Here is the website where you will find the speeches by me, Karen Lewis, and John Kuhn.
Initially, I read that the last few minutes of my speech were not recorded, but apparently two film makers were at work, and the missing piece is there after all on a spare YouTube video.
The panels were amazing. The conversation invigorating. How wonderful it was to meet people we knew only by their Twitter handle or their pseudonym.
During the conference, our Twitter hashtag #npeconference trended #1 in the nation across Twitter. How about that!
Were you wondering why the second day–the great Common Core panel and my keynote–were not Livestreamed? For some reason, there was no capacity for doing it in that particular auditorium at the LBJ conference center on the campus of the University of Texas.
But we do have the video, and I hope you can sense some of the excitement that everyone at the NPE conference felt.
Just look on this site: http://www.schoolhouselive.org/
The mood was festive, exhilarating, and empowering. Everyone I met said it was WITHOUT A DOUBT the BEST conference they had ever attended.
The spirit of colleague ship and joy was strong in that meeting.
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We are already making plans for next year. Join us and share the joy.

Rock stars…..all of you!!! Thank you for allowing all of us who were unable to attend, to feel the spirit of the weekend. Diane, you and every speaker who traveled to Austin, are to be commended for being the courageous civil rights leaders of our time. I am so grateful for the endless work and commitment of the Network for Public Education. I stand and applaud every speaker, every committed individual, who traveled to learn and to stand up for education. I will always be proud to share my voice with such an amazing group of Americans defending children, education and democracy.
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Wowzer speech, Diane!
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Indeed! Diane knocked it out of the park.
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Diane, I can’t stand the ‘might not get to the mountain top with you’ implications. Please take good care of yourself and aim for 100!
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