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2017 Reading Summit Keynote Speakers Gallery
KWAME ALEXANDER • Chicago
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and New York Times best-selling author of 21 books, including Booked and The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Kwame writes for children of all ages. His other works include: Surf ’s Up, a picture book; Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers; and He Said She Said, a young adult novel.
Alexander believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through Kwame Alexander’s Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop*, published by Scholastic (2015).
Recently, he served as the Children’s Literature’s Inaugural Dorothy Carter Writer-in-Residence at The Bank Street College of Education Center.
A regular speaker at schools and conferences, he travels the world planting seeds of literary love. Each year, Alexander leads a delegation of writers, educators, and activists to Ghana as part of LEAP for Ghana, an International literacy program he co-founded that builds libraries and provides literacy professional development for teachers. Learn more about Kwame Alexander and purchase his book in
the digital Guidebook.*
DR. KYLENE BEERS and ROBERT E. PROBST • Houston
Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst are the co-authors of the best-selling book Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading (Heinemann, 2013), as well as other popular titles, including When Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do (Kylene), Response and Analysis (Bob), and Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (Kylene and Bob with Linda Rief). Their most recent book is Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters* (Scholastic, 2017).
Kylene began her teaching career in middle school in the Houston area and Bob began in junior high and high school in the Baltimore area. Both have taught at the university level: Bob at Georgia State University and Kylene at the University of Houston.
Throughout their careers, they have worked tirelessly to help connect children and teens to literacy. While their focus has been working with struggling readers, they also help teachers who work with English-language learners, gifted students, and special education students. Highly popular speakers and consultants throughout the US and Canada, Kylene is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English and Bob is a former member of the NCTE Commission on Reading. You can reach them at beers.probst@gmail.com and connect with them on Twitter at @kylenebeers and @bobprobst.
KATE DICAMILLO • Chicago
Kate Dicamillo is the author of many beloved books for young readers, including Flora & Ulysses and The Tale of Despereaux, each of which received a Newbery Medal; Because
of Winn-Dixie, which received a Newbery Honor; The Tiger Rising, a National Book Award Finalist; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; The Magician’s Elephant; Raymie Nightingale; and the best-selling Mercy Watson series. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in Florida and now lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, ve days a week.
Check out Kate on facebook.com/KateDiCamillo*.
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