Wednesday and Thursday were the first two days of our conference: Conferencia Internacional de Lecto-Escritura.
The opening session featured speakers from the ministry of education of Guatemala as well as the Consejo de Lectura(Reading Council. Hundereds of teachers from across Guatemala were in attendance.
But especially noteworthy was a keynote speech by Yetta Goodman, former president of IRA and imminently recognized for her work with whole language, early literacy, miscue analysis, and kidwatching. I have long admired her useful, insightful, and sensitive writings about teaching and learning, and I currently use her work and her concepts in my classrooms at ISU. I feel especially privileged that over the past several days I have gotten to know this wonderful and special woman (not to mention her very famous husband, Ken Goodman) during our side trips to Antigua, Mixco Viejo and the Mayan School as well as through casual conversations, lunches and dinners. Yetta has been in this field for sixty years. What a total inspiration.
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