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Jessica Lifshitz, Fifth-Grade Teacher
JESS LIFShItZ teaches reading and writing to fth-grade students in Northbrook, Illinois. She has been teaching for 14 years. Every day she has the pleasure of teaching kids how
to use reading and writing to create positive change in the world. She writes about her teaching and learning on her blog, Crawling Out of the Classroom.
Stacy Riedmiller, Fourth-grade Language Arts Teacher
StACEy RIEDmILLER is a fourth-grade language arts teacher near Cincinnati, Ohio. She gets paid to read books and share them with elementary students. She encourages students to share their reading lives by using #kidsarereading. You can nd her on Twitter @literacybigkids where she is usually live-tweeting as she reads.
Colby Sharp, Third-Grade Teacher
CoLBy ShARP is a third-grade teacher in Parma, Michigan. He’s a husband, a father, and a middle school football coach. Colby is the co-founder of the blog, Nerdy Book Club. He co-hosts the monthly Twitter chats #titletalk with Donalyn Miller and the #SharpSchu Twitter book club with John Schumacher. He is also the co-creator of Nerd Camp. Colby is the editor of The Creativity Project (Little Brown 2018).
Katherine Sokolowski, Seventh-Grade Language Arts Teacher
KAthERINE SoKoLowSKI has taught for 21 years—from kindergarten through middle school—and currently teaches seventh-grade language arts in Monticello, Illinois. Her thoughts about the power of relationships to engage readers and writers have appeared on NPR and Choice Literacy. She co-facilitates the Nerdy Book Club blog and also blogs at readwriteandre ect.blogspot.com.