[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Open Letter to RHF Membership on Move to LRA from ILA

Fri Jul 21 01:15:59 BST 2017

Of course, the Executive Director is now a voting member of the Nominating
Committee for the ILA Board of Directors.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:21 PM WTeale-UIC <wteale at uic.edu> wrote:

> I should like to make clear to everyone that the control of ILA rests with
> the Board of Directors and not with Marcie Post.
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> On Jul 20, 2017, at 18:12, Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
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> For me ILA would have to change executive directors and reverse the
> control of the organization she has usurped before I would ever again
> attend ILA.
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> Doug Fisher Is the first person to be elected without opposition which
> shows the disdain for the presidency and reduction of status of the elected
> leadership. We can't trust ILA nor should  we lend our name to appearing
> to accept what has happened to it .
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> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Jack Cassidy <dr.jackcassidy at gmail.com>
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>> Didn't we already have a survey about with the majority favoring the move
>> to LRA?
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>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:10 PM Douglas Ray Reutzel <
>> Ray.Reutzel at uwyo.edu> wrote:
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>>> July 17, 2017
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>>> Dear *Reading Hall of Fame* Colleagues:
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>>> I am writing to give you further information about the continuing
>>> discussion around moving the *Reading Hall of Fame* Breakfast,
>>> Induction Ceremony, and Inductee Inaugural Presentations from the long
>>> standing relationship and association with ILA/IRA to LRA in the future.
>>> Members of the *Reading Hall of Fame* who attended the ILA conference
>>> discussed this matter further on Sunday morning, July 16th, 2017 at
>>> their annual RHF Business Meeting.   We were encouraged by those present to
>>> advance and continue this discussion but wait to make a decision until more
>>> information from both LRA and ILA is made available.  In what follows, I
>>> share with you the essence of the discussions we had at that meeting for
>>> your information.  Vicki Risko, RHF Secretary, will also post the RHF
>>> Sunday morning meeting minutes to the RHF website.
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>>> LRA President, Gay Ivey, and an RHF member, informed the group that as
>>> President of LRA she is repurposing the Saturday morning of LRA for
>>> alternative format, organization cosponsored sessions, etc., to facilitate
>>> more time and space during the regular LRA program for inclusion of vetted
>>> sessions and papers.   Most of us already know that LRA has grown to a size
>>> that it is now constrained by space limitations for accepting papers and
>>> sessions on the program.  Gay’s idea was to give RHF a space and block of
>>> time, roughly from 8-10:30AM on Saturday, the last day of the LRA
>>> conference for the breakfast, induction ceremony and for inaugural
>>> addresses by the previous year’s inductees.  RHF members present at the ILA
>>> breakfast raised questions about whether RHF members would indeed stay to
>>> attend the RHF functions if these were placed on the last day of the LRA
>>> conference.  If last day on the program status was what LRA could offer to
>>> the RHF for their future events, it was thought that the move to LRA may
>>> prove to be less attractive to majority of RHF membership.
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>>> RHF member, Diane Lapp, indicated that ILA was hearing that the RHF was
>>> considering an exit from ILA.  Upper ILA leadership had expressed to her,
>>> Diane, that they wanted to have us wait out announcements about some
>>> upcoming changes before making a final decision.  Many RHF members,
>>> especially those traveling internationally, expressed problems with
>>> attending ILA meetings in summers when travel prices are much higher.
>>> Diane indicated that a “time of year” change was being negotiated for ILA
>>> in 2019 because the summer dates just weren’t working out.  Furthermore in
>>> a follow up meeting with current ILA President, Doug Fisher, I learned that
>>> this is indeed the case.  Doug was most eager to retain the RFH at ILA
>>> meetings and asked what it would take to have us reconsider our decision to
>>> move to LRA since the purpose of having the RHF meeting at ILA was to
>>> accomplish our stated mission of conveying the findings of research to
>>> practitioners to close the research-practice gap.  Doug asked that we go
>>> slowly on this decision so that they, ILA, could hear what changes we would
>>> ask them to make to retain RHF at ILA in the future.
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>>> In consequence, I plan to send out an anonymous survey to RHF members
>>> with a series of open ended questions to gather more information to inform
>>> the discussion about a potential move to LRA.
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>>> At the same time, I propose we continue to work with LRA and LRA
>>> President Gay Ivey to frame a proposal for RHF to pursue a potential move
>>> to LRA.  This proposal would need to address the constraints and conditions
>>> that would be a part of the decision to make a move or not make a move from
>>> ILA to LRA.  In any case, I believe the mere discussion of an RHF move has
>>> heightened awareness of the *Reading Hall of Fame* and its intrinsic
>>> historic and intellectual value added to any conference or organization.
>>> It is indeed nice to be “wanted.”
>>>
>>> Please respond when the survey comes out in subsequent weeks so that we
>>> can capture information in a summary fashion to share with the membership
>>> of RHF and with ILA and LRA to inform our decision making process.  If
>>> there are other concerns you’d like me to address as we proceed with this
>>> process, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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>>> Best,
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>>> D. Ray Reutzel
>>> President
>>> Reading Hall of Fame 2017-2019
>>> ray.reutzel at uwyo.edu
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