CCIRA May Newsletter 2022

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Sharing current Professional Learning Opportunities 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 Upcoming Professional Learning Offerings

Check out our latest podcast episodes. There are several new additions including Krista Griffin talking early career teachers, Melanie Conklin 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/ If you might be interested in submitting a guest post to CCIRA.blog, please contact Hollyanna Bates (hollyannabates@gmail.com).

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

Submit Your Proposal Here

Interested in Presenting at CCIRA23? CCIRA’s annual literacy conference offers a high quality professional development experience for attendees from across Colorado and surrounding states. CCIRA appreciates your willingness to share a session focused on best instructional practices and current literacy research. CCIRA does not offer an honorarium or pay expenses for proposal presenters; however, there will be a discounted full conference registration rate. This year’s theme, “A View From Here”, has four underlying threads: Building Empathy, Bending Perspectives, Developing Agency and Identity, and Embracing Diversity. In your proposal, please address how your session will amplify one or more of these. Only proposals directly related to one or more of these threads will be accepted. Accepted proposals will be scheduled for Thursday, February 9, 2023 and/or Friday, February 10, 2023. Depending on space available, proposals received after May 25, 2022 may not be considered.

Support CCIRA

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Shop Year Round! Make sure you check out the Shop With Scrip website and do some shopping online for a gift card.... 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. When you are ready to make your purchase please use this enrollment number:  A34A3B6D69223   *CCIRA endorses this fundraising activity.

Help Us Share CCIRA

We currently have 1,671 likes on Facebook. Can you help us get a few more? Share CCIRA with someone you know who could benefit from our work. The more you share, the more we grow!

Facebook not your jam? Don't worry, you and your friends can help us get our name out there on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest as well!

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! Contact Us! CCIRA Executive Committee Jessica Rickert, President: jessrccira@gmail.com Pam Minard,Conference Chair 2022: pam.minard@gmail.com Michele Warner, State Coordinator: warnermichele4@gmail.com Corina Kaskey, Secretary: Corina.Kaskey@summitk12.org Jessie Meeks, State Membership Coordinator: jessie.meeks@jeffco.k12.co.us Emily Goldenstein, Marketing Coordinator: ccira.emily@gmail.com 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 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 Emily Goldenstein (ccira.emily@gmail.com) to submit information for publication.

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