Hope Tree sponsored by Boston Writing Project at #NCTE

Bryan Stevenson #NCTE #NCTE24 #identity Be more than your title. #proximate See and know the students who others do not see. Connecting makes a difference in someone's life. #change Fear should not shape policy. Our commitment should be judged by how we treat poor, neglected, and unseen children.

"I have no interest in punishment; my interest is liberation." Bryan Stevenson #NCTE24

“We still have a legal system in this country that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.” Bryan Stevenson #NCTE

“Hope isn’t always rational. But it is always necessary.” Bryan Stevenson #NCTE

“Just because the way things are is not the way they have to be. That’s what education does.” Bryan Stevenson #NCTE

Bryan Stevenson: 13 states still have no laws on age limit for trying a child as an adult. “We do not throw away children.” #NCTE

Bryan Stevenson: When people are governed by fear and anger, they begin to tolerate things they wouldn’t otherwise accept. #NCTE You’re not a great school if you are expelling and suspending too many of your students.

Bryan Stevenson on the power of proximity: Worried that people making education policy are not hearing what they need to hear or seeing what they need to see. They are disconnected. #NCTE

Excited to hear Delaware’s own Bryan Stevenson this morning at #NCTE. Line is already hundreds of people long.

Bet we set a record for adults in one place carrying backpacks. Teacher life. #NCTE

“Are we going to be ruined by our greed or saved by our ingenuity?” Kate McKinnon was fabulous at #NCTE

Any other Delaware folks at #NCTE?

In a very long line to go hear Justice Jackson at #NCTE.