#ncte15

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Hell’s Kitchen is an American-style restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. We left before the live music started but it was good eats.

Elizabeth Wein is an author I occasionally wax rhapsodic about here. You should read her books.

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Day 2 of my trip to Minneapolis to the NCTE convention... even though this is the third comic page.

Richard McGuire’s Here truly is mind-blowing. He’s been working on it for a long time but I had never heard of it before this weekend.

Craig Thompson on the other hand is one of my favorite cartoonists. If you haven’t read Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, or most recently, Space Dumplins, get on that. Also you can check out some of the cool doodles he did in our books at CXC this past fall.

Cece Bell wrote the tremendous graphic novel El Deafo.

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A little more of Day 1 and the beginning of Day 2 of my trip to Minneapolis to accept my Teacher Award for Literacy and attend the NCTE convention.

Ms. Clinton was at the NCTE convention to talk about her new book It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! and like I said, she's a great public speaker... especially through the dreaded "Q&A" portion of the event which is often the kiss of death for even the most informed and literate of people. I suppose it helped that the assembled crowd was composed mostly of English teachers, which seemed to smarten up the average Q&A question up by about 40%.

Burch, the restaurant where we had dinner was amazing. Highly recommended.

[queryingthequeer]

#hearmyhome is packing up and getting ready for #ncte15 (at Waverly, Michigan)

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Will you be at NCTE this weekend? We’d love to meet you! 

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This is the first in a series of interviews NCTE will conduct with 2015 Annual Convention Chair and President-Elect Doug Hesse and other guests as we gear up for November.

Learn more here: http://www.ncte.org/annual

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tjR9wJECTU)

Streamed live on Sept 15, 2015

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At the NCTE Annual Convention this November...

This year, you'll find Alison Bechdel (Opening General Session) and Valerie Strauss (CEE Luncheon) keynoting alongside Linda Adler-Kassner (College Celebration) and Frank X. Walker (College Level Luncheon).

"Responsibility, Creativity, and the Arts of Language" takes place November 19-22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Register today!

http://www.ncte.org/annual

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Speakers for the College Audience at NCTE 2015 in November

Registration is open for the 2015 NCTE Annual Convention, and the housing link is live. "Responsibility, Creativity, and the Arts of Language" takes place November 19-22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visit the website for full registration information.

This year, you'll find Alison Bechdel (Opening General Session) and Valerie Strauss (CEE Luncheon) keynoting alongside Linda Adler-Kassner (College Celebration) and Frank X. Walker (College Level Luncheon).

Want to get inspired for Alison Bechdel's talk? Read Jessi Thomsen's "Making Voice Visible:Using Graphic Narrative in the Composition Classroom" (TETYC, September 2014), which discusses teaching with Bechel's work. The Conference on English Leadership Convention follows immediately after the NCTE Annual Convention, November 22-24, and provides a supportive network and valuable professional learning for literacy leaders of any role and level