MarcHarshman MichaelShoulders

DeannaEdens JuliaElbon KathleenJacobs

Fun!Weareplanningaspecial50thCelebrationThursdayfrom5:30-6:30intheCameoBallroomwherewewillhaveaDJandaphotoboothprovidinganopportunityofsomefunpictures!

EmailtheDJwithyourrequestofsongsfromthepast50years.bigalboyce@gmail.com Photoboothbackgroundandpropsavailableforfriendstotakephotosandmakememories. Timetorelax,unwind,shareandreflectingontheeventsoftheday.