Community Events

Apr
17
Sat
45th Spring Symposium with Dr. Charles Haynes @ Virtual
Apr 17 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

45th Spring Symposium with Dr. Charles Haynes: From Talking to Writing Word and Sentence-Level Strategies that Support Narrative and Expository Writing

This online interactive presentation will lead educators through supporting all learners with vocabulary and writing skills. Engaging, hands-on self-regulation strategies that tap semantic feature analysis to expand vocabulary and sentence skills will be described. These techniques leverage listening, speaking, reading and writing modalities, helpful for all learners but essential for those with language-based learning difficulties. The importance of these strategies for micro-discourse and discourse-level tasks are described and will be elaborated on during the day and an outline of a developmentally based instructional sequence of sentence patterns will be provided.

You will:
Learn evidence based writing strategies you can use with your students the next day!
Increase your own knowledge of writing strategies
Teach ALL students to write including struggling writers
Learn word, sentence,(micro-discourse) and text level techniques

Click HERE for Flyer!
Apr
24
Sat
Parent to Parent: Support Meeting @ Virtual
Apr 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
May
3
Mon
Ingredients for a Successful Non-Profit Literacy Program @ Virtual
May 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Presenters:

Pamela Good is cofounder and CEO of Beyond Basics, a literacy nonprofit serving students  in Metropolitan Detroit. Learn more about Pamela Good

Steve Tattum is the Reading Director of the LearnUp Center.  Steve has been teaching kids to read for over 40 years. He developed the Tattum Reading Program (also known as F.A.S.T.) and is sharing that proven curriculum with LearnUp to scale his success with more students and schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

May
12
Wed
Equity in Literacy @ Virtual
May 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Equity in Literacy is a virtual, moderated community forum that will focus on the current literacy crisis for Oregon’s learners (less than 50% of all learners and only 26% of Black learners are being taught to achieve proficiency by 4th grade. Oregon Statewide Annual Report Card; page 47) The purpose of this forum is to give voice to current and past Portland State University (PSU) students and concerned community members to discuss PSU’s alignment of their teacher preparation with best practices in reading instruction.

We believe that literacy is a civil right. We believe that all people have the right to be taught to read and that there are devastating financial, social, emotional and societal issues when literacy is not achieved. As a community, we believe we must do better for Oregon’s children and we invite you to be part of this conversation to identify obstacles and make suggestions to reduce barriers and improve accountability.

Thank you for your engagement on this critical issue.

Jul
12
Mon
Tools for Big Feelings @ Virtual
Jul 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Jul
26
Mon
Reading Progress Software @ Virtual
Jul 26 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Sep
13
Mon
Update from the ODE New Early Language and Literacy Intervention Specialist @ Virtual
Sep 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oct
5
Tue
Using the Handwriting Experience to Reach Every Student @ Virtual
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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Oct
8
Fri
Statewide Teacher Inservice Day @ Virtual
Oct 8 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm

About: IEP Reading Goals Workshop

We often hear about “data driven” goals and that “needs determine goals”. This is true, but the data collected and the “needs” that are assessed must be understood as special education law and the science of reading are implemented together. This workshop will walk educators, advocates, and parents through the intersection of I.D.E.A. reading guidelines and scientifically based decision making during the IEP process. This workshop aims to improve reading goal writing or reading goal advocacy for participants.

You will have a unique opportunity to hear from several students from the International Dyslexia Association – Oregon Branch, Student Empowerment Panel.

Cost: Sliding Scale $10 – $60

5 PDUs available

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Oct
18
Mon
Q&A: Teacher Training as Key to Oregon Literacy @ Virtual
Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

50% of Oregon 3rd graders aren’t reading at grade level. What will we do about it?

Join us for a virtual forum to learn how Portland Public Schools is improving reading instruction across their entire district – and why we’re asking state leaders to offer those same tools to all of Oregon’s most struggling K-5 schools.

Organizers:

Angela Uherbelau, Dr. Jennifer Schuberth, Oregon Kids Read 
Lisa Lyon, Decoding Dyslexia Oregon
Dr. Tania McKey, Portland Public Schools

Cost: Free

Questions: oregonkidsread@gmail.com