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marvin terban, Teacher and Award-Winning Children’s Book Author
mARVIN tERBAN is a long-time teacher and best-selling, award-winning children’s book author. Called “a master of children’s wordplay” by ALA Booklist and “Mr. English for Kids” by the Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club, he has written 38 books about the English language. He is also Scholastic’s “Professor Grammar.” Three of his Scholastic books on grammar, idioms, and spelling have sold more than 1 million copies each and are used in schools all over the world. In 2005, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators voted Marvin their Member of the Year for his contributions to children’s literacy. For years he has been a popular speaker at educational conferences in the United States, South
America, Europe, China, Japan, and Israel. He is known for his lively, informative, and fun presentations. Throughout his long career as an author, he has kept his even longer day job as a teacher in New York.
Sherri wilson, Director of Consultative Services at Scholastic
ShERRI wILSoN is the director of consultative services at Scholastic and is a founding partner of the Center for Active Family Engagement (Café). Formerly, she served as the senior manager of family engagement at the National PTA. She oversaw the implementation of the National PTA Standards for Family School Partnerships and led the Urban Family Engagement Initiative. She was also the staff lead on the Family Reading Experience, Powered by Kindle. She provided training, information, and support to National PTA staff, as well as state and local members related to family engagement and the implementation
of the National PTA Standards for Family School Partnerships. Sherri was the co-founder of the Alabama Parent Education Center and served as Alabama PIRC Director for more than 14 years. She has served on a wide variety of national, state, and local boards and committees, including the National Association of Family School and Community Engagement.