10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

(Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts)

Phillip Done knows it is a child's birthday without looking at the calendar, that broken candy canes do not taste as good as unbroken ones, that peanut M&Ms spark in the microwave and that measuring the diameter of an Oreo cookie is more fun than measuring the diameter of a coffee can lid. After pumping up his 500th red rubber ball, he decided it was time to write it all down.  Hence, his books  32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny and most recently Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood were born.  He was nominated for the Disney Teacher of the Year Award and was honored as a Teacher of the Year in California.  Phil accepted the prestigious Charles Schwab Distinguished Teacher Award from Charles Schwab himself.

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