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<br /> Volume 30, Number 4<br /> February/March 2013<br /> INFORMED CONTENT FOR LITERACY PROFESSIONALS<br /> Inside:<br /> Interviews with Convention<br /> Keynoters<br /> Common Core and<br /> STAAR Offerings<br /> Details of the Research Program<br /> Institutes and Author Sessions<br /> <br /> CONTENTS<br /> Special Message from IRA's Leaders<br /> Come to San Antonio .......................................................... 02<br /> General Session Keynoters<br /> Rick Reardon and Mo Willems Talk Writing......................... 04<br /> LeVar Burton Goes Over the Rainbow ................................ 08<br /> Debbie Silver on Supporting Student Self-Efficacy ............. 11<br /> Common Core State Standards<br /> Invited Speakers Address Implementation Issues..............18<br /> Institute Program Has Multiple CCSS Sessions ................... 20<br /> IRA Literacy Research Panel Take<a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=1"> Volume 30, Number 4 February/March 2013 </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=2"> </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=3"> CONTENTS Special Message from IRA's Leaders Come</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=4"> PECIAL MESSAGE Celebrating Teachers Making a D</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=5"> From Lucy Calkins and Colleagues Resources for te</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=6"> ENERAL SESSIONS Riordan and Willems Go One-on-O</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=7"> liked the best—six, seventh, and eighth grade. I </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=8"> Children's Literature Sessions from Special Inter</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=9"> thinking about mythology? How did you come back t</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=10"> ENERAL SESSIONS Somewhere Over the Reading Rain</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=11"> What was it like growing up the son of an English</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=12"> Sessions on Integrating Technology into Classroom</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=13"> ENERAL SESSIONS What's Wrong with Common Teachi</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=14"> Success through Counterintuitive Measures Teachin</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=15"> </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=16"> </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=17"> PECIAL EVENTS Swanky Clothes and Stylish Words J</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=18"> In Adversity, Resilience: Hope Was Here Author Jo</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=19"> Bauer's own resilience was tested after a sev</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=20"> NVITED SPEAKERS Hear What the Experts Have to Sa</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=21"> in a building to be teachers of reading. I also t</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=22"> NSTITUTES Institutes Offer Immersive PD</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=23"> · Text complexity · Engagement with information</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=24"> Robert T. Ackland Pam Allyn Sarah Armstrong Kathr</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=25"> Teaching </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=26"> ESEARCH IRA Literacy Research Panel (LRP) to Ad</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=27"> IRA Literacy Research Panel Chair </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=28"> ESEARCH Using Literacy Research to Make a Differ</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=29"> Spanish/English bilinguals. Nutta </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=30"> EATURED IRA AUTHORS Today's Hot Topics, A Tradit</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=31"> Stop by the Bookstore for Discounts, Free Gifts, </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=32"> EADWRITETHINK Using Digital Tools in the Classro</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=33"> OST STATE CONNECTIONS The Tale of TALE: New Te</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=34"> 200. The next state conference, Building Momentum</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=35"> · Teachers, Writing Notebooks, </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=36"> OUNCIL EVENTS Council-Focused Session</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=37"> NTERNATIONAL EVENTS International Perspectives </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=38"></a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=39"> UNDING & REGISTRATION Save While You Enhance Yo</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=40"> world. In order to make air travel simpler, we've</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=41"> AXIMIZING YOUR CONVENTION EXPERIENCE </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=42"> Nightlife: Professional Development in an In</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=43"> Don't Drop It, Ship It When it comes to large con</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=44"> EMBERSHIP Join or Renew at the San </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=45"> IRA membership provides more than $600 of res</a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=46"> 44 Reading Today February/March 2013 </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=47"> </a> <a title="Reading Today February/March 2013 Convention Issue page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/91b2897c?page=48"> </a>