Thanks to all who made #ncte18 great. In this thread, I will share 15 interesting things I heard people say.
1. "A rigorous classroom is filled with voice, choice and production." Ernest Morrell
2. "Schools are the one place where a child's main identity is negative. Kids are only "Special Ed" at school." Colleen Cruz
3. "I do not teach curriculum. I do not teach lessons. I teach people." Cornelius Minor
4. "Your classroom already has a reading identity." Penny Kittle
"It is not about policing students into reading. It is about inviting students into reading." Penny Kitlle
6. "Compliance often masquerades as engagement." Ellin Keene
7. "Checking for understanding is not the same thing as creating understanding." Kylene Beers
8. "You cannot improve competence until you improve confidence." Kylene Beers
10. "If we always do the work for them, how are students going to find their own voices?" Tiana Silvas
11. "We have broken reading down into so many components students have lost the ability to put them back together again." Donalyn Miller
12. "We must address the culture of stress and failure...when kids are stressed the brain becomes a non-functioning organ." Ernest Morrell
9. "It is important to sometimes make peace with discomfort." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
13. "Attention is the purest and rarest form of generosity." Ellin Keene quoting Simone Weil
14. "It is not about complex texts. It is about complex thinking." Penny Kittle
15. "The art of teaching is the art of the re-mix, the art of creativity...Are you an English teacher, or are you a curriculum follower?" Christoper Emdin
