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ELFRIEDA “FREDDY” HIEBERT
Thursday Mid-morning Keynote
The New Science of Vocabulary:
AI-Enhanced Approaches to Word Selection 2023
In this presentation, Freddy Hiebert describes how AI can improve vocabulary instruction. AI has made available tools that can analyze large amounts of language data to identify word features affecting student learning, such as morphology, exposure age, abstraction, and frequency. These insights help educators and curriculum designers select target words and reading materials more effectively. By moving beyond traditional definition-based methods, the information from AI can support teaching vocabulary through strategically chosen words and texts. Leveraging AI-generated insights has the potential to enhance vocabulary acquisition across all grades and subjects, revolutionizing word learning in education. (All)
Sponsored by Savvas Learning Company
NAWAL QAROONI
Friday Closing Keynote
Building Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations
Nawal Qarooni is an educator, writer, and adjunct professor who supports a holistic approach to literacy instruction and family experiences in schools across the country. Drawing on her work as an inquiry-based leader, mother, and daughter of immigrants, Nawal's pedagogy is centered in the rich and authentic learning all families gift their children every day. She serves on the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Advisory Board and is a member of the National Council for Teachers of English Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. Nawal holds a Bachelor of English from the University of Michigan, a Master of Teaching from Brooklyn College, and a Master of Journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. She won a New Jersey Press Association Award for her international reporting and transitioned into education as a New York City Teaching Fellow. To learn more about her work, visit nqcliteracy.org or follow her on IG at @nqarooni.
ENRIQUE A. PUIG
Friday Language and Literacy Luncheon ($33)
Becoming Transdisciplinary Literate: Empowering, Inspiring, and Transforming
Becoming transdisciplinary literate demands going beyond systematic and explicit to intentional and coherent responsive instruction. In order to empower, inspire, and transform we need to engage in many professional conversations that revolve around the sciences of reading, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, and adopting a complex view of literacy learning as a process to foster critical thinking global citizens.
Co-sponsored by Sundance Newbridge