Presented by Kamilah Simpson, Senior Product Specialist, Amplify Education
Reading
If You Can’t Speak It, You Can’t Read It: What Learning Science Tells Us About Emergent Bilingual Literacy Instruction
Presented by Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum, Lexia Learning
Accelerating Literacy Development with Lexile Tools and Teacher Resources
Presented by Jill Fitzgerald, Research Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alexandra Lewis, Instructional Designer, VirtualSC, and former Fourth- and Second-Grade Teacher, South Carolina Department of Education; and Alistair Van Moere, Ph.D., Chief Product Officer, MetaMetrics
Reading Through the Summer Slide – Engaging Families Through Literacy
Presented by Kristen Jackson, Kindergarten Teacher, Willow Brook Elementary School (OK); and Simone Wertenberger, Director of ESL and Migrant Families, Henderson County Public Schools (NC)
Moderated by Kristen Walter, Director, US Programs, Worldreader
Rebuilding a Schoolwide Culture of Reading and Writing
Presented by Patty McGee, M.Ed., Author and Literacy Consultant, Benchmark Education Company; Laura Robb, Author; Evan Robb, Author and Principal, Johnson-Williams Middle School (VA); and S. Travis Crowder, Author and Seventh-Grade Teacher
Making Vocabulary Connections: Powerful Strategies and Activities for Expanding Word Knowledge
Presented by Lynn Givens, M.Ed., Educational Consultant and Developer of Reading Intervention Program
Effective Strategies for Coordinating Summer Reading Growth for K-3 Learners
Presented by Dr. Anne Cunningham, Professor, HMH Author, University of California, Berkeley
Moderated by Alicia “Lish” Mitchell, Sr. Marketing Account Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Literacy: A Social Justice Issue
Presented by Hilderbrand Pelzer III, Educator and Author; Carissa Berliner, Teacher and Universal Literacy Reading Coach, New York City Department of Education; and Resha Conroy, Founder, Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children
Moderated by Debbie Meyer, A’Lelia Bundles Community Scholar
Personalized Learning and the Science of Reading
Presented by Laura Seal, Director, Supplementals, Amplify
10 Ways to Reimagine the Role of Educator as Literacy Leader
Presented by Terrie Noland, CALP, Doctoral Candidate, Ph.D.