Keynoters / Presenters

Keynoters for Friday and Saturday: Linda Hoyt and Linda Gambrell

Featured Speakers include:
      Barry Lane
      Maureen McLaughlin 
      Rebecca Sipe 
      Adelina Arellano-Osuna 
      Isoke Titilayo Nia  
       Don Leu
       Pam Allyn 
       Chris Gallagher 
       Brett Dillingham

Many more sessions by authors and classroom teachers-both days!

LexAmi promotes MidSouth in many direct ways.  They carry the books of the 
speakers.  Check with them first! Think Lexami.com for your professional 
literature! Think locally.  They will be on site for many of these titles.
http://www.lexami.com

A story teller from Alaska is coming!
"Children need to be taught how to write and tell their own stories."

She wrote Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3-8
Read about her accomplishments on the IRA web site.

An article online by Rebecca Sipe
Strategic Approaches for Challenged Spellers

Nebraska teachers are leading in an assessment revolution.  Chris Gallagher 
writes about successful teacher-led assessment in Reclaiming Assessment: A 
Better Alternative to the Accountability.
A Heinemann book

Adelina Arellano-Osuna is
on the Board of Directors of the IRA.

 Isoke Titilayo Nia has been to Birmingham before.  Welcome Back.
Who knows? Perhaps she will share Visions for the Struggling Reader and Writer in the Process Classroom

Don Leu is from the New Literacies Research Team.
See video of children writing at the computer about their reading.

Pam Allyn's pdf of the Units of Study of the Complete 4 by LitLIfe.
She was also the winner of the James Patterson Award in 2007.

Barry Lane teaching visualization and BaDaBling sentence.  If you can see it 
and hear it, you can write it.
His students write for meaning first; listen to Barry in his own You Tube movie.

Janet Allen
You KNOW Janet; read about her on her web page!

Designed for YOU--we're all literacy teachers!

MidSouth-- You come because you WANT TO!   Two days in June. Merely $89. 
with early registration  by June 2!