Events
Literacy in the Middle: Strategies for Supporting Young Adolescents' Literacy.
A workshop presented by CISLL and CEA
Featuring Dr. William Brozo (Keynote)
Author Panel featuring: Norm Cowie, Brenda Ferber, James Kennedy, Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, Adam Selzer
Breakout Sessions featuring: Dr. Victoria Kay, Dr. Mayra Daniel, Dr. Lee Shumow, Dr. Molly Williams, Dr. JD Bowers, Dr. Amanda Durick, Dr. Donna Werderich, Dr. Zoe Cassady, and Dr, Samantha Morley.
Friday, April 8 8:30-3:00, Norhern Illinois University, DeKalb Campus
Registration Now Open: http://registeruo.niu.edu/iebms/wbe/wbe_p1_main.aspx?oc=40&cc=WBE4011558
CISLL Faculty Poster Session
Please join us on March 21 from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Regency Room, HSC for a celebration of CISLL research, scholarship, and outreach. Posters will be presented by CISLL affiliates and their advanced graduate students.
Spring 2011 Seminar Series
We are pleased to announce our Spring Seminar Series...
January 31, 12 p.m. Gabel Hall 01D
Sonya Armstrong
"Welcome to College, Now Learn to Read: Navigating the Transition to Postsecondary Academic Literacies"
February 24, 4 p.m. Sky Room, HSC
Steven Yussen
"Practices of Effective Adult Book Groups"
March 21, 3 p.m. Regency Room, HSC
Second Annual Faculty Poster Session
April 7, 4 p.m. Sky Room, HSC
"Why do Girls Read Better than Boys? Critical, Political, and Theoretical Perspectives"
The success of the CISLL seminar series depends upon your participation. We hope that you and your students can attend the spring 2011 seminar sessions. With your participation, this will be an exciting, informative, and stimulating series. Moreover, we hope that sustained collaborations among the affiliates emerge as a result of your involvement.
Past speakers and events include:
- Sandra Cisneros, Acclaimed writer and recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
- Catherine Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
- “The Many Colors of Literacy: An Exploration of the Adolescent Experience,” was a poster session sponsored by the CISLL and the Latino Resource Center (LRC). High school and undergraduate students presented posters on their experiences with literacy learning. The posters depicted the students as researchers in their own educational history and will served to teach NIU faculty and staff about what the students view as best methods for teaching literacy. View photos from this event on our facebook page.
- Ernest Morrell, Associate Professor of Urban Schooling and Associate Director of Youth Research at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at UCLA. Dr. Morrell’s work focuses on helping educators to envision and to enact critical pedagogies of popular culture aimed at improving literacy development among adolescents.
- Vicki Collins & Janet Holt, ETRA, Northern Illinois University.The Added Value of Measuring Growth within an RtI Framework.
- Christine Malecki, School Psychology, Northern Illinois University. The Science and Practice of a Response to Intervention Approach in K-12 Schools.
- Mark Shinn, National Louis University: Curriculum-Based Measurement and RtI.
- Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago: Disciplinary Literacy: Teaching the Literacy of History, Chemistry, & Mathematics.
- Eduardo Vidal-Abarca, University of Valencia-Spain: Read & Answer: A Tool to Capture Online Reading Behavior in Comprehension and Learning from Text.
- Susan R. Goldman, University of Illinois at Chicago: Literacy in the 21st Century: Challenges for Research and Practice.
- Arthur C. Graesser, University of Memphis: Learning with Conversational Agents on Computers: Cognition, Emotion, and Metacognition.
