Dr. Laura Hutchison, Ed.D

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.

It was so good!

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

Quote from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that says, “People often ask me what gives me hope, and it’s the next generation, because that is the way in which we progress. And you all are the vanguards of the next generation.”

#NCTE

Any other Delaware folks at #NCTE?

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

He was a good boy. ❤️