[Reading-hall-of-fame] Leadership of RHF Co Sponsored Sessions at Literacy Related Conferences

[Douglas Ray Reutzel]

READING HALL OF FAME
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Rita M. Bean                       D. Ray Reutzel                   Victoria J. Risko.            Timothy Rasinski                 Donald Leu
President                             President-Elect                   Secretary                       Treasurer                             Historian
Professor Emerita               Dean                                   Professor Emerita         Professor                             Professor
University of Pittsburgh     University of Wyoming    Vanderbilt University   Kent State University       University of Connecticut    __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Colleagues in the Reading Hall of Fame,

Thank you for your vote to allow me to serve you as President-Elect of the Reading Hall of Fame.  It is my sincere desire to promote the service, leadership, and scholarship of the members of the Reading Hall of Fame.  As President-Elect, I am charged with promoting our presence as an organization at literacy related conferences. To that end, I am writing to begin the process of organizing co-sponsored sessions at literacy related conferences where the Reading Hall of Fame has a history of making co-sponsored presentations as well as soliciting any other potential organizations where RHF members might feel they want to explore the opportunity to do so (e.g. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, American Educational Research Association, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, American Reading Forum, European Reading Conference).

Organizations differ on how a co-sponsored session is adjudicated for presentation on a conference program.  For example, ALER has a co-sponsored RHF session space reserved on the program.  Alternatively, LRA requires that the RHF session be peer-reviewed, as is any other program proposal.

I am writing to invite members of the Reading Hall of Fame, in our collective leadership role as an organization, to develop proposals for national and international literacy related organization meetings. If you are interested in preparing a co-sponsored proposal yourself or in collaboration with other RHF colleagues, please let me know.   Also, please get in touch if you would be willing to take the lead on preparing a co-sponsored program proposal for literacy related research or professional conferences where the RHF might be represented.

We have a long-standing history of co-sponsored sessions at ALER, ILA and NCTE. Let me know if any of you are willing to prepare and/or take the lead on submitting proposals for one of these conferences scheduled for the upcoming year (2017).  I am more than willing to reach out and do what I can to help with these organizations and proposals if we have members who will step up and take leadership on a proposal.

Please contact me with your willingness to prepare a proposal on behalf of the membership of RHF and the conference to which you will be sending your proposal at ray.reutzel at uwyo.edu.  I will coordinate, track, and report out at our annual meeting the success of RHF in providing intellectual leadership at the 2017 literacy related national and international conference venues nationally and internationally.

Warmest wishes,

D. Ray Reutzel
President Elect
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