2008 Secondary Reading Council Conference
April 18-19, 2008
Edgewater Beach and Golf
Resort
Panama City, FL
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2009 SRC Conference dates:
April 24 & 25, 2009
Winners were selected by vote at the 2007 Secondary Reading Council Conference.The contest promotes Adolescent Literacy in Florida.
Featuring
Kelly Gallagher teaches high school English full-time in Anaheim, California. He has been a teacher-leader in the California Reading and Literature Project both at UCLA and UCI and is currently the co-director of the South Basin Writing Project at California State University, Long Beach. Kelly is the author of Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School, Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12, and Teaching Adolescent Writers.
Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm is an internationally-known teacher, author, and presenter. His interests include team teaching, co-constructing inquiry-driven curriculum with students, and pursuing teacher research. His recent research agenda includes studying how student reading, writing, and thinking can be supported through the use of art, drama, and technology. Most recently, he studied adolescent boys and their reading, attitudes, aspirations, and the school opportunities available to them for actualizing and performing different ways of being literate. He is particularly interested in supporting the learning of students who are often considered to be reluctant or resistant.
A classroom teacher for fifteen years, Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm is currently Professor of English Education at Boise State University, where he teaches courses in middle and secondary level literacy. He works in local schools as part of the Professional Development Site Network, and teaches middle and high school students each spring. He is the founding director of the Maine Writing Project and the Boise State Writing Project.
Dr. Judith L. Irvin is currently a Professor at Florida State University, Dr. Irvin’s repertoire includes chairing the Research Committee for the National Middle School Association for six years and serving the National Literacy Project as Executive Director, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving middle and high school literacy. She has written and edited numerous books, chapters, and articles on adolescent literacy – most notably Reading and the High School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy (with Buehl and Klemp, 2007), Strategies for Enhancing Literacy and Learning in Middle School Content Area Classrooms (with Buehl and Radcliffe, 2007) and Teaching Middle School Reading (with Rycik, 2005).
Dr. Irvin is has recently completed a book published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders, a project funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The book describes the model, a handbook will contain actual tools for use in school, and a third book will be written addressing sixteen critical issues in improving adolescent literacy. This model is a comprehensive, schoolwide literacy improvement effort.
She is a speaker and consultant to school systems and professional organizations throughout the nation and served on the Commission on Adolescent Literacy of the International Reading Association and the Board of the National Middle School Association. She spent eight years as a middle and high school social studies and reading teacher.
General Session Speaker
ReLeah Cossett Lent, a secondary teacher for over twenty years, is now a consultant, speaking and writing about issues such as student engagement, adolescent literacy, and censorship. She is the author of Literacy Learning Communities and Engaging Adolescent Learners. She and her co-author, Gloria Pipkin, won intellectual freedom awards from ALA and NCTE with their books At the Schoolhouse Gate and Silent No More. ReLeah was also the recipient of the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Her new book on reading in the content area will be published in 2009.
Friday Luncheon Speaker
Ed Bloor grew up writing stories to entertain himself, his friends,
and his family in Trenton, New Jersey. He later became a middle school
language arts teacher in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Currently, he edits
educational materials for Harcourt School Publishers, writes books, and
speaks to teachers and students all over the country about his own
award-winning novels; he's best known for Tangerine. He lives in Winter
Garden, Florida, with his wife, Pam, a teacher, and their two children,
Amanda and Spencer.
Featured Author
Joan Kaywell will be joining Ed Bloor during Friday's luncheon and will present a session on Saturday. Joan is a Full Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida where she has won Teaching Awards in 1991, 1994, and 1996. She is passionate about assisting preservice and practicing teachers in discovering ways to improve literacy. She donates her time extensively to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its Florida affiliate (FCTE): She is Past President of NCTE's Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and is currently serving as its Membership Secretary; she is a Past-President of FCTE and is currently serving again as its President. Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals; regularly reviews young adult novels for The ALAN Review, The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Signal ; and has edited two series of textbooks: Four volumes of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000); six volumes of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with [Various] Issues (Family 1999, Societal 1999, Identity 1999, Health 2000, End-of-Life 2000, Abuse 2004; and has written one: Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (1993). Her latest work, Dear Author: Letters of Hope , is her first trade book (Philomel, 2007) which is intended to get students to choose reading as a healthy escape. Kaywell fervently believes that teachers and authors are often the unsung heroes of children on the brink of self-destruction. By offering books to children to help them momentarily escape the pain of growing up, teachers offer teenagers a constructive way to survive the crisis, find hope, and know that they are not alone.Saturday Luncheon Speaker
Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen books for children and young adults. She grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and reecently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include two Newbery Honors, most recently in 2008 for Feathers, four Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books include The Other Side, Locomotion, Last Summer With Maizon, Show Way, Hush, and Miracle's Boys(which was made into a mini-series, directed by, among others, Spike Lee). Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Featured Author
Enrique A. Puig has over 25 years of teaching
experience and is the Director of the Florida Literacy
and Reading Excellence Center, a project of
Just Read, Florida, at the University of Central Florida.
His expertise in literacy education and coaching has
been called upon by colleagues in school districts
across the country and at the Ohio State University,
Texas Tech University, Purdue University, and the
University of Central Florida. He has presented at
national and international conferences. The Florida
Department of Education has recognized him as a
Title I Distinguished Educator. Enrique has
co-authored The Literacy Coaching: Guiding in the
Right Direction.
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