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DONALYN MILLER • All Locations
Donalyn Miller taught upper-elementary and middle school students in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and was a nalist for 2010 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year. In her popular book, The Book Whisperer, Donalyn re ects on her journey to become a reading teacher and describes how she inspires and motivates her middle school students to read 40 or more books a year. In her latest book, Reading in the Wild, Donalyn collects responses from 900 adult readers and uses this information to teach lifelong reading habits to her students. Donalyn co-founded the community blog The Nerdy Book Club and co-hosts the
monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk. Her articles about teaching and reading have appeared in publications such as Education Week Teacher, The Reading Teacher, Educational Leadership, and The Washington Post. Donalyn serves as the manager of independent reading and outreach at Scholastic Book Fairs® where she also hosts
The Book Whisperer: Back to the Books* web show and co-edits the Reader Leader* blog.
Workshop: Access to Books: Game Changer for Kids (All Locations - AM)
Workshop: Independent Reading: Where We’ve Been. Where We’re Going. (All Locations - PM)
ERNEST MORRELL • Washington D.C.
Ernest Morrell is an award-winning author, teacher, and researcher, and is the Macy Professor of English Education and Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College at Columbia University. Ernest is also past-president of the National Council of Teachers of English, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and an appointed member of International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel.
In 2016, Ernest was ranked among the top 100 university-based education scholars in the
RHSU Edu-Scholar Public In uence Rankings. Ernest was an award-winning English teacher and coach in northern California who now works with schools and after-school programs across the country to infuse social and emotional learning, digital technologies, project-based learning, and multicultural literature into empowering literacy practices in K-12 classrooms.
Ernest is the author of more than 75 articles and book chapters, and eight books, including Every Child
a Super Reader: 7 Strengths to Open a World of Possible*, New Directions in Teaching English, Linking Literacy and Popular Culture and Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools,
which was awarded Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by Choice Magazine of the American Library Association. Ernest has earned numerous commendations for his secondary and university teaching, including being nominated ve times for Who’s Who Among America’s High School teachers and receiving UCLA’s Department of Education’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Morrell earned his Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of California at Berkeley where he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award. Ernest also proudly sits on the Executive Boards of LitWorld and the Education for Democracy Institute. Workshop: Independent Reading: Where We’ve Been. Where We’re Going. (Raleigh - PM Panelist)
JEWELL PARKER RHODES • Raleigh-Durham / Washington D.C.
Jewell Parker Rhodes is the award-winning author of Ninth Ward, Bayou Magic, and Sugar. Her writing guides include: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non ction. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jewell now lives in California. She is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Her most recent novel for young readers is Towers Falling, a story about 9/11 set 15 years later. Jewell wrote this story realizing that so many born after 2001 could not put the tragedy into
context. Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR’s “Selected Shorts.”
Her honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards.
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