The Fourth Guy Bond Memorial Conference on Reading

“Developing Critical Readers & Writers:

Improving Adolescents’ Literacies through Research, Practice, and Policy”

A Celebration of the Research, Teaching, & Impact of Professor Richard Beach

April 29-30, 2011

Speakers include well-known international researchers such as:

 Donna Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor, Affiliate for African American Studies, Literacy and Language Department, The University of Georgia

Jerry Harste, Professor Emeritus, Literacy Education, Indiana University

Elizabeth B. Moje, Associate Dean for Research and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, School of Education; Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research; Faculty Affiliate, Latina/o Studies; University of Michigan

Chris M. Anson, University Distinguished Professor and Director, Campus Writing & Speaking Program, North Carolina State University

Deborah Appleman, Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies, Carleton College

 Registration will be available on-line in December.  For more information, please contact Ingrid Cook at the Minnesota Center for Reading Research, iccook@umn.edu

[Sponsored by the University of Minnesota, the Bond Foundation, the Minnesota Center for Reading Research & the Bush Foundation: Minnesota Reads Project]