| Educator | Program | Organization | City |
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Alabama |
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| Abigail Hubbard | Art Abandonment | Public Library of Anniston – Calhoun County | Anniston |
Alaska |
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| Trudy McMullen | Lake Hood Summer Library | Lake Hood Library | Anchorage |
Arizona |
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| Cesar Castro | Scorpion–STEM | San Luis Middle School – Gadsden Elementary School District #32 | San Luis |
Arkansas |
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| Karen Benson | Summer Reading Kick-Off & Picture Book Walk | Gravette Public Library | Gravette |
| Debbie Archer | Words, Wings, and Writers | Lawrence County Public Schools | Walnut Ridge |
California |
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| Justine Kay | Hands-On Library Literary Journal Making and Publishing | Ben Franklin Intermediate School | Daly City |
Colorado |
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| Kimberly Powers | Snapshot Stories | Englewood Public Library | Englewood |
Connecticut |
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| Jackie Hemond | Planting Seeds | Kent Memorial Library | Suffield |
Delaware |
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| Gail Bruce | Teen Snapshots | Laurel Public Library | Laurel |
Florida |
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| Yeny Pinero | Creative Pen | Meadowlane Elementary School | Hialeah |
| Kim Padron | What’s in a Word? | Middleton High School | Tampa |
| Cindy Bohn | Mosaics for Engaged Artists and Inspired Readers | Celebration K-8 School | Celebration |
Georgia |
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| Rosemary Bunn | Jug Town–Owning Our History in Georgia Clay | J. Joel Edwards Public Library | Zebulon |
| Tracy Scaglione | Painting Together–Murals Celebrating Our Diversity and Friendship | Dorset Shoals Elementary School | Douglasville |
Idaho |
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| Cindy Bigler | Gooding Public Library Art Showcase | Gooding Public Library | Gooding |
Illinois |
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| Denise Lopez-Gill | Making Reading Work Together | Laura Ward STEM School | Chicago |
| April Tondelli | Viva la Raza: Chicano History and Screen Prints | Von Steuben High School | Chicago |
| Rebecca Dowling | Quilting Our Story | Robert A. Black Magnet Elementary School | Chicago |
| Joann Pardridge |
“Schoolbery” Award | Indian Creek Elementary School | Shaddbona |
Indiana |
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| Christopher Murphy | Pinocchio’s Pals! | Weisser Park Elementary School | Fort Wayne |
Iowa |
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| Emily Arnold | Build a Better World: A Story Walk with Ezra Jack Keats | Scott County Library System | Eldridge |
Kansas |
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| Lisa Leiker | Bringing Keats’s Neighborhood to Life | Pittsburg Community Middle School | Pittsburg |
Kentucky |
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| Carol Q. Sexton | Building a Whistle for Willie & More: 4 STEM Projects Based on Ezra Jack Keats Books | Pulaski County Public Library | Somerset |
| Ronda Gambrel | Appalachian Art and Antics | Dewitt Elementary School | Dewitt |
Louisiana |
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| Penny McDonald | There’s a Party Going on at the Library! | Caldwell Parish Library | Columbia |
| Agnes Guillory | Passport to Reading: Reaching Our Community | Allen Parish Libraries | Oberlin |
Maine |
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| Kathleen Kenny | Take-Apart Days | Waterville Public Library | Waterville |
| Allison L. Griffin | Bring Back the Butterflies! | Raymond Village Library | Raymond |
Maryland |
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| Terry Kendall-Johnson | English Class Chat & Chew | Woodbourne School | Baltimore |
| Pat Goldys | Books Are In Fashion! | Norwood Elementary School | Baltimore |
Michigan |
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| Karrie Marciniak | Thinking Thursday and STEM Challenges | Mackenesen Elementary School | Bay City |
| Elizabeth Buckhold | Family & School Literacy Partnership | Bentley Middle School | Burton |
Minnesota |
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| Ashley Scheinoha | Ezra Jack Keats Mural | Frost Lake Elementary School | Saint Paul |
Mississippi |
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| Mary Jenkins | Panoramic Fairy Tale Workshop and Performance | Clarksdale Carnegie Public Library | Clarksdale |
| Loraine Walker | It’s OK to Be Different | Noxubee County Library | Macon |
| Amanda T. Osborne | Books: Trash to Treasure | Pontotoc Junior High School | Pontotoc |
Missouri |
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| Maegan Ramsey | Regards to Our Imagination! | Newburg High School | Newburg |
| Bethany Kelly | Sculpture Gardens | Central High School | Springfield |
Nebraska |
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| Laurie Van Ackeren | Kids Code Camp | Mead Public Library | Mead |
Nevada |
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| Wendy Tortoriello | Reading Week Book Fair | Keller Middle School | Las Vegas |
New York |
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| Stefanie Abbey | Muppets and Social Tolerance | High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety | Jamaica |
| Melanie Miller | STEAM Ahead with Keats | Alfred Box of Books Library | Alfred |
| Maysa Jarara | String Art Project | Park Slope Collegiate | Brooklyn |
| Carol LaFever | Lessons in Life from Keats | Watkins Glen Public Library | Watkins Glen |
| Kate Lambert | Teen Zine Publishing | Pawling Free Library | Pawling |
| Shauna Porteus | Yonkers: A Home for Every Culture | Yonkers Public Library | Yonkers |
| Karen Hicklad | Harry Potter Camp | Bancroft Public Library | Salem |
| Jennifer Wright | Mixing Character Traits | Beaver River Central School District | Beaver Falls |
| Julie Schildkraut, Laura Silver | My Brooklyn: Illustrated Poems | Middle School 88 | Brooklyn |
Ohio |
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| Thomas Trang | Blank Canvas: Empowering Student Voice | Columbus North International School | Columbus |
| Tracy McQuillan | Collaboration with MCJAS, Rogers Group Home | Lepper Library | Lisbon |
| Pam Myers | Creative 2gether | Grafton-Midview Public Library | Grafton |
| Melissa Wolfe | Clearmount Comets: Young Authors Writing to Reach the Stars | North Canton City Schools | North Canton |
Oregon |
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| Liz Fox | Ghas-Tv-Xvm’-dvn (“The Places We Go,” Deeni language) | Newport High School | Newport |
| Jamie Sedda | Sew Cool! | Highland Elementary School | Gresham |
Pennsylvania |
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| Vincent D’Alesio | Stop Motion Animation Station | Carnegie Library of McKeesport | McKeesport |
| Richard E. Ashby,Jr. | Cafe 3 Tiny Green Thumbs Gardening Program | Yeadon Public Library | Yeadon |
South Carolina |
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| Galena Gaw | Tactile Tales | South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind | Spartanburg |
Tennessee |
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| Courtney Brown | Remembering the Holocaust Through Art | Red Bank High School | Chattanooga |
Texas |
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| Rachel Epley | Book Zines | Texas High School | Texarkana |
| Rachel Dudley | Full STEAM Ahead: Building an Interdisciplinary Bridge | Priddy Intermediate School District | Priddy |
Vermont |
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| Brenda Stanley | Summer Art | Enosburgh Public Library | Enosburg Falls |
Virginia |
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| Kim Sigle | The “See Ya, Wouldn’t Wanna Be Ya” Museum of History | Lake Anne Elementary School | Reston |
Wisconsin |
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| Heather Thompson | We Are Kenosha | Kenosha Public Library | Kenosha |
Bringing a multicultural spirit to children's literature
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