NCRA 52nd Annual North Carolina Reading Conference: Full Schedule

North Carolina Reading Association
52nd Annual North Carolina Reading Conference
March 26-28, 2023
Benton Convention Center
Winston-Salem, NC
Your VOICE matters! Celebrating LITERACY!

1:00pm EDT

A(rt)dvocacy : storytelling activism as a means of Arsenal and Revival

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A(rt)dvocacy : storytelling activism as a means of Arsenal and Revival [in this session, we will explore and navigate the important use of creative storytelling for radical disruption, confrontation, and unpacking of all that is unjust and under-reported. The use of spoken word poetry is an unconventional and clever way to create meaningful impact and bring about dialogue, new ways of thinking and ultimately, an awakening

Presenters

Ayanna Albertson Gay

Ayanna Albertson-Gay is a writer, spoken word poet, and content creator from Goldsboro, North Carolina by way of Durham. Specializing in what she's named "a(rt)dvocacy", Ayanna leverages her communication and creative writing skills to promote economic and social justice through critical... Read More →

A(rt)dvocacy Presentation pdf

Sunday March 26, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Salem 1A

Sunday Institute

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level K-12 and Beyond
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Adult & Higher Education Professionals, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

1:00pm EDT

The Mirror Process That Leads to Storytelling: Empowering Students to Tell Their Stories

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Empowering students to tell their stories is a process. There is some pre-planned work we must do as educators in the spaces we’re given to build an environment where students feel a strong sense of belonging.
In this session, we’ll look at many possible ways to build the environment students need to not only feel they belong, but also reaffirmed, and encouraged to tell their story. Be prepared to do the work we’re asking students to do. Get ready to tell YOUR story.

Presenters

Emily Francis

ESL Teacher, Independent

Astrid Emily Francis is a nationally recognized English as a Second Language teacher at Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina. She serves students in 9th-12th grade with various English proficiency levels. Emily is a native Spanish-speaker who is originally from Guatemala... Read More →

Sunday March 26, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Salem 3C

Sunday Institute

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Language Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Sunday Institute
Grade Level K-12 and Beyond
Audience Classroom and pre-service teachers, ESL teachers

3:30pm EDT

AntiRacist Literacy Leadership

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Literacy plays an important role in the development of critical thinkers. This session will demonstrate how educators can use children's picture books to foster healthy racial identities and anti-racist practices. We'll examine sample lesson plans teachers have used with kindergarten through fifth grade learners to activate critical thinking as it relates to racial identity.

Presenters

Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock

Lead Curator (Exec. Director), we are (working to extend anti-racist education, Inc)

Ronda Taylor Bullock is originally from Goldston, NC. She earned her doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill in the Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement Program. Her research interests are critical race theory, whiteness studies, white children’s racial identity construction, and anti-racism... Read More →

Kelvin Bullock

Executive Director of Equity and Professional Development, Durham Public Schools

Dr. Daniel Kelvin Bullock is the Executive Director for Equity and Professional Development for Durham Public Schools. In this role, he specializes in identifying and reducing inequities that exist in students' educational experiences and managing professional learning for all employees... Read More →

Educator Summer Institute 2023 Flier jpg

Curriculum Workshop 2023 pdf

Anti Racist Literacy Leadership pdf

Sunday March 26, 2023 3:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Salem 3B

Sunday Institute

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level All
Audience All

9:25am EDT

"Literacy Escape Rooms: Using Classroom and Digital Escape Rooms to Engage Students'

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Escape rooms have become a widespread entertainment experience that individuals of all ages can enjoy. Using hints and clues, participants solve a series of puzzles to complete the objectives of the game and escape the room. In this session, participants will take part in a Literacy Escape room using a novel as an anchor text to address literacy competencies and standards in an engaging setting.

Presenters

Rebecca Harper

Featured Speaker

Dr. Rebecca G. Harper is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy in the College of Education and Human Development at Augusta University where she teaches courses in literacy, qualitative research, and curriculum, and serves as the EdD program director. Her research focuses... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Winston 1C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level Grades 3-12
Audience Pre-service, classroom teachers, writing instructors

9:25am EDT

Culturally Responsive Literacy Leadership

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School and district literacy leaders can join this session to discover strategies and protocols to guide school and classroom literacy decisions that build a deeply inclusive culture for literacy learning.

Presenters

Heidi Perez

Literacy Specialist, Durham Public Schools

Heidi Perez, Literacy Integration Specialist for Durham Public Schools, has served students and teachers as a public educator, advocate, instructional coach and leader for over 28 years. Heidi's passion centers on literacy learning because literacy is the key to agency and active... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Winston 1A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state)
Presentation Link https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Up-T2_RNule-khdyBw1r_JaLB7kbBH8jNA2kGiAXXw0/edit?usp=sharing

9:25am EDT

Giving Your Culture A Voice Through Literacy

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A dive into culturally responsive literature for K-5 classrooms. We will explore conversations and activities that can be done with different grade levels to explore how students can relate to literature through their culture.

Presenters

Chantae Reynolds

ASU Academy at Middle Fork

Kori Trainor

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Conference 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level K-2, 3-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

9:25am EDT

How We Got to Now: Finding the Story that’s Underneath

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This writing workshop explores personal narrative by looking at what’s on the ‘surface’ (things people can readily see/identify) and exploring personal history and the events that led to things appearing as they do today. Participants may use this time to workshop their original pieces to share in the Paper Thin Open Mic on Monday, March 27th!

Presenters

D.J. Rogers

Durham Poet Laureate

DJ Rogers is a poet, essayist, voice actor, educator, nerd, Sagittarius, and answer to the question "what if Yogi Bear took his voice lessons seriously?". He is honored to be the first Poet Laureate of Durham, NC, where he lives and engages with the community as a workshop educator... Read More →

How We Got to Now pptx

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Twin City Boardroom

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience All

9:25am EDT

Invisible Sentence: Recognizing, Supporting, and Advocating for Children of Incarcerated and Returning Parents

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On any given day, there are 2.7 million children in the US with at least one incarcerated parent (17,000+ in NC). Participants will learn about the children, ways to create a community to support them, and available resources and leave with materials, access to book lists, and a homework assignment!

Presenters

Melissa Radcliff

Program Director, Our Children's Place of Coastal Horizons

Melissa Radcliff has been with Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons based in Wilmington, NC since February 2007. Our Children’s Place is a statewide education and advocacy program focused on community support for children of incarcerated and returning parents. Prior to that... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Salem 3B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level Early Literacy & Pre-K, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Adult & Higher Education Professionals, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates)

9:25am EDT

New Eyes: Examining Life Outside Our Own

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How can teachers facilitate students examining life outside their own experiences? Resources such as picture books and novels provide those opportunities. This session will allow participants to engage in strategies and explore texts used to grow readers and writers in developing new eyes as they see the world around them.

Presenters

Beth White

Owner / Senior Lecturer, Beth White Education Consultant, LLC & University of South Carolina

Beth most recently worked as Senior Lecturer in the College of Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina for 12 years. She has over 32 years of experience in education. Her specialty area is teaching and coaching teachers... Read More →

Dana C Skinner

Jennifer Joyner

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Winston 3B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 45085
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Adult & Higher Education Professionals, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates)

9:25am EDT

Pictures Are Worth Thousands of Words

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A dive into picture books that contain elements of graphic novels and graphic novels to help teach key literacy skills, vocabulary, as well as writer's craft with students K-2.

Presenters

Beth Buchholz

Appalachian State University - Reading Education and Special Education

Beth Frye

Matthew Hamm

Owner, Pictures and Words LLC

I'm a former kindergarten teacher with a BA in Creative Writing and a MA in Reading. I love comics/graphic novels, Star Wars, gardening, and disc golf! I believe that everyone is a reader...even if the journey is a little different than others'.

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Salem 1C Benton Convention Center

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Adult & Higher Education Professionals, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

9:25am EDT

STEM & Literacy~The Perfect Blend of Engagement!

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During this session you will learn how to effectively integrate the 4C's into STEM and Literacy by using picture books, novels and hands-on activities. You will leave with a plethora of resources and lesson ideas, not to mention ideas about how to use Flip, Novel Effect, Padlet, Google Lit Trips, Ozobots, BeeBots, and Google Drawings to enhance this integration which will lead to 99.9% student engagement.

Presenters

Leslie Pope

District Instructional Technology Facilitator, Craven County Schools

Hello! This is my 19th year in education, and I have served as a classroom teacher, Instructional Coach, STEM Specialist, Media Coordinator, and currently, a District Instructional Technology Facilitator, Google for Education Certified Trainer, and Apple Learning Coach. I am a native... Read More →

Pope NCRA 2023 STEM & Literacy pdf

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Salem 3C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level Early Literacy & Pre-K, K-2, 3-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

9:25am EDT

Yes They Can: Linking the WIDA Can Do Descriptors and Technology-Based Activities to Support Multilingual Learners

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The presentation will utilize and explore the WIDA Can Do Descriptors to support multilingual learners. Facilitators will teach participants how to use the WIDA Can Do Descriptors and conduct a crosswalk to design learning experiences that integrate technology in a meaningful way. Participants will need their devices.

Presenters

Kenya Lawrence

6-12 Math Specialist, Durham Public Schools

Degrees: BA: Mathematics/Spanish,MA: Education Technology,MIS: Information SciencesGoodnight Doctoral Fellow, NC State UniversityCertifications: 6-8 Math, 9-12 Math, K-12 ESOLDPS: kenya_lawrence@dpsnc.net... Read More →

Talia Cotton

Trainer, Talia R. Cotton Service Group, LLC

Talia R. Cotton, M.Ed.EDUCATOR, TRAINER, CONSULTANT, MENTOR, & TUTORCareer Summary16 years of Educational Experience 13 years: Teaching Experience ● 11 years: Educational/ Technology Trainer Experience 12 years: Reading/ Academic Coach Experience ● 7 years: Educational Supervisory... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 9:25am - 10:15am EDT
Winston 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Adult & Higher Education Professionals, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

10:50am EDT

Activating the Literacy Learning Ecosystem So That Each Student Becomes A Lifelong, Competent Reader

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Teachers are essential to students’ reading success, yet shouldn’t carry the load alone. This session focuses on a model called the literacy learning ecosystem — connecting schools & school personnel; pre-/in-service educator learning; local, state & federal policymakers; communities & nonprofits; and families & caregivers — that centers each student becoming a lifelong competent reader.

Presenters

Hiller A. Spires

Executive Director and Professor Emerita, North Carolina State University

Hiller is Executive Director and Professor Emerita after serving 36 years in the College of Education and as the founding director of the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. As a national and international scholar, she studies... Read More →

Marie Himes

Director of the New Literacies Collaborative, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University

Marie Himes is the director of the New Literacies Collaborative and a research scholar at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University. Himes and the New Literacies Collaborative team analyze the intersections of literacy, digital technologies, and global... Read More →

Sarah Bausell

Researcher, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

Activating the NC Literacy Learning Ecosystem 2023 (2) pdf

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Salem 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers

10:50am EDT

Amazing Race Family Reading Night

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An ineractive and intriguing Family Reading Night for older readers can be a challenge. Join this session for an Amazing Race Adventure using literature, culture and themes. For the Amazing Races, participants will experience Hispanic Culture and Harry Potter. Make sure you don't take a "detour" coming to this session.

Presenters

Barbara Falkenbury

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Piedmont 2

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level 3-5, 6-8
Audience Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers

10:50am EDT

Democracy and Social Justice: Using Argument in the Secondary Classroom

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Today's students are often faced with a number of social challenges that are part of their worlds, including racism, substance abuse, identity questioning, death, poverty, and violence. In this session, presenters will explore the potential for integrating quality young adult literature that connect the construction of argumentative writing.

Presenters

Rebecca Harper

Featured Speaker

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Winston 1C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Students with Learning Disabilities
Grade Level Grades 6-12
Audience Pre-service, classroom teachers, writing instructors

10:50am EDT

Examining LGBTQIA+ Issues and Race in Picturebooks: A Critical Content Analysis Approach

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In this session, a professor and their undergraduate students enrolled in a children's literature course, who learn with and from each other and view themselves as colleagues, will present their critical content analyses projects. Four steps -- such as responding to the text, drawing on critical theory, considering textual and visual elements, and assessing meaning making -- allow us to consider the coming out experience and how Indigenous characters are represented in picturebooks published from 2012-2022. In addition to us sharing important findings, this session will provide opportunities for attendees to build community and engage with other educators around the importance of children's literature serving as windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors.

Presenters

Jordan Kelberg

Julia Kearney

Morgan Wecht

Nermin Vehabovic

Assistant Professor of Education, Elon University

Olivia Fletcher

Virginia Meagher

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Conference 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level 44990
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates)

10:50am EDT

Getting our Multilingual Hands Dirty with Letter Sounds

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Multilingual learners often have difficulty discriminating between English sounds. This session will provide strategies for using the natural world to build first sound fluency, phoneme segmentation skills, and letter-sound mapping. Bringing the outside world into your small group skill sessions builds vocabulary too, leading to increased oral language skills.

Presenters

Tori Mazur (she/her)

Reading Intervention, Creekside Elementary School

You may know me from teaching ESL in Asheboro or Siler City. We may have been in grad school together (Go Spartans and Go Wolfpack) or NCDLCN - East is Beast! Maybe we met when I was an Instructional Technology Facilitator at Ephesus Elementary School in Chapel Hill when we went... Read More →

PDF of Wakelet for ML Hands Dirty for PA and Letter Sounds pdf

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Ardmore 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level Early Literacy & Pre-K, K-2, 3-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers

10:50am EDT

History Stories that Affirm All Kids

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Authors Judy Allen Dodson and Kelly Starling Lyons celebrate Black heroes in their books, The Ashe Brothers: How Arthur and Johnnie Changed Tennis Forever and Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon and She Persisted: Coretta Scott King. In this session, they share excerpts from their acclaimed work and give a window into their creative and research process. Judy and Kelly explore how to make nonfiction engaging, ways to use their books in the classroom and how Black history appeals to all kids.

Presenters

Judy Allen Dodson

Judy Allen Dodson is all about books—reading them as a librarian, preserving them as an archivist, and writing them as an author. Her book, Escape from . . . Hurricane Katrina, is a Junior Library Guild selection. Judy is also the winner of two Society of Children’s Book Writers... Read More →

Kelly Starling Lyons

NC author, NC author

Kelly Starling Lyons is an award-winning children's book author, teaching artist, and a founding member of The Brown Bookshelf (http://thebrownbookshelf.com). Her titles span early readers, chapter books and picture books, nonfiction and fiction. They include the Jada Jones series... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Salem 1C Benton Convention Center

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level K-8
Audience K-8

10:50am EDT

How we got to now: finding the story that’s underneath

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Presenters

D.J. Rogers

Durham Poet Laureate

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Twin City Boardroom

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience All

10:50am EDT

I Write and Tell Because I See Me

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Our students need to see that our schools are a safe place and a place they belong. This sense of safety and belongingness leads to students to share about their home cultures, experiences, and family literacies. In this session, We’ll analyze ways we can turn our classrooms into spaces where our students see themselves and are encouraged to write and tell about who they are.

Presenters

Emily Francis

ESL Teacher, Independent

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Winston 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level K-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers

10:50am EDT

LIS for Prek-5: Aligned ELA Instruction in Action

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While the NC Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS) sets student expectations, the LIS and their associated instructional practices set expectations for teaching literacy. The LIS can be used to ensure that all K-2 teachers across North Carolina have a comMonday, March 27 understanding and delivery of literacy instruction.

In this session, participants will take a deeper dive into the PreK-5 LIS and gain a better understanding of how the NCSCOS, SoR, and LIS all work in tandem with one another, within the elementary classroom.

Presenters

Jenni Wilkinson

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Jenni Wilkinson serves as the North Central Early Learning Consultant in the Office of Early Learning. She brings 25+ years of experience in early education, having served as an elementary classroom teacher, reading specialist and literacy coach. Prior to this role, she served as... Read More →

Mary Phillips

NCDPI K-5 ELA Consultant, NC DPI

Mary is a graduate from the University of South Florida where she received her B.S. in Elementary Education and then her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership. She comes with 20 years of educational experience as a pre-K through 5th grade teacher, literacy specialist, administrator, district... Read More →

Sarah Morrison

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Winston 3C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level PreK-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders, Instructional Coaches

10:50am EDT

Looking at Literacy to Uncover Student Thinking

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Teachers who look at student work for evidence of student thinking MORE than correctness can provide effective feedback to students & adjust literacy instruction accordingly. Participants will interpret student work, suggest feedback, and envision next instructional moves in literacy. Participants will learn how this looks at RJ Reynolds High School.

Presenters

Alice Oakley

Co-Founder, Education Resource Group

Alice Oakley is a co-founder and current CEO of Education Resource Group in Winston-Salem, NC. Prior to founding ERG, Alice received her Bachelor’s degree in Early and Middle Grades Education from Radford University. Alice has experience as a classroom teacher, school level curriculum... Read More →

Calvin Freeman

Sandra Webb

ERG - Educational Resource Group Consultant

2023 NCRA Looking at Student Work pdf

Looking at Student Work organizer pdf

Next Instructional Moves Chart copy jpg

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Winston 3B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level 45089
Audience Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state)

10:50am EDT

Resources for finding Diverse Literature: Online resources for developing a diverse collection for your classroom or school library

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The need for students to see themselves in the books they choose to read is imperative. In this session we will take an interactive journey through multiple electronic resources to help classroom teachers or school librarians find diverse quality literature for their students.

Presenters

Tammy Gruer

Professor/School Library Program Coordinator, UNCG

Experienced Professor, Director of Media Services and School Library Media Coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry and universities. Skilled in K-12 Education, Elementary Education, Technology Integration, Educational Leadership, School... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 10:50am - 11:40am EDT
Salem 3B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level All
Audience Classroom Teachers or School Library Media Coordinators.

11:45am EDT

Author Panel Luncheon- prepaid event

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Enjoy a delicious lunch and engage in a panel discussion with amazing North Carolina authors. The panel discussion will be facilitated by Alan Bailey. This luncheon is a paid event. Conference attendees paid for it at the time of registration. A limited number of seats may be available for purchase on Monday, March 27th at the NCRA registration booth. Attendees receive a book by one of the authors.

Presenters

Alan Gratz

Author

Alan Gratz is the New York Times bestselling author of eighteen novels for young readers, including Two Degrees, Refugee, Allies, Grenade, Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065, and Ban This Book. A Knoxville, Tennessee native, Alan is now a full-time writer living in Asheville, North Carolina... Read More →

Annette Clapsaddle

Bird Words, LLC

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020), was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, named one of... Read More →

Dasan Ahanu

owner, Dasan Ahanu LLC

Dasan Ahanu is a jack of many trades; he is a public speaker, poet, organizer, workshop facilitator, spoken word artist, educator, songwriter, writer and emcee. Dasan has hosted or coordinated many poetry, jazz, Hip Hop, and cultural arts events. He has helped to establish and grow... Read More →

LeJuane Bowens

Workshop Facilitator, Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Author, Poetry-N-Motion, LLC

LeJuane (El’Ja) Bowens is an award-winning spoken word artist, poet, speaker, and author. El'Ja Bowens has done work with the John Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts along with featuring at many festivals including the National Folk Festival, Big Ears Festival, and Arts in the... Read More →

Shannon Hitchcock

Author

Shannon Hitchcock was born in North Carolina and grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She is the author of five middle grade novels, The Ballad of Jessie Pearl, Ruby Lee & Me, One True Way, Flying Over Water, and Dancing In The Storm. Her books have been featured... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Piedmont Ballroom 1

Event, Paid Luncheon

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience All

1:25pm EDT

General Session: Critical Comprehension: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning

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Using children’s books and sample lessons we'll explore ways to help readers move beyond passive acceptance of information to critical comprehension of text and the world. By reading with and against the text, students learn to question texts to explore multiple perspectives, disrupt the commonplace, excavate hidden truths, and advocate for a more equitable and just world.

Speakers

Lester Laminack

Author/Consultant, Lester Laminack

Lester Laminack, Professor Emeritus, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina is now a full-time writer and consultant working with schools throughout the United States and abroad. He is the author of over 25 books for teachers and children. His academic publications... Read More →

Katie Kelly

Associate Professor, Furman University

Dr. Katie Kelly is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Literacy Graduate Program at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. As a former teacher and literacy coach, Katie’s teaching and research interests include reading and writing instruction with an emphasis... Read More →

Presenters

Lester Laminack

Author/Consultant, Lester Laminack

Katie Kelly

Associate Professor, Furman University

Monday March 27, 2023 1:25pm - 2:15pm EDT
Salem Ballroom 2 Benton Convention Center

General Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), EC Teachers

2:25pm EDT

Black and White and Read All Over

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Bestselling middle grade author Alan Gratz discusses the inspiration behind some of his recent "Black, White, and Red" books, like Two Degrees, Ground Zero, Allies, Grenade, Refugee, and Captain America: The Ghost Army, and discusses why books like his have proven so popular with young readers

Presenters

Alan Gratz

Author

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Winston 1B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level Grades 5 - 9
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), EC Teachers

2:25pm EDT

Brain Science to Build a Literacy Focused School

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Join this session to explore how to hardwire your secondary students' brains for reading success. Participants will engage in multisensory reading activities that all secondary teachers, leaders, and coaches can use to build a culture of reading excellence in their school.

Presenters

Heidi Perez

Literacy Specialist, Durham Public Schools

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Salem 3C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Leaders (school, district, state)
Presentation Link https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tKqvePW1wkX79VbgsPj9tY1Wb-ws_puigcAlSvqkNLU/edit?usp=sharing

2:25pm EDT

Diction, Rhythm, and Rhyme

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Join this session to explore strategies to focus on diction, rhythm, and rhyme in spoken word and poetry on the page. Participants may use this time to workshop their original pieces to share in the Paper Thin Open Mic on Monday, March 27th!

Presenters

Ayanna Albertson Gay

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Twin City Boardroom

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), EC Teachers

2:25pm EDT

Fostering Collaboration with the Spoken Word

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Spoken Word combines creative writing with the skill of oration and the subtle nuance of theatre and improvisation. It can be emotional, inspirational, educational, and as creative and expressive as your imagination. This session explores the how the art form can enhance the understanding of differences, affirm and empower voices, and increase the awareness of shared experiences through collaboration. It will provide participants with examples of poetic collaboration, ways of building collaboration, and an understanding of how these collaborations can be transformational and impactful for the students involved.

Presenters

Dasan Ahanu

owner, Dasan Ahanu LLC

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Winston 1A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience All

2:25pm EDT

Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global: Centering Student Voices in Inquiry-to-Action

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In "Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global: Centering Student Voices in Inquiry-to-Action," participants will explore how to empower students as readers, writers, and changemakers in service of deeper inquiry learning. The session will begin by affirming water and sanitation as human rights and then provide a brief overview of PBI Global, including how this specific inquiry-to-action initiative centers student voices. We will then focus on three instructional approaches for centering student voices while building background knowledge for inquiry: (1) collaborative discussion, (2) informational text, and (3) personal narrative. At the end of the session, we will invite participants to reflect on how they can center student voices through inquiry-to-action in their instructional contexts.

Presenters

Marie Himes

Director of the New Literacies Collaborative, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University

Sarah Bausell

Researcher, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

NCRA2023 Project Based Inquiry (PBI) Global Centering Student Voices in Inquiry to Action pdf

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Salem 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 45089
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

2:25pm EDT

Scribbling Your Social Emotions!

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Art is good for the soul! Soul Scribbles was implemented in a primary elementary classroom for students to explore their emotions through literature and art. Students expressed the inexpressible through their own masterpieces. Come scribble with us in this session to create something beautiful in this messy world!

Presenters

Angela Kern

Professor, Pfeiffer University

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Conference 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level K-2
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers

2:25pm EDT

Students as Storytellers

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There are many ways to share stories--orally, through ballads, quilting, and beyond. Join author Shannon Hitchcock for an exploration of Appalachian storytelling and how it can enhance your classroom.

Presenters

Shannon Hitchcock

Author

Students As Storytellers pptx

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Winston 1C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level Grades 1 - 5

2:25pm EDT

What Matters to Me?

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Learn how an IB school supported learner agency through choice, voice, and ownership in an open-ended mini-inquiry of the Sustainable Development Goals. Fifth grade students designed their own Non-Government Organizations and used multi-media to share with the school community. Students developed plans for taking action to address global issues.

Presenters

Mary Hooks

IB PYP Coordinator, Weddington Hills Elementary IB World School

I have been an IB PYP Coordinator for 17 years with 25 years experience in education teaching upper elementary, Academically/Intellectually Gifted learners and the IB Primary Years Programme. As a member of the IB Educator Network, I conduct workshops and site visits and consult on... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Ardmore 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 44990
Audience Classroom Teachers, AIG Teachers

2:25pm EDT

What's Next for This Beginning Writer?

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This session will help teachers learn how to observe a child’s writing and engage with them to provide that extra “nudge” to take their writing to the next level. We will examine the developmental stages of young writers and prepare primary teachers to know their students as writers. We will also look into the relationship between reading and writing and the importance of oral language in building strong young writers.

Presenters

Gin Hodge

Early Grades Literacy Specialist, NCCAT

Gin Hodge is NCCAT’s Senior Early Grades Literacy Specialist. She came to NCCAT from Buncombe County Schools two years ago where she was an elementary instructional coach for 10 years. Prior to becoming an instructional coach, Gin taught multiple grades in Jackson, Rutherford, and... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 2:25pm - 3:15pm EDT
Conference 2

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level K-2
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers

3:25pm EDT

Beyond Ever After - Connecting Multicultural Picture Books and STEAM

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Looking to move beyond ever after? In this workshop you’ll learn strategies for connecting multicultural fairy tales to STEAM challenges for engaged learning and integrating reading, writing, and science across the curriculum.

Presenters

Dr Diane Jackson Schnoor

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Salem 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level PreK - 5
Audience Pre-service/Classroom teachers, Media specialists, specialists

3:25pm EDT

Building a Classroom Community through Literacy

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Trying to find ways to build your classroom community while maintaining time in the day for your literacy instruction? Come listen to a former public school teacher, now an instructor at East Carolina University and how she has found multiple methods of community building through the love of literacy.

Presenters

Erin Kessel

Teaching Instructor, East Carolina University

Erin Kessel is a veteran intermediate grades educator with a Masters in Teaching from East Carolina University and is Nationally Board Certified in Early and Middle Childhood Literacy. She now is a Teaching Instructor at East Carolina University within the College of Education where... Read More →

Building a Classroom Community through Literacy pptx

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Salem 3C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level Early Literacy - 12
Audience Pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, media specialists, adult & higher ed professionals

3:25pm EDT

Celebrating Musical Voices: Integrating Picture Book Biographies with Musical Connections

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Diverse musical voices will find their way into your classroom instruction. This session will explore multiple, recent, diverse picture book biographies and how to integrate them into your instruction to create kind, compassionate, musical readers. Attendees will leave with lots of free resources at your fingertips!

Presenters

Tonnye Williams Fletcher

Music Teacher (k-2), Whiteville Primary School

I am a k-2 music teacher by day, but I write picture books, lead a local council of NCRA, and host a multimedia blog spotlighting picture books with musical connections outside of school. I am passionate about literacy, music, and nature. I am National Board certified, with an M.Ed... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Salem 1B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Leaders (school, district, state), Community members (parents, volunteers, literacy advocates), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

3:25pm EDT

Defending Students’ Right to Read in Challenging Times

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Across the state, we have had a spate of challenges stemming from public statements made by political officials and coverage of these statements in the media. Additionally, conversative activist groups have received information about what to do to assert their “parental rights.” Some of these instructions are reaching into mainstream conservative media. What can we do about it? Be prepared! Come learn how to partner with your school library media coordinator in defending student choice and access.

Presenters

April Dawkins

Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina Greensboro

April M. Dawkins is an assistant professor in library and information science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned her doctorate in library and information science from the University of South Carolina in May 2017, and earned her MLS from NC Central University... Read More →

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Ardmore 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level ALL
Audience All pre-service & classroom teachers, specialists, & media coordinators

3:25pm EDT

Honoring Authenticity to Shift Statics to Stories

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As educators, we hold a special task - to develop humanity and identity. Our students, especially our minority students, need identity affirming environments where they feel honored and validated. Our classrooms are spaces of healing and spaces where students should be encouraged to develop their identity and humanity. Emily’s experience as an English language learner affords her a deep understanding of the challenges students must overcome to find success. So, in this session, we’ll analyze an array of lessons where students’ authenticity is honored and encouraged to share their own stories. These lessons served as a tool that lead to learning all the stories shared in Emily’s new book If You Only Knew: Letters from an Immigrant Teacher

Presenters

Emily Francis

ESL Teacher, Independent

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Winston 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level MS, HS
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers

3:25pm EDT

Setting: It’s more than “where it happened”

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Author Dorothy Allison has noted that the development of place is much more than "just where it happens." We’ll take a close look a collection of picture books noting how place/setting establishes tone and mood, creates a rich contextual frame for the events to unfold, and has an impact on the development of the characters. We will examine through the lens of a reader and explore how these insights can become important lessons in our writing instruction.

Presenters

Lester Laminack

Author/Consultant, Lester Laminack

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Winston 1B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers

3:25pm EDT

Teaching Reading: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?

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Feeling bogged down by data analytics, testing, growth scores, limited resources, and more? Reinvigorate your passion for teaching reading by coming together for a rich discussion of ways to manage the barriers that can stifle your love of teaching reading.

Presenters

Amy Van Buren

UNCP School of Education

Dr. Laura Staal

Professor of Literacy, University of NC at Pembroke/UNC System

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Winston 1A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

3:25pm EDT

The Living Story: Infusing physical sensation into our writing through practice, observation, and structure

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Reading is an intellectual and emotional activity, one that necessitates a physical experience. Our bodies both trigger and are triggered by sensory memory. We may not remember a conversation with a loved one, but we remember the coldness of their touch, how heavy the words felt in our ears, or the smell of their skin. By employing our own bodies in the craft of writing to create new worlds, new experiences, and new energy, we empower our stories to invoke a corporeal experience. Explore methods for infusing physical sensation into your writing through practice, observation, and structure. All levels welcome. This workshop will make time for generative work based on instructor-led prompts

Presenters

Annette Clapsaddle

Bird Words, LLC

NC Reading Association slides pptx

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Winston 1C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience All

3:25pm EDT

Educators of Color Roundtable discussion

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This is a space and time dedicated to providing educators, authors, and artists who identify as part of the BIPOC community a place to meet, network, and discuss their experiences as professionals.

Presenters

Alan R. Bailey

Professor Emeritus & Teaching Professor, East Carolina University

Over a career spanning nearly four decades, I have served as a school librarian, a branch manager of a public library, and have worked in community college and university libraries. For more than 25 of those years, I was responsible for developing collections for young children. I... Read More →

Talia Cotton

Trainer, Talia R. Cotton Service Group, LLC

Monday March 27, 2023 3:25pm - 4:15pm EDT
Piedmont 2

Roundtable

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Cultural Responsive Literacy, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience Educators of color

8:20am EDT

General Session: What My Fifth Graders Taught Me About Falling in Love with Reading

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In this session Colby will share stories about his students falling in love through the lenses of book talks, classroom libraries, reading communities and more!

Speakers

Colby Sharp

Teacher and Author

I am a fifth grade teacher in Parma, Michigan. My wife and I have five children (Breslin, Dharia, Adelai, Hobbes, and Harvey). Helping kids find the books that help them fall in love with reading brings me tremendous joy. I have been a classroom teacher since 2006. In 2011, I started... Read More →

Presenters

Colby Sharp

Teacher and Author

Tuesday March 28, 2023 8:20am - 9:10am EDT
Salem Ballroom 2 Benton Convention Center

General Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level All
Audience All

9:45am EDT

Building Engaging Classroom Libraries the Students LOVE

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Participants will engage in discussions around the development of classroom libraries as it relates to the science of reading. Through a group simulation, teachers will create classroom libraries around a collection of texts and learn to describe their thinking about text use to others. Participants will collaborate with one another to build strong libraries for students.

Presenters

Amber Phillips

Amie Snow

Director of Curriculum and Federal Programs

Amie Snow is the Director of Curriculum and Federal Programs for the AppState Academy Lab Schools at Middle Fork and Elkin. She graduated with a BA in Elementary Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. She received her MA in Reading Education and her... Read More →

Emily Fee

Teacher, Appalachian State University

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Salem 3C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5
Audience Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators

9:45am EDT

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy & The Science of Reading

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Participants will explore how to blend culturally responsive pedagogy with the science of reading. The presentation will address current literacy trends relevant in North Carolina and pedagogical practices that support diverse learners.

Presenters

Dr. Kathleen Castillo-Clark, NBCT

Elementary Education Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor of Education, Campbell University

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Winston 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Adult & Higher Education Professionals

9:45am EDT

Giving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a Voice through Trade Books

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Grounded in research conducted at two N.C. Global Ready Schools, this session will provide educators with tips for incorporating global themes into literacy instruction. Educators will leave this session with an understanding of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new approach to planning, and book recommendations.

Presenters

Adriana L. Medina

Kaitlyn Holshouser

Assistant Professor of Education, Curriculum and Instruction; Director of Clinical Experiences, Gardner-Webb University

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Salem 1A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, 6-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, AIG Teachers

9:45am EDT

How we got to now: finding the story that’s underneath through the immediate and obvious

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Presenters

D.J. Rogers

Durham Poet Laureate

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Twin City Boardroom

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience All

9:45am EDT

Indigenous Art, Activism, & Music with Charly Lowry

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Share in the space created for Charly Lowry, an Indigenous powerhouse from the Lumbee and Tuscarora communities of Robeson County, NC. Charly is an award-winning musician, artivist, and entrepreneur invested in and advocating for Indigenous visibility on a global scale. Lowry notes, “Indigenous artists are not monolithic, we are prolific. It’s past time for us to let go of antiquated programming that showcases the lived experiences and work of Indigenous artists through the colonial lens.”

Presenters

Charly Lowry

CEO, CHARLY, LLC

Charly Lowry, a musical powerhouse from Pembroke, NC, is proud to be an Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee/Tuscarora Tribes. She is passionate about telling stories and raising awareness around issues that plague underdeveloped and under-served communities. Since her teenage... Read More →

NC Readers Presentation pptx

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Piedmont Ballroom 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level All
Audience All

9:45am EDT

Project-Based Learning for Multilingual and Speech/Language Impaired Students in K-1st Grade

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In a Title I school with a large number of multilingual and speech/language impaired students, it makes sense for the teacher of multilingual students and the speech pathologist to collaborate when working with our kindergarten students. Learn how the ESL teacher and speech pathologist collaborated to address vocabulary instruction and speech/language goals during project-based learning activities. In a Title I school with a large number of multilingual and speech/language impaired students, it makes sense for the teacher of multilingual students and the speech pathologist to collaborate when working with our kindergarten students. Learn how the ESL teacher and speech pathologist collaborated to address vocabulary instruction and speech/language goals during project-based learning activities. Participants will be provided with examples of the project-based learning activities that provide authentic experiences for kindergarten students. During this session, participants will plan their own project-based learning activities.

Presenters

Chantae Reynolds

ASU Academy at Middle Fork

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Winston 1B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers

9:45am EDT

The Essential Science for Early Literacy

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This session distills recent neuroscience and reading research into the key best practices you can follow to jumpstart reading scores.

Presenters

Bryan McCorkle

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt- Bryan McCorkle

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Ardmore 2

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-5
Audience Classroom teachers

9:45am EDT

Writing Of, In, and For Place

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Explore methods for infusing physical sensation and environmental awareness into your writing through practice, observation, and structure. We will focus on what it is like to experience a specific landscape and communities and the responsibilities we have when sharing it with others through our writing. This workshop is applicable to fiction and creative nonfiction writers. All levels welcome. This workshop will provide an overview of concepts and take-away prompts, but does not allow for generative work time.

Presenters

Annette Clapsaddle

Bird Words, LLC

Tuesday March 28, 2023 9:45am - 10:35am EDT
Salem 1C Benton Convention Center

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-5
Audience All

10:45am EDT

Bluford Series: Incorporating Diversity Through the Use of Novel Studies

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This session would focus on the Bluford Series books, providing teachers with the materials needed to focus on instruction that is all inclusive. The Bluford Series books incorporate many different cultural themes, allowing students to see themselves represented Teachers will be able to dig deeper into the Series as they learn what materials to use during a novel study and how to carry out instruction in the classroom.

Presenters

Sha'Tori Brown Hardison

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Ardmore 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy
Grade Level Grades 6-8
Audience Classroom Teachers

10:45am EDT

Building Reading Comprehension through Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.)

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Drawing on insights from a multi-year, federally funded study, we will explain and model instructional practices designed to support reading comprehension for upper-elementary students. These practices are part of a new small-group intervention, called K.L.I., that engages students in repeated, systematic opportunities to develop key underlying skills essential for text comprehension, including language structure, fluent reading, knowledge activation and construction, and metacognitive processes. While designed specifically for multilingual learners who are developing their English literacy in school, the intervention practices can be informative for teachers working with any student who needs supplemental instruction in reading comprehension.

Presenters

Corrie Dobis

Courtney Samuelson

Dennis Davis

Jackie Relyea

KLI Overview Guide v5 (1) pdf

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Piedmont 2

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Students with Learning Disabilities
Grade Level 44990
Audience Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers

10:45am EDT

Difficult Conversations: How to Intentionally Curate Text Sets that Teach Complex Topics

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Children’s literature offers ways to help students grapple with complex topics in a deep yet developmentally appropriate manner. Creating text sets to address tough issues can be daunting. In this session, participants will explore a framework that guides teachers in the text selection process using four key considerations.

Presenters

Dr. Damiana Pyles

Appalachian State University

Damiana Gibbons Pyles is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Appalachian State University. Her research interests focus on media production, identity, and media literacy practices in order to understand the intersections of the visual, the spoken, the written... Read More →

Dr. Morgan Blanton

Clinical Associate Professor, Appalachian State University - Child Development, Literacy and Special Education

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Salem 1C Benton Convention Center

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-2, 3-5
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators, Adult & Higher Education Professionals, ESL Teachers, AIG Teachers

10:45am EDT

Digital Storytelling Resources

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Interested in taking stories and storytelling to an online setting? In this session learn about digital resources that focus on writing, reading, storytelling, and more. Bring your favorite technology with you to follow along. Be ready to engage, try out new online tools, and share.

Presenters

Heather Moorefield

Associate Professor, UNC Greensboro

Digital Storytelling Resources pptx

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Winston 3B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-5
Audience Classroom & preservice teacers, technology & media specialists

10:45am EDT

For the Faint of Heart: How to Integrate Literacy in My Content Area

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So, you have a degree in history, science, or math? Now, you’re being told you must integrate literacy within your instruction? But, you don’t know how to teach literacy! How do you do that? Join me to find out!

Presenters

Dr. Teresa Santis

Lees-McRae College

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Salem 1B

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Science of Reading, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 45085
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers

10:45am EDT

Keep the Book Closed…for a Moment: Strategies to Advance Understanding Without the Text

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This interactive session will introduce K-12 educators to research-based print and media strategies to activate students’ prior knowledge and pique curiosity before reading a text. Strategies will be introduced and modeled to promote in-depth understanding and internalization. Connections will be made to content, grade-level, and diverse populations.

Presenters

Brian K. Williams

Associate Professor of Education, North Carolina A&T State University

Gerrelyn Patterson

Kristen Wawer

Nichole Smith

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Salem 3A

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Leadership, Science of Reading, Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, North Carolina Storied Lives, Students with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level 3-5, 6-12
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers

10:45am EDT

Stories Matter: Amplifying Student Voice and Transforming Classroom Instruction through Family Stories

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Participants will gain specific strategies that will empower them to amplify student voice and transform their classroom instruction through culturally responsive curriculum design and text selection. The group will collaborate to complete a ‘Family Stories Simulation.’ Then, they will work in groups to discuss how to pair the stories shared by families with culturally responsive text selections and as anchors for culturally responsive curriculum design. Participants will review example projects from the presenter’s past classes and collaborate to plan their own Family Stories Project. Participants will leave with tangible tools for implementation in their own classrooms.

Presenters

Ashtyn Berry (she/her)

Classroom Teacher, 2022 Burroughs-Wellcome Fund NC Southwest Region Teacher of the Year

Ashtyn Berry is the 2022 Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Southwest Region Teacher of the Year. She also served as the 2021 Cabarrus County Schools Teacher of the Year. Ashtyn has been an elementary school teacher in Cabarrus County at W.R. Odell Elementary since 2017. She began her teaching... Read More →

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Conference 1

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing, Literacy Across Content Areas
Grade Level K-12
Audience Classroom teachers Media specialists School leaders District leaders

10:45am EDT

The Magic of Middle School Read-Alouds

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Expose readers to the joy of diverse literature and build back ground knowledge through the use of read-alouds in middle school. This session focuses on planning and implementing read-alouds with pictures books, chapter books, and wordless books. Participants will learn strategies that they can use when doing read-alouds in their own classrooms. The session will end with a BOOK RAFFLE!

Presenters

Melissa Graham

Reading Specialist, CHCCS- Culbreth Middle

Nicole Fensel

Classroom Teacher

Stephanie Steele

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Winston 1C

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Multi-Lingual Learners, Cultural Responsive Literacy, Writing
Grade Level 45085
Audience Classroom Teachers, Media Specialists/Coordinators

10:45am EDT

Understanding Indigenous Stories

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During the session, we will engage with Native storytelling and other forms of indigenous arts to foster a better understanding of native peoples in North Carolina.We will learn how to become allies for native communities. Together we will dispel harmful stereotypes and microaggressions and explore resources educators can use in the classroom to testify about native peoples.

Presenters

Ryan Dial

Project Manager, UNC Chapel Hill

My name is Ryan Dial and I am an enrolled member of the Lumbee tribe of NC. I currently work at UNC Medical Center as a Senior Medical Lab Scientist, and am pursing a masters degree in Clinical Lab Science. I have spent my entire life involved in American Indian culture including... Read More →

Tuesday March 28, 2023 10:45am - 11:35am EDT
Twin City Boardroom

Concurrent Session

Host Organization NCRA
Content/ Strand Cultural Responsive Literacy, North Carolina Storied Lives
Grade Level All
Audience Pre-service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Leaders (school, district, state), ESL Teachers, EC Teachers, AIG Teachers