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Posted 11/8/11
By Rebecca Olsen
| Illinois Reading Recovery
The
21th Annual Comprehensive Literacy and Illinois Reading Recovery
Conference will be held on January 18-20, 2012 at the Chicago Marriott
Downtown. The conference is designed to provide excellent professional
development opportunities for K-8 classroom teachers, reading
specialists, school and district administrators, board members, special
education professionals, and Reading Recovery staff. Optional graduate
credit and continuing education credit are available. For more
information please go to http://www.nl.edu/irrc/events/ or contact Holly Bartholomew, Conference Coordinator.
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Posted 10/30/11
By Norm Stahl
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Dear Literacy Education Colleagues:
The Department of Literacy Education at NIU is pleased to announce that seven more videos of the Raising Readers Video Series from the NIU Literacy Clinic are now online at the Literacy Clinic youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLiteracyClinic
The new videos are:
Phonemic Awareness
Phonic
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension Strategies
Comprehension of Fiction Texts
Writing with Younger Children
Please share this information with parents, teachers, administrators, and teacher candidates who may find the videos useful. There is no cost associated with this service. Simply paste the address in your browser.
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Posted 10/10/11
By Ilyse Brainin
| Illinois Writing Project
You are invited to IWP's Celebration of the Third Annual National Day of Writing: A Celebration of Teachers from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at Fitzgerald's Side Bar, 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Illinois. The keynote will be Jim Vopat discussing "Every Student a Teacher of Writing" plus discussion tables on various writing topics for elementary, middle, and high school teachers: Writing Workshops in H.S., Writing and Common Core Standards, Writing though ELL Eyes, Writing Circles in Eighth Grade Urban Classroom and much more. Registration is $20 and a light dinner is included. CPDU's and NLU workshop credit will be available. Seats are limited, so please send your registration in soon. To register and for more information, visit www.illinoiswritingproject.com.
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Posted 6/20/11
By IRC Office
| Examining Education
Elizabeth
Goldsmith-Conley is host of a new radio program airing on WILL-AM at 6
pm on Saturdays in June. Programs will focus on some big debates in
education: Whose responsibility is it to provide public education? How
should it be funded? Who should determine a public school curriculum?
Should teachers be held accountable for student achievement? The
four-part series will be replayed in August with new programs planned
for October. For more information, visit www.examiningeducation.org.
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