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COLBY SHARP is a third-grade teacher in Parma, Michigan. He’s also 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).
Workshop: It Takes a Village: Working Together to Create a School Filled With Readers (Chicago AM & PM) (Seattle AM)
KATHERINE SOKOLOWSKI has taught kindergarten through middle school for the past 21 years, 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.
Workshop: Audience Matters: Engaging Student Readers Through Community (Chicago AM) Workshop: Independent Reading: Where We’ve Been. Where We’re Going. (Chicago PM – Panelist)
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 day job even longer as a teacher in New York.
Workshop: A Wonderful Way to Spend a Life: One Teacher’s Favorite Teacher (Chicago AM) (DC PM)
MARC TYLER NOBLEMAN is the author of more than 70 books for readers of all ages, including Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, which changed history and inspired both the Hulu documentary Batman and Bill and a TED talk. He is also the author
of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman, which made the front page of USA Today. His latest titles are Brave Like My Brother and The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra. Upcoming titles include Thirty Minutes Over Oregon and Fairy Spell. Marc has been invited to speak at schools and conferences from Thailand to Tanzania and blogs about adventures in publishing
at his blog Noblemania. You can also nd him on Twitter @MarcTNobleman. Workshop: Only the Obsessed Need Apply (DC PM)
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.
Workshop: Building the Capacity of Families to Engage in Children’s Literacy (Chicago AM & PM)
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