Session Grid
Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 5 to 7pm
Registration from 4:30-6:00 pm
Vendors Open 4:30-7:15 pm
| Time | Opening Session | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:30-7 pm | Lester Laminack “Why Story Matters” | |||
Friday, January 16, 2026 - 8am to 3pm
Registration from 7:30-8 am
Breakfast 8-8:45 am
Vendors Open 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
| Time | Interventionists | Interventionists | General | General |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45-10 am | Keynote: Heidi Anne Mesmer “Research in K-5 Literacy Instruction: Advances, Refinements, and Reversals” | |||
| 10:45-11:30 am | Jeff Williams ““Critical to Acceleration: Composing Messages” | Lester Laminack “Digging Into Details” | Katie Hilden “Leveraging Content Area Trade Books to Build Students’ Comprehension of Informational Texts and Academic Vocabulary” | |
| 11:30-11:45 am | Break | |||
| 11:45-1 pm | Maryann McBride “Why and When to Use Decodable Text in Intervention” | Katie Kelly “Engaging and Empowering Critical Readers and Change Makers” | Jeff Williams “Notice and Note: Enhancing Comprehension for K-4 Students” | |
| 1-1:45 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:45-3 pm | Maryann McBride “Teaching Children to Monitor, Search for, and Use Visual Information in Text” | Katie Hilden “Research-based Recommendations for language-comprehension related Teacher Questions” | Katie Kelly “Purposeful Read Alouds to Build Language Comprehension” | - |
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