Summer Conference: Teaching Literacy During Turbulent Times at Widener University
Featuring local presenters
Date: August 19 6:30 - 8:15 PM
Location: Virtual Conference
This workshop aims to share practical ideas with current practitioners about how to utilize effective teaching practices when teaching in a virtual or hybrid classroom setting. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to teach phonics, conduct running records, and more when using various technology platforms and tools as well as learning management systems.
Teach to Reach Conference: The POWer of Graphic Novels!
Dates: November 7, 12,& 19, 2020
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 3*
Graphic novels have the power to entice, entertain, and educate. Teachers are finding ways to harness this power for effective literacy instruction at all levels. These three stand-alone workshops aim to provide participants with insights to the value of this unique literary format. They will also offer practical instructional strategies for developing visual literacy and essential reading skills which are transferable to traditional texts across disciplines. An award-winning graphic novelist will give a detailed look at their creative process.
*This will occur across three Thursday evenings in November from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. Each session will focus on a specific element about graphic novels - elementary, secondary, and author.
Winter Online Book Club: Refresh Your Bookshelf
Featuring KSLA Delaware Valley members and Children's Book World staff
Date: February 2021
Location: KSLA Delaware Valley website
Join us as KSLA Delaware Valley and Children's Book World share new books at a variety of levels and formats.
Starting February 4th, and continuing each Thursday through February!
Murph Crawford Conference: Raising Social Awareness
Featuring authors Mwenyewe Dawan, Aileen Hower, Renee Jacobs, and Lynne Dorfman
Date: February 27, 2021 from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 2.5
Raising social awareness is a critical topic in education today. During this presentation, these authors will share how to increase students’ social awareness through using children’s literature.
Spring Conference: Putting Research into Practice
Featuring Dr. Dr. Kim Lewinski, Dr. Meganlyn Norris, Dr. Kelly Doyle, an current practitioners and researchers
Date: April 17, 2021 from
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 2.5
Education continues to improve and grow through the expansion of studies conducted by researchers determining new ways to instruct students in order to improve the quality of instruction. However, finding the time to read these studies can be challenging for educators. This conference will provide practitioners with pertinent information related to hot topics in literacy research and ideas from current teachers for putting that research into practice in the classroom and beyond.
Featuring local presenters
Date: August 19 6:30 - 8:15 PM
Location: Virtual Conference
This workshop aims to share practical ideas with current practitioners about how to utilize effective teaching practices when teaching in a virtual or hybrid classroom setting. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to teach phonics, conduct running records, and more when using various technology platforms and tools as well as learning management systems.
Teach to Reach Conference: The POWer of Graphic Novels!
Dates: November 7, 12,& 19, 2020
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 3*
Graphic novels have the power to entice, entertain, and educate. Teachers are finding ways to harness this power for effective literacy instruction at all levels. These three stand-alone workshops aim to provide participants with insights to the value of this unique literary format. They will also offer practical instructional strategies for developing visual literacy and essential reading skills which are transferable to traditional texts across disciplines. An award-winning graphic novelist will give a detailed look at their creative process.
*This will occur across three Thursday evenings in November from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. Each session will focus on a specific element about graphic novels - elementary, secondary, and author.
Winter Online Book Club: Refresh Your Bookshelf
Featuring KSLA Delaware Valley members and Children's Book World staff
Date: February 2021
Location: KSLA Delaware Valley website
Join us as KSLA Delaware Valley and Children's Book World share new books at a variety of levels and formats.
Starting February 4th, and continuing each Thursday through February!
Murph Crawford Conference: Raising Social Awareness
Featuring authors Mwenyewe Dawan, Aileen Hower, Renee Jacobs, and Lynne Dorfman
Date: February 27, 2021 from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 2.5
Raising social awareness is a critical topic in education today. During this presentation, these authors will share how to increase students’ social awareness through using children’s literature.
Spring Conference: Putting Research into Practice
Featuring Dr. Dr. Kim Lewinski, Dr. Meganlyn Norris, Dr. Kelly Doyle, an current practitioners and researchers
Date: April 17, 2021 from
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual Conference
Act 48 Hours: 2.5
Education continues to improve and grow through the expansion of studies conducted by researchers determining new ways to instruct students in order to improve the quality of instruction. However, finding the time to read these studies can be challenging for educators. This conference will provide practitioners with pertinent information related to hot topics in literacy research and ideas from current teachers for putting that research into practice in the classroom and beyond.