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, #¥18 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 #¥18 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 #¥18 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! #¥18: Thursday Recap, Friday Recap, Saturday Recap, and Sunday Recap
#¥18: , , , , , , , , and by Fran McVeigh
by Gena Mendoza
by Maggie Lopez
by Amber Counts
by Charles Moore
Three Teacher Talk
and by Bryan Ripley Crandall
Cumulus Crandall
Educators Kerry and Sara created a Twitter account () to share their #¥18 experience.
, , and by Sarah M. Zerwin
by Jay Stott
The Paper Graders
Two Traveling Teachers shared from the green couch at #¥18
by JEA President Sarah Nichols
Journalism Education Association
by Kyle Jones
The Art of Forgetting
by Jeni Gearhart
West Virginia Council of Teachers of English
and by Jennifer Sniadecki
Reading Teacher Writes
by Susan G. Barber
Teach with Class
by Jasmine Oguntuga
O(lit)eracy
by author Randy Ribay
by Patrick Andrus
ReadWonder
by Tamra Dollar
Confessions of a Literacy Coach
by Jennifer Wolfe
Mamawolfe
Newsela
by Lisa Johnson
TechChef
¥ 2018: , , , and by Samantha Cronin
Samantha Cronin’s Kid Lit Library
by José Luis Vilson
by Ken Lindblom
Edukention
English With Ms. Lindsey
by Paula Bourque
Lit Coach Lady
by Sherri Spelic
Edified Listener
Reflections from ¥18: and by Adrian T. Nester
Learning Curve
by Kellee Moye and Ricki Ginsberg
Unleashing Readers
by Sylvia Vardell
Poetry for Children
by Jessica Lifshitz
Crawling Out of the Classroom
by Melissa Pavloff
Center for Catholic Education
by Irene Latham
Live Your Poem
by Dana Huff
Huff English
by Stacey Shubitz
Raising Literate Humans
by Heidi Mordhorst
My Juicy Little Universe
Teach Pluralism
by Mark Miazga
Ephiphany in Baltimore
by Margaret Simon
Reflections on the Teche
The Mrs. Hauptsteen
by Melanie Meehan
Two Writing Teachers
by Lorraine Magee
Miss Magee’s Reads
by Julia E. Torres
and by Elisabeth Ellington
The Dirigible Plum
by Jess Lifshitz, Chad Everett, Tricia Ebarvia, and Sara Ahmed
and by Jillian Heise
Heise Reads and Recommends
by Lauren Nizol
Learning On-Ramps
by Lisa Johnson
Techchef
Mentors for Rent
by Lindsay Schneider
by Susan G. Barber and Roy Smith
AP Lit Help
by William Kist, Marissa Ausperk, Margana Dane Fahey, Brittany LaCroix, Erin Spear-Hoffman, and Jessica Starcher
Writable
by Steve Bickmore
Dr. Bickmore’s YA Wednesday
by Scott Jones
Classroom Communities
Red River Valley Writing Project