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7:30-8:00 Welcome and Orientation

8:00-8:50  Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker- Liz Rosado-Mcgrath, Heinemann Publishing

8:00-8:50 Featured Speaker, Chad Everett

8:00-8:50 Featured Speaker,Kristin Patrick, Blended Learning Coach/Noblesville Schools

9:00-9:50 Keynote Speaker, Sara Ahmed (Heinemann)

10:00-10:50 Exhibitor Session: featured Speaker, Glenis Redmond (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

10:00-10:50 Featured Speakers, Kristin Ziemke and Kirk Ziemke

10:00-10:50 Featured Speaker, Kristin Patrick

11:00-11:50  Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Peter Brunn,  Collaborative Classroom, Vice President

11:00-11:50 Featured Speaker/Author, Kelly Boswell

11:00-11:50  Featured Speaker, Sara Ahmed, Heinemann

12:00-12:50 Meet and Celebrate the "Session Saturday" presenters!

12:00-12:50 Matthew Winner, Featured Speaker, A Kids Company About...

12:00-12:50  Q and A With Kristin Ziemke, Chad Everett, and Sara Ahmed

1:00-1:50  Keynote Speaker, Kristin Ziemke

2:00-2:50  Patty McGee, Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Benchmark Education

2:00-2:50  Kelly Boswell, Featured Speaker/Author

2:00-2:50  Chad Everett, Featured Speaker

3:00-3:50  Diane Garavaglia, Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Booksource

3:00-3:50  Maria Nichol, Featured Speaker, Author

3:00-3:50  Kelly Boswell, Featured Speaker/Author

4:00-5:00 Keynote Speaker, P David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley

5:00-5:30 Raise your Glass! Bring your favorite beverage to celebrate SoMLA's 50th conference. We will also celebrate all participants in Conference 2022!

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1:00 Keynote Speaker, 10:00 & 12:00 Featured Speaker

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1:00 Keynote Speaker, 10:00 & 12:00 Featured Speaker

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Kristin Ziemke

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Welcome to the 2022 State of Maryland Literacy Association Conference: Literacy, and Justice, for All!

This is Maryland’s 50th annual conference!  The three day event is packed with exciting opportunities for professional development, networking, and examining exemplary materials for classroom use. This conference is intended for a wide-range of audiences including classroom teachers, reading specialists, special educators, curriculum specialists, administrators, and other educators. There is a variety of high caliber speakers, researchers, practitioners, publishers, and authors that are presenting throughout the conference.
LOOK WHO'S COMING!

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I'm currently thinking about these 3 words as instructional seeds:

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I'm currently thinking about these 3 words as instructional seeds:

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Engagement, Equity, Evergreen

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Kristin's publications include Read the World, Amplify, Connecting Comprehension and Technology (all with Heinemann), We Are Made for Story (ISTE), Learning is Social (Literacy Today) and more.

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Our society is flooded with technology. It enables people to connect, it amplifies voices, and it has the power to enrich lives. Yet our society can be so distracted by the possibilities of technology that we can forget it is our humanity-and the stories we share-that make it meaningful. As educators, it is up to us to ensure that students know how to use all the resources available to them to think critically and compassionately about the world.

In Read the World, Kristin Ziemke and Katie Muhtaris draw from their own rich pedagogical background and classroom experience to provide teaching strategies and flexible lessons that support students in acquiring the skills they need to thrive-academically, socially, and emotionally-in today's digital world. Kristin and Katie layer research-based instructional strategies, a student-centered approach, and strategic use of technology to outline a path that:

builds upon what students already know about reading and interacting with print and provides new strategies for comprehending digital mediums like images, web content, eText, and more

provides practical suggestions for centering curricula around empathy

supports student agency and engages learners to employ the skills they've learned to take action on issues to benefit the lives of others, as well as their own

offers resources, guidelines, and suggestions for teachers to help ensure that students are accessing print and digital stories which reflect their own experiences and a wide array of experiences that differ from their own.

Each chapter offers lessons with target outcomes to help you assess students' growth and invites you to reflect on the work as it unfolds in your classroom.

Our students have been raised in a digital culture; now we need to guide them to use technology to tell their stories, hear the stories of others, and take action. With modeling, explicit instruction, and time for practice, we can-and must-teach students to build bridges, eliminate barriers, and thrive in this world. Start where it makes sense for your school and community and provide students the tools, teaching, and opportunity to rethink literacy and read the world.

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Our society is flooded with technology. It enables people to connect, it amplifies voices, and it has the power to enrich lives. Yet our society can be so distracted by the possibilities of technology that we can forget it is our humanity-and the stories we share-that make it meaningful.

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Right now I'm reading a Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The World Beyond Your Head: On becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, Innovation Amid Despair by Ankit Bharat, Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education by Detra Price-Dennis and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and I"m listening to The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green.

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Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces a book by Detra Price-Dennis, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, and Jabari Mahiri

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Today’s students use their digital expertise and the power of their voice to respond to issues of inequity in society. It is essential that teacher educators develop their own racial literacies and those of their preservice and classroom teachers to support student digital activism. From talking abo…

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5:00-6:00 Welcome and Orientation

6:00-6:25 Tribute to Judi Hunter  -Speakers Sandy Keaton and Fran Clay

5:30-6:20 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/ Pam Allyn (Scholastic)

6:30-7:20 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/ Elizabeth Bassford (Curriculum Associates)

6:30-7:25 Featured Speakers: Chris Barton and Jennifer Ziegler

7:30-8:20 Featured Speaker: Matthew Winner-Empowering Kids and Conversations Through Podcasts

8:30-9:00 Play Brain Yoga! created by Jason Reynolds- Emcee Matthew Winner

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5:30-6:30 Welcome and Orientation

6:00-6:30 Meet the Exhibitors Facilitated by SoMLA Conference Committee

6:30-7:55 Keynote: Debra Crouch, Brian Cambourne

8:00-8:55 Featured Speaker: Maria Nichol

8:00-8:55 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/Lester Laminack (sponsored by Scholastic)

9:00-9:15 Storytime w/ Lester Laminack (sponsored by Scholastic)

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Chad Everett

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Sara Ahmed

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P. David Pearson

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Handling community inquiries about classroom and school library materials 

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Handling community inquiries about classroom and school library materials 

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Contribute to "hard to discard" Jamboard

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Contribute to "hard to discard" Jamboard

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Hard to Discard Jamboard #SoMLA22 - Google Jamboard

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Cleaning Up Your K-5 Classroom Library by Kris Patrick and Steph Dale

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Identity Affirming Classrooms: Spaces that Center Humanity

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Learn how to create identity affirming classroom environments that honor the humanity of students. Although schools have potential to be spaces of inquiry and joy, they can also be the source of trauma and pain when educational equity is not a foundational element. With a race-conscious lens, Dr.…