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		<title>Author Visit Benefits: A Superintendent Weighs-In</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In a survey I conducted of over 600 teachers, librarians, administrators , and parents who have hosted author visits, one of the objections to having author assemblies at a school was “time taken away from classroom instruction” (26%). “Time taken away”?? Frankly, as a former elementary school teacher, this rendered me speechless. But luckily, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Author Visits &#8211; Benefits &#038; Obstacles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Based on a nation-wide survey of over 600 teachers, librarians, administrators and parents who had hosted author visits, the following information about author visits was gleaned. (Note that &#8220;Author&#8221; includes children&#8217;s authors, author/illustrators or illustrators) Top benefits of an author visit: Motivates students to read more (91%) Inspires creativity and expression (75%) Motivates students to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wonder-Powered Research: A Writing Workshop for Students</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of my school visit program, I enjoy doing writing workshops with kids. One of my workshops is called, “Research Is the Writer’s Edge: Finding Evidence, Finding Stories.” This workshop helps students generate a research plan, develop observational skills, practice finding evidence to back up statements that they make, and create a work based on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>School Visits &#8211; Letters of Agreement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 22:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a school wants to hire you, the process usually begins with an email. With successive emails, you and the host iron out the terms and details of your author visit. While some authors then send a formal contract to the host to sign, I send a Letter of Agreement. This is essentially a contract [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Taking the Pain Out of Assembly Introductions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[presentation delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry Friday Anthology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sylvia Vardell]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My brochure has my bio. My website has several versions. So I assume that hosts will mine those bio bits when they introduce me to the students before my assemblies. Wrong assumption. Usually, my hosts’ introductions consist of a long warning of how the kids must “be respectful” in assembly and the consequences if they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Author Visit Worries</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 19:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fees & pricing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even seasoned school visit presenters have moments of doubt, as do authors new to the circuit. Recently, when I did a presentation on author visits at the SCBWI North-Central California Spring Spirit Conference, the participants’ three major worries had to do with the content and pacing of their presentation, what fees to charge, and getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be in Control of Your Author Visit Schedule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s what I find surprising &#8211; when I hear seasoned authors start with these words, “I didn’t know until they sent me the schedule . . . “ The sentence is completed in any number of ways: “. . . that the host didn’t schedule lunch” “. . .has me addressing Pre-Ks and I write [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Simple, Successful Grant Program for Author Visits</title>
		<link>http://schoolvisitexperts.com/a-simple-successful-grant-program-for-author-visits/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[author visit impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding funding]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For most schools, the biggest obstacle to bringing in an author is money. But because they have been dedicated to connecting kids with authors for twenty years, the Simi Valley Friends of the Library in Simi Valley, California has established a grant program that removes a big chunk of that obstacle for local public elementary, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Author Visits Matter: A Teacher-Librarian’s Love Letter</title>
		<link>http://schoolvisitexperts.com/why-author-visits-matter-a-teacher-librarians-love-letter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It came out of the blue &#8212; a love letter in Caroline Arnold&#8217;s in-box from a teacher-librarian for an author visit she had done 22 years ago! The letter knocked my socks off. So, with permission, I’m posting it for you here so you can see for yourself the impact an author visit can have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Love During Read Across America Month and Beyond!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berylwood Elementary School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirwanis INternational]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scholastic Book Fairs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Laurie Cariker, Literacy Coach at Berylwood Elementary School in Simi Valley, California, knows that to grow readers, you need to get books into their hands. For Berylwood’s big kick-off for Read Across America month, Laurie throws open the doors of the multipurpose room where kids trade vouchers for books that she has collected all year [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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