Rub a fiction book and a nonfiction book together and create a spark – K. Bohne Holder
We must create the counter narrative to education – Lucy Calkins
Kids should be reading books created by authors, not by corporations – Lucy Calkins
Look for the beauty in your colleagues’ rooms and then share it with the world – Lucy Calkins
The most effective feedback is what students tell us through action, words, and products and then using that to change our instruction – Chris Lehman
Reading fiction allows us to be what we never could be – Kylene Beers
Let me tell you what happens when we give a kid a text that is too hard; it is too hard, that is what happens – Kylene Beers
We confuse decoding with reading – Kathleen Tolan
Regurgitation does not equal understanding – Kathleen Tolan
Book clubs are not shares, they are conversations – Kathleen Tolan
We can over-manage kids into not speaking during our reading conversations – Kathleen Tolan
My job as an author is to get readers to turn pages – Christopher Paul Curtis
Don’t let anything come between you and your love of teaching – Kathy Collins
If you have the capability to doubt, you also have the capability to wonder – Kate Roberts
I am a passionate 5th grade teacher in Middleton, Wisconsin, USA, proud techy geek, and mass consumer of incredible books. Creator of the Global Read Aloud Project, Co-founder of EdCamp MadWI, and believer in all children. I have no awards or accolades except for the lightbulbs that go off in my students’ heads every day. First book “The Passionate Learner – Giving Our Classroom Back to Our Students Starting Today” will be released this fall from PLPress. Follow me on Twitter @PernilleRipp.
Pernille Ripp 
Wise words!
Nice summary, but I would want to add Christopher Paul Curtis's "Mom is right 99.9% of the time!" It was a fabulous week of learning!
It was an amazing week! I also want to blog about it, but just can't decide where to start!LaurieChickadeeJubilee.blogspot.com
All too often, I've parsed out my week at TC by quoting people in different blog posts. I'm inspired to put together a post like this (hopefully based off of Tweets I capture during the August Writing Institute) one this year.
Love this! Thanks for putting it together. Was in NYC during the Writing Institute but didn't get to attend this year. This helps me feel like I know a little bit of what I missed.
Wow. Wish I had been there. So many of those quotes resonate, from creating a counter culture to not allowing publishers to decide what are children are reading. Thank you for sharing.
Hey Pernille,Can you expand on this one? "We must create the counter narrative to education – Lucy Calkins" What did she mean by that???
What I felt (and hope) she meant was that teachers and students have to be the ones paving the way for changes in education, not corporations or politicians. Unfortunately, she did not give us any way how to do it.