Envirokids Literacy Festival - Day 1 Agenda
Green Earth Book Awards Reception
Thursday, October 7, 2021
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. EST
7:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Welcome to the Envirokids Literacy Festival: Virtual Reception & Green Earth Book Awards Ceremony
Theme: "Earth Action: Healing Our Home"
Ms. Amy Marasco
President & Founder, the Nature Generation
Dr. Shanetia Clark
Department Chair & Associate Professor of Early & Elementary Education, Salisbury University
7:15 – 7:30 p.m.
A Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future
National Academy of the Sciences; sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York & W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fund
Dr. Heidi Schweingruber
Director of the Board on Science Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Dr. Nancy Hopkins-Evans
Senior Director of State Partnerships, Instruction Partners & Committee Member, Board on Science Education, National Academy of Sciences
7:30 – 7:45 p.m.
The Nature Generation Video: Storytellers for the Earth
Ms. Romany Hall-Sieferman
Program Manager for the Green Earth Book Award, the Nature Generation
7:45 – 8:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Black Girl in a Green World: Elevating Voices of Color for a Greener Tomorrow
Ms. Oliva L. Walton
Education Coordinator, St. Croix Environmental Association & Teaching Fellow, The Nature Generation
8:00 – 8:30 p.m.
The Green Earth Book Awards: Telling the Earth's Stories
2021 Award Medal Winners
Ms. Deborah Hopkinson
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, & a World of Butterflies
Illustrated by Meilo So
2021 GEBA Picture Book Medal Winner
Ms. Michele Weber Hurwitz
Hello from Renn Lake
2021 GEBA Cadmus Children's Fiction Medal Winner
Mr. Josh Swiller
Bright Shining World
2021 GEBA Your Adult Fiction Medal Winner
Ms. Lucy Bell
You Can Change the World: The Kids' Guide to a Better Planet
2021 GEBA Children & Young Adult Non-fiction Medal Winner
2021 GEBA Honor Winners & 2020 GEBA Medal Award Winners
Ms. Romany Hall-Sieferman
Program Manager for the Green Earth Book Award, the Nature Generation
8:27 p.m.
Envirokids Literacy Festival Agenda: Activities for Friday & Saturday
Mr. Stephen Ford
Education Librarian & Coordinator, Ernie Bond Curriculum Resource Center (EBCRC), Salisbury University
Dr. Cathrene Connery
Associate Professor of Literacy & Children's Literature & Chair, Envirokids Literacy Festival, Salisbury University