Name: Book Signing: Creating Reading Rainbow
Start: 2026-10-02T09:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-02T10:15:00-0400

Friday October 2, 2026 9:30am - 10:15am EDT

Hyatt Regency Buffalo | Regency Ballroom

Creating Reading Rainbow will be available for purchase onsite at the National Institute bookstore. Have your copy signed and chat with the creators!

Speakers

Barbara Irwin

Professor Emerita, Department of Communication, Canisius University

Barbara Irwin, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Communication at Canisius University in Buffalo, New York. Specializing in media studies, she taught courses in media and children, public broadcasting, and media literacy, among many others. Irwin worked as a Reading Rainbow Project Assistant... Read More →

Tony Buttino

Tony Buttino Sr. is best known for his leadership in the creation of the Emmy award-winning Public TV series Reading Rainbow. Most of his forty years of working at WNEDTV (now Buffalo Toronto Public Media) were spent utilizing and marketing instructional television (ITV) as a teaching... Read More →

Pamela Johnson

Pam Johnson, Ph.D., is the former Executive Director of Ready To Learn at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a school readiness initiative developed in partnership with PBS KIDS, leading children’s content producers, researchers, and America’s public media stations with... Read More →

Friday October 2, 2026 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Hyatt Regency Buffalo | Regency Ballroom 2 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY, USA

General Session

National Institute 2026

Barbara Irwin

Tony Buttino

Pamela Johnson

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National Institute 2026

Barbara Irwin

Tony Buttino

Pamela Johnson

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