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Seamless Transitions ‘07

"Meeting the Needs of All Learners K-12"
August 6-9, 2007

The Seamless Transitions Conference from August 6-9 offers an exciting and varied program in 2007, including a strand on Response to Intervention (RTI). The conference begins on August 6 with an all-day Reading Recovery Institute with Mary Rosser and concludes on August 9 with an all-day Pre-K Literacy Institute facilitated by Dr. Susan Bennett-Armistead.

Keynote Speakers

SHARON DRAPER received the 1997 National Teacher of the Year award and has many published books for young people along with poems, stories, and books for teachers. She has been honored by the American Library Association with its Coretta Scott King Genesis Award and the ALA award for Best Book for Young Adults. Several titles include Not Quite Burned Out But Crispy Around the Edges, Teaching From the Heart, and Forged by Fire.

JACK GANTOS is the award-winning author of Newbery Honor Joey Pigza Loses Control; School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book for Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year; a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age for Jack's Black Book; a National Book Award Finalist, an ALA Notable Children's Book for Young Adults, and an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.

TOM NEWKIRK is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and the former director of that school's freshman English program. He has studied literacy learning at a variety of educational levels—from preschool to college. Newkirk is the author of Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture and coeditor of Taking Stock: The Writing Process Movement in the 90s.

JOHN L. HOSP is an assistant professor of special education at the University of Utah. His research focuses on aspects of implementing Response to Intervention (RTI): including disproportionate representation of minority students in special education and aligning assessment and instruction, particularly in the areas of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) and curriculum-based evaluation (CBE).

Costs: $150.00–Reading Recovery Day; $100.00 Pre-K Institute; $275.00–Seamless Transitions; $325.00 for Seamless plus Reading Recovery or Pre-K Literacy; 350.00 all four days Please watch for registration materials or contact Amy Cates, Administrative Assistant, for further information. College of Education & Human Development, University of Maine, 5766 Shibles Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5766 Phone 207/581-2438 • Fax 207/581-2423 • E-mail: amy.cates@umit.maine.edu

 

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