Today is the second day of the Nebraska State Reading Conference in Kearney, Nebraska. Six teachers from Winside Elementary are attending this conference. We have been conferring between sessions and at the banquet last night as to which sessions each of us attended and what we learned. There have been many very interesting ideas presented and we all agreed that we have many new ideas to bring back to our school.
Last night the speaker at the banquet was Jon Scieszka, a nationally known author of many, many books for young people. His topic was "Guys Read - Getting Boys Into Reading." He was an extremely funny presenter and had us all in stitches! He has a web site called "Guys Read" which encourages boys to read with lists of books that boys of all ages will love. If you have a chance, why not check out this web site.
Today we are attending more sessions in the morning and will get together at an author's luncheon before heading home. The weather has been kind so far allowing us to arrive safely Thursday evening and we are hoping that we do not run into any bad roads on the way home.
We have already been talking about ways to implement some of the things we have learned. We are always very grateful to the school district and administrators for allowing us to attend these conferences. Not only do they fire up our enthusiasm, but in the long run they benefit our students.
