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Past Keynotes – Literacy Workshop
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November 2023
Dr. Julia B. Lindsey
Reading Above the Fray: Reliable Research-Based Routines to Develop Decoding Skills
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May 2023
Jan Burkins and Kari Yates
Shifting the Balance: Six Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom
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September 2022
Patty McGee
Feedback that Moves Writers/Building Resilient Writers
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February 2022
Kelly Gallagher
Building Engaged Writers
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2019
Dr. Maria Walther
Spark the Reading-Writing Connection
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2019
Jan Richardson
Guided Reading
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2018
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris
Who’s Doing the Work?
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Kristina Smekens
March 2007
Targeting Struggling Readers & Reading Comprehension on ISTEP
March 2006
Building Readers & Writers, Seeing the Big Picture