“Writing is the most public performance of your

intelligence.”-Jim Burke

IRA 2014

“Let kids discover the secrets of the universe through the books

they read.”-Dav Pilkey

IRA 2014

“You can’t learn how to write just by filling out graphic organizers.”

-Carol Jago

IRA 2014

“My barometer is that if I don’t want to do it – I don’t want the

kids to do it.”-Laura Robb

IRA 2014

“We want a nation of readers, not a nation of answerers.”

-Kylene Beers

IRA 2014

“When was the last time at a junior high school or high school

that the kids actually watched the teacher struggle?”

-Kelly Gallagher

IRA 2014

“If you’re a kid who believes that your cultural capital doesn’t

matter in school – you don’t have anything to hang your hat on.”

-P. David Pearson

IRA 2014

“When you start your teaching with images – everybody plays.”

-Smokey Daniels

IRA 2014

“We have to prepare our students to be “citizen ready” as well as just college and career ready.”

-Steve Zemelman

IRA 2014

“Grandma’s bookshelf doesn’t have lexile numbers.”

-Donalyn Miller

IRA 2014

“Aren’t you worried about losing books? No, I’m worried about

losing children.”-Richard Allington

IRA 2014

“Writing is the largest orchestra that the brain has to construct.”

-Jim Burke

IRA 2014

“There’s a reading revolution happening all around us – we just

need to get out of the way.”-Dav Pilkey

IRA 2014

“Most great writing is not informative, narrative, or

argumentative – most great writing has all three.”

-Carol Jago

IRA 2014

“We have an opportunity to give readers not only the books they want, but the books they need.”

-Ruta Sepetys

IRA 2014

“Reading is like breathing – writing is like breathing out.”

-Pam Allyn

IRA 2014

“Asking kids to hold their prior knowledge at bay is like asking dogs not to bark and leaves not to fall.”

-P. David Pearson

IRA 2014

“When we teach kids to read like writers we teach them to write

like writers.”-Kelly Gallagher

IRA 2014

“If we want them to reread, it’s on us to make it interesting. It’s our responsibility to make them want to read something again.”

-Smokey Daniels

IRA 2014

“I really believe that putting a book in the hands of a kid is a

sacred act.”-Jeff Kinney

IRA 2014

“Educators have the ability to take something that is a good

idea and make it stupid real fast.”-Carol Jago

IRA 2014

“Most kids read well enough to do well in college, but don’t read

enough to do well in college.”-Richard Allington

IRA 2014

“Never send a test out to do a curriculum’s job.”-P. David Pearson

IRA 2014