Attend Lawrence Hill's keynote address at the evening reception and dinner on June 28th, at 5:00 pm in Heritage Hall. Dinner is included in conference registration. Dinner-only tickets are available to the general public for $30, or a table of 8 for $200, and can be purchased online through the registration site, or by calling the main office at (506) 847-8224..
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Keynote & Speakers
Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books, including The Illegal and The Book of Negroes, winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers in the United States and Canada. He is currently writing a new novel and a children’s book, and co-writing a television miniseries adaptation of The Illegal for Conquering Lion Pictures. He holds honorary doctorates from five Canadian universities and in 2015 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, received the Governor General’s History Award and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2016, his novel The Illegal was shortlisted for Canada Reads 2016 and he was nominated (with Clement Virgo) for a Canadian Screen Award for best writing, for The Book of Negroes TV miniseries. He volunteers with Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society and Project Bookmark Canada, and lives with his family in Hamilton, ON and in Woody Point, NL. www.lawrencehill.com and www.facebook.com/LawrenceHillAuthor .
Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books, including The Illegal and The Book of Negroes, winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers in the United States and Canada. He is currently writing a new novel and a children’s book, and co-writing a television miniseries adaptation of The Illegal for Conquering Lion Pictures. He holds honorary doctorates from five Canadian universities and in 2015 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, received the Governor General’s History Award and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2016, his novel The Illegal was shortlisted for Canada Reads 2016 and he was nominated (with Clement Virgo) for a Canadian Screen Award for best writing, for The Book of Negroes TV miniseries. He volunteers with Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society and Project Bookmark Canada, and lives with his family in Hamilton, ON and in Woody Point, NL. www.lawrencehill.com and www.facebook.com/LawrenceHillAuthor .
Peter Johnston
Peter Johnston has worked as an elementary classroom teacher and as a reading teacher, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of: Reading Research Quarterly and Elementary School Journal. He has published ten books and over 80 articles. His publications have appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Elementary School Journal, Reading Teacher, Language Arts, Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, and Theory into Practice.
His most recent books are Opening Minds: Using language to change lives (2012, Stenhouse), RTI in Literacy – Responsive and Comprehensive (2010, International Reading Association), Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning (2004, Stenhouse), Critical literacy/critical teaching: Tools for preparing responsive teachers (2006, Teachers College Press, with Cheryl Dozier & Rebecca Rogers), and Reading to Learn: Lessons from exemplary fourth grade classrooms (2002, Guilford, with Richard Allington). Choice Words, now in three languages and with close to 200,000 copies in print, was Scholastic Magazine’s #1 choice for book from the past decade every teacher should read. Johnston has received numerous awards for his work including the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for his contribution to the understanding of reading disability, the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, and his election to the Reading Hall of Fame. In his current research he investigates the consequences of teaching decisions, particularly language choices, for the kinds of literacy children acquire, how teachers and students build productive learning communities, and the implications of focusing on engagement.
Peter Johnston has worked as an elementary classroom teacher and as a reading teacher, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of: Reading Research Quarterly and Elementary School Journal. He has published ten books and over 80 articles. His publications have appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Elementary School Journal, Reading Teacher, Language Arts, Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, and Theory into Practice.
His most recent books are Opening Minds: Using language to change lives (2012, Stenhouse), RTI in Literacy – Responsive and Comprehensive (2010, International Reading Association), Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning (2004, Stenhouse), Critical literacy/critical teaching: Tools for preparing responsive teachers (2006, Teachers College Press, with Cheryl Dozier & Rebecca Rogers), and Reading to Learn: Lessons from exemplary fourth grade classrooms (2002, Guilford, with Richard Allington). Choice Words, now in three languages and with close to 200,000 copies in print, was Scholastic Magazine’s #1 choice for book from the past decade every teacher should read. Johnston has received numerous awards for his work including the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for his contribution to the understanding of reading disability, the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, and his election to the Reading Hall of Fame. In his current research he investigates the consequences of teaching decisions, particularly language choices, for the kinds of literacy children acquire, how teachers and students build productive learning communities, and the implications of focusing on engagement.
Earn a credit through UNB UNB Grad students may select to take part in this conference as part of EDUC6108 - The Language of Learning and should contact Carol Ann Hatheway at hatheway@unb.ca . You will need to register for EDUC6108 through UNB as well as complete the Learn2Learn conference registration on this website. This graduate course will focus on the language of learning and use the work of keynote speaker Peter Johnston. |
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