📚This month's Communicator features an upcoming event with author, educator, and former CCIRA presenter, Nawal Qarooni. You will also find updated 2025 conference information regarding speakers and our new venue. Happy reading! conta.cc/4aVuYS8

📢New blog alert! Click the link below to read the interview with John Schu . We love what he has to share! #ccira blog #ccira #spreadjoythroughstory
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I chatted with CCIRA about Louder Than Hunger, This Is a School, and This Is a Story: ccira.blog/2024/04/16/con…

☔🌷This month's newsletter brings you the Colorado Children's Book Award winners and other important CCIRA news. #CCIRA conta.cc/49iORRx

Pondering how we use feedback to support our students individual and collective reading identities with Jen & Hannah are here to support teachers&students CCIRA #ccira24

Starting with a read aloud with Dr. Jan Burkins Kari Yates CCIRA #CCIRA24

Join us at 2:30 in Westminster 3 to chat about Reenergizing Reading Routines by elevating read-aloud experiences, simplifying small group work, and supporting independent readers! ayear4thebooks Stenhouse Publishers Corwin Press #CCIRA24

Thanks for the fun, Camille Cira! #ccira #ccira 24 #ccira 2024

In regards to students 'cheating' with AI -

We are not in the business of 'catching' kids. We are in the business of supporting kids, of meeting kids where they are, of leveraging tools in a way that matches your vision in the classroom.

Thank you, 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐨 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐢 (Taylor’s Version)🌈 ♥️
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Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors...
'A book that is one child's mirror might be another child's window.'
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- Wiley Blevins, EdD

Day made. #CCIRA

The Two Writing Teachers team blew some minds today at #CCIRA CCIRA, sharing how to leverage artificial intelligence for writing instruction! Melanie Meehan Sarah Valter

Facilitating a conversation about how to choose and use mentor texts for every writer! Melanie Meehan Sarah Valter CCIRA #CCIRA

Wonderful day at #CCIRA meeting #teachers #librarians & seeing author and illustrator friends from SCBWI Rocky Mtn

Kim shares some fun ways to extend student thinking through picture books! Nonfiction study, mock awards, #classroombookaday , and comprehension signposts. Kim Haines CCIRA #CCIRA

Jen and Hannah Jen & Hannah are here to support teachers&students invite us to consider how we teach reading, but also how we teach the readER. CCIRA #CCIRA

Leaving Maria Walther’s session about shared reading with a million ideas to try! CCIRA #CCIRA

Being able to learn, present, and write with my daughter has been a special gift! Thanks CCIRA for being the place where the seed idea for #AYear4theBooks took root. 📚💛 Stenhouse Publishers Terry Thompson 🖖

Saturday attendees learned about the format of a literacy studio with the fabulous Ellin Oliver Keene. Thank you, Ellin, for sharing your thoughts around integrating reading and writing so students have more time to practice what they’re learning. #ccira #ccira 24 #ccira 2024

The Saturday morning session with Kylene Beers and Bob Probst was fantastic! Attendees saw the use of signposts and how engaged students could be when asked the right questions. #ccira #ccira 24 #ccira 2024