<br />
LITERACY TODAY<br />
March/April 2017<br />
Volume 34, Issue 5<br />
Literacy<br />
Reimagined<br />
ILA 2017 speakers on<br />
rethinking what's possible<br />
Embracing disruption<br />
in your classroom<br />
How literacy can drive<br />
social change<br />
<br />
ontents<br />
2 EDITOR'S NOTE<br />
4 LIT BITS<br />
6 ILA UPDATE<br />
LITERACY LEADERSHIP<br />
8 Setting the Example: Principals as Literacy<br />
Leaders<br />
12 Reframing Research<br />
14<br />
ILA 2017<br />
Conference<br />
Preview<br />
ILA 2017<br />
14 Literacy Reimagined: What to Expect at ILA 2017<br />
16 Marie Lu on the Importance of Writing to Remember<br />
20 Precious Symonette, Miami-Dade Teacher of the Year, Encourages<br />
Students to Write Themselves Into Existence<br />
24 Byron V. Garrett and the Value of Family Engagement<br />
28 Embracing the Unknow<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=1"> LITERACY TODAY March/April 2017 Volume 34, Issue</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=4"> EDITOR'S NOTE Colleen Patrice Clark Managing Edit</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=5"> NEW ILA MEMBER BENEFIT ILA Me</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=7"> The literacy scene Katia Ciampa, assistant profe</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=8"> ILA UPDATE ILA—an Evolving Organization and C</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=9"> A chance to connect ILA is, first and foremost, a</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=10"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Maura C. Ciccarelli (mauraci</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=12"> Next, the IST began focusing on improving student</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=13"> PLAN FOR SUCCESS WITH ILA BRIDGES UNITS How do IL</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=14"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Melissa Ewers (melissa.ewer</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=15"> To those of us working directly with </a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=17"> WHY ILA 2017? The latest </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=18"> ILA 2017 FROM REALITY TO THE PAGE— AND BACK </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=19"> air conditioner or heater, no private </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=20"> being a revolutionary color that could draw unwan</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=21"> BUILD UP YOUR PRACTICE WITH ILA E-SSENTIALS How d</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=23"> WRITING YOURSELF INTO EXISTENCE For this award</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=24"> A lifesaver I remember a time when we </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=25"> Answering the call M </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=26"> ILA 2017 THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY Byron V. Garrett</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=27"> t hroughout his long and storied car</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=28"> New! Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Jo</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=29"> Do you have a minute? Of course not. That's why a</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=30"> ILA 2017 EMBRACING THE Enrique C. Feldman on br</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=31"> UNKNOWN e nrique C. Feldman's go</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=32"> to as much `Known' as possible. The challenge is,</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=33"> Boost Learning With ILA's Peer-Reviewed Journals </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=34"> ILA 2017 </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=35"> eager first graders that filed into Miss Burns's </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=36"> That afternoon, her intuition and the</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=38"> ILA 2017 Rusul Alrubail (rusul@cfndrs.com, @Rus</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=39"> In other words, disruption shouldn't </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=40"> ILA 2017 April Hall (ahall@reading.org) is the </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=41"> Nikole Hannah-Jones searches for the </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=42"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Shawna Coppola (@shawnaco</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=43"> There is a compelling, noble reason fo</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=44"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Kate Roberts is a nationa</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=45"> Over the decades, similar rifts have </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=46"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Sara Ahmed, an ILA member</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=47"> The students we teach are in no way s</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=48"> THE ILA NETWORK Shavonne Jacobson (shavonnejacob</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=49"> Pave the road Preparing for our expedition began </a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=50"> GLOBAL IMPACT Brad Wilson (bradwilson14@gmail.co</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=51"> the vital importance of early literacy interventi</a>
<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=52"> MEMBER news & notes SPOTLIGHT Weber Named Princi</a>
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<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2017 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9069f46a?page=54"> MEMBER reflections SPOTLIGHT BEYOND NATIONAL bor</a>
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