Summit 16
When Struggling Readers
TACOMA
May 12-13, 2017
Tacoma Convention Center
Summit 16 Rate
$395.00 plus GST
Recent Summits were full.
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Block bookings are
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districts. Purchase spaces
now and provide names
later. Registrations cannot
be cancelled. However,
substitutions are welcome.
Request your registration
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joyfulliteracy@shaw.ca
Join Our International
Literacy Experts
H Dr. Tim Rasinski
H Dr. Richard Allington
H Dr. Ruth Culham
H Dr. Janet Mort
H Ann Garrido
H Libby Jachles
H Lori Jamison
H Margo Southall
H ...and more!
Thrive
Dreams Come True
Accelerating Student Outcomes:
Joyful
Interventions
& Best Practices
Kindergarten to Grade Five
NEW!
A New Keynote Speaker:
Summit Structure Dr. Tim
The K/1 Working Group Rasinski
Fluency and Comprehension
The 2/3 Working Group International Expert
The 4/5 Working Group
Keynotes, Workshops Mastering Foundational Skills
and Discussions Implementing Play and Skill Focused Practice Centers
Innovating with New Guided Reading Strategies
focused on
Using Mentor Texts and the Traits to engage Writers
Implementing Developing Fluency, Expression and Comprehension
Joyful Interventions Having Difficult but Successful Conversations with Parents
Join us for a dynamic two days Attend in teams to build a cohesive
to Inspire next years planning! school system for Interventions!
Focusing on the Four Claims
Reading: Writing: Speaking Research
Students can read Students can and Listening: and Inquiry:
closely and analytically produce effective Students can employ Students can engage
to comprehend a and well-grounded effective speaking in research and
range of increasingly writing. and listening skills. inquiry to investigate
complex texts. topics.
A First Class Beginning:
The Summits are
Non-Profit Events
Early
Co-sponsored by
Learning INC.
(Janet Mort PhD)
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Supporting K/1 educators: How do we ensure that children are reading at grade level by the end
of grade one?
Educators 2/3 educators: What intervention strategies will ensure children have mastered
Our expert speakers have foundational skills by the end of grade three?
been specially selected 4/5 educators: What intervention strategies can grade 4/5 educators implement to
to address the following boost motivation, hope and achievement for children who have been falling behind?
questions: Leaders and Administrators: How can we organize available resources and staff to
facilitate effective interventions?
All Participants: What new skills can we learn to facilitate difficult conversations and
build powerful partnerships with families and community?

Dr. Richard Allington is a well-known author and co-author of: What Really Matters for Struggling Readers; What Really
Matters for Response to Intervention; Learning to Read: Lessons from exemplary first- grade classrooms; Classrooms that Work:
They can all read and write; and Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write; as well as over 100 other articles and
publications. He serves on numerous editorial boards for research journals. Past President of the International Reading
Association and the National Reading Panel he has been an outspoken critic of failed government initiatives and a powerful
advocate for the rights of children who struggle with reading.

Dr. Tim Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. His scholarly interests include reading fluency
and word study, readers who struggle, and parental involvement. His research on reading has been cited by the National
Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading
Psychology, The Handbook of Reading Research, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim served on the Board of Directors
of the International Reading Association. He has also served as co-editor of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Literacy
Research. In 2010 Tim was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame. Prior to coming to Kent State Tim taught literacy
education at the University of Georgia. He taught for several years as a classroom and Title I reading interventionist in
Omaha Nebraska.

Dr. Janet Mort has created a powerful intervention system for primary grades. Instead of retiring she returned to university
to determine how to help struggling young learners achieve literacy success. She systematically analyzed the prevailing Early
Learning research; designed a strategy to apply the research in primary classrooms; and created an innovative assessment
and tracking tool. Since then she has worked with over 100 teachers to apply the system in their classrooms. She has
documented the research and her system in a new book Joyful Literacy Interventions. The results have been outstanding:
The goal was to begin applying the system in kindergarten with the goal of ensuring that vulnerable children reach grade
level in literacy by the end of grade three. Hard data demonstrates that teachers are succeeding in achieving that goal in
very vulnerable multi-racial classrooms where success rates had been historically low. Janets system features a play-based
environment where skills are embedded in practice activities in centers and each childs progress is tracked skill by skill.
Janet will describe her strategy in a keynote address: Representatives from the Tribal School and a school district that has
implemented throughout their system will subsequently provide workshops to provide detail, tell their stories and provide
evidence of success. joyfulliteracy.com

Dr. Ruth Culham (Author) is a featured speaker nationally on traits of the writing and effective writing instruction. Ruth is
a recognized expert in the traits of writing and author of over 40 Scholastic resources including 6+1 Traits of Writing: The
Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up; 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; and Traits of Writing: The
Complete Guide for Middle School, winner of the 2011 Teachers Choice award. She launched a writing revolution with a
culmination of 40 years of educational experience, research, practice, and passion. She has two new books: What Principals
Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing (2014) and The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing
(2014) from IRA. Ruth is the president of the Culham Writing Company and former Unit Manager of the Assessment Program
at Education Northwest in Portland, Oregon.

Ann Garrido (Consultant) will present strategies for having difficult conversations with parents. Ann is a consultant
with Triad Consulting Group, a communications consulting firm founded by the authors of the NY Times bestselling
books Thanks for the Feedback (2014) and Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (2010). In her
25 years as a teacher, Ann has taught every grade level from ages 3 to doctorate. With Triad, she helps others have the
conversations that enable learning, growth and collaboration. Ann comes from a family of educators and is the proud
mom of a college-age son who plays a mean ukulele. triadconsultinggroup.com

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Libby Jachles is a former classroom teacher and coach currently specializing in training and coaching classroom teachers
on teaching writing using the Writing Traits. She has collaborated for years with well-known author Ruth Culham. The videos
in Ruths program were filmed at Libbys school. Throughout the past 17 years, shes trained and presented to teachers,
both nationally and internationally. Libby enjoys helping teachers become more comfortable with assessment, as well
as providing a hands-on experience with writing lessons that are engaging and meaningful in helping students become
writers. She knows books, she knows kids, she knows teachers, and she likes to put her knowledge of all three together in
her workshops and presentationswith voice and enthusiasm always sprinkled in.

Lori Jamison (Teacher and Author) will present best practices in literacy instruction for diverse learners. Lori believes that we
need to stop thinking about our struggling learners as at risk and instead to start thinking of them as with promise. In this
way, we can focus on meeting students where they are on the learning continuum and scaffolding them to higher levels of
proficiency. A former K-12 Language Arts Consultant and past board member of the International Reading Association, Lori
is first and foremost a teacher. In her sessions, she will share new ways of thinking about classroom structures designed to
meet the needs of all the students in the class. She will discuss practical ideas for making the most of interactive, read-aloud
activities that integrate literacy with play. Lori will also outline ways for planning goal-based guided reading, and for creating
powerful mini writing lessons. lorijamison.com

Margo Southall (Author) will demonstrate how to make skills and strategies accessible for struggling readers with highly
interactive lesson sequences and hands-on learning activities. Margo shows us how to take advantage of current
reading research and neuroscience to engage students, increase their rate of progress and ensure long-lasting learning.
She has designed a doable framework for differentiating both classroom and intervention programming that targets
common profiles of reading difficulties. Margo enjoys working collaboratively with teachers in professional learning
contexts across the U.S. and Canada. She has authored five books on differentiated practice, including a best-seller.
http://www.margosouthall.com

When Struggling Readers Thrive Dreams Come True

A SUMMIT for Early Literacy Leaders: Scholars and Practitioners Working Together
Primary educators; ELL educators; Literacy coordinators; ESD leaders; reading/ ELA TOSAs and coaches;
ECE leaders; college and university leaders; OSPI leaders and others who have opportunities to enhance
programs for struggling readers

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May 12-13, 2017
Tacoma, WA
Greater Tacoma
Convention
& Trade Center
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Tacoma, WA 98402

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For special circumstances contact the Summit Manager Neil Hughes @shaw.ca
by emailing neilhughes@me.com. (Previous Summits were
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How to Register many away, you may wish
1. Review this page. This is the information that will be required. to register early.)
2. Email or link to joyfulliteracy@shaw.ca for a registration form.
3. You will receive a fill-able registration form.
The form will ask you to select one of three options:
Option 1: The grade K/1 Implementation Summit (Note: We ask district staff and administrators to choose the
grade level session they are mostly likely to attend on the
Option 2: The grade 2/3 Implementation Summit understanding they may want to cross walk the grades for
Option 3: The grade 4/5 Implementation Summit specific topics: this will be fine.)
A all participants will attend keynote sessions.
4. Complete the form and return it to the same email address. You are now registered!
5. Our mailing address is: Early Learning, Inc., Raincoast Business Centre, 1027 Pandora Ave, Victoria, BC, Canada V8V 3P6

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A First Class Beginning:

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