LRA 2017 STATE CONFERENCE

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

1:00 – 7:00 / ·  Site Set Up / Exhibitors Set-Up in Exhibit Hall A Audubon Room / Exhibitor Hospitality Room
4:00 – 7:00 / ·  Hotel Check-In and Registration (Lobby)

Thursday, October 5, 2017

**2017 Conference Committee / Executive Board Room **Exhibitors’ Area / Audubon Room
7:00 – 5:00 / Registration (Lobby of West Cal Event Center)
8:00-9:30
General Session / Exhibit Hall C
Brod Bagert Keynote Speaker
9:30 – 10:00 / Exhibits Only / Exhibit Hall A
10:00– 5:30 / Exhibitors and Authors’ Row / Exhibit Hall A
10:15-11:15
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(Primary/Intermediate)
Poetry, Write in the Middle of Class
Judy Young
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Exhibit Hall C
(Primary/Intermediate)
It’s a Wild World
Mixing Literature
and STEM
Judy Young / Cypress Room
(Intermediate/Secondary)
Build an Achiever:
A Literary Bridge
Nanthalia McJamerson Dr. Gwendolyn Duhon / Magnolia Room
(Primary/Intermediate)
Ricki the Writer
Danette Brignac / Pelican Room
(Presented byHeiffer)
Engaging All Ages:
How Reading Changes the World
(Read to Feed)
Kendra Penry / Exhibit Hall B
(All Ages)
Differentiated Instruction to Turbo-Charge Vocabulary Development (English Language Learners)
Marisa Russo
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Exhibit Hall B
(Primary/Intermediate)
21st Century Blended Learning at Its Best!
Linda Furey
(triumphlearning)
11:30-12:30
Concurrent Sessions / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
Informational
Paragraph Writing
Alice Greinet / Magnolia Room
R.E.A.D
A Summer Reading Literature Program
Gerri Settoon
Aretha EllridgeWilliams / Pelican Room
(Kindergarten)
iTeach with Technology
Michelle Farque
Whitney Hunter
12:30-2:00 / Lunch On Your Own
2:00-3:00
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(Primary/Intermediate)
The Overpowering Muse:
Teachers of Louisiana
Brod Bagert / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
Close Reading and Summation Strategies
Alice Greinet / Magnolia Room
(Primary/Intermediate)
Reading for Meaning – Fluently
Kim Whaley / Pelican Room
(Primary)
Using the Readers’ Workshop Model
Cory Lemoine / Exhibit Hall B
(Intermediate/Secondary)
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Connie Harper
Carol Smith
3:15-4:15
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(Primary/Intermediate)
Rambo Teacher
Brod Bagert
Exhibit Hall C
(Primary/Intermediate)
From Fact to Fiction
Judy Young / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
Songs and Stories of Cajun Louisiana
Rickey Pittman / Magnolia Room
(Primary/Intermediate)
Up Close and Personal with Close Reading
Linda Furey
(triiumphlearning) / Pelican Room
(Primary)
Taking the Complexity Out of Teaching Complex Text
Melody Jones / Exhibit Hall B
(Primary/Intermediate)
The Craft in Interactive Read-Alouds
Carrice Cummins/ Libby Manning
Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez
4:30-5:30
Concurrent Sessions / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
Breaking Past Boring: Interactive Learning
For All Learners
Melissa Panks / Magnolia Room
(All Ages)
Power of Collaboration and Content Curation With Your Librarian.
Helen Curol / Pelican Room
(Primary)
Making Reading Stick
Megan Polk
Sara Marye / Executive
Board Room
LRA Board Meeting
5:30 – 7:30 / Exhibit Hall B
President’s Party Down on the Bayou (Ticketed Event) Cash Bar / 5:00 – 7:30
Friday, October 6, 2017
7:00 – 12:00 / Registration (Lobby)
8:00 - 9:30
General Session / Exhibit Hall C
Mark McLeod Keynote Speaker Cha-Ching! Making Deposits
9:30–3:30 / Exhibit Hall and Authors’ Row – Hall A
9:45-10:45
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(All Levels)
Powerful Classroom Management Strategies
Mark McLeod / Cypress Room
(All Levels)
Rock Your Read Alouds
Mike Artell / Magnolia Room
(Primary/Intermediate)
From Balanced Literacy to Transformative Literacy
Amy Jackson
(American Reading Company) / Pelican Room
(Primary)
Planning for Literacy Instruction Using Mobile Technology
Nakisha Whittington
Ashlyn Williams / Exhibit Hall B
(All Levels)
A Chorus of Voices: The Instructional Power of Poems Written in the Voice of Your Students
Brod Bagert
11:00-12:00
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(All Levels)
Motivate the
Unmotivated Student
Mark McLeod / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
Understanding the Dialect Factor and Spelling Difficulties of English Language Learners
Dr. Mary Ghongkedze / Magnolia Room
(All Levels)
Fall Into Literacy With Diverse Reading and Writing Strategies
Dr. Loretta Walton-Jaggers / Pelican Room
(Primary)
Empathy in
Classroom Instruction:
A Bridge to Literacy
Beth Ferguson / Exhibit Hall B
(Closed)
12:15-1:45 / Lunch On Your Own
12:15-1:45 / Exhibit Hall B
Author’s Luncheon Judy Young / Counting Her Lucky Stars (Ticketed Event)
2:00-3:00
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(All Levels)
Questioning Techniques that Maximize
Student Engagement
Mark McLeod / Cypress Room
(All Ages)
An Open Book:
Reading and the
Affective Domain
Rachel Vaessler / Magnolia Room
(All Ages)
A Journey in Reading and Writing: Strategies that Work
Janice Edgar / Pelican Room
(All Levels)
Classroom Cartooning for the Artistically
Challenged Teacher
Mike Artell / Exhibit Hall B
(Closed)
3:15-4:15
Concurrent Sessions / Exhibit Hall C
(All Levels/ Middle School)
Developing and Teaching
Classroom Expectations
Mark McLeod / Cypress Room
(All Ages) Relationships First
Learning Lasts
Lisa Holliday Dykes / Magnolia Room
(Primary/Intermediate)
Singing and Reading:
A Powerful Partnership
Michele White / Pelican Room
(All Levels)
Read Aloud: A Bridge Between Confidence
and Community
Sheena Manuel / Exhibit Hall B
(Primary/Intermediate)
So You Wanna
Be An Author?
Judy Young