This year’s Annual Convention in Houston, Texas, was an inspired gathering of over 7,000 educators, authors, and exhibitors. With more than 700 sessions, hundreds of author signings, concurrent luncheons, and more, #NCTE18 offered too much for anyone to expect to do it all.
Thankfully we have wonderful authors and members who have taken the time to share both their convention presentation materials and their #NCTE18 experiences through their blogs. We hope you’ll take some time over winter break to look through this roundup from the 2018 Annual Convention and learn with us once again.
If you’ve published a post about #NCTE18 and we missed it, please share it with us on Twitter and we’ll add it to the list!
P. S. We’d be remiss if we didn’t share our recap posts! #NCTE18: Thursday Recap, Friday Recap, Saturday Recap, and Sunday Recap
#NCTE18: #G2Great, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Digging Deeper #1, Digging Deeper #2, Digging Deeper #3, and Decisions by Fran McVeigh
A New Approach to “Teaching the Novel” by Gena Mendoza
What Are We Going To Do? by Maggie Lopez
NCTE: Sparking Hope, Equity, and Voice by Amber Counts
NCTE 2018 Recap by Charles Moore
Three Teacher Talk
A Highlight for @NCTE #NCTE2018 Is Introducing Teachers to the Conference & To Inspirations @ChrisCrutcher and We Are Family! I Got My NWP People and Me! @WritingProject Brunch Today. Woot Woot. by Bryan Ripley Crandall
Cumulus Crandall
Educators Kerry and Sara created a Twitter account (@nctescape) to share their #NCTE18 experience.
#NCTE18 Friday: What Surprised Me, #NCTE18 Write More, Grade Less Presentation Materials, and #NCTE18 Saturday: “Do your work.” by Sarah M. Zerwin
NCTE 2018- The Thing That Made the Problem Won’t Fix the Problem. by Jay Stott
The Paper Graders
Two Traveling Teachers shared book talks from the green couch at #NCTE18
JEA Leaders Emphasize Value of Scholastic Journalism at NCTE Convention by JEA President Sarah Nichols
Journalism Education Association
Reflection on NCTE 2018 by Kyle Jones
The Art of Forgetting
Of Teacher Families and Baked Potatoes: Top 5 Things I Learned at NCTE 2018 by Jeni Gearhart
West Virginia Council of Teachers of English
#NCTE18: All My Groups — IN the House! and IMWAYR: To-Be-Read Pile is Overwhelming After #NCTE18! by Jennifer Sniadecki
Reading Teacher Writes
Reflections on NCTE 2018 by Susan G. Barber
Teach with Class
NCTE: The Ultimate Experience by Jasmine Oguntuga
O(lit)eracy
Complexity in YA by author Randy Ribay
Wonder Wednesday #247 (#NCTE18) by Patrick Andrus
ReadWonder
I’m White . . . Now What? Insights on White Privilege, Literacy, Learning and Social Equity by Tamra Dollar
Confessions of a Literacy Coach
NCTE 2018: Raising Student Voice through Blogging, Student Websites, Social Media and Tech Tools by Jennifer Wolfe
Mamawolfe
In Case You Missed It: 5 Incredible Learnings from NCTE
Newsela
NCTE 2018 by Lisa Johnson
TechChef
NCTE 2018: Presentation, Recap and Reflection Part I, Recap and Reflection Part II, Recap and Reflection Part III, and Recap and Reflection Part IV by Samantha Cronin
Samantha Cronin’s Kid Lit Library
I Put in Work and It’s All for the Kids [An NCTE Reflection] by José Luis Vilson
My 6 Take-Aways from NCTE 2018 in Houston, Texas by Ken Lindblom
Edukention
NCTE 2018: Takeaways from Houston
English With Ms. Lindsey
NCTE 2018 Ah-has and Oh-Yeahs by Paula Bourque
Lit Coach Lady
Other People’s Conferences by Sherri Spelic
Edified Listener
Reflections from NCTE18: Part One and Part Two by Adrian T. Nester
Learning Curve
Kellee and Ricki’s NCTE and ALAN Annual Convention Reflection 2018 by Kellee Moye and Ricki Ginsberg
Unleashing Readers
Poetry, Principals, and NCTE by Sylvia Vardell
Poetry for Children
Empathy Is Not Political: NCTE Presentation on Creating Inclusive Classrooms by Jessica Lifshitz
Crawling Out of the Classroom
Four ACE Teaching Fellows Present at National Conference by Melissa Pavloff
Center for Catholic Education
A Few Highlights from #NCTE18 by Irene Latham
Live Your Poem
NCTE 2018 Reflections by Dana Huff
Huff English
Highlights from #NCTE18 and the Re-entry to Home by Stacey Shubitz
Raising Literate Humans
Live from #NCTE18 by Heidi Mordhorst
My Juicy Little Universe
Teach Pluralism
Day 1 of #NCTE18: Seeing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Speak by Mark Miazga
Ephiphany in Baltimore
Slice of Life: Raising Student Voice at NCTE 2018 by Margaret Simon
Reflections on the Teche
The Mrs. Hauptsteen
Continuing to Think about Our Mentor Texts by Melanie Meehan
Two Writing Teachers
Reflections on NCTE: An Open Letter to My Students by Lorraine Magee
Miss Magee’s Reads
Abundance by Julia E. Torres
5 Favorite Things about NCTE: Slice of Life #ncte18 #sol18 and NCTE Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #10 by Elisabeth Ellington
The Dirigible Plum
Presentation: Reading for Freedom & Identity: Teaching Students to Read Beyond Bias by Jess Lifshitz, Chad Everett, Tricia Ebarvia, and Sara Ahmed
My #NCTE18 #BuildYourStack #classroombookaday Picture Book Recommendations and #NCTE18 #classroombookaday Presentation by Jillian Heise
Heise Reads and Recommends
NCTE: My On-Ramp to Deepening My Teaching Practice by Lauren Nizol
Learning On-Ramps
NCTE2018 by Lisa Johnson
Techchef
Mentors for Rent
NCTE and ALAN Reflection by Lindsay Schneider
#NCTE2018 Recap by Susan G. Barber and Roy Smith
AP Lit Help
Presentation: Writing Ourselves: Bridging the Gap Between HS and College Writing by William Kist, Marissa Ausperk, Margana Dane Fahey, Brittany LaCroix, Erin Spear-Hoffman, and Jessica Starcher
Writable
Revisiting ALAN 2018. It was so Fantastic! by Steve Bickmore
Dr. Bickmore’s YA Wednesday
Conference of Revolution by Scott Jones
Classroom Communities
NWP Is Now Integrated into the NCTE Annual Convention
Red River Valley Writing Project