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Monday, November 24, 2014

NCTE- wow...

I'm just back from my very first National Council of Teachers of English conference.

Speechless at all the amazing book love floating through that convention center.

I shared a panel with the fabulous, famous, funny

NERDY BOOK People.

Here's a link to all of our PowerPoint presentations:

http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-nerdy-book-club-shaping-reading-identity-through-community-story-and-choice/

(See the little arrows on the bottom left? Just click through to see all the slides. They may not make a lot of sense without the fabulous presenters standing in front of you, but you'll get a sense of what we shared.)



Here we are! Scary Book Nerds!



I also got to talk about my Book-To-Be, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, at Scholastic's amazing brunch. Sharing the stage with Jennifer Nielsen and Christopher Paul Curtis, while we acted our pants off.


More to come as I wade through the weekend. 

Truly, it was an honor to meet so many remarkable, hard-working, smart teachers with such brilliant ideas. 


3 comments:

Margaret Simon said...

So great to meet you and connect immediately. What an awesome conference!

Carol Baldwin said...

SOunds like you had a great time, Augusta. Glad it went so well for you!

Augusta Scattergood said...

Thanks, ladies. It was pretty amazing, all around.
And congrats again to you, Margaret for that wonderful award.