Members Only

Members Only was a significant addition to the IRA website that I developed to add value to the basic IRA membership. This section of the website to offer IRA members new, exclusive content on a monthly basis. This separate log-in area exclusively for members included monthly columns by popular literacy experts on elementary and adolescent literacy topics. It also included Resource Round-up: a collection of articles, videos, podcasts, and other resources for classroom teachers. New content was added monthly. I also introduced the New Teachers’ Lifeline online community on Members Only. This community offered new professionals in the field a lifeline to success in their first years of teaching by providing resources and online support from peers and more experienced professionals through online discussion and Q&As.

New columns and classroom resources were added monthly to Members’ Only area. To view sample columns from the resident literacy experts who contributed to Members Only, please go to the Members Only Columns page.

Below are screenshots of the various departments from Members Only. To view a page, click on the thumbnail and it will bring up the image in a slideshow. Please note that on the live version of the site, the brown tabs at the top of the Resource Roundup page linked to the page for that content.

Members Only Announcement Email

This email announced Members Only to IRA’s community.

Note:  These images are from the original development of the site, some may be slightly different than the final versions. Also, I am no longer a member of IRA, so I’m not certain what happened with the Members Only area when IRA became the International Literacy Association. They created a new website for the organization at that time, and I do not know if they continued Members Only or not.