Create Engaging School Visits
Connect with your Audience and Get Invited Back
Many authors and illustrators find the prospect of developing and booking school visits overwhelming. Yet, school visits can be a significant source of income and they are often the best way to connect with child readers. In this webinar, Michelle Cusolito demystifies the process and gives you all the tools you need to book school visits with confidence.
You will learn:
- Should you connect your visit with school curriculum? If so, where do you find curriculum guidelines?
- What do you do if you're an introvert at heart?
- How can you create a presentation that plays to your strengths?
- What's the best way to promote school visits on your website?
- What should you charge?
Two handouts of resources are provided to get you started booking visits now.
Your Instructor
I spent my childhood mucking about in the fields, forests, and swamps around the farm where I grew up in southeastern Massachusetts. As an exchange student in high school, I temporarily traded rural living for city life in Cebu, Philippines. These early experiences set me on my current course exploring nature and culture like the locals. I spent 10 wonderful years as a grade 4 teacher. Now, when I'm not mucking around in the world, I'm usually in my office or local coffee shop weaving these experiences into stories for children.