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Elizabeth Hostin, Educational Consultant
ElizaBETH HosTin has spent 33 years in education teaching junior high school, high school, and elementary school. She began her administrative career as an assistant principal at a Title 1 elementary school where she held the position for three years. She opened two new elementary campuses over a 10-year span and has spent the last ve years as a middle school principal.
Hostin served as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University for 10 years and served on the Scholastic Book Fairs® Principal Advisory Board. She retired from Texas public education in 2016 and is currently working as an educational consultant in Maryville, Tennessee, where she lives.
Hostin considers her greatest accomplishments to be her 36-year marriage to her husband Lonnie, their two sons, and a beautiful daughter-in-love who has given them their rst grandchild, Nora.
She wants to help children learn to enjoy life — her everyday motto — and believes everyone can make a difference in the future, one student at a time.
Teri lesesne, Professor, Department of Library Science
TERi lEsEsnE is respected by teachers and librarians across the country for the passion she brings to connecting tweens and teens with excellent age- and reading level– appropriate literature and for her professional books Making the Match, Naked Reading, and Reading Ladders. She takes her passion directly to teachers with in-person workshops and at her website, professornana.livejournal.com, where she keeps the eld up to date on the best and most helpful literature for teaching adolescents. In recognition of her signi cant contributions to the eld, Teri received the 2007 ALAN Award. A former middle school teacher, she is a professor in the Department of Library Science at Sam Houston
State University where she teaches classes in literature for children and young adults.
lariza liner, Educator and Principal
As an educator for 14 years and a campus principal for ve, laRiza linER is an instructional leader that strives to continually promote a positive and engaging learning environment through strong communication skills, positive attitude, and a vision of “Success is our ONLY option.” “We will continue to work, evolve, change, and develop so that we can provide the highest academic environment for our Future Leaders of America!” Lariza rmly believes in creating a reading culture to instill the love of reading in her teachers and students. “By doing this, we are giving them a gift that will last them a lifetime.”