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10:30am EST

Author Visits: Beyond the Basics, Beyond the Books River Overlook A (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Alice McGinty • Sarah Aronson Virtual Great Lakes Great Books Award Presentation 2024-25 Virtual EventJesse Shirtz • Heather Lander Personal Narrative Quick Writes through Literature: How to Develop Student Voice and Community Grand Gallery C (DeVos Place)Leah Porter Indigenous Authors, Improving Student Culture at the K-8 Level Grand Gallery D (DeVos Place)Wendy Gilliard • Sydnie Dumas • Kendall Moser For Elementary and Secondary - Who’s at the Center? Cultivating a Critical Lens to Building and Integrating Culturally Relevant Text Sets River Overlook B (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Dr. Christina M. Ponzio • Brianna Albert • Sara Weeks Room to Wrestle: Teaching with Novels in Verse Grand Gallery A (DeVos Place)Kelly J. Baptist • Dana VanderLugt

1:00pm EST

Museum Visits as Literacy-Learning Opportunities: A Look at The Henry Ford’s Literacy-Focused Programming River Overlook E (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Lori Petrelius Books to Builds: STEM Activities to Compliment Your Favorite Read-Alouds Grand Gallery B (DeVos Place)Terra Tarango Stories of Leadership & Liberation Grand Gallery C (DeVos Place)Dr. Maren Oberman Independent Reading in High School That Honors Choice and Creativity and Doesn’t Kill the Love of Reading River Overlook D (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Becky Schwartz Using Multicultural Poems to Get Students to Write Gallery Overlook A (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Janet Ruth Heller

2:30pm EST

Together We Can Do Great Things: The Journey of One Small County Doing Big Things in Literacy Grand Gallery E (DeVos Place)Kristal White Cultivating Culture: Making Our ELA Classroom Culturally Responsive and Engaging River Overlook B (DeVos Place - Upper Level)Elizabeth Gonzalez