NCTE 2015 - Entrepreneur Generations

I write this brief post from very chilly Minneapolis, where I"m attending the 2015 National Council of Teachers of English conference. It's my 6th NCTE conference, and 4th as a presenter, and I've pretty much made attending and presenting a regular part of my own professional development over the last few years.

The Adichie team from Baltimore City College! 

This year, I'm attending a session on Friday with the Folger Shakespeare Library about Shakespeare and Assessment. It's the 3rd of 4 Folger sessions that day, all delivered by Folger Education leaders and National Folger Teacher Corps members, like me. Definitely check them out for innovative ideas about teaching Shakespeare from the leading Shakespeare Education organization in the world!

On Saturday morning, I'll be presenting with three colleagues about how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has transformed our 9th and 12th grade curriculums through the teaching of her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, and her novel Americanah. I'm looking forward to this one, even if it's at 8am on Saturday morning and we're up against Jim Burke, one of my English teacher heroes.

To breathe some life into this blog, I'm going to try to blog my experience here at NCTE 2015. Let's see if I can keep this up!

 

My friend and colleague Amber Phelps, with whom I'm presenting about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I watched a bunch of The Good Wife on the flight. Such a good show!

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