2011 National Reading Recovery & K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference

February 5-8  ●  Columbus, Ohio

Preconference Speakers
Beth Swenson, Robert Schwartz, Lynn Mangold Newmyer
 

Session Title
RTI: Building a Literacy Future for All Our Students
 

Descripton
When planning for Response to Intervention (RTI), school districts often focus on Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions. One key to effective Response to Intervention is a strong tier I model with built in differentiation and interventions. A team of literacy experts will focus on the classroom aspects of RTI. A day long journey into Tier I theory and practice will leave educators with a host of new ideas and procedures to close achievement gaps for children in their classrooms.

Biography
Beth Swenson, Literacy Collaborative district trainer, Brainerd ISD #181, MN

Beth Swenson has more than 20 years of experience with progress monitoring and is currently a district literacy coordinator and trainer.  Beth continues her training and research on the Literacy Collaborative Model at Purdue University and Ohio State University. During the summer of 2006, She presented at Oxford University in England on using the Observation Survey as a progress-monitoring tool that informs instruction. Beth is a national speaker on literacy, coaching, and response to intervention. Beth was recently awarded the WEM Outstanding Educator Award from the Academic Excellence Foundation for her work with special needs children.

Robert Schwartz, Professor of Literacy, Oakland University, Oakland, MI
Dr. Robert M. Schwartz is a professor in Department of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Bob's research interests include self-monitoring in beginning reading, early literacy intervention, research design, and professional development for literacy teachers. He has recent publication on these topics in Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, and The Reading Teacher. He is particularly interested in supporting the literacy development of the lowest performing beginning readers and the professional learning of their teachers.
 

Lynn Mangold Newmyer, Title I Staff Developer, Walled Lake Schools, MI