School Visits

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News

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Information for Schools

Ten Things I Would Like Schools to Know about School Visits

Resource Websites

Cool School Visits 

Creating Engaging School Visits (FB group)

School Visit Experts

Planning School Visits

Why Pay Authors For School Visits Anyway?

The Perfect Author Visit

Author/Illustrators Who Visit Schools (Directory) get on the list!

If a Writer Visits a School, She/He Will Find . . . (Part 1) 

Library Visits from a Writer's POV (Part 2)

Making the Most of School Assemblies

The ABCs of School Visits: A Primer for Authors and Illustrators

What to Charge/ Payments

Why Pay Authors for School Visits Anyway

Tips for Great Visits

A Tale of Two Talks: Public Speaking for Writers

Getting and Giving Great Author Events

30 Storytelling Tips for Educators: How to Capture Your Student's Attention

3 Secrets to School Visit Success

Twelve Tips to Engage VERY Young Audiences at Picture Book Author Events

Five Ways To Make Your School Visit Interactive

Virtual Visits

Secrets to A Successful Skype Visit

7 Tips for Effectively Engaging a Virtual Audience

Teacher Guides

Marcie Colleen - Teacher's Guides Marcie Colleen is the Common Core guru of teaching guides that accompany your book.

Authors and Educators - helping authors and publishers create educational resources

Molly Ippy creates teacher guides to accompany your book.

Funding

An Open Book Foundation - DC-based nonprofit that funds author visits to low-income schools 

Books

Sell Books and get PAID doing School Visits: How to Find Schools that Host Authors, How to Plan and What to Charge