Freedman, Castillo and Pizzoli talk picture books: 3 author-illustrators talk picture books (Elementary, Writing, Reading) Lauren Castillo, Deborah Freedman, Greg Pizzoli

Be a Detective! Making History Come Alive for Young Readers: Join award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson to explore using picture books, historical fiction, and nonfiction to encourage historical thinking skills. Deborah will talk about her new novel, A BANDIT'S TALE, and preview her forthcoming nonfiction title, DIVE! WWII Stories of Sailors and Submarines in the Pacific. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, STEM) Presenter: Deborah Hopkinson

#EdCampKids!: In this session, we will share the ways that we have made #EdCampKids a part of our routine in 3rd grade. By combining thinking around Makerspace, Genius Hour, Wonder Workshop and EdCamp, our students take ownership of their learning and share that learning with others. (Elementary) Presenters: Franki Sibberson and Kami Wenning

Building Your Classroom Library: Curating a library for your classroom can be a headache, but it is the heart of the room. In this session we will discuss ways to accumulate the books you need for your classroom library and what to do with all of those books once you get them. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading) Presenter: Katherine Sokolowski

Beyond Plays: Interacting with Literature: Beyond the go-to staple of converting books into plays for an immersive experience, this session will explore other ways for kids to interact with books that get them in the middle of the action. (Be prepared for a dress up activity!)(Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading) Presenter: Tracey Baptiste

Writing Mentorship, Beyond the Text: When experienced writers share their writerly lives with transparency, students identify and envision themselves as capable, empowered writers. They discover writing mentors, a role shared by authors and teacher-writers alike. This session showcases the importance of mentorship beyond the published text in nurturing the writing lives of student writers. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenter: Melissa Guerrette

Student's Role in Assessment: Current research emphasizes the importance of engaging students in learning. During this session we will explore strategies to help students understand their role in assessment, to share data with students, and to support students setting, monitoring and celebrating their learning goals. (Elementary) Presenters: Tammy Mulligan - Author/Staff Developer, and Clare Landrigan - Author/Staff Developer

You Haven't Failed Until You Give Up - Helping High School Students Reinvigorate Their Reading Lives: Helping high school students find the right book that will reinvigorate their reading lives is important, but we need to give them the resources to help keep them reading long after the final strains of Pomp and Circumstances are played. Resources and strategies for teachers and students will be shared at this session. (High School, Writing, Reading) Presenter: Cindy Minnich

Getting Real About Research: When you get real about research...it’s like being a detective! We’ll share insight into giving students authentic opportunities to become passionately curious about a topic to research. Author Louise Borden will share her research process and Jen Vincent will share her favorite resources and lessons. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Jen Vincent and Louise Borden

Embedding Narrative Qualities Across Genres to Reach the Soul and Voice of the Writer: In this presentation, attendees will be provided with strategies and tools to find the voice of their writers across genres. Intended for grades K-5. (Elementary, Writing) Presenter: Betsy Hubbard

Picture Books at Every Grade, Every Day: Read alouds are not just for our youngest elementary students, and neither are picture books. Implementing a #classroombookaday goal allows teachers to utilize both in any grade. Committing to reading aloud a picture book every day of the school year helps educators build community and engagement while addressing curriculum standards. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading) Presenters: Jillian Heise and Angie Huesgen

Let's Experiment! Inspiring Students to Revise Their Writing: Do your students complete a first draft and think they are finished? Do you struggle with ways to help your students improve their writing? In this session we'll explore ways to “re-vision” (look again) at our writing. You'll leave with easy-to-implement strategies for creating a revision culture and helping your students take their writing to new levels. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenter: Annemarie Johnson, Literacy Consultant

Engaging Readers through Technology: Are you looking for a new way to spark the love of reading with your students? This session will help you learn how to engage students in reading by watching and creating their own digital book trailers, book talks, and even competing in a March Madness Book Talk Challenge! (Middle School, Reading, STEM) Presenter: Aimee Volk

Student-Parent Book Club: This interactive workshop will give participants all the knowledge and tools necessary to put together an after-school book club that brings students, teachers, parents and the community together to celebrate literacy and learning. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading, Community Involvement) Presenters: Amy Hicks and Jenny Sanford

Digital Story Telling: Green Screen: Looking for a fun and creative way for your students to create, retell, and/or role play? Come play and learn how to bring the magic of green screen into your classroom. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, STEM) Presenters: Ann Smart and Kellie DeLosSantos

Nibling Power: Blogging, Book Deals, and How Social Media is Changing Everything: Blogging and social media have never been more important when it comes to the world of children's literature, but what are the ultimate effects? Join The Niblings, Betsy Bird, Travis Jonker, and Minh Lê as they reflect on your work, their book deals, and the state of online children's literature today. (Elementary, Middle School) Presenters: Betsy Bird, Travis Jonker, and Minh Lê

Journals, Revision & the Art of Storytelling: Doodling to define words and aid in spelling: The importance of journals, and the easy way to make your own. Real-life examples of revision in text and art. And impromptu storytelling, story prompts, and story structure. All done in real time, with humor and sketching, right before your eyes. (Elementary, Writing) Presenter: Ruth McNally Barshaw

30+ treasures from ELA Student Edcamps: Join us as we share 30+ treasures from ELA student edcamps. Students have used a "gem" rating system to share their favorite apps, websites, tools and tech treasures that have come from student edcamps. Come and hunt for buried treasures with us. (Elementary, Writing) Presenters: Christina Ostrander and Jenelle Hynes

Literacy Across the Content Areas: Four Reading Apprenticeship teachers will share how to incorporate simple strategies to help ANY classroom become more literacy based. Get ideas on how high school teachers in History, English, Psychology, and Family Consumer Sciences have put literacy into practice and the impact it has had on their classrooms as a whole. (High School, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Sarah Soper, Dede Rush, Abby Tanner, and Tracy Dryer

Building Your Classroom or School Library with Inclusive Literature: There is a lack of diversity in young adult and children's literature, but there are diverse books being published. This session will address how and where to find inclusive books along with guidelines for evaluation. We'll also discuss ways to utilize inclusive resources to help create a culturally responsive environment. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading) Presenter: Crystal Brunelle

Co-Writing in the Classroom: Jen Malone and Gail Nall, co-authors of the middle grade You're Invited books, will discuss how educators can encourage students to write using co-writing techniques. Jen and Gail will discuss the different ways you can use co-writing in your classroom, along with useful tips to help students write together. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenters: Gail Nall and Jen Malone

Destination Imagination: Destination Imagination is a creative problem solving program where students work on a team to solve a complex challenge. Students develop skills in teamwork, problem solving, and creative thinking. Help your students build 21st century skills. Challenge them to do DI! (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, STEM, STEAM) Presenter: Mary Chamberlin

Success in Series: Strengthening Readers using Series Books: Matching kids with the right series sets them up for voracious reading! A hit series will remain a hallmark reading memory for life. Let's use kids interests to match them with the right books. We will also explore how to explicitly use series to teach generalizable skills that will support future reading. (Elementary, Reading) Presenter: Kate DiMeo

The Value of a Positive Attitude: In The Value of a Positive Attitude, teachers will discuss the impact of a positive outlook on their practice and on their students' motivation and effort. (Elementary, Middle School) Presenter: Kelly Gallagher Mack

Author Jeopardy! Lightning Round! Meet awesome authors and find out about new books... FAST! Erica S. Perl (Chicken Butt!, When Life Gives You O.J.) kicks off this lightning round panel. You’ll get more behind-the-scenes book details, writing tips, and never-before-revealed author secrets than you can shake a stick at. Warning: your head might explode! (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading) Erica S. Perl, Kelly Barnhill, John David Anderson, Adam Shaughnessy, Aimee Carter, Melanie Conklin, Kate Beasley

Let's Experiment! Inspiring Students to Revise Their Writing: Do your students complete a first draft and think they are finished? Do you struggle with ways to help your students improve their writing? In this session we'll explore ways to “re-vision” (look again) at our writing. You'll leave with easy-to-implement strategies for creating a revision culture and helping your students take their writing to new levels. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenter: Annemarie Johnson, Literacy Consultant

Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Publishing But Didn't Know Who to Ask: Do you daydream about publishing books of your own as you read and booktalk with students? Or perhaps curious about what the book-making process looks like from the inside-out? Bring questions, curiosities, and secret ambitions, and learn more about the publishing world & its mechanics from a literary agent/former editor. (Writing) Presenter: Molly O'Neill

Embedding Narrative Qualities Across Genres to Reach the Soul and Voice of the Writer: In this presentation, attendees will be provided with strategies and tools to find the voice of their writers across genres. Intended for grades K-5. (Elementary, Writing) Presenter: Betsy Hubbard

Ask Us Anything with Jess Keating and Josh Funk!: Jess Keating and Josh Funk are award-winning authors, critique partners, and all around good buddies. Do you have questions about connecting with authors on social media? Or teaching writing craft to your students? Or maybe you want to get published yourself? Gain answers, inspiration and a few laughs with our open call to “Ask Us Anything”! Presenters: Jess Keating and Josh Funk

#EdCampKids!: In this session, we will share the ways that we have made #EdCampKids a part of our routine in 3rd grade. By combining thinking around Makerspace, Genius Hour, Wonder Workshop and EdCamp, our students take ownership of their learning and share that learning with others. (Elementary) Presenters: Franki Sibberson and Kami Wenning

Lit and Tech, Let's Do This!: Looking for resources to support your students love of reading and writing? In this session we will explore online resources that can be used to engage students and enhance learning. Bring your device for exploring! (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading) Presenters: Stacey Schuh and Emily Sicilia

Literacy Across the Content Areas: Four Reading Apprenticeship teachers will share how to incorporate simple strategies to help ANY classroom become more literacy based. Get ideas on how high school teachers in History, English, Psychology, and Family Consumer Sciences have put literacy into practice and the impact it has had on their classrooms as a whole. (High School, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Sarah Soper, Dede Rush, Abby Tanner, and Tracy Dryer

Building Your Classroom Library: Curating a library for your classroom can be a headache, but it is the heart of the room. In this session we will discuss ways to accumulate the books you need for your classroom library and what to do with all of those books once you get them. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading) Presenter: Katherine Sokolowski

What Does an Author In Residency Program Look Like?: Author in Residency programs can enhance writing curriculums and allow for truly meaningful interaction between students and an author. This seminar, led by a three-time A-I-R, will discuss how to find authors, structure the curriculum, obtain funding, and pitfalls and highlights to expect from an Author In Residency. Presenter: Jen Malone

Reading with an Eye on Character Alignments: Come learn about how understanding Character Alignments, an idea from the role playing game Dungeon and Dragons, can help you and your students think differently and more deeply about character interactions within novels. FYI: No D & D experience or interest is required. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading) Presenter: Tony Keefer

The Memoir Multigenre Project: In this session you will learn how students blended memoir writing with the multigenre project. This project allowed students to find their voice through writing and expand their writing abilities across genres, while also building a closer learning community. (Middle School, High School, Writing) Presenter: Sarah Andersen

Coaching Conversations: Are you in a coaching role? Come chat with us about living the life of a coach! Join us as we talk about coaching conversations, share ideas for building relationships with teachers, and think through the mindset we need to persevere in the role of a coach. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Cross Curricular, Coaching) Presenter: Jen Vincent

“We’re All Reading Teachers:” The Truth and Lie Behind the Buzz Phrase: Sort through this cringe-worthy, buzz phrase that some school leaders absently toss around at staff PD. This interactive demonstration breaks down the key moves of academic literacy to both support content mastery through discipline-specific lenses and promote the long-term flourishing of students across all subjects.(Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, Disciplinary Literacy, Content-Area Literacy) Presenter: Erica Beaton

Creating Community, Connection, and a Culture of Literacy in The Classroom and Beyond: Young readers thrive when educators facilitate building community, connections, and a culture of literacy within their classroom, school, student families, and beyond. Learn easy to implement ways to connect and showcase a love of reading in your classroom, within your school, and far past your school walls. (Elementary, Middle School, Reading) Presenter: Aliza Werner

Be a Detective! Making History Come Alive for Young Readers: Join award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson to explore using picture books, historical fiction, and nonfiction to encourage historical thinking skills. Deborah will talk about her new novel, A BANDIT'S TALE, and preview her forthcoming nonfiction title, DIVE! WWII Stories of Sailors and Submarines in the Pacific. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, STEM) Presenter: Deborah Hopkinson

Transforming Your Library: Adrian High School was looking to reinvent the library by changing it into a 21st century learning space. Come learn how a team of four students tackled the project by researching spaces, digital book options and obtaining input from staff and students. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Library and Media Center) Presenters: Ann Smart and Kellie DeLosSantos

Student's Role in Assessment: Current research emphasizes the importance of engaging students in learning. During this session we will explore strategies to help students understand their role in assessment, to share data with students, and to support students setting, monitoring and celebrating their learning goals. (Elementary) Presenters: Tammy Mulligan - Author/Staff Developer, and Clare Landrigan - Author/Staff Developer

Paper Circuitry: Light up your writing: Making your student writing LIGHT up with paper circuitry. A quick stop to your local hardware store and your students will be creating one of a kind pieces. Let me share the ins and outs of paper circuitry and lend a hand as you make your own. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, STEM) Presenter: Christina Ostrander

You Haven't Failed Until You Give Up - Helping High School Students Reinvigorate Their Reading Lives: Helping high school students find the right book that will reinvigorate their reading lives is important, but we need to give them the resources to help keep them reading long after the final strains of Pomp and Circumstances are played. Resources and strategies for teachers and students will be shared at this session. (High School, Writing, Reading) Presenter: Cindy Minnich

Writing Mentorship, Beyond the Text: When experienced writers share their writerly lives with transparency, students identify and envision themselves as capable, empowered writers. They discover writing mentors, a role shared by authors and teacher-writers alike. This session showcases the importance of mentorship beyond the published text in nurturing the writing lives of student writers. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenter: Melissa Guerrette

How to Make Out of this World Comics with Eddie Pittman: Learn how award winning cartoonist and author or RED'S PLANET, Eddie Pittman creates comics and learn tips and tricks of the trade to create your own! (Elementary, Middle School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular, Art) Presenter: Eddie Pittman

VOICE, CHOICE, and PAPER AIRPLANES: “You are all geniuses and the world EXPECTS your contribution.” This quote from Classroom Habitudes (Maier, 2012) inspires us as we grow our safe, risk-taking, mistake-making, empowered learning community. Learn how we elicit student voice/choice in our classroom through community meetings, genius hour, PBL while capitalizing on authentic reading/writing opportunities. (Elementary, Middle School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Kristin Hundt and Katie Bielecki

Change Agents: Working together to create the schools our children deserve: Are you ready to be the Change Agents that your students deserve? What would YOU do if you weren't afraid to fail? Join us as we look back on our journey of how one school went from a being a place of "It is what it is" to "What if?" (Elementary, School Culture; Student Empowerment) Presenters: Leah Whitford and Micki Uppena

Tug of War: Uncovering Complexities in Literature: We will discuss how using the Tug of War thinking routine and blogging helps readers uncover complexities in literature. There are larger dilemmas that support smaller, more specific, conflicts in plots. Connecting to these larger dilemmas, and making reader's thinking visible, brings the reader personally closer to what they are reading and the complexities of the text. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading) Presenter: Michael Medvinsky

Healing Through Words: Two Authors discuss 9/11 and Coping with Tragedy through a writer's lens: Gae Polisner and Nora Baskin will reveal the process of writing about tragedy and 9/11, and the extensive research that went into their novels: THE MEMORY OF THINGS and NINE, TEN: A September 11 Story. Though one is YA and the other MG, both grapple with our shared history, tackling common themes such as fear, prejudice, and finding healing and hope in chaos. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner

Two Nerdy Sister's Present Best in Historical Fiction: What's Nerd Camp without books? Come explore the newest trends in historical fiction with one expert in history and one super nerdy reader and history aficionado. Books for all grade levels presented. The best part: lots of giveaways! We know you are nerdy too, so feel free to share titles with us! (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Reading, Cross Curricular) Presenters: Sara Ralph and Amy Ralph

Walking the Talk: Teachers as Budding Writers: Every teacher wants to help her students become good writers, but not everyone feels comfortable as a writer herself. This session focuses on gaining confidence in your own writing voice. Concrete, fun exercises, as well as tips on how we "professional" writers deal with our own self-doubts and writing blocks--this is a hands-on workshop! (Elementary, Middle School, Writing) Presenters: Tricia Springstubb, Kate Hannigan, and Kristen Kittscher

Taking CARE of readers: Choice (and community), Access, Response, Engagement: Choice (and community), access, response, and engagement are critical in the development of lifelong readers. This session will review the pedagogy behind each element of CARE, discuss strategies and activities designed to support CARE, and include lots of books! Presenter: Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller

A Picture Book Taught Me This: While picture books are a staple of the elementary classroom, there often is no place for them with our older students, yet these are the students that need picture books the most. Discover how picture books can help older students close read, conquer complex message, become stronger writers, as well as spark their love of reading again all through the use of carefully selected picture books. (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Writing, Reading) Presenter: Pernille Ripp

Mr. Schu’s Review of Books for You and Your Readers, Too!: Calling all K-6 educators! Join in a conversation with Mr. Schu as he presents some of the best new titles for emergent, transitional, and fluent readers. In typical Mr. Schu fashion, he will share book trailers, websites, activities, and interviews you can easily incorporate into lessons and booktalks to get everyone on your campus hurrying to your bookshelves to find the perfect book. (Elementary) Presenter: John Schumacher