Dr. Catherine Kurkjian

Professional Presentations

Regional, National and International Conferences

Presenter, Editorial Panel. 50^th Annual Conference of International Reading Association, San Antonio, Texas. May 2005.

Presenter, Children's Literature and New Literacies:  Genre, Author, Thematic Studies and Guided Reading Cyberlessons. 50^th Annual Conference of International Reading Association, San Antonio, Texas. May 2005.

Presenter, CTELL panel: Prospective teachers use case-based studies via the Internet. Annual National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas. December 2004.

Presenter, Early Bird: Meet the Editor. The New England Reading Association, Nashua, New Hampshire. October 2004.

Presenter, Orchestrating literacy instruction: Prospective teachers use case-based studies via the Internet. Annual National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona. December 2003.

Presenter, The Notable Books for a Global Society 2003 Award List. The New England Reading Association, Nashua, New Hampshire. October 2003.

Presenter, What is the scoop? Breakfast with the Editor. The New England Reading Association, Nashua, New Hampshire. October 2003.

Presenter, Making it even better: Using technology to support fluency through Shared Reading, Shared and Interactive Writing. 48^th Annual Conference of International Reading Association, Orlando, Florida. May 2003.

Presenter, Beyond the walls of the classroom: Email as a tool to create a shared frame of reference for Reader Response.47^th Annual Conference of International Reading Association, San Francisco California. May 2002.

Keynote Speaker, The right place at the right time. CTELL Federal Grant. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. June 2002.

Featured Speaker, Children’s Literature in an Electronic Age.53^rd Annual Conference of the New England Reading Association, Burlington, Vermont, November 2001.

Presenter: Multimedia poetry, National Council Teachers of English, Baltimore, Maryland, November  2001.

Round Table Panelist, Technology and cross cultural connections. Annual Conference of the National Council Teachers of English, Baltimore Maryland, November 2001.

Paper Presentation, Computer text–based analysis: An alternative to qualitative discourse analysis?  The Eighth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Spetses Greece, July  2001.

Program Chair, Day-long Poetry Institute: For the love of poetry and all that jazz! 46th
Annual Meeting of International Reading Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2001.

Discussion Leader, With Literacy and Justice for All: A Tribute to Carole Edelsky. elementary section get-together. Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 19, 2000.

Presenter, A matter of circles: Teachers teaching and learning literature. 45^th Annual Conference of the International Reading Association, Indianapolis, Indiana. May 2000.

Presenter, Dragon Lode of Books: IRA’s Notable Books for a Global Society. New England Reading Association (NERA) Portland, Maine, October 7, 2000.

Presenter, Teachers as readers: Where are they in the reader response continuum? NCTE Fourth International Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2000.

Presenter, Journey: First year as Editors. IRA Publication Series.45^th Annual Meeting of International Reading Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, May  2000.

Presenter, Dragon Lode of Books: IRA’s Notable Books for a Global Society. New England Reading Association (NERA) Andover, Massachusetts, October 21, 1999.

Presider, Business Meeting of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association. Annual Meeting of International Reading Association, San Diego, California, May, 1999.

Key Note Presenter, Where is my reflection? Annual Conference of the International Reading Association, Children’s Literature and Reading Program Session, San Diego, California, May 1999.

Presenter. I didn’t know THAT was multicultural children’s literature. 48^th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference. Austin, Texas, December 1998.

Presenter. Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns and issues surrounding the selection and use of Multicultural Literature. NCTE Third International Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Bordeaux, France, August 1998.

Program Chair, The poem, the song and the story. International Reading Association, Children’s Literature and Reading Program Session, Orlando, Florida, May 1998.

Presenter, What’s your perspective? A critical view of teachers’ multicultural agenda via levels of collaborative reflection. (co-authored presentation/ did not attend) National Association for Multicultural Education, October 1998.

Presenter, Dialoguing across campuses: Moral and ethical issues in selecting and using children’s literature. 47^th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 1997.

Presenter, Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns surrounding the selection and use of multicultural literature (co-authored presentation/did not attend).  National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). October 1997.

Presenter, A Dragon Lode of Books: IRA's Books for a Global Society award list. Annual Meeting of the New England Reading Association (NERA), Hartford, Connecticut. October 1997.

Presenter, The mediation of literacy in a selected bilingual Head Start classroom. 46th
Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (NRC), Charleston, South Carolina, December 1996.

Presenter, A Dragon Lode of Books: IRA's Books for a Global Society award list. Annual Meeting of the New England Reading Association (NERA), Providence, Rhode Island. October 1996.

Presenter, Developmentally Appropriate Practice regarding literacy in selected Head Start classrooms. Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association. (IRA)  New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1996.

Presenter, Head Start teachers operationalize their understandings of Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. (AERA) New York, New York. April 1996.

Presenter, Special Education Teachers interpret constructivist teaching. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1994.

Presenter, Constructivist teaching:  Activity settings teachers design to foster the appropriation of knowledge.  (Co-authored presentation/did not attend). Third International Conference on Cognitive Instruction. University of California, Riverside, spring 1993.