Patty McGee is an author-educator and national consultant whose passion and vision is to create learning environments where teachers and students discover their true potential and power.  Patty’s favorite moments are when she and groups of teachers are working with students collaboratively in the classroom.  She has served schools nationally and internationally to support literacy teaching and learning. Among a variety of publications, Patty is the author of Feedback that Moves Writers Forward: How to Escape Correcting Mode to Transform Student Writing (Corwin 2017) and Writers Workshop Made Simple: 7 Essentials for Every Classroom and Every Writer  (Benchmark 2020). Her upcoming book, Not Your Granny’s Grammar (Corwin), will be released in Spring 2024. Learn more about Patty and her work at pattymcgee.org.

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Jenn Bishop is the author of five novels for young readers, including the Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner Things You Can’t Say. Her books have been named Junior Library Guild selections and Bank Street College of Education best books and have been finalists for state book awards. She currently calls Cincinnati, Ohio, home. What team do you think she roots for? 

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Raúl The Third is a New York Times bestselling and four-time Pura Belpre

award-winning illustrator, author, and artist. His picture book, Vamos! Let’s

Cross the Bridge was named one of the year’s Best Illustrated Children’s

Books of 2021 by the New York Times and the New York Public Library. He

is currently adapting his World of Vamos! books into an animated

television series with Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks.

Raul’s work centers around the contemporary Mexican-American

experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad

Juarez, Mexico. He lives with his family in Medford, Massachusetts.

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