abbieThe 2019 WCRIS Leadership Conference Keynote is Meghan Cox Gurdon. Meghan is an essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer since 2005. Her work has appeared widely, in publications such as the Washington Examiner, the Daily Telegraph, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and National Review. A graduate of Bowdoin College, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Hugo Gurdon, and their five children, who attend private school.

She will be discussing the challenges our schools face with the culture fostered in contemporary children’s literature.

The 2019 WCRIS Leadership Conference registration is now open and accepting early-bird registrations now through January 11, 2019. This year’s Leadership Conference is March 8, 2019, at the newly renovated Ingleside Hotel in Pewaukee, WI. Look for the next Meet the Speaker with Joe McTighe, the former Executive Director of the Council of American Private Education (CAPE).

Hurry now and claim one of the limited seats at the early-bird rate of $175 per individual, or $155 per person, for groups of three or more. Click here to register.