Alexandra Alessandri on Teaching and Writing
Alexandra Alessandri talks about how her students taught her to be brave and how important it is for everyone's stories to be told.
Katie Van Heidrich on Teaching and Writing
Katie Van Heidrich talks about how teaching remotely during the pandemic showed her how every student faces challenges and in-between times of their own, which inspired her to share her own story.
Priyanka Taslim on Teaching and Writing
Priyanka Taslim talks about wanting to give her students, and herself, books with characters like them that were joy and escapism.
Dianne White on Teaching and Writing
Dianne White discusses how she didn't expect to be a writer, but supportive teachers and helping kids find their own voices showed her that she was one.
Margaret Finnegan on Teaching and Writing
Margaret Finnegan writes about how things did not always go according to plan in her life, but that ending up where she didn't expect inspired her middle grade books.
Kellye Crocker on Teaching and Writing
Kellye Crocker talks about teaching her students that the keys to writing are respect and trying, and how those two things have helped her writing as well.
