SoMLA 2022 Virtual Conference: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2022 State of Maryland Literacy Association Conference. This is Maryland’s 50th annual conference! The three day event is packed with exciting opportunities for professional development, networking, and examining exemplary materials for classroom use. This conference is intended for a wide-range of audiences including classroom teachers, reading specialists, special educators, curriculum specialists, administrators, and other educators. There is a variety of high caliber speakers, researchers, practitioners, publishers, and authors that are presenting throughout the conference, as well as the pre-conference "Session Saturday" presentations. You may apply for CPD credit through MDSE by filling out this form. To qualify, you must have attended 15 hours total. This includes time you spent engaged in "Session Saturday" presentations. Please fill out all of the information. Incomplete requests will not be filled. Requests will be cross referenced with attendance from "Session Saturday" presentations and on the weekend of March 31-April 2nd 2022. If you participated for the required hours, you will receive a credit. Please be patient, you will receive your form.

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For general questions, contact the Conference Coordinator, Gayle Glick at ggayle56@aol.com.

11:00am EST

Literacy and Content Learning with the Justice League

Let the Justice League save the day for struggling unmotivated readers in content classrooms with comic book context texts. Leave with lessons you can use tomorrow and ideas for designing your own graphic text-based lessons.

Speakers

Jason Allen

Session Saturday Presenter/Assistant Professor

Jason Allen is an Assistant Professor of Education at Shepherd University. He current serves as the Coordinator of Social Studies Education within the University’s School of Education. Before this, he taught social studies, sixth to twelfth grade for over 15 years. He holds a BA... Read More →

LeAnn A. Johnson

Shepherd University/Associate Professor, Session Saturday Presenter

Dr. LeAnn Johnson worked as a special education teacher in New York before moving to Maryland where she completed a MS in Reading Instruction and a Ph.D. in Learning Disabilities. While there, she took a year off to teach an Elementary ELL class in Poland the year after the Berlin... Read More →

Saturday January 22, 2022 11:00am - 11:45am EST
Session Saturday Presentation

Session Saturday Presentation

Audience 5-12, (Middle-Secondary), (

10:00am EST

Benefits of Multiple Genres in Shared Book Reading

Can we stop reading failure? A literature review shows the use of multiple genres during shared book reading has potential. The how and why of reading informational books.

Speakers

Charles Grattan Baldwin

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, UMES

Charles Grattan Baldwin is an experienced teacher and has worked for more than 20 years as an educator, teaching preschool to college and nearly every grade in between. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Literacy at University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he works with... Read More →

Gurupriya Ramanathan

Salisbury University/Assistant Professor, Session Saturday Presenter

Gurupriya Ramanathan is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Salisbury University, where she teaches courses on integrated early childhood curriculum, and teaching science in early childhood. Dr. Ramanathan’s previous teaching experiences include teaching across... Read More →

Saturday February 26, 2022 10:00am - 10:45am EST
Session Saturday Presentation

Session Saturday Presentation

Audience Birth-Pre-K, Early Childhood

11:00am EST

Following the Science of Reading: One District’s Journey Towards Equity

Howard County Public Schools is committed to ensuring equity for all students. As such educators are implementing research-based practices to assure students acquire foundational skills that ensure comprehension of text.

Speakers

Stephanie Milligan

Coordinator, Elementary Language Arts, Session Saturday Presenter

Stephanie Milligan is Coordinator the Elementary Language Arts in Howard County Public Schools, MD. She has been an educator for 25 years. During this time she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, literacy coach, and resource teacher. Stephanie has presented at SoMIRAC... Read More →

Exhibitors

Elizabeth English. Shannon Fuller, Mandy Ubele

Concurrent Session, Collaborative Classroom

Collaborative Classroom is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers. For 42 years, Collaborative Classroom has demonstrated how research-based literacy approaches and a commitment to work in tandem with teachers have dramatically... Read More →

Saturday February 26, 2022 11:00am - 11:45am EST
Session Saturday Presentation

Session Saturday Presentation

Audience (