| Speaker Bio
ReLeah Cossett Lent, a secondary teacher for over twenty years, spent several years at the University of Central Florida providing statewide literacy staff development. Now a consultant, she focuses on issues of student engagement, adolescent literacy, and censorship in schools. She has coauthored two Heinemann books, At the Schoolhouse Gate (2002) and Silent No More (2003). She and coauthor Gloria Pipkin received the American Library Association's John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award and the NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award. In addition, ReLeah won the 1999 Pen/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Grades: 6 - 12 |
