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The Literacy Connection Board with Amy Ludwig VanDerwater on April 12, 2025
2026 - 2027 Literacy Connection Program

​Featured Author, Educator & Scholar: Stella Villalba


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How do we transform routine classroom check-ins into deeply transformative, culturally sustaining spaces?
Join author Stella Villalba for a transformative, two-part interactive learning experience based on her book, Tell Me More: Conferring with Artists, Writers, and Storytellers. This two-part series introduces a conferring design rooted in a pedagogy of listening and noticing. Together, we will learn to embrace conferring as a collaborative, in-between space of possibilities where knowledge is genuinely co-constructed with students. ​
2026 - 2027 Program Dates:
Saturday, September 12, 2026 
Saturday, April 10, 2027

Book Study Discussion:
Thursday, March 11, 2027
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Program Meeting Location:
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Wickliffe Elementary School
2405 Wickliffe Road
Upper Arlington, OH
43221​

Register Below!

  • Learn with Stella Villalba
  • Read and Explore the Professional Text, Tell Me More  (Included with 2 Day Registration Option!)
  • Connect and Collaborate with Educators
  • Shop the Cover to Cover Pop Up Book Shop​​
  • Earn Credit - CEUs or Graduate Credit (Offered for an Additional Fee)

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AND a $10.00 coupon code for this year's programming.

2 Days of Learning - 9/12/26 & 4/10/27

$200.00 $160.00
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Preservice & First Year Teachers

$200.00 $40.00
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9/12/26 ONLY

$100.00 $85.00
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4/10/27 ONLY

$100.00 $85.00
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  • Welcome
  • About Us
  • History of Presenters
  • Previous Professional Development Programs
    • Professional Development 2024-2025 Part 2
    • Professional Development 2024-2025 Part 1
    • Professional Development 2023-24 >
      • Dr. Timothy Rasinski 2023
      • Dr. Chase Young 2024
    • Professional Development 2022-23
    • Professional Development 2020-2021 >
      • Dr. Gholdy Muhammad 2021
      • Matt Glover 2021
      • Let's Talk Books! 2020
      • Kristin Ziemke 2020
    • Professional Development 2019-2020 >
      • Handouts from Annie Ward
      • Class Credit Information 2019-2020
    • Professional Development 2018-2019 >
      • Study Group 2018-2019
    • Professional Development 2017-2018
    • Featured Authors 2017-2018 >
      • Study Group 2017-2018
    • Featured Author 2016-2017 >
      • Study Group 2016-2017
    • Featured Author 2015-2016 >
      • Study Group 2015-2016
  • Recommended Books for Diversity and Social Justice
  • Contact/Support