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20th Annual B.G. Raines Education Forum

The Forum is named for Dr. Bob Gene Raines, a founder of the Forum and a participant since 1988.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center

Pre-registration is now closed, but you can still attend any event by completing a registration form at the registration desk.

Teacher/Student Teacher roundtables at 4:30 p.m.will be presented by Cynthia Kelley, 2007 McGlothlin Award winner and Tommy Smigiel, 2008 Virginia Teacher of the Year.

Keynote Event at 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Dolores Perin

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education
and Senior Research Associate at Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Perin will be speaking about what classroom teachers can do to improve student writing skills.

Dr. Perin has a B.A. in Developmental Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Sussex, England. Her scholarly interests include reading and writing disabilities in children and adults, academic preparedness and remediation in community colleges, and adult education and workplace literacy.

Her publications include:

Writing Next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools, A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2007 (Alliance for Excellent Education, co-authored with Steve Graham).

Effects on science summarization of a reading comprehension intervention for adolescents with behavior and attention disorders (Exceptional Children, co-authored with M. Rogevich)
Can community colleges protect both access and standards? The problem of remediation (Teachers College Record).
Institutional decision-making for increasing academic preparedness in community colleges (New Directions in Community Colleges).
Effects of text, domain and learner variables on the academic writing of developmental reading students (Higher Education).
Effects of repetition on informational writing of developmental reading students (Journal of Developmental Education).
Academic-occupational integration as a reform strategy for the community college: Classroom perspectives (Teachers College Record).
Promising approaches for remediation (Community College Journal).
Professionalizing adult literacy: Would a credential help? (Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy).
Workplace literacy assessment (Dyslexia).
Assessing the reading-writing relation in adult literacy students (Reading Psychology).

Teachers of the Year

At the Forum, we honor Teachers of the Year from our participating districts. Names of teachers honored at the Forum remain on the Forum web page.

Teacher Roundtable Workshops

Each year we invite McGlothlin Award Winners to conduct Teacher Roundtable Workshops For teachers and student teachers. Cynthia Kelley Wilkins, who teaches English at Amherst County High School, will be with us for the Forum. Also, this year the Virginia Teacher of the Year, Norview High School’s Tommy Smigiel, who teaches Earth Science and Teen Leadership, will be with us. We will be posting more information on the web page as we hear from these Roundtable presenters about their topics and interests.

Forum History

You are invited to read about the history and purpose of the Forum and to send comments or suggestions.

Forum sponsors

Emory & Henry College gratefully acknowledges the support of these groups that help each year to make the Forum a success:

Bristol City Public Schools
Dickenson County Public Schools
Galax City Public Schools
Grayson County Public Schools
Russell County Public Schools
Smyth County Public Schools
Tazewell County Public Schools
Virginia Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa
Washington County Public Schools
Wythe County Public Schools

Previous Forum Speakers

Please visit our list of previous Forum speakers. This list provides several links to our former speakers. Occasionally these links need to be updated as people move about on the Internet. Let us know if you find a broken link.