SoMLA Conference 2022 is a perfect professional learning network to help you accomplish your professional goals. Engage with a variety of speakers, from across the country and around the world, as they bring their "best practices" to conference participants. Select your favorite sessions relating to our theme "Literacy, and Justice, for ALL".

Join us! Rejuvenate your learning plan to make a difference each day focusing on literacy for all! SoMLA is here to help you grow and reach your goals.

Virtual Conference Schedule

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Session descriptions can be found on SCHED.

5:30-6:30 Welcome and Orientation

6:00-6:30 Meet the Exhibitors

6:30-7:55 Keynote: Debra Crouch, Brian Cambourne: Made For Learning: How the Conditions of Learning Guide Teaching Decisions

8:00-8:55 Featured Speaker: Maria Nichol: Engaging Hearts and Minds Through Purposeful Talk

8:00-8:55 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/Lester Laminack (Scholastic): Story Matters: We are Story

9:00-9:15 Storytime w/ Lester Laminack (Scholastic): Story Matters: Closing the Day with a Story

Friday, April 1, 2022

Session descriptions can be found on SCHED.

5:00-5:30 Welcome and Orientation

6:00-6:25 Featured Speakers: Sandy Keaton and Fran Clay: Tribute to Judi Hunter

5:30-6:20 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/ Pam Allyn (Scholastic): Student Wellbeing and the Power of Literacy: Profound Connections that Matter and Inspire

6:30-7:20 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker w/ Elizabeth Bassford (Curriculum Associates): Building Knowledge, Honoring All Readers

6:30-7:25 Featured Speakers: Chris Barton and Jennifer Ziegler: Between and Beyond the Lines: Our Lives as Readers and Writers

7:30-8:20 Featured Speaker: Matthew Winner-Empowering Kids and Conversations Through Podcasts

7:30-8:20 Taylor Book Group Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker

8:30-9:00 Featured Speaker: Matthew Winner: Play Brain Yoga! created by Jason Reynolds

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Session descriptions can be found on SCHED.

7:30-8:00 Welcome and Orientation

8:00-8:50 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker- Liz Rosado-Mcgrath, Heinemann Publishing: Literacy and Equity for All

8:00-8:50 Featured Speaker, Chad Everett: Beyond the Mask: An Exploration of Identity in Schools and Our World

8:00-8:50 Featured Speaker,Kristin Patrick, Blended Learning Coach/Noblesville Schools: Marie Kondo Your Classroom Library

9:00-9:50 Keynote Speaker, Sara Ahmed: Beginning with Us: Leveraging Identity Work as a Pathway to Meaning Making

10:00-10:50 Exhibitor Session: featured Speaker, Glenis Redmond (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): Poetry is Everyone!

10:00-10:50 Featured Speakers, Kristin Ziemke and Kirk Ziemke: Leveraging literacy to help students explore their social and emotional selves

10:00-10:50 Featured Speaker, Kristin Patrick:Thank You for Your Concern: Handling Materials Challenges

11:00-11:50 Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Peter Brunn, Collaborative Classroom, Vice President: Organizational Learning: Exploring the intersection of Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning

11:00-11:50 Featured Speaker/Author, Kelly Boswell: Every Kid a Writer: Strategies That Get Everyone Writing

11:00-11:50 Featured Speaker, Sara Ahmed: When the World Hands you a Curriculum

12:00-12:50 Meet and Celebrate the "Session Saturday" presenters!

12:00-12:50 Matthew Winner, Featured Speaker: A More Inclusive Classroom: diverse voices visible and valued on your bookshelves

12:00-12:50 Q and A with Kristin Ziemke, Chad Everett, and Sara Ahmed

1:00-1:50 Keynote Speaker, Kristin Ziemke: Literacy and Justice for All

2:00-2:50 Patty McGee, Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Benchmark Education: Feedback that Moves Writers Forward

2:00-2:50 Kelly Boswell, Featured Speaker: Maintain a Healthy Perspective on Conventions

2:00-2:50 Chad Everett, Featured Speaker: To Know and Be Known: Examining Representation and Pushing Beyond “Diverse” Booklists

3:00-3:50 Diane Garavaglia, Exhibitor Session: Featured Speaker, Booksource: Engage Students with Authentic Literature

3:00-3:50 Maria Nichol, Featured Speaker: Building a Culture of Talk

3:00-3:50 Kelly Boswell, Featured Speaker: Mentors and Modeling

4:00-5:00 Keynote Speaker, P David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley: Reading Comprehension and the Science of Reading

5:00-5:30 Raise your glass! Join us to celebrate SoMLA's 50th conference and all of the wonderful presenters!

Virtual Conference Details

Registration

Participants must register through Eventbrite to gain access to SoMLA Conference 2022 content.

State of Maryland Literacy Association members enjoy a special registration rate of $25. Be sure to check out the multiple ticket options available to attendees.

To join the State of Maryland Literacy Association, please visit https://www.somla.online/ Membership is $30. for one year.

Technology

Live sessions will be facilitated through Zoom. Participants will want to download Zoom to their computer or mobile device. Please visit the Zoom Download Center.

Participants will access Zoom links by logging into the SoMLA2022 Conference website. Only registered participants will be able log into the SoMLA2022 Conference website. Two weeks before the conference the zoom links will be added under each session, accessible to registered users only.

As we get closer to the conference, additional emails will be sent to those who registered providing information on how to access the virtual conference along with links needed.

The State of Maryland Literacy Association encourages all conference participants to create a SoMLA2022 Conference profile.

Accessibility

Recorded sessions will have closed captioning.

Professional Learning

The State of Maryland Literacy Association is an ILA Affiliate. SoMLA expects Conference presenters and participants to adhere to the ILA Code of Conduct for Meetings and Professional Events. SoMLA reserves the right to remove anyone from a live breakout session for not adhering to the Code of Conduct.

Professional growth points (MSDE credit) will be available to Conference participants at the conclusion of the Conference. If you are interested in getting credit complete this form

Social Media

Conference Hashtag is #somla2022 #SoMLAReads

State of Maryland Literacy Association on Twitter and Facebook

View the video below to meet the amazing line-up of speakers!