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Children’s Literacy Foundation
Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Literacy in Your Community Wednesday, April 9, 2014 St. Johnsbury, VT
Conference Agenda 8:45-‐9:00: Arrive and settle in with coffee/tea and light breakfast. 9:00-‐9:45: Guest Speaker: Stacy Raphael Stacy directs school programs at the Flynn Center in Burlington. She works with more than 100 schools in almost 1,000 workshops every year. Previously Stacy ran education programs for the Vermont Arts Council Montpelier and engaged in grantmaking to schools and communities. 9:45-‐10:15: Question and Answer Session 10:15-‐10:30: Break for coffee, tea, and muffins. 10:30-‐11:45: Panel Discussion: Building Partnerships to Improve Community and Family Literacy.
Mary Gaetz, Outreach Coordinator, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Adam Kane, Executive Director, Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, VT Stacy Raphael, Associate Director for School Programs,
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT Duncan McDougall, CLiF Executive Director, Moderator
There will be time for questions and answers. 11:45-‐12:45: Networking and lunch 12:45-‐1:30: Idea Sharing Session Hear from our presenters and some current Year of the Book and Community Literacy towns about their favorite new programs. 1:30-‐3:00: Round Table Discussions Join a table to discuss a topic of particular interest with colleagues and presenters. Feel free to participate in as many conversations as you wish.
1. Planning a New Program. Moderated by Stacy Raphael. 2. Funding Your Programs. Moderated by Adam Kane. 3. Getting Press for Your Programs. Moderated by Katie Titterton,
CLiF Communications Director. 4. Ideas Into Action—Integrating Arts Into Your Classroom.
Moderated by Mary Gaetz. 5. Brainstorming with CLiF Staff about Program Ideas. CLiF staff.
Before you leave St. Johnsbury, please take advantage of these two opportunities:
• The CLiF Giveaway Book Table. A wide selection of new books for you to take and give to children, families, or organizations in your town.
• The Fairbanks Museum. Adam Kane has kindly offered all conference attendees complimentary admission to the Fairbanks Museum from 3 PM when the conference ends to 5 PM when the museum closes.
Bios of Conference Presenters
Mary Gaetz has worked at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College since 2011, coordinating the Hop’s K-‐12 programming including HopStops, School Matinee Series performances, and the START program. Prior to joining the Hop, Mary taught theatre at the University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln, worked as the family arts coordinator and a producer for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, and was education manager at Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont where she managed the Project Playwright program. Adam Kane became the Executive Director of the Fairbank Museum and Planetarium in September 2013. He was the Co-‐Executive Director of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) in Vergennes, VT, where he played a major role as Archaeological Director from 2000 to 2011 and leader of the Maritime Research Institute. He is a commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a speaker with the Vermont Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau. Duncan McDougall founded the Children’s Literacy Foundation in 1998. He has given hundreds of literacy presentations to thousands of children and parents throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. His vision and leadership have helped CLiF mature into an organization that has served and inspired 150,000 low-‐income, at-‐risk, and rural children in 400 towns and given more than $3 million in brand-‐new books to children who need them the most. Stacy Raphael directs school programs at the Flynn Center in Burlington, working with over 100 schools in almost 1,000 workshops every year. Before joining the Flynn staff in 2012, Stacy ran education programs for the Vermont Arts Council in Montpelier, engaged in grantmaking to schools and communities, oversaw the statewide roster of teaching artists, and served as Vermont program director for the national Poetry Out Loud program established by the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.