Institutes are full-day courses offered on Sunday, April 29. An institute is an all-day meeting to allow a group of presenters to teach a common theme or issue in-depth. They are available with or without the Annual Convention for an additional fee.
CEU Credits for each Institute = 8 hours
Plan to register early! Registration will open on or before December 12, 2011. The Institutes often sellout, additional tickets may not be available onsite. For more information about the institutes and other sessions available, please visit our
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Institutes for the 2012 Convention
Institute 1: Unit Projects that Work: Create Amazing Comprehensive Keepsake Books
Institute 2: Think Along Strategies and Common Core State Standards
Institute 3: Promoting Vocabulary Development from Pre-K to Grade 12
Institute 4: Teaching Literacy for Cognitive Engagement
Institute 5: Things Digital and Literacy Instruction
Institute 6: Literacy and Language in the Early Years
Institute 7: Writing Strategy Mini-lessons for Grades K-6
Institute 8: Quality Literacy Instruction for Second Language Learners
Institute 9: Raising Self-Determining Readers and Writers
Institute 10: Convincing teachers to Apply New Common Core Literacy Standards
Institute 11: It’s Not Magic! It’s Metacognition!
Institute 12: Rekindling the Reading Fire-Author Panel
Institute 13: The Reading-Spelling-Meaning Instructional Connection
Institute 14: IRA/NCATE: A Partnership for Reading Professional
Institute 15: Reaching New Heights: Differentiating Literacy Instruction
Institute 16: Fostering Literacy with Research-Based Instructional Practices and Web 2.0
Institute 17: Developing Literacy Leadership
Institute 18: Research Making a Difference in Common Core Standards