The Third Annual National-Louis University / Fox Valley Reading Council Conference, Teaching With Diversity in Mind, has been postponed. New dates will be posted soon on the website. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 





CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

7:30 - 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40 am

WSLI Welcome

8:40- 9:25 am

William G. Brozo, Ph.D.
"Closing the Reading Achievement Gap for Boys: Honoring Diversity and Building Capacity"

9:35 - 10:30 am

Fenice Boyd, Ph.D.
"Diversity and the Curriculum: Using Multiple Text Types as Essential"

10:40 - 11:40 am

Breakout Session 1

11:50 am -1:15 pm

Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Patricia Powell, author and storyteller

1:20 - 2:20 pm

Breakout Session 2

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Breakout Session 3

3:30-4:00 pm

Book Signing with Patricia Powell, author



CONFERENCE COSTS

Conference Cost

Early Rate
By 9/15/2010

Late Rate
Onsite Registration
Current Members $125.00 $150.00
New Members
(joining now)		 $150.00 $175.00
Student Members
(joining now)		 $100.00 $125.00
Non-Members $150.00 $175.00
Student
Non-Members		 $75.00 $100.00

All registrations must be received by September 15th. After that date, all registrations will take place onsite Friday, October 15, 2010 with the following

Western Suburban Literacy Initiative

West Suburban Literacy Initiative

 

The West Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Partnership between the Fox Valley Reading Council, the National-Louis University (NLU) Reading & Language Department (Lisle), and the NLU Library focuses on the differentiation of literacy instruction for a range of student needs identified in classrooms in the western suburbs. Some of the areas of need include: cultural and linguistic diversity, special needs, gifted, boys, and ELL instruction. Components of the partnership include:

An additional focus of the WSLI is the continued development of the NLU Américas collection of bilingual, Spanish and Latino themed children's and young adult books. This collection was featured in two poster sessions presented last fall by Dr. Ruth Quiroa and Barbara Evans: The Big Read (sponsored by the NLU Partnership Office, NLU Latino Initiative and Boundless Readers under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts) and the 8th International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) Regional Conference in St. Charles, Illinois.

 

WSLI members participated in scholarly inquiry in two areas: a) the growth/development of teachers, literacy leaders, and administrators taking a CUSD professional development course offered by Dr. Ruth Quiroa entitled: Exploring Latino cultures through Literature K-12; and b) collaborative instruction involving the application of key ideas from this course in focal teachers' classrooms (grades 4-5) with Dr. Sunday Cummins. A partnered presentation on the initial findings of these inquiries and the Américas collection was given by FVRC Board Members (Amy Stuckey, Kim Dillon, Karen Ringas), NLU library faculty (Barbara Evans) and NLU Reading & Language Faculty (Dr. Sunday Cummins, Dr. Susan McMahon) at the International Reading Association Conference, Chicago, May 2010.

 

WSLI Annual Forum 2008 Engage: Essential Practices for English Language Learners

L to R: Yvonne Freeman (Keynote speaker), Ruth Quiroa (NLU Assistant Professor, Reading & Language), David Freeman (Keynote speaker), Sunday Cummins (NLU Assistant Professor, Reading & Language)

WSLI Annual Forum 2009 Enhancing Literacy: Meeting the Needs of K-12 English Language Learners

Members of the WSLI Partnership and Luis Moll (Keynote Speaker)