CCIRA June Newsletter 2022

Highlights for Members

Sharing current Professional Learning Opportunities
Select CCIRA 2023 presenters and books
Options for presenting at CCIRA 2023
Ways to keep up with CCIRA on Social Media
Options for supporting and donating to CCIRA

CCIRA is here to empower literacy educators!

CCIRA collaboratively encourages, supports, and advances literacy through research-based instructional practices to increase literacy access to all.

All people will be empowered to critically engage in our changing world by developing and utilizing literacy skills throughout life.

CCIRA Conference News

Save the Date for #CCIRA23

To see the most current list of speakers and presenters visit https://www.ccira.org/speakers-and-presenters-2023

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is the author of If This Bird Had Pockets: A Poem In Your Pocket Day Celebration and many other poetry books for children. You can read her blog post on our site, titled One Simple Ritual, All Year Long. Amy will also be a speaker at the 2023 conference!

Dr. Don Vu, author of Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness will be speaking at the 2023 conference too! Don works hard to reinforce his message that literacy can change the world through his work with various organizations including Edutopia and Scholastic. Read his post Sharing the Stories of Refugees on our blog.

Want more summer reading?

Check out these conference speakers and their books:

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Kristine O'Connell George - Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

John Schu - This is a School

Matthew Cordell - Cornbread and Poppy

Shannon Hale - This Book is Not for You!

Lesléa Newman - Alicia and the Hurricane and How to Sleep Tight through the Night

Linda Sue Park - The One Thing You'd Save

Charles R. Smith Jr. - Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigalow - Abdul's Story

Aida Salazar - Aida's published books can be found here. She has two upcoming books, A Seed in the Sun and Jovita Wore Pants.

CCIRA Upcoming Professional Learning Offerings

CCIRA

Literacy Conversations

Check out our latest podcast episode with Whitney La Rocca, coauthor of Patterns of Power and Patterns of Wonder. There are several other additions too including Krista Griffin, Melanie Conklin, Pernille Ripp, Gordan Korman and more!

Listen Now

Click on....CCIRA Reads to find out how you can get involved in an amazing book study!

Remember to check out the CCIRA Blog!

Reading CCIRA.blog every week—perhaps over lunch or a cup of coffee—builds a quick dose of professional learning into your routine. Who knows what ideas or inspiration this might spark!

CCIRA.blog features a wide variety of nationally renowned literacy experts, as well as talented practitioners from across Colorado. Check out the posts on https://ccira.blog/ New posts coming soon from authors and 2023 conference speakers Nikki Grimes and Lester Laminak!

If you might be interested in submitting a guest post to CCIRA.blog, please contact Hollyanna Bates (hollyannabates@gmail.com).

Support CCIRA

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Use the Shop With Scrip website and benefit CCIRA at the same time! *

Do you buy gift cards for your friends and family? Give a card to Starbucks or Amazon as a thank you to your favorite aunt? What if at the same time you could support CCIRA without spending an extra cent? That’s what you can do now by participating with Shop with Scrip, an online fundraising site. Since 1994, ShopWithScrip has been supporting schools and other non-profits in this unique way to fundraise. Just buy a gift card at one of the 750 retailers and know that a percentage is sent to CCIRA. It’s an easy way to support our work with literacy while you shop. For more information, visit https://www.shopwithscrip.com/ and then sign up to become a supporter of our organization.

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CCIRA Featured Partner

As an organization, we are always looking for great partnerships. We have a fantastic membership base and love new opportunities to provide them with more professional learning options and much more! Please reach out to someone from our Executive Committee below for more information on how we can work together for educators!

See the Full List of Partners Here

We want to hear from you!

CCIRA Executive Committee

Michele Warner, President:

warnermichele4@gmail.com

Lori Conrad, Conference Chair 2023: lorilconrad23@gmail.com

Patrick Allen, Conference Chair 2023: patrickaallen6@gmail.com

Corina Kaskey, Secretary: Corina.Kaskey@summitk12.org

Jessie Meeks, Membership Coordinator: jessie.meeks@jeffco.k12.co.us

Amy Vermeulen, Marketing Coordinator: amy.vermeulen@jeffco.k12.co.us

Stevi Quate, Partnership Chair:

steviq@gmail.com

Cathy Lynskey, Treasurer:

clynskey2000@gmail.com

Lisa Kahn, Administrative Assistant: lisakahnccira@gmail.com

Anne Folsom, Member at Large:

Anne.Folsom@jeffco.k12.co.us

Molly Rauh, Member at Large:

molly.rauh@gmail.com

Tanish Lee, Member at Large:

tanisha.lee@jeffco.k12.co.us

Is your local council, state committee, school, or community doing something extraordinary for literacy in Colorado? Do you have a great idea to share with other educators on how to enhance literacy in the classroom? Do you know of a conference or event that CCIRA members might be interested in attending? If so, please contact Amy Vermeulen (amy.vermeulen@jeffco.k12.co.us) to submit information for publication.

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