Liz Garden

Liz Garden is the principal of the Dr. Leroy E, Mayo Elementary School in Holden, MA. She has been an administrator for eleven years and taught at various levels for eleven years. Liz has presented about her love of literacy at the MA Reading Association Conference, Literacy for All Conference, the MSAA Summer Institute, and the NAESP Conference. She is an active member of the Scholastic Principal Advisory Board.

Liz is also on the Executive Board for the Massachusetts School Administrators Association. Liz loves to write and has served as an editorial advisor for the Principal Magazine, as well as contributed posts to Nerdy Book Club, Big Deal Media, and School Leaders Now. She blogs regularly for her staff at www.musingstomotivate.blogspot.com as well as for a group she helped form, www.momsasprincipals.wordpress.com.

When she is not molding future minds as an instructional leader, she is dealing with her reading addiction, keeping Amazon in business, listening to her musician husband sing, and chasing around her toddler, Emerson! You can connect with Liz on Twitter @PrincipalGarden and on Voxer @PrincipalGarden.

Tech Talk

Room 16 at 9:45 a.m.

Liz Garden Talks Books

Join Liz Garden as she BookTalks the latest and greatest publications available through Scholastic BookFairs!

Tech Talk

Room 16 at 2:30 p.m.

Harness the Power of the Book Talk!

This session will focus on harnessing the power of the book talk. Participants will get ideas for different ways to do book talks. They will have a chance to see different book talks and learn about different books. They will also get to practice doing their own book talks.