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Literacy & Learning Educator Schedule 2025
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Session
Breakfast | Visit the Exhibitors
Speaker
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Grand Opening & Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Opening Keynote Session: MTSS for Reading Improvement
Dr. Stephanie Stollar
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Break | Visit the Exhibitors
11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Enhancing Word Reading Through Integrated Word-Meaning Instruction
Dr. Pam Kastner
11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Intensifying Literacy Instruction: Essential Components
Dr. Kim St. Martin
11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
The Science of Reading from a Whole Child Approach
Dr. Sara Hart
12:10 – 1:40 p.m.
Lunch | Visit The Exhibitors
1:40 – 2:50 p.m.
Data-Driven Success: Leveraging Screening to Boost Reading Achievement
Nellie Caruso, Leigh Fettes & Kate Winn
1:40 – 2:50 p.m.
Launching Literacy: A Morphological Mission
Lee-Ann Lear, Helen Maclean, Shari Kudsia & Mara Hockenhull
1:40 – 2:50 p.m.
Program Implementation: Research and Practice
Dr. Andrea Fraser
3:00 – 4:10 p.m.
Teaching Beginning Writers: Evidence-Based Writing Instruction for K-2
Dr. Renata Archie
3:00 – 4:10 p.m.
The Power of How: Maximizing Practice through Instructional Routines
Dr. Pam Kastner
3:00 – 4:10 p.m.
Our Perspective on Effective System-Wide Literacy Support and the Reading Specialist Role: Successes, Challenges and What Lies Ahead
Steve Krause, Rebekah Felsman, Lorianne Haslehurst, Amy Bartlett Gibson & Lisa Rogers
4:10 p.m. END
Visit the Exhibitors
Time
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Session
Breakfast
Speaker
9:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Harnessing the Power of Interactive Read-Alouds in the Primary Grades
Melissa Monette Smith
9:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Nothing Changes Until Something Changes: Yukon First Nation School Board’s Journey Transforming Literacy
Megan Norris & Melissa Flynn
9:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Promoting Oral Language and Participation in Class with Talk Moves
Dr. Theresa Pham
10:10 – 10:40 a.m.
Break | Visit the Exhibitors
10:40 – 11:50 a.m.
Teaching Writing with Self-Regulated Strategy Development using thinkSRSD
Erika Chesnick & Jordan Ingola
10:40 – 11:50 a.m.
Small Group and Whole Class Intervention and the Power of Structured Literacy in Grades 7-9
Lisa Rogers, Courtney Berger & Kristen Roy
10:40 – 11:50 a.m.
Demystifying Psychoeducational Assessments for Dyslexic Students
Dr. Katelyn Bryant
11:50 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Lunch
1:20 – 1:50 p.m.
IDA Ontario Closing Comments & Literacy Leader of the Year Winners
1:50 – 3:20 p.m.
Closing Keynote Session
Dr. Reid Lyon
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