Podcast Episode 3: NCTE

This week I talk with colleague K. Keener about our trip to NCTE 2019 in Baltimore. We talk a little about Tommy Orange and talk about two of our sessions that occurred at the conference.

Books to consider from our podcast:
There There by Tommy Orange
Say Yes to Pears: Food Literacy in and Beyond the English Classroom by Joseph Franzen and Brent Peters

Special thanks to the GSEA of NCTE (Josh Coleman, Stephen Crawley, Darryn Diuguid, Craig Young and many others).
Operation Game Design presenter: Dr. Michele Haiken
Playing with fiction presenters: Jeanne Henry, Hofstra University, Lorraine Radice, Long Beach School District, NY
Say Yes to Pears Authors: Joseph Franzen and Brent Peters

Music from the podcast c/o Kevin MacLead. You kind find more of his royalty free music at incompetech.filmmusic.io/

Daniel Valentin teaches American Wilderness, Ethics, and English 9 at Horace Greeley High School. He is currently reading New Kid by Jerry Craft and is listening to Climbing with Mollie by William Finnegan. He wants his students to feel empowered through books. Follow him on Twitter @DaValentinCCSD

K. Keener teachers Psych in Lit, Film Studies and English 9 at Horace Greeley High School. She blogs about all things coffee on NYC Undergrounds and is the creator and host of the Writer's CraftBox YouTube channel. You can follow her on twitter @kakeener

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