KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Author & Expert on Educational Leadership, Literacy and Student Skill Development

Author, Professor of Literacy Education

Educator & Author of "The Book Whisperer" and "Reading in the Wild"

Educational Consultant, Author of "Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching"

Author & Phonics Specialist; Benchmark Education Company & Associate Publisher, Reycraft Books

Nationally Recognized Education Consultant & Instructional Coach; Author, "Why Do I Have to Read This?," "I Read It But I Don't Get It" & "Do I Really Have to Teach More Reading?"

Leading Educational & Professional Development Consultant

Literacy Advocate & Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice

Educational Consultant; Former Director of Professional Learning & Curriculum Design at Mindset Works

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Founder of Mindsteps Inc.; Expert on Helping Educators Use the Tools They Have to Build Better Schools

Senior Researcher at Stanford University, English Literacy Expert & Teacher

2019 National Teacher of the Year

Student Advocate, Education Reformer & Principal

Motivational Speaker for At-Risk Youth; Authority on Development Soft Skills & Empowerment; Managing Partner of Soft Skills for STEM (S3TEM)

Founder of StudentsFirst & Education Reform Advocate; Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor

Spoken Word Educator, High School English Teacher & Author

Professor & Co-director, Center for Urban Education at University of Southern California

2021 National Teacher of the Year