This is a GREAT day and full of books, authors, dynamic speakers, and fun networking!  I hope to see many of you there!!  AND you can pay your registration using Scholastic Dollars if you have some!   

Melissa

Melissa Thom
Bristow Middle School Teacher Librarian
West Hartford Public Schools
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Currently Reading:     
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Teen Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming 
Friend or Fiction by Abby Cooper (Netgalley)
Reclaiming our Calling by Brad Gustafson
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Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson 
Frost Blood by Elly Blake
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City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Skink by Carl Hiaasen (audio)
City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie Anderson (audio)
Love Double Dutch by Doreen Spicer-Dannelly
The Serpent's Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta 
Hope To Read Soon:
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
And sooooooooo many more;) 

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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 5:19 PM Barbara Johnson <bajohnson@colchesterct.org> wrote:

I am excited to share the great news about our Scholastic Reading Summit Conference this summer in Greenwich, Ct! Our day-long program will provide professional development workshops designed to deliver strategies and tactics needed to develop a thriving independent reading culture in your school community. Network with educational leaders and colleagues from across the country on innovative approaches to promote student independent reading and literacy equity in all schools.

 

Please see the sessions listed below. 

 

The Greenwich, Ct Reading Summit is on July 18,2019 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich Hotel. We have limited seating so make your plans to attend and register now. 

 

 

Booktalks & Bagels – John Schu

 

AM Sessions

·        Ambassador Schu’s Review of Books for You and Your Readers, Too! – John Schu

·        Creating an Independent Reading Canon for Black Boys – Dr Kim Parker

·        Project LIT Community: Empowering Readers & Leaders – Jarred Amato

·        Developing Identity & Empathy through Independent Reading – Chad Everett

·        Revitalizing Your Library – Rhonda Jenkins

·        Everybody Reading Every Day: Creating a School-Wide Culture of Literacy – Liz Garden

 

PM Sessions

Revving Up Read-Alouds – Donalyn Miller

Critical Literacy in Today’s World – Jess Lifshitz

Building Literacy Through Collaboration – Tamiko Brown

Developing Identity & Empathy through Independent Reading – Chad Everett

Technology & Literacy: A Love Story – Rhonda Jenkins

Who Gets to Be the Hero? Imagining a More Just Future Through Diverse Children’s Fantasy – Sayantani Das Gupta

 

 

 

 

 

Maureen O’Hara

Regional Book Fair Field Manager

Scholastic Book Fairs – Northeast Region

Phone: (516) 318-9264 

mohara@scholasticbookfairs.com

www.scholastic.com/bookfairs

 

Summit 2019

 

Join us at the 2019  Reading Summit

July 18, 2019

 

Hyatt Regency Greenwich

1800 East Putnam Avenue

Greenwich, Ct 06870

 

For more information, visit

www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/reading-summit

 

 

 

 


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