ReLeah Lent
ReLeah Cossett Lent was a teacher for more than twenty years before becoming a founding member of a literacy project at the University of Central Florida. She is now an international consultant and writer. Her eighth book, recently published by ASCD, is titled Overcoming Textbook Fatigue: 21st Century Tools to Reinvigorate Learning. She writes and speaks on issues of literacy; engagement; censorship; and, most recently, meeting the Common Core State Standards with common sense.
ReLeah’s first two books, coauthored with Gloria Pipkin, won the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award and the NCTE/Slate Intellectual Freedom Award. ReLeah was also the recipient of the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award in 1999. In 2012 she was awarded the Florida Council of Teachers of English President’s Award for "significant contribution to the teaching of English in the state of Florida."