Keynote Featuring Clips from Interviews with:

Louisa Moats
 Reading Scientist, Sopris West - Author - Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling

Timothy Shanahan
Chair, National Early Literacy Panel; Member of National Reading Panel; Director, Center for Literacy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Richard Olson
President (2001-2003), Society for the Scientific Study of Reading - Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Colorado

Siegfried Engelmann
Professor of Instructional Research, U of Oregon, Creator of Direct Instruction

Jack Shonkoff
 Chair, The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; Co-Editor: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

Reid Lyon
Ex-Branch Chief, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development  

Nancy Hennessy 
 President, 2003-2005, International Dyslexia Association  
Edward Kame'enui
Commissioner for Special Education Research, U.S. Department of Education; Director, Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement (IDEA), University  of Oregon

Sharon Darling
 President, National Center for Family Literacy

James Wendorf
 Executive Director,
National Center for Learning Disabilities 

Mel Levine
Co-Chair and Co-Founder,
All Kinds of Minds;  
Author - A Mind at a Time, The Myth of Laziness & Ready or Not Here Life Comes

Marilyn Jager Adams
 Senior Scientist, 
Soliloquy Learning, Author- Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print

Sally Shaywitz
 Neuroscientist
Department of Pediatrics, Yale, Author - Overcoming Dyslexia

Todd Risley
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Alaska; Co-Author - Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

Keith Stanovich
Chair, Applied Cognitive Science, U. Toronto,  Author - Reading matters: How reading engagement influences cognition

Paula Tallal
 Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience Rutgers, Co-Founder, Scientific Learning Corporation

Michael Merzenich
Chair of Otolaryngology, Integrative Neurosciences, UCSF - Member National Academy of Sciences

Robert Sweet
Professional Staff, U.S. House of Representatives - Co-Founder, National Right to Read Foundation

Keith Rayner
Distinguished  Professor
U. of Massachusetts
Author - Eye movements in reading and information processing

Donald Nathanson
 Professor of Psychiatry and Human Emotion at, Jefferson Med Center - Author - Shame and Pride

Terrence Deacon
 Cognitive Anthropologist, Berkeley - Author - The Symbolic Species, The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

Peter E. Leone
 Director, National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice

Robert Wedgeworth
 Past-President, ProLiteracy

Pat Lindamood 
& Nanci Bell 
 Founders of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes

Richard Venezky
 Professor of Educational Studies, Information Sciences and Linguistics, U. Delaware - Author - The Structure of English Orthography and The American Way of Spelling

Anne Cunningham
 Director, Joint Doctoral Program in Special
Education, Berkeley

Johanna Drucker
 Chair of Media Studies, U. of Virginia - Author - The Alphabetic Labyrinth

Thomas Cable
 Professor of English, Co-Author - A History of the English Language

John H. Fisher
Medieval Language Historian, Author - The Emergence of Standard English

 

and many others..
(see interview list)

 

 

 

 

Spring Conference 2011

The Fawcett Event Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus OH 43210

To register for the conference: please click here

Join us for a day of learning and working together and let's make the vision of 'every child reading' in Ohio a reality.  We have a great conference planned.  We will begin with establishing a shared framework of understandings via  David Boulton's keynote presentation (What's At Stake and What's Involved in Learning to Read) and then spend the afternoon discussing how we can apply our individual expertise and shared understandings towards making the vision 'every child reading' a reality in Ohio. 

7:45 AM registration opens/continental breakfast
9 AM - 3:30 PM Conference
 

Registration Fees:

Regular Admission:   $110 (online or onsite)

IDA members:   $95 (online or onsite)

Full-time College Students with valid ID:  $75 (online or onsite)

Note: Lunch will be provided.

To register for the conference: please click here

Venue: 

The Fawcett Event Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus OH 43210 (click for directions or more information)

Parking is free in the Event Center parking lot.

Accommodations:

For out-of-town attendees we have reserved a block of rooms at the Fairfield Inn & Suites-OSU which is located at  3031 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, Ohio and is adjacent to the conference center.  The discounted room rate is $114 for Friday evening March 11, 2011. When registering you must mention Group Code: COBC to receive the discounted rate.  The room block will be released on February 18, 2011.  

For more information on the hotel click here. To make reservations please call the hotel's group reservations line at 1-800-228-2800 or 1-800-701-4485 and refer to the group code: COBC

To register for the conference: please click here

Featured Presenter:
David Boulton is the Director of the Children of the Code project and the producer and interviewer of the Children of the Code Documentary series. He recently appeared in the "The New Science of Learning" PBS documentary (watch a clip) and his work has been featured in numerous books and articles. His own articles on learning have been published internationally. Read an Interview with David Boulton

 
Description: The deeper our understanding of what's involved in learning to read the better we can differentiate our methods of reading instruction to meet the needs of struggling readers. In this presentation David Boulton will explore questions including: How does the brain create the simulated language experience we call reading?  What makes learning to read so difficult? How does learning to read affect our intelligence, emotional development, and the overall health of our learning?  What's the difference between dyslexia and reading improficiency?  What is the difference between inherited weaknesses and growing up in environments that insufficiently exercise the neuro-developmental prerequisites of reading?  How does learning to read affect self-esteem and how does self-esteem affect learning to read? How do the feelings evoked by learning to read difficulties exacerbate learning to read difficulties? 

Featuring video sequences drawn from over one hundred interviews with field leading scientists, historians, educators andgovernment leaders, David Boulton's Keynote will be  a multidisciplinary learning journey into what is at stake and what is involved in learning to read.

"The most powerful professional development experience I have ever had.  If you are involved in anyway in teaching children to read you MUST attend one of the seminars.  This was truly an awakening for me!  I will never look at the reading process in the same way.  Attending this seminar will help everyone understand better why we have so many children that struggle when it comes to learning to read."  - Julie Colley Lowery, Education Specialist, Alabama State Department of Education, Special Education Services

"Insightful and informative. This is not a quick fix or remedy for reading problems, but a thorough scientific explanation of the entire reading process from leading experts in a variety of fields. Attending this event will provide a deeper understanding of why children struggle with reading and what needs to be done to address this crisis in our schools." - Karen Kemp, Seminar Organizer for Council of New York Special Education Administrators, Director of Special Programs, Cohoes City Schools, NY

"I heard your presentation at the American Library Association’s Annual Meeting. Your fascinating work may be our best hope of rousing the nation from its inexplicable slumber on this issue." - J. Martin, Bread for the Head Organization, Chicago,Ill

"This is a powerful professional learning experience. It communicates multiple messages that challenge the diverse personal and professional interests of educators on a variety of engaging levels." Elizabeth D. Holmes, Director, Center for Quality Teaching and Learning, Columbus State University, GA

"I had never heard so much expertise in one seminar. Excellent presentation." - A. Mares, Region One Education Service Center, Edinburg, Texas

 

 

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