2006-2007 Events

• Friday, October 27, 2006 from 12 - 3 PM at the Milleridge Inn
  Noted educator Ruth Vinz (Teachers College Professor; author of Daybooks of Critical Reading and Writing; Inside Out: Strategies for Teaching Writing; Composing a Teaching Life) will be our featured speaker.

• April 20, 2007 - LILAC/NRC Spring Conference 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM
  Location: The Melville Marriott Hotel
  Topic: Reading & Writing & Words...Oh My!

Featured Speakers: 

Dr. Gregory Maguire: (Ph.D. in English & American Literature from Tufts)

Best selling author of Wicked; Son of a Witch; Mirror, Mirror; and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, as well as children's books The Good Liar and Haunted Hairdos. He is also a founder and co-director of Children's Literature New England, Incorporated, a non-profit educational charity.

Dr. Janet Allen:

Noted educator and international consultant recognized for her literacy work with at-risk children. She is the author of On the Same Page; Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades; Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading; Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12; and It's Never Tool Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy: and co-author of Reading History: A Practice Guide to Improving Literacy and There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School.

Sponsor: Long Island Language Arts Council and Nassau Reading Council
Conference Brochure and Registration Form (PDF format)

• May 18, 2007 - LILAC 2005 Celebration Luncheon 12:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  Location: The Milleridge Inn
  Topic: Honoring NYSEC Educators of Excellence & Kenneth F. Gambone Writing Contest Winners
  Featured Speaker: TBA
  Sponsor: Everbind: Norm Cohen