When

Friday, June 21, 2019
7:30 AM to 3:15 PM CDT

Tentative Schedule

7:30 to 8:30 - Registration: coffee and pastries & vendor shopping

8:30 to 8:45 - SCIRA Welcome & Business, IRC Welcome, & SCIRA Introduction
8:45 to 10:00 - Presentation
10:00 to 10:15 - Break & vendor shopping
10:15 to 11:30 - Presentation
11:30 to 12:30 - LUNCH: On site - buffet & vendor shopping
12:30 to 1:45 - Presentation
1:45 to 2:00 - Break & vendor shopping
2:00 to 3:00 - Presentation
3:00 to 3:15 - Raffle

 

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Where

Holiday Inn Chicago - Skokie
5300 Touhy Ave
Skokie, IL 60077

 
Driving Directions 

Purchase Orders - when registering, please click pay by check!!

School District PO Information
When registering, please click pay by check!!!
Compete Purchase Order
List names of attendees on the PO
Mail to: Eileen Forrest
918 E. Wing St.
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Email: eileenbtsp@gmail.com  

Chicago Public School PO Information
When registering, please click pay by check!!!
Complete CPS Purchase Order
List names of attendees on PO
Use  SCIRA 's CPS Vendor #99566
to pay for the conference fee.
QUESTIONS:  Contact Pam Kaufman at:
pamkaufman7188@gmail.com

For additional information or questions

Contact Eileen Forrest                               scira123@gmail.com or
eileenbtsp@gmail.com 
847-544-8239

 

SCIRA Summer Conference 2019

Jan Burkins & Kim Yaris

Learn new ways to make your instruction transfer to student independence!

Join Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris for a full-day of professional development, where you will learn practical steps for implementing read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading. In this workshop, Burkins and Yaris will help you examine your instruction and identify places where you may be inadvertently blocking the path to increased student independence and achievement. Based on their bestselling book, Who’s Doing the Work, this newly expanded workshop includes their latest insights and strategies.

Big Idea I: How to Teach Independence (not Learned Helplessness)
Participate in a series of exercises to learn how simple adjustments to instruction can lead to powerful shifts in student engagement, empowering

Big Idea II: How to Jumpstart Readers When They Plateau
Jan and Kim will share their strategies for supporting students when reading progress stymies.

Big Idea III: How to Teach Across the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Burkins and Yaris will put everything together and demonstrate a complete series of lessons across the gradual release of responsibility, including read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading.

Burkins & Yaris Flyer

Click to access book at Stenhouse

Click to access Jan & Kim's blog

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University Course Credit 

Course Information and
R
egistration coming soon!

ONLINE REGISTRATION FEES (closes on 6/15/19)

Price until 6/15/19
$125.00  SCIRA MEMBER
$170.00  Non-MEMBER (includes 1 year SCIRA and IRC membership) 
$75.00  Full Time STUDENT or  Paraprofessional
(SCIRA considers a full-time student as never having taught in a classroom. Student ID required at the conference).

 

At-the-Door Price (online registration closes on 6/15/19)
$150.00  SCIRA MEMBER
$195.00  Non-MEMBER (includes 1 year SCIRA and IRC membership) 
$100.00  Full Time STUDENT or  Paraprofessional
(SCIRA considers a full-time student as never having taught in a classroom. Student ID required at the conference). 

Purchase Orders - when registering, please click pay by check!!!

School District PO Information
WHEN REGISTERING, PLEASE CLICK PAY BY CHECK!!!!
Complete Purchase Order
List names of attendees on the PO
Mail to: SCIRA
c/o: Eileen Forrest                                                     
918 E. Wing St.                                                 
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Email: scira123@gmail.com

Chicago Public School PO Information
WHEN REGISTERING, PLEASE CLICK PAY BY CHECK!!!! 
Complete CPS Purchase Order
List names of attendees on PO
Use  SCIRA 's CPS Vendor  #99566
to pay for the conference fee.
QUESTIONS:  Contact Pam Kaufman at: pamkaufman7188@gmail.com

SCIRA is unable to offer refunds or cancellations.
You can send a colleague in your place.  

If payment, by personal check, is not received by 6/15/19, at the door charges will be applied!!