Friday, March 23, 2012
Keynote Speaker
“New Ways of Thinking about Critical Pedagogy”
| JOAN WINK is professor emerita of California State University, Stanislaus. Throughout her career, she has focused on languages, literacy, and learning in pluralistic contexts. Now, partially retired she divides her time writing on the family ranch in South Dakota and teaching and consulting nationally. Her books and other resources are available at |
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Keynote Speaker
Joyce Armstrong Carroll
“4x4 Isn’t Just a Truck,
It’s a Way into Persuasion”
Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Ed.D.,H.L.D. began her teaching career in 1959 and hasn’t stopped since! Called “my intellectual and spiritual daughter” by her mentor and Abydos’ brain mother, Janet Emig, Carroll spends her time trying to prove Emig’s words “I always knew you would do something splendid.” The project is her joy, her life, her heart, and her purpose. She believes it has been her calling. She believes teachers are the most important people on earth as they hold children’s minds in their hands. And she believes deeply in authentic teaching and revels in the fact that such loyal professionals—the Abydos Trainers—join her in “doing something splendid.”
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Keynote Speaker
Peter Smagorinsky is the coauthor of The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (2010) and author of Teaching English by Design (2007). Smagorinsky taught high school English from 1976 to 1990 in public schools outside Chicago and now teaches in the English Education program at The University of Georgia. In 2007 he was presented with the UGA Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Award in Humanities and Fine and Applied Arts. Smagorinsky is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles, including Reflective Teaching, Reflective Learning, which he coedited in 2006.
Awards:
2009: Edward B. Fry Book Award, awarded by the National Reading Conference for the book published within the last five years that most outstandingly advances knowledge about literacy, displays inquiry into literacy, and shows responsible intellectual risk taking, presented for Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research 2009: UGA College of Education Russell H. Yeany, Jr., Research Award 2008: Association of Teacher Educators Distinguished Research Award, presented for "Student Engagement in the Teaching and Learning of Grammar: A Case Study of an Early Career Secondary English Teacher"
2003: Janet Emig Award for the article published in English Education that most contributes to the field's thinking about English teacher education and most informs the field's research. Presented by the National Council of Teachers of English's Conference on English Education for "Acquiescence, accommodation, and resistance in learning to teach within a prescribed curriculum"
2000: Edwin M. Hopkins Award for best article by a non-K-12 author in English Journal, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (honorable mention) for "Revising Ophelia: Rethinking questions of gender and power in school"
1999: Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research presented by the American Educational Research Association to recognize the scholar who has conducted the most distinguished program of cumulative educational research in any field of educational inquiry within the first decade following receipt of his or her doctoral degree
1991: Steve Cahir Award for Research in Writing, presented by the Special Interest Group in Writing of the American Educational Research Association
1989: English Journal Writing Award for best article by a K-12 author in English Journal, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (runner-up) for "Small groups: A new dimension in learning"
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Keynote Speaker
Kimberly Willis Holt
“How Did I End Up Here?”
When Holt was a child, the thing she wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since her dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, she lived in a different house every couple of years. She learned French in Paris, explored caves in Guam, rode the ferry across Puget Sound in Washington. Now she feels lucky that she had such a diverse background, but as a child she was shy and hated moving. Her sister, the family clown, made friends more easily than she did. About the time she made a close friend or two, it was time to leave again.
Although she always loved reading and putting words on paper, she never thought about becoming a writer until she was twelve. That year she read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The characters in that book seemed like real people to her. She wanted to write stories like that. In seventh grade, she enrolled in a creative writing class and her teacher encouraged her to keep writing. It was years before she followed her dream, but she will always be thankful for that teacher's faith in her ability.
Most of her story ideas come from her childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories her parents told her, sometimes they come from experiences in her own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Now she lives in Amarillo, Texas, with her husband and daughter in an ordinary neighborhood. They are all readers, but they like different kinds of books. Her husband, Jerry, likes to read action-packed novels about spies. Her daughter, Shannon, loves fantasy and fairy tales best. And even though Kimberly enjoys a variety of genres, historical coming-of-age novels are her favorite.
Her days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, she gets to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. She often feels like she is pretending, because it's still hard for her to believe it when she sees someone holding a book that she’s written. She hopes that exciting new feeling never goes away.
The author Richard Peck told her that he thought she wrote to find home. Kimberly think he's right. Her family's roots are very important to her. She comes from a line of hardworking people who never made much money, but were rich in stories. She plans to carry on that storytelling legacy with her writing.
Books and awards:
• Nominee for the E.B. WHITE READ ALOUD AWARD | r|
• Finalist for Illinois's Rebecca Caudill Reader's Book Award
• Finalist for Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
• Kansas' William Allen White Award Nominee
• Missouri's Mark Twain Award Nominee
• West Virginia Children's Book Award Nominee
• Indiana's Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
• Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee
• Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
• Arkansas’s Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee
• Virginia Young Reader’s Book Award Nominee
• A School Library Journal Best Books of 2001 Selection | |
