A Classroom Conversation with Kadir Nelson
Thursday, April 23 | 1:00–1:45 p.m. ET
All teachers and students are invited to a special NCTE online event!
NCTE is thrilled to welcome award-winning artist Kadir Nelson, illustrator of books for young readers including recently released Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game, which he will read during the event.
We invite educators, their students, and preservice teachers to a 45-minute conversation with Kadir.
This event is free for NCTE members and nonmembers. Registration is required, and nonmembers may create an account to log in. Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event.
Certificates of attendance will be available to participating classrooms and individuals upon request.
Please contact profdev@ncte.org with any questions.
FEATURED GUEST
Kadir Nelson is a highly acclaimed painter and the illustrator of many books for young readers, including the Caldecott Medal winner The Undefeated, written by Kwame Alexander; the New York Times bestseller We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor as well as the Sibert Medal; Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, which was an NAACP Image Award winner, Caldecott Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner. His work has appeared in many publications, including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker. Kadir’s original paintings are in the permanent collections of the US House of Representatives and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture. A recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also been inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. He lives in Southern California.
FACILITATOR
Detra M. Price is the executive director of the Center for Digital Learning and Innovation and a professor of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology. She currently serves as the President-Elect for the National Council of Teachers of English. Price’s award-winning research draws on ethnographic and sociocultural lenses to examine the intersection of critical literacy education, learning technologies, and equity-based curriculum development in K–8 classrooms. She has developed initiatives for professional organizations, institutions of higher education, and K–12 school districts to support the exploration of impactful teaching practices that intersect with online learning and culturally responsive pedagogies, as well as children’s literature.