Authors on Call is a group of iNKers  who have devel­oped inter­ac­tive video­con­fer­ences for schools in part­ner­ship with the Cen­ter for Inter­ac­tive Learn­ing and Col­lab­o­ra­tion.  CILC.org is a non­prof­it ser­vice that fea­tures pro­grams from hun­dreds of orga­ni­za­tions.  But we are the only orga­ni­za­tion of authors.  If you are a edu­ca­tor, mem­ber­ship is free.   We just list­ed our new pro­grams on the CILC.org web­site.  The titles of our pro­grams list­ed below are linked to CILC where you can get a full descrip­tion.  In addi­tion, if you would like to meet with an author who has writ­ten a Non­fic­tion Minute but is not in Authors on Call, that can be arranged.  This is a good way for your stu­dents to have a con­ver­sa­tion with one of us. Join our Tenth Anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion to get a chance to invite an iNK author to your class­room.  
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Jan Adkins’ Pro­gram for Stu­dents:

• Mov­ing Heavy Things (STEM and NGSS aligned)

Vic­ki Cobb’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• The Sci­ence Fair Coach
• How Do We Know the Earth Is Mov­ing?
• Dis­cov­ery! Dis­cov­ery! Why Sci­en­tists Love Sci­ence (STEM and NGSS aligned)
• Har­ry Hou­di­ni: The First Inter­na­tion­al Super­star
• The “We Dare You!” Video Project
• This Place Is Wet: The Ama­zon Rain For­est
• Begin with a Bang, End with a Snap! How to write any­thing with pow­er and clar­i­ty
• Vic­ki Cobb’s Pro­grams for Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment for Teach­ers:
• Shriek­ing With Excite­ment Over the Solar Sys­tem    Also avail­able as a Class ACTS pro­gram using her book What’s the BIG Idea?

Car­la McClafferty’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• A Love Story/Something Out of Nothing/Marie Curie and Radium
• Com­put­er Geeks Who Changed the World: Tech Titans
• X-Rays: Not Just for Super­man Any­more
• CSI Meets the Biog­ra­phy Channel/The Many Faces of George Wash­ing­ton: Remak­ing a Pres­i­den­tial Icon
• X-ray Vision Reveals– The Skele­ton Inside You / Sci­ence with Siz­zle
• A REAL James Bond expe­ri­ence, In Defi­ance of Hitler: The Secret Mis­sion of Var­i­an Fry
• Con­cus­sions and Foot­ball: Under­stand­ing the Issues
• How to Find Amaz­ing Pri­ma­ry Sources Online: Nav­i­gat­ing the Library of Con­gress Col­lec­tions
• Tips on Biogra­phies and Non­fic­tion Fea­tures with a Non­fic­tion Author
• Secrets of the Stat­ue of Lib­er­ty: How it was Built and Why It Became a Sym­bol of Immi­gra­tion

Ker­rie Hollihan’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• 101 Years of Nation­al Parks and How They Almost Didn’t Hap­pen
• A Cen­tu­ry of “Her­sto­ry”: Glob­al Con­flict Seen Through the Eyes of Women War Reporters
• In the Fields and the Trench­es with Young Folks of World War I
• The Bril­liant, Bizarre Isaac New­ton — STEM/Common Core aligned
• The Coura­geous Chem­istry of Dr. Per­cy Julian (STEM and NGSS aligned)

Rox­ie Munro’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• Art & Artists: Mas­ter­piece Mix
• Snakes! Bugs! Rats and Rap­tors!
• Mas­ter­ing the Maze
• Rodent Ras­cals
• Dive In: Coral Reef Crit­ters STEM-aligned)

Aline Alexan­der Newman’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents

• Ape Escapes!
• Does Your Pet Have a Sto­ry?

Dorothy Hin­shaw Patent’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

•  Heal­ing an Ecosys­tem: The Sto­ry of the Wolf’s Return to Yel­lo­stone (STEM Aligned)
• The Lewis & Clark Expe­di­tion: A Sto­ry of Hard­ship and Dis­cov­er (CCSS aligned)

David Schwartz’s Pro­gram for Stu­dents:

• How Much Is a Mil­lion? — Place Val­ue and Expo­nents Come to Life (CCSS and STEM-aligned)

Alexan­dra Siy’s Pro­gram for Stu­dents:

• I Spy Mag­ni­fy
• Instastem — A Class ACTS pro­gram that puts art via pho­tog­ra­phy into sci­ence
• LET’S READ, COUNT, AND SHOUT! Hav­ing Fun with the CCSS
• Mars: Explor­ing the Red Plan­et (STEM and CCSS aligned)
• NAME THAT BUG: Look­ing Close­ly at Insects and Spi­ders (STEM and CCSS aligned)

Stephen Swinburne’s Pro­gram for Stu­dents:

• Swim, Sea Tur­tle Swim!

Peg­gy Thomas’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• George Wash­ing­ton Plants A Nation
• Was George Wash­ing­ton a Sci­en­tist? (CCSS aligned)
• Brain­storm­ing Ideas: Turn­ing a bor­ing top­ic into excit­ing non­fic­tion

Andrea Warren’s Pro­grams for Stu­dents:

• What Would You Have Done?: Andrea Warren’s Books About Brave Chil­dren
• Charles Dick­ens: One of History’s Great­est Writ­ers and Reform­ers
• The Orphan Trains: Find­ing Fam­i­lies for Home­less Chil­dren
• What Chil­dren Expe­ri­enced in the Civ­il War: Three Young Peo­ple at the Siege of Vicks­burg
• Hitler’s War Against Chil­dren: How One Boy Sur­vived the Death Camps
• Viet­nam War Orphan: One Boy’s Jour­ney to Amer­i­ca

Authors on Call Pro­grams: (pick an author from the group above):

• Where Ideas Come From: Brain­storm­ing with a Non­fic­tion Author
• Dig­ging Deep­er: Research­ing Tech­niques from the Pros–Using the CCSS to read for mean­ing
• Writ­ing Cre­ative­ly About the Real World–the CCSS in Action