Pernille Ripp to Keynote CUE 2017 Fall Conference

Walnut Creek, CA, June 29, 2017 --(PR.com)-- CUE is thrilled to announce that Pernille Ripp will be the
Closing Keynote speaker at the CUE 2017 Fall Conference to be held October 27-28 at American Canyon
High School in the Napa Valley.

Pernille Ripp will deliver the Closing Session and Keynote on Saturday, October 28, from 3:30 - 4:30
pm. Pernille Ripp is an expert in literacy and technology integration and dedicates her research and
practice to developing engaged and empowered students and communities.

She is a teacher, speaker, author, blogger, and passionate advocate for education. Ripp is a Skype Master
Teacher; Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert; recipient of the 2015 WEMTA Making IT Happen
Award; and the 2015 ISTE Award for Innovation in Global Collaboration.

In 2010, Pernille founded The Global Read Aloud, a global literacy initiative that began with a simple
goal in mind: one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to connect
more than two million students in 60 different countries.

She is the author of Passionate Learners, How to Engage and Empower Your Students (Routledge), now
in its second edition, Empowered Schools, Empowered Students (Corwin), Reimagining Literacy
Through Global Collaboration (Solution Tree), and the forthcoming Passionate Readers (Routledge)
which focuses on creating learning spaces and communities where students thrive and where all
stakeholders are empowered and passionate about learning. Her work has been featured in many print and
online journals including Entersekt, Literacy Today, The New York Times, School Library Journal, The
Guardian, and MiddleWeb.

Ripp's current research interest is creating passionate literacy environments within the restriction of our
current educational systems to help students fall in love with literacy again. She uses her own classroom
as a laboratory as well as the many educators she works with across the country. You can follow Pernille
Ripp's work on Blogging Through The Fourth Dimension, her personal blog and a frequent Teach100
top-rated education blog. With her mentoring, her own students' blogs have had more than 600,000
unique views since they began.

Brad Montague will be delivering the Opening Keynote at the CUE 2017 Fall Conference on Friday,
October 27. Montague is an award-winning writer and director and creator of Kid President, which began
its life online and has grown into a New York Times bestselling book, television series, and movement
for good around the world.

As this conference always sells out quickly, register soon at http://www.cue.org/fall.

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