Thursday, June 24, 2021
7:00 p.m. ET
Interested in teaching memoir, but unsure where to start? Join us for a panel discussion moderated by Lisa Scherff.
About the Panelists
Lisa Scherffteaches English and APresearch at the Community School of Naples, Florida. Prior to that she taught Englisheducation at the University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama. Lisa has been a member of NCTE for more than 20 years and has been involved in many capacities,includingaspresident of a state affiliate;as amember of several commissions and standing committees;inelected positions;and as coeditor ofEnglish Education(with Leslie Rush). Most recently, she was elected to the Secondary Section Steering Committee. Her books includeStudent Research Done Right! ATeacher’s Guide for High School and College Classes(with Leslie Rush),International Perspectives on Teaching English in aGlobalisedWorld(with AndyGoodwyn,Louann Reid, and CalDurrant),New Directions in Teaching English: Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education, and Research(with Ernest Morrell), andTeaching YA Lit Through Differentiated Instruction(with SusanGroenke).
Susan Barberteaches AP Englishliterature at Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia,and serves English teachersthrough her roleonthe NCTE Secondary Steering Committee. She is the editor andafrequent contributor onAPLitHelp.com,andhas been an AP Reader for the past six years. Susan, along with Carlos Escobar, instructed thousands of students (and teachers)through College Board’s AP Live videosafter schools went remote during the spring of2020,andwas also an instructor for AP Daily in the fall of 2020. She has offered training at NCTE, GCTE, and the Folger Shakespeare Library,and frequently leads ELA workshops across the country. She has been featured in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,andEdutopia, and is currently coauthoring an AP Literature instructional guide for Norton. Susan, however, is most proud of the work she doeson a daily basisin E225 and never tires of the beauty and chaos of the classroom.
Jennifer Buehlerisassociateprofessor andd左of Graduate Programs in Educational Studies in theschool ofeducation at Saint Louis University. During her years hosting Text Messages, a YA lit podcast sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, she interviewed many of the field’s most distinguished authors,including Judy Blume and Walter Dean Myers. A former high school English teacher, she is a past winner of the NCTE Promising Researcher Award; a past president of ALAN, the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE; and the author ofTeaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives(NCTE, 2016).
JoelGarzacalled roll for the first time at El Centro Community College in the fall of 1993. Currently, he is chair of the Upper School English department at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas; he is on the board of Deep Vellum Publishing; and he teaches RaceandSociety through Global Online Academy. The best PD of his career has been via social media, where he has grown immensely thanks to #aplitchat, #DisruptTexts, and #TeachLivingPoets. With Scott Bayer,he cofoundedandcohosts #THEBOOKCHAT, a chat devoted to having brave conversations about marginalized voices and devoted to curating classroom-ready online resources for teachers eager to read deliberately.
KaaVoniaHintonis a professor in the Department of TeachingandLearning at Old Dominion University,Norfolk, Virginia,and the author of articles and several books, includingAngela Johnson: Poetic Prose(2006),Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools(2007) (with Gail K. Dickinson),Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy(2009), andYoung Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation and Appreciation,3rded. (2013) (with Katherine T. Bucher).
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