2012

July 23, 2012
Scholastic National Summer Institute (New Orleans, Louisiana)
"Utilizing the Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

July 18, 2012
Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (Houston, Texas)
"Navigating an Ocean of Filled with Formative Processes" 
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

July 11-14, 2012 
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Nineteenth Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada) 
"Text complexity: Toward construct definition and measurement" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

July 9, 2012 
2012 National Forum on Education Policy (Atlanta, Georgia) 
Innovation & Opportunity: Moving the Needle on Student Success
Featured Guest: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

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May 17, 2012
Read Kansas Read! (Topeka, KS)
Kickoff event for Read Kansas Read!
Featured Guest: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

May 2, 2012
Reading Hall of Fame Presentation at The International Reading Association 57th Annual Convention (Chicago, Illinois)
"Literacy and multilingual learners" 
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist

May 2, 2012
International Reading Association 57th Annual Convention (Chicago, Illinois)
"Text Complexity and the Common Core State Standards: Using Lexile Measures to Gauge College and Career Readiness" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development 

May 1, 2012
Readability Special Interest Group (SIG), International Reading Association (Chicago, IL)
"Bending the Text Complexity Curve toward Alignment with CCS: Why Should You Care?"
Presenter: Todd Sandvik, Executive Director of Global Services 

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April 27-29, 2012
Beginning Teacher Conference (Kill Devil Hills, NC)
"Using Quantile Measures to Personalize Instruction and Raise Achievement"
Presenter: Tracey L. Brown, Middle School Curriculum Specialist 

April 13-17, 2012
American Educational Research Association (AERA) & National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"A Causal Rasch Model for Understanding Comprehension in the Context of Reader-Test-Task"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

April 13-16, 2012
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Investigating the impact of image support on reading comprehension across multiple grades and types of image" 
Presenter: Dr. Heather Koons, Director, Consulting and Development Services, and Dr. Robin Baker, Senior Research Associate

April 13-16, 2012
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Validity of a computer analytic writing ability scale"
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist
Contributor to Research: Hal Burdick, Senior Psychometrician

April 13-16, 2012
Reading Hall of Fame Symposium at The American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Text complexity: What is it, how is it measured, and after all, why is it important?" 
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist

April 11-12, 2012
International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Causal Rasch Models"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-Founder 

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March 16-17, 2012
WVCTM (Flatwoods, West Virginia)
"Building Bridges from Teach 21 to Global 21" 
Presenter: Tracey Brown, Quantile Specialist

March 13-14, 2012
Scholastic Literacy Summit (Boston, Massachusetts)
"Common Core State Standards, Text Complexity, & The Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

March 8-9, 2012
Kentucky Center for Mathematics (Lexington, Kentucky)
"How Kentucky Student Score Reports Inform Mathematical Instruction"
Presenter: Bethany Hudnutt, Quantile Research Associate

March 5-6, 2012
AdvancED Wyoming Spring Conference 2012 (Casper, Wyoming)
"Using the Quantile Measure to Inform and Differentiate Mathematics Instruction"
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

March 5-6, 2012
AdvancED Wyoming Spring Conference 2012 (Casper, Wyoming)
"Finding Gold! Maximizing the Use of Information on the PAWS Student Score Reports"
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

March 5-6, 2012
North Carolina Middle School Association (Greensboro, North Carolina)
"Engaging Middle School Students in Independent Reading" (Featuring the Lexile Framework for Reading)
Presenter: Dr. Kim Bowen, Lexile Research Associate

March 5-6, 2012
North Carolina Middle School Association (Greensboro, North Carolina)
"Finding Gold: Maximizing Information from NCEOG/NCEOC Student Score Report" 
Presenter: Dr. Kim Bowen, Lexile Research Associate, and Tracey Brown, Quantile Specialist

March 5-6, 2012
North Carolina Middle School Association (Greensboro, North Carolina)
"Put Quantile to Work in Your Classroom"
Presenter: Tracey Brown and Sandra Totten, Quantile Specialists

March 2, 2012
ePals National Summit (Chicago, Illinois)
"Text complexity: Issues and Educational Implications"
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist

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February 21-23, 2012
Achieve3000: Fourth Annual Hawaii Literacy Leadership Conference (Maui, Hawaii)
"Key Components of Common Core: The Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

February 21, 2012
NELA (Raleigh, North Carolina)
"Principals Supporting Mathematics Teachers with Quantile Measures"
Presenter: Bethany Hudnutt, Quantile Research Associate

February 14-16, 2012
DIBELS Summit (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
"Differentiating Instruction with Lexiles"
Presenter: Dr. Heather Koons, Director, Consulting and Development Services

February 9-10, 2012
Oklahoma Technology Association (formerly Encyclo-media) (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
"Engaging Middle and High School Students in Independent Reading (Featuring the Lexile Framework for Reading)"
Presenter: Dr. Kim Bowen, Lexile Research Associate

February 2-5, 2012
Pacific Coast Research Conference (San Diego, California)
"Developing a Text Difficulty Continuum for Beginning and Emerging Readers"
Presenter: Dr. Heather Koons, Director, Consulting and Development Services

February 2-5, 2012
Pacific Coast Research Conference (San Diego, California)
"Individual Centered Growth"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

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January 28, 2012 
Pearson Conference (Fremantle, Australia) 
"Personalized Learning Platforms- Imagine a World Where..." 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder 

January 24, 2012 
Rasch Conference (Perth, Australia) 
"Causal Rasch Models" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

January 23, 2012 
Rasch Conference (Perth, Australia) 
"The Quantile Framework for Mathematics as a Teaching Tool to Guide Mathematics Instruction" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder 

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2011

December 7, 2011
Governor's Summit on Literacy: Learn to Read, Read to Learn (Emporia, Kansas)
Featured Guest: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

December 2nd-3rd, 2012
KIPP Humanities Summit (Austin, Texas)
"Putting The Lexile Framework to Use in Your Classroom" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

December 1, 2011
Annual Meeting of the Literacy Research Association (Jacksonville, Florida)
"A computer-analytic writing ability scale: A validity study"
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist
Contributor to Research: Dr. Carl Swartz, Executive Director, Learning Science and Technology

December 1, 2011
Annual Meeting of the Literacy Research Association (Jacksonville, Florida)
"Is oral-English ability related to young Latinos’ English-reading growth?"
Presenter: Jackie Relyea-Kim, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Contributor to Research: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist

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November 21, 2011
Indiana Principals Conference (Indianapolis, Indiana)
"Common Core State Standards, Text Complexity, and The Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

November 19, 2011
CCSSO 2011 Annual Policy Forum (Phoenix, Arizona)
"Chief’s Summer Reading Challenge" 
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

November 18, 2011
JALT National Conference (Tokyo, Japan)
"Text Perspectives on English Reading Achievement" 
Presenter: Timothy Klasson, Chief Operating Officer, and Trilby Berger, VP Strategic Partnerships  

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October 27-28, 2011
The North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Greensboro, North Carolina)
"Assessments CAN Inform Instruction"
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

October 27-28, 2011
The North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Greensboro, North Carolina)
"Using the Quantile Framework for Mathematics to Cross Over to the Common Core Standards"
Presenter: Bethany Hudnutt, Quantile Research Associate, and Tracey Brown, Quantile Specialist 

October 7-8, 2011
Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Bowling Green, Kentucky)
"A Virtual Visit for Free Resources that Target Instruction"
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

October 3-4, 2011
AdvancED Wyoming Fall School Improvement Conference (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
"A New Lens: PAWS Scores DO Inform Mathematics Instruction with Quantile Measures"
Presenter: Bethany Hudnutt, Quantile Research Associate, and Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

October 3-4, 2011
AdvancED Wyoming Fall School Improvement Conference (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
"Engaging Middle and High School Students in Independent Reading"
Presenter:  Dr. Kim Bowen, Lexile Research Associate

October 3-4, 2011
AdvancED Wyoming Fall School Improvement Conference (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
"Finding Gold: Maximizing Information from PAWS Student Score Report"
Presenter:  Dr. Kim Bowen, Lexile Research Associate, Bethany Hudnutt, Quantile Research Associate, and Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

October 2-4, 2011
Scholastic Book Summit (Orlando, Florida)
"Text Complexity & The Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

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September 21, 2011
Presentation to Florida Senate Education Committee, Chairman Senator Wise (Tallahassee, Florida)
"Promoting College and Career Readiness for All Students"
Featured Guest: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

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August 31, 2011
IMEKO (Jena, Germany)
"How to Model & Test for the Mechanisms that make Measurement Systems Tick" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

August 14, 2011
International Rasch Measurement (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"How to Model & Test for the Mechanisms that make Measurement Systems Tick" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

August 14, 2011
International Rasch Measurement (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"The Lexile Framework for Reading: Integrating Measurement & Instruction" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

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July 25-27, 2011
Scholastic National Summer Institute (Orlando, Florida)
"Utilizing The Lexile Framework for Reading" 
Presenter: Jason Turner, Director, Professional Development

July 18, 2011
The Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (Houston, Texas)
"Navigating an Ocean of Filled with Formative Processes"
Presenter: Ruth Price, Quantile Curriculum Specialist

July 13, 2011
Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (Singapore)
"How to Model & Test for the Mechanisms that make Measurement Systems Tick" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

July 12, 2011
Teacher Workshop (Singapore)
"The Lexile Framework for Reading: Using the Lexile Framework to Support Instruction" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

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June 26, 2011
Rasch Expert Group Meeting (Dubrovnik, Croatia) 
"Toward a Theory Relating Text Complexity, Reader Ability and Comprehension" 
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

June 25, 2011
Model Schools Conference (Orlando, Florida)
"Connecting Common Core to College and Career Readiness"
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

June 8, 2011
CCSSO's Addressing Rural Education Issues: A State Conversation (Big Sky, Montana)
"Addressing Summer Loss"
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith, President and Co-founder

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May 9, 2011
International Reading Association Conference (Orlando, Florida)
"Exploring the Common Core Standards' Approach to Text Complexity" (A panel discussion with Eric Stickney, Danielle McNamara, Tom Gunning, Leon Dreyfus)
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

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April 10, 2011
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting(New Orleans, Louisiana)
"Toward a Theory Relating Text Complexity, Reader Ability and Comprehension"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

April 10, 2011
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting(New Orleans, Louisiana)
"Is oral-English ability related to young Latinos’ English-reading trajectory?"
Presenter: Sandra Garcia, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Contributor to Research: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist

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March 7, 2011
(Washington, D.C.)
"A Vision for Life-Span Reading & Mathematics Measurement"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

March 2, 2011
Florida Department of Education (Tallahassee, Florida)
"Perspectives on Text Complexity in 2011"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

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February 23, 2011
Council of Chief State School Officers 
"Perspectives on Text Complexity in 2011"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

February 22, 2011
Discovery Conference (Silver Spring, Maryland)
"Perspectives on Text Complexity in 2011"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

February 3-6, 2011
Pacific Coast Research Conference(San Diego, California)
"A Causal Model for Relating Text Complexity, Rader Ability & Comprehension"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

February 3-6, 2011
Pacific Coast Research Conference (San Diego, California)
"Examining the Text Difficulty Continuum and its Role in Preparing Students for Success"
Presenter: Dr. Heather Koons, Director, Consulting and Development Services

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January 18, 2011
The National Center for the Improvement in Educational Assessment Conference
"Causal Rasch Models & Growth Trajectories"
Presenter: Dr. Jack Stenner, CEO and Co-founder

January 8, 2011
2011 Special Interest Group (SIG) Conference for Korean Association of Teachers of English (KATE)
"Lexile Measures: A tool to improve reading in English"
Presenter: Timothy Klasson, Chief Operating Officer, and Todd Sandvik, Executive Director of Global Services