{"id":12727,"date":"2016-03-27T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12727"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:18:17","slug":"jacqueline-woodson-to-present-closing-session-at-2016-alsc-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/jacqueline-woodson-to-present-closing-session-at-2016-alsc-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Woodson to Present Closing Session at #alsc16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jacqueline Woodson will present the Closing General Session at the National Institute<\/a> (Image courtesy of Jacqueline Woodson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>ALSC announced that award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson<\/strong> will present the Closing General Session at the ALSC National Institute<\/a> in Charlotte, North Carolina. This event will take place at the Charlotte Marriott City Center on Saturday, September 17, 2016 and is sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Group.<\/p>\n

Woodson was recently named the Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate<\/a> by the Poetry Foundation<\/strong>. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.<\/p>\n

Other confirmed special events<\/a> include a Breakfast for Bill program with Phil and Erin Stead, Laura Dronzek and Kevin Henkes. On Thursday, September 15, David Shannon will present the Opening General Session. Attendees will benefit from an on-site bookstore where they can buy books to have signed by their favorite speakers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Closing General Session is free for all individuals registered<\/strong> for the 2016 ALSC National Institute. All special events are included in the cost of registration. Registration fees include Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast, and Saturday breakfast. For more information and registration details please the visit the 2016 ALSC National Institute<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALSC announced that award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson will present the Closing General Session at the ALSC National Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. This event will take place at the Charlotte Marriott City Center on Saturday, September 17, 2016 and is sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Group. Woodson was recently named the Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Other confirmed special events include a Breakfast for Bill program with Phil and Erin Stead, Laura Dronzek and Kevin Henkes. On Thursday, September 15, David Shannon will present the Opening General Session. Attendees will benefit from an on-site bookstore where they can buy books to have signed by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[85,186,828,59],"tags":[575,934],"class_list":["post-12727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-spotlight","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-institute-2016","category-publishing-world","tag-2016-alsc-national-institute","tag-jacqueline-woodson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}