Opening Keynote – Charles R. Smith, Jr. – Spring 2019

9:45-10:45AM EST

Opening Remarks: Christopher Lehman, Founding Director of The Educator Collaborative

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This Archived Session is Available Through Summer

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[su_row]Charles R. Smith, Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration (2010) for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award (2008) for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory. Many of his books have also garnered reluctant reader awards, proving that kids that don’t like to read, do like to read his books. Charles R. Smith Jr. was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. You can find him on the web at www.charlesrsmithjr.com [/su_row]

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