Nov 9 deadline for #WEMTA16 General Session Proposals

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Please fill out the online General Session form by November 9th to share your passion, talent, expertise, or story with other educators! tinyurl.com/WEMTA16-General

We believe that "TOGETHER We're Better @WEMTA16"! This is our theme for this year's conference at the Kalahari on April 10-12th, 2016. This year marks the 10th anniversary of WEMA changing to WEMTA, and we are celebrating all that we have embraced and become by making our organization inclusive. Our conference is for Library Media Specialists, IT Coordinators, Technology Coaches, Teachers, Principals, Administrators, Special Education, and Higher Education. We welcome anyone that wants to make a difference in teaching and learning by collaborating and sharing your best practices.

Stay tuned to our #WEMTA16 conference page for more exciting updates to appear as we continue to plan and finalize details www.wemta.org/conference Did you hear that Kevin Henkes will be our author keynote!

Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author and illustrator Kevin Henkes shows us his childhood drawings and paintings, talks about creating such memorable characters as Lilly and Owen, and demonstrates his illustration process.

Kevin Henkes - Author Keynote #WEMTA16

We are SO excited to share that Kevin will be our Author Keynote at the #WEMTA16 Conference! 

Kevin Henkes is the author of the Caldecott Medal Winner Kitten's First Full Moon and the Newbery Honor Books Olive's Ocean and The Year of Billy Miller. He is the creator of several picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly's Big Day and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the beloved Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, one of the author's picture books, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius." Among his fiction for older readers are the novels The Birthday Room, Sun & Spoon, Protecting Marie, and Words of Stone. His newest books for beginning readers are Penny and Her Song, Penny and Her Doll, and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book). 

Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.KevinHenkes.com

A call for #WEMTA16 General Session Proposals is out!

​We believe that "TOGETHER We're Better @WEMTA16"! This is our theme for this year's conference at the Kalahari on April 10-12th, 2016. This year marks the 10th anniversary of WEMA changing to WEMTA, and we are celebrating all that we have embraced and become by making our organization inclusive. Our conference is for Library Media Specialists, IT Coordinators, Technology Coaches, Teachers, Principals, Administrators, Special Education, and Higher Education. We welcome anyone that wants to make a difference in teaching and learning by collaborating and sharing your best practices.

Please fill out the online form by November 9th to share your passion, talent, expertise, or story with other educators! tinyurl.com/WEMTA16-General

Stay tuned to our #WEMTA16 conference page for more exciting updates to appear as we continue to plan and finalize details www.wemta.org/conference