The NAA Foundation brings together the best minds in youth readership at the Young Reader Conference. This event gives NIE and YEA professionals the opportunity to learn, share and network through interactive instructional sessions, inspiring keynote addresses, show-and-tell presentations and informative discussions. The Young Reader Conference provides what you need to navigate and transform your NIE and youth content programs during this time of change.
Young Reader Conference Goes Virtual in 2010
Please save Friday, May 7, for our first virtual Young Reader Conference.
This intensive one-day event is designed to provide NIE and YEA professionals with information and resources they need to strengthen and expand their programs.
From the comfort of your own desk, you can learn more about:
- 2010 Young Reader Award winning projects
- Changes in and implications of ABC regulations
- Best practices for raising revenue
- Details on our research on the state of NIE and youth editorial
- Best practices in and implications of technology
- Potential changes to and implications of educational policy.
Each session offers an opportunity for questions and answers.
In addition to learning opportunities, the virtual conference can serve as the springboard for networking with your NIE and YEA colleagues on a local or statewide basis.
“As soon as I learned the NAA Foundation was switching its annual Young Reader Conference to a virtual format, I started to make plans to hold a state gathering of our NIE professionals for the same day,” says Mary Miller, education services director of the New York News Publishers Association.
“We'll log into the sessions as a group and still be able to interact with peers face-to-face. This gives us the best of both worlds: ‘attending’ the national meeting and gleaning the best ideas from around the country and Canada, while minimizing travel expense and time away from the office.”
Miller says an NYNPA-member newspaper has already agreed to host the group, and notes that the newspaper “is equipped with the Internet and phone conferencing necessary to make this plan work with a minimum amount of expense. Once we have a better idea of the schedule for the day, I'm sure we'll put together one of the best state meetings we've had in a long time.”
Check back here for more details on the virtual conference as plans continue to develop.