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Program - 2015

Each year the ILA Literacy and Social Responsibility SIG (IRA L-SR SIG) sponsors a program at the annual national ILA convention.

This program is open to all conferees, with interests from preschool through adult education.

Those interested in greeting, meeting, and networking with program presenters and others with similar interests are especially encouraged to attend the program, business meeting, and/or informal social gathering. IRA members are also invited to become members of this SIG and to submit a program proposal for 2016 in Boston, MA. Contact Janet Wong for more information.

2015 ILA L-SR SIG Program
July 18, 2015, Saturday, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
St. Louis America's Center, Room 226
St. Louis, MO
Open to all conferees (with interests preschool through adult)
Welcome and Opening Comments

3:00 pm
Welcome!

Andrea Karlin, Program Chair and SIG President
 
Keynote
 
  3:10 - 3:40 pm

Dana Sullivan

Author/Illustrator
Sleeping Bear Press
Ann Arbor, MI

Step by Step, Day by Day:
Transforming Lives through Social Responsibility and Literacy

 

 
Presentations and Awards

 

 

 

 
  3:40 - 4:00 pm

Presentation by 2014 Literacy & Service Recognition Award Winners

by Northwest Elementary School, Pensacola, FL
The ECHO Project: Read for a Need
Guidance Counselor Lisa Peart with students Jillian Butler, Shelby McGee, Josh Langley, and Jaren Rinaldi
4:00 - 4:10 pm Announcement of 2015 Social Justice Literature Awards
(for Fiction Novel, Nonfiction Chapter Book, Fiction Picturebook, and Nonfiction Picturebook)		 by Andrea Karlin
Presentation: "Lifetime Social Justice Literature Award" Presented to Australian author Susanne Gervay for her body of work, through both Picture Books and Young Adult novels, focusing on Social Justice issues, presented by Andrea Karlin
4 Roundtables  
  4:15 - 4:35 pm
  1. Follow the Reader: "Teens for Literacy" Student Leaders Launch a Cultural Exchange

    Dr. Anne Katz, Armstrong State University, Savannah, Georgia

  2. Children's Books and Character Education

    Dr. Kathy Danielson, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Dr. Jan LaBonty, University of Montana

  3. Newpoint Framework

    Kathleen H. Fontaine, Newpoint Schools, Florida

  4. Our Favorites in Children's & Young Adult Literatures to Inspire with Heart and Hand

    Patricia Bloem, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
    Sarah Nixon, Missouri State University, Springfield
    Denise Stuart, The University of Akron, Ohio

4 Roundtables  

4:35 - 4:55 pm


  1. Stories Unlocked: Using Visual Prompts & Wordless Picture Books to Engage At-Risk Teen Writers

    Stephanie Guerra, Seattle University

  2. Is This Childhood?: From def Poetry to a Children's Picture Book

    Francis S. Broadway, The University of Akron
    Thomas Merrill, The University of Akron

  3. Project CRISS

    Jenne Palmer, Ed. Specialist, Rosenwald and CC Washington Literacy Coach

  4. Evading the ELAR Book Police: Using Picture Books to Fill in the Missing Gaps

    Andrea Karlin, Cheryl Nelson, and Margaret Swope, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Concluding Remarks
  
  4:55 - 5:00 pm

 
Business Meeting
Brief business meeting to follow. All conferees invited to join us.

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