OH MY GOSH! The GCIRA mini-conference was an enormous success this year! We were pleasantly surprised and overwhelmingly pleased with the turn out. With over 150 participants, the event rocked the house!
Presenters provided incredible resources for participants, including how to make balanced literacy work for kindergarteners, strategies to incorporate reader's theatre, skills to help struggling readers, using brown bags for guided reading groups, ways to implement author studies in the balanced literacy classroom, and more! Furman graduate students shared information on Daybooks and the implications of culture on language and literacy learning. We had sessions utilizing technology, such as iPads.
The presenters for this mini-conference volunteered to share their best practices with colleagues, including Furman, Bob Jones, USC Upstate, and North Greenville college students studying education. Most of the presenters are actual Distinguished Teacher of Reading nominees for Greenville County. We announce the winner at our banquet in May. I CAN say that this year's winner was a presenter!! Last year's winner, pictured below, blew the audience away with her display and presentation. Whitnee Grant, who teaches first grade at Fork Shoals Elementary, shared with participants ideas for ways to grow a reader within small guided reading instruction, and through independent work stations.
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I would like to thank the GCIRA board who worked endless hours to put this successful event together, the volunteers who helped us run the event, Lynn Holbrooks with Usborn Books who donated door prizes, and the wonderful and skillful presenters.
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