2024 Speaker Presentations
Day 1
A New Birth of Freedom: Opportunity and Responsibility
Presentation Speaker: Kareem Weaver, MA
Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices: Is it a Language Issue or a Reading Difficulty?
Presentation Speakers: Marybeth Flachbart, Ed.D., Rosie Santana, MA
Ideas Ideas Ideas
Presentation Speaker: Steven Bollar, MA
Science of Reading AND the Science of Instruction: Both are Imperative!
Presentation Speaker: Anita Archer, PhD
Standing Tall Through It All
Presentation Speaker: Steven Bollar, MA
Toward the Science of Language and Literacy: Aligning SoR-Based Instruction to the Unique Needs of Multilingual Learners
Presentation Speakers: David Nungaray, M.Ed., Kasey Johnson
Using Data to Personalize Literacy Instruction in the Intermediate Grades
Presentation Speakers: Sarah White, M.Ed., Becky Lewis, MA Ed.
Comprehension is an Outcome
Presentation Speaker: Anita Archer, PhD
Data Literacy
Presentation Speaker: Marybeth Flachbart, Ed.D.
Exploring How Language Powers Literacy
Presentation Speaker: Susan Lambert
MTSS Must Haves, Myths and Misunderstandings
Presentation Speaker: Stephanie Stollar, PhD
My SoR Journey: A Teacher's Reflections
Presentation Speaker: Kate Winn
Reading and the AK Native Language Context: Alaska Native Language Reading Guidebook
Presentation Speakers: Joel Isaak, MFA, Kari Shaginoff
Research-to-Practice: Using Assessment Data to Plan Targeted Reading Instruction
Presentation Speakers: Matthew Burns, PhD, Valentina Contesse, PhD
Tier 1 Instruction is Risk Reduction
Presentation Speakers: Stephanie Stollar, PhD
Day 3
Comprehension is Not a Skill: How to use Complex Text in Classrooms
Presentation Speaker: Brent Conway, M.Ed.
Evidence-Based Fluency Strategies for K-8 Classroom
Presentation Speaker: Kate Winn
Instructional Suggestions to Support Sentence and Paragraph Writing: (K-5)
Presentation Speaker: Karen Eades, MA Ed.
Promising Practices: How Strong Curriculum-Based Professional Learning Supports the Science of Reading
Presentation Speakers: Teah Shope, M.Ed., Bill Suttles, M.Ed., Deborah Helms
Revisiting Comprehension - Because the Science of Reading is more than just Phonics
Presentation Speaker: Brent Conway, M.Ed.
Transformational Leadership: The Leadership Approach Necessary to Tactfully Confront Adult Resistance to Change.
Presentation Speaker: Luis Cruz, PhD
We Get It, Now How Do We Implement What We’ve Learned?
Presentation Speaker: Luis Cruz, PhD
What does the research say about ELs and early literacy / learning to read?
Presentation Speaker: Rosie Santana, MA