2019 Annual Convention Preview

5/ 2019

VOLUM E 28

NO.4

Register today!

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 1

5/17/19 2:21 PM

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 2

5/17/19 2:21 PM

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 3

5/17/19 2:21 PM

2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION NOVEMBER 21-24 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

NEW THIS YEAR! Kick off your Convention with a full day of learning on Thursday.

Last year, we piloted having sessions on Thursday afternoon and saw such success that we’ve implemented a full day of programming beginning at 9:30 a.m. Be sure to plan your travel so you can join us!

Can’t ever find time to visit the Exhibit Hall because you’re so engrossed in learning from education experts around the country? This year, we’ll be offering dedicated Exhibit Hall time from 4:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Stick around for the AllAttendee Event starting at 6:45 p.m.

For the second year, we’ll be celebrating texts and providing inspiration for building classroom libraries with Build Your Stack®!

More than 30 unique sessions featuring authors and educators talking about their favorite books and how to use them in the classroom will begin Friday morning in the Exhibit Hall.

THE COUNCIL CHRONICLE (ISSN #1057-4190) is published four times a year, in November, March, May, and September by the National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096, as an exclusive benefit of membership. Periodical postage paid at Urbana, IL, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Council Chronicle, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Copyright © 2019 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Volume 28, Number 4 (May 2019).

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 4

5/17/19 2:21 PM

WHAT'S INSIDE 4–5

Meet Us in Baltimore!

6–7 Schedule & Registration

8–9

10–12

General Sessions & Keynote Speakers + Build Your Stack®

14–15

Meal Events

16–17

The Elementary Experience

18–19

The Middle Level Experience

20–21

22–23

Make Your Case to Attend

The Secondary Experience The College Experience

24

Preconvention Workshops

25

Postconvention Events

26–27

Navigating the Exhibit Hall

28–29

New from NCTE

“My first NCTE session was in 1982. I was a first-grade teacher and I was invited to be on the program with Donald Graves and Janet Emig.

Now, as a first-grade teacher, this was like being with superstars. I was so nervous, but I was sharing the writing of my students, and I had lunch with them.

And then after that I walked through the halls, and every session looked so interesting to me. And what I realized then is that I found my people, I found my community. And I’ve been back every year since.”

—Roxanne Henkin, WLU President

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  3

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 5

5/17/19 2:21 PM

WELCOME from

LEAH ZUIDEMA Program Chair This Convention on Spirited Inquiry was planned to help you rekindle your passion for literacy education.

It’s a place to discover new ideas and rediscover the heart of your teaching. It’s a space where you can pause, give a second thought, take notice, question, puzzle, and delight. By investing in your own growth while you are here, you are investing in your students, too. The Convention lets you give back to your colleagues as well: by giving one another your full attention, asking bold questions, sharing ideas, and building and renewing relationships.

What questions are fueling your inquiry this year in your teaching? In your writing? In your reading? What do you wonder about your students? About your school? Your community?

Some of the questions that sparked this year’s program started like this: l How can our curricular designs, learning environments, teaching methods, and assessments foster inquiry? l How do we ensure significant opportunities for inquiry for ALL students? l What can we learn about inquiry from our students? From our school colleagues who teach in other disciplines or offer academic support? Our communities? l How can digital tools help to spark inquiry for students and teachers? l What does it mean to take an inquiry stance as an ELA teacher, professor, or educator? l What does our teacher-research and other scholarship suggest about inquiry? l How do we help one another to wonder about things that matter, to learn more, and to share, connect, and act upon what we learn? l What do we do when our inquiries lead us to disagree with others’ ideas and conclusions? l How can we prepare future teachers to nurture a spirit of inquiry in their students and themselves? l How can we sustain and grow our inquiry? Our awe and delight as learners?

Throughout this Convention, let’s dare to wonder, to be bold and creative in our curiosity. Let’s focus deeply and persistently on the role that spirited inquiry plays in English, language arts, literacy, and composition. Let’s make concrete plans to share with others when we return to our schools. Let’s ask questions that matter, and commit to keep asking. Our students depend on us to be curious and stay spirited!

4  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 6

5/17/19 2:21 PM

Explore the City NCTE has partnered with a tour provider in Baltimore to offer several exclusive local experiences that range from half to full days. Space is limited and these events will require additional fees, the details for which can be found on the registration page of our website.

Tour themes include:

H. L. Mencken—The Sage of Baltimore Henry Louis Mencken rose to fame during the early twentieth century as a newspaper columnist, social critic, and editor. He lived in Baltimore his entire life, and his experiences in the city helped shape his worldview. This 4-hour tour showcases some of the locales and neighborhoods Mencken would have frequented during his lifetime.

Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore—An Enduring Mystery Edgar Allan Poe was not born in Baltimore, but he spent several years of his life in the city and in fact died there under very suspicious circumstances in 1849. This 4.5-hour tour retraces the enigmatic author’s time in Baltimore, including his final days.

Something to Write Home About!

Baltimore has been home to legendary literary figures, including those named above and many others. This makes the city the setting for some wellknown stories. This 6-hour tour explores some of the city’s literary connections.

BALTIMORE WELCOMES #NCTE19 AND YOU! What’s more BALTIMORE than having more than 7,000 English/language arts champions coming together for #NCTE19? After all, the works of such well- and widely read literary giants as Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Post, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zora Neale Hurston are a major part of the city’s fiber.

The Baltimore Convention Center sits next to the city’s world-famous Inner Harbor, which teems with restaurants, shopping, and museums. Within walking distance you can visit the Baltimore Museum of Art (home to the world’s largest collection of Matisse paintings), the Walters Art Museum, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the country’s first wax museum of African American history.

Another can’t-miss is the Enoch Pratt Free Library. This main branch of Baltimore’s public library takes up nearly an entire city block, has an entire room dedicated to H. L. Mencken, a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s letters, poetry, and photographs—and even a lock of his hair.

If you’re looking for something more aquatic, you can’t go wrong with the National Aquarium—consistently ranked one of the nation’s top three.

The area boasts bragging rights as one of the best US cities for seafood with essential favorites like blue crabs served up in neighborhood hot spots and acclaimed chef-driven concept restaurants.

Between connecting with incredible colleagues from across the country, attending riveting sessions that will transform your practice, and grabbing a taste of our great host city, we know #NCTE19 will be a Convention to remember.

Find your people and join us in Baltimore!

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  5

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 7

5/17/19 2:21 PM

SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION WEDNESDAY 11/20 11:00 AM–8:00 PM REGISTRATION & NCTE CENTRAL

THURSDAY 11/21 8:00 AM–8:00 PM REGISTRATION & NCTE CENTRAL 9:30 AM–12:15 PM A & B SESSIONS 11:30 AM–3:30 PM PRECONVENTION WORKSHOPS (see p. 24, additional registration required) 1:00–3:45 PM C & D SESSIONS 4:00–5:30 PM OPENING GENERAL SESSION: TBA 5:45–7:15 PM SECTION GET-TOGETHERS

FRIDAY 11/22 7:00 AM–6:30 PM REGISTRATION & NCTE CENTRAL 10:00 AM–6:30 PM EXHIBIT HALL 7:00–7:45 AM FIRST-TIMERS’ WELCOME 8:00–9:15 AM GENERAL SESSION: Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Tonya Bolden 9:30 AM–12:15 PM E & F SESSIONS 11:30 AM–1:30 PM ELATE & MIDDLE LEVEL LUNCHEONS 12:30–4:45 PM G, H & I SESSIONS 5:00–6:30 PM ANNUAL BUSINESS/BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING 6:45–8:45 PM ALL-ATTENDEE EVENT: Meg Medina

SATURDAY 11/23

7:00 AM–6:00 PM REGISTRATION 8:00 AM–6:00 PM NCTE CENTRAL 11:00 AM–6:00 PM EXHIBIT HALL 7:00–9:15 AM ALAN BREAKFAST 7:30–8:45 AM NCTE AWARDS SESSION 8:00–9:15 AM J SESSIONS 9:30–10:45 AM GENERAL SESSION: Tommy Orange 11:00 AM–1:45 PM K & L SESSIONS 12:30–2:30 PM SECONDARY & CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD LUNCHEONS 2:45–5:30 PM M & N SESSIONS 6:00–7:15 PM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP EVENTS

SUNDAY 11/24 8:00 AM–2:30 PM REGISTRATION 8:00 AM–2:00 PM NCTE CENTRAL 8:00–11:30 AM EXHIBIT HALL 7:00-8:45 AM AFFILIATE & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSEMBLY BREAKFASTS 9:00–11:45 AM O & P SESSIONS 10:30–11:45 AM NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT BRUNCH: Elyse Eidman-Aadahl 12:00–1:30 PM CLOSING GENERAL SESSION: Tara Westover 1:30–5:30 PM CEL CONVENTION (social hour and dinner follow sessions)

(see p. 25, additional registration required)

MONDAY 11/25 8:00 AM–5:30 PM CEL CONVENTION 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ALAN WORKSHOP (see p. 25, additional registration required)

TUESDAY 11/26 8:00 AM–2:00 PM CEL CONVENTION & ALAN WORKSHOP

6  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 8

5/17/19 2:21 PM

SIGN UP Registration for the 2019 Annual Convention includes access to all General Sessions, concurrent sessions, Special Interest Group events, the Now Screening film festival, and the Exhibit Hall. Find the registration link on the convention website: http://convention.ncte.org.

Student registration requires current NCTE student membership and valid proof of student status. To receive the emeritus rate, be sure you are currently an NCTE Emeritus member. Rates increase after November 11, 2019, denoted by an asterisk.

NCTE MEMBER $275/*$310 NONMEMBER $360/*$390 STUDENT MEMBER $120/*$130 EMERITUS MEMBER $140/*$155 ONE-DAY $175 (member or nonmember, onsite or in advance)

“NCTE’s Convention is an anchor for me each year. I’ve attended the Annual Convention almost every year of my teaching life. And for me it’s really about the people that I meet and that I know because of the Convention. Sometimes that means connecting with people who I know from social media, and sometimes it’s meeting people who teach me something that I can connect with and continue to connect with. It has expanded what I understand and who I learn from.

And it continues to do that every year.

I can’t imagine teaching without that expanding community.”

—Franki Sibberson, NCTE President

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 9

BRINGING A TEAM? We offer registration at a 20% discount if a school or district sends 10 or more teachers and makes a single payment to cover the balance of the invoice. Every member of your team will return to work energized by what they’ve learned and ready to collaborate on implementing the new ideas. Contact annual2019@ncte.org for details.

PRECONVENTION WORKSHOPS NCTE Member: $145/*$155 Nonmember: $170/*$180 Student Member: $90/*$100 ALAN WORKSHOP Member: $200/*$210 Nonmember: $235/*$245 Student Member: $100/*$100 CEL ANNUAL CONVENTION NCTE + CEL Member: $180/*$195 NCTE Member only: $205/*$220 Nonmember: $225/*$240

TRAVEL & LODGING For discounted airfare and hotel information, visit: http://convention.ncte.org/2019-convention/travel-hotel/ Local Teacher Rate (available to teachers who live or teach in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC): NCTE is offering special pricing for teachers who work in schools within the local area. Visit our registration page for more details: convention.ncte. org/2019-convention/registration/

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  7

5/17/19 2:21 PM

MAKE YOUR CASE TO ATTEND 5 Reasons You Should Join Us at #NCTE19 With more than 600 sessions to choose from and more than 7,000 fellow educators to meet, you can fit years worth of professional learning experiences into just 4 days this November.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR OWN PD

MEET YOUR LITERARY HEROES

To save costs, school districts often have to invest in one-size-fits-all professional development opportunities, but veteran teachers don’t need the same things as newcomers to the field. Similarly, in our own professional growth we’re not all seeking new learning in the same areas. Perhaps your approach to writing could use an overhaul.

Maybe you’re looking for some fresh titles to pair with those you’re required to teach.

Whatever your interest and experience level, there is a full, customized program waiting for you at #NCTE19. Featured keynote speakers and all-attendee events take place at times that don’t conflict with the 600 other concurrent sessions that you will choose from on your own. The full program will be available this fall, but you can get a sense of the range of sessions typically available by browsing last year’s program here: http://convention.ncte. org/2018-convention/general-info/program/

In our role as teachers, it’s easy to see the books our students read as essential but inanimate objects that simply serve the purpose of furthering their learning. Though we talk about the author’s intent, we usually don’t really “know” the authors.

Except, that is, if you have been to NCTE’s Convention, where you can listen to, talk with, and get books signed by more than 250 of them! This rich and rewarding access to authors is a hallmark of the event and one that benefits both parties. Some of our most beloved authors say they found their audience through meeting teachers at our Convention, and countless lifelong readers have been born from the singular gift of being handed a book signed by their favorite author.

BUILD YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK Ask a returning attendee why they’re coming back, and 9 times out of 10 you’ll hear them say, “because this is where I come to find my people.” Everywhere you turn, you’re surrounded by teachers who share your passion for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. This common ground leads to lasting friendships that make the NCTE Annual Convention feel like a giant literacy reunion. The ancillary benefits of finding your professional learning network here are many. The friendships and networks made at the Convention lead to cross-country collaborations, co-written journal articles, partner research, and more.

8  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 10

GIVE BACK TO YOUR VILLAGE Attendees often remark on what a personally rejuvenating experience the NCTE Annual Convention can be, but we know that many, many participants find creative ways to spread that rejuvenation to others when they get back home. The wealth of books and resources available in the Exhibit Hall often serves as a main source of new material for classroom libraries and giveaways at staff meetings. You can help to bolster the case for days off with a promise to provide a learning session for your colleagues when you return. In this way, these 4 days of intense learning can have an exponential impact when you approach the experience with your village in mind.

GET CREDIT FOR YOUR LEARNING Check with your school or district to see if participation in the Annual Convention can count toward your recertification. We will happily send you a certificate of participation. Additionally, through a partnership with the University of San Diego, attendees at the Annual Convention can earn graduate credit.

Visit http://convention.ncte.org/2019-convention/whyattend/ for a toolkit to help you make the case to attend!

FIRST TIME AT NCTE? Be sure to join us for a special First-Timers’ Welcome on Friday morning. Veteran attendees will be seated at every table, and they will talk with you about how to get the most out of your convention experience. You won’t want to miss it!

5/17/19 2:21 PM

From Convention to Classroom

TEACHERS SHARE WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED At NCTE ‘18 I sought out sessions related to AP and voice because the balance between authenticity and test prep is a challenge. Charles Youngs presented impactful solutions to engage student voice with the critical thinking rigorous texts call for. I modeled sketchnotes for students and we practiced with the opening pages of The Great Gatsby—for some students, it was like a new world of reading was opened! Artistic students are digging being “allowed” to draw their thinking while reluctant readers have another entry point to complex texts. All students are annotating more with access to an additional tool that gives voice to their thinking. Thank you, NCTE ‘18 and Charles Youngs! —Margaret Lopez

During the Craft Moves in Nonfiction session, Loree Griffin Burns suggested creating 3-D models of text structures to give life to the writing process.

She shared that Slinkys could represent a narrative sandwiched between the prologue and epilogue. That idea just blew me away. Immediately, I began to think about how I could incorporate 3-D text structure models in my classroom. I thought and thought, and finally Play-Doh popped into my head.

The students rolled out the PlayDoh to create the various text structure organizers on their desk.

Then, they used dry erase markers to fill in the organizer. The tactile engagement worked wonders to help my students understand text structures and their organizers.

3-D models will now be a part of my professional toolkit thanks to the NCTE conference and that amazing panel. —Ginger Schwartz

Pairing A Raisin in the Sun with Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA” and W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folk” excerpt was inspired by the Breaking Binaries session at NCTE18. Connecting these readings made students take an unfamiliar stance toward Walter: to not only see his struggle through the eyes of an academic, but also through the eyes of a modern poet. Students made many connections between DuBois’ idea of double-consciousness, Kendrick’s exploration of his consciousness, and Walter’s awareness of his identity and how their awareness of how they are perceived by others might limit each man’s agency. All of them also explore the idea of what it means to be a man, in their mind versus in society, and how that tension plays out in their everyday interactions with themselves and others. The remnants of my learning from this session continue to reverberate through my teaching. —Jackie Smith

After attending a presentation on Genius Hour led by Colorado State University’s Pamela Coke and Ricki Ginsberg, I immediately left the room knowing I would implement this work into my own high school English classroom. I serendipitously ran into Pam, at the Exhibit Hall, and she suggested we work together. Her preservice teachers would serve as mentors for my students. Although I teach in New York and she teaches in Colorado, we’ve been able to collaborate digitally with Google Docs and Google Hangouts. We are only a few weeks into the project, but it’s safe to say that all of us—my freshmen, her students, Pam, and myself—are gaining more than just learning about our topics for Genius Hour. —Leah Werther

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  9

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 11

5/17/19 2:21 PM

GENERAL SESSIONS A General Session / Friday, November 22, 8:00 – 9:15 a.m.

TONYA BOLDEN Tonya Bolden is the award-winning author of many notable books for children and young adults, among them the Coretta Scott King Author Honor-winning Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, which was also a James Madison Book Award Winner and CCBC Best Book of the Year. Bolden’s Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty was named a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year and is the recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Bolden is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, and winner of the 2016 Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award for Body of Work.

General Session / Friday, November 22, 8:00 – 9:15 a.m.

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

He is an acclaimed author and critic who has unearthed literary gems. He also has produced, written, and hosted an array of documentary films for public television, including Africa’s Great Civilizations, Finding Your Roots, Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise, and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Gates is the recipient of 55 honorary degrees and numerous prizes. A member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, he was, in 1998, the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In addition, he was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.

All-Attendee Event / Friday, November 22, 6:45 – 8:45 p.m.

MEG MEDINA Meg Medina is the Cuban American author of the Newbery Medal winner Merci Suárez Changes Gears, which was also a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist and a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book. She also writes picture books and young adult fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, Burn Baby Burn, has earned numerous distinctions, including being long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award and short-listed for the Kirkus Prize. She is the 2014 recipient of the Pura Belpré Author Award and a 2013 Cybils Award winner for her young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass. Medina also received the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for her picture book Tía Isa Wants a Car. Her other books are The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a 2013 Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year; Mango, Abuela, and Me, a 2016 Pura Belpré Honor Book; and Milagros: Girl from Away.

10  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 12

5/17/19 2:21 PM

S AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS General Session / Saturday, November 23, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Photo: Elena Seibert

TOMMY ORANGE Tommy Orange is the author of There There, a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. One of the New York Times’s top books of 2018, There There shows us violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. Orange talks about his craft, the writing process, and Native American history and culture, often with meticulously researched visual presentations.

General Session: Presidential Address / Sunday, November 24, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

FRANKI SIBBERSON Franki Sibberson, NCTE President, is a fifth-grade teacher in Dublin, Ohio, where she supports her students and the nation’s thinking from her 30 years of experience in teaching elementary students. Sibberson is a universally beloved thought leader in literacy, with specific focus on student-driven reading choices and literacy in the digital age. She has coauthored numerous publications and books including Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic), and Digital Reading: What’s Essential in Grades 3–8 (NCTE). She is also a frequent contributor to Choice Literacy, and her blog with Mary Lee Hahn, A Year of Reading, can be found at readingyear. blogspot.com. Sibberson holds a master’s degree in Reading and a bachelor’s degree in Education from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

General Session / Sunday, November 24, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Photo: Paul Stuart

TARA WESTOVER Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school as a child. She spent her days working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education, she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  11

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 13

5/17/19 2:21 PM

Get Ready to Build Your Stack ! ®

For the second year, we’ll be celebrating texts and providing inspiration for building classroom libraries with Build Your Stack.

More than 30 unique sessions featuring authors and educators talking about their favorite books and how to use them in the classroom will begin Friday morning in the Exhibit Hall. Topics will include: Exploring Identity through Literature Amazing Audiobooks Authors and Editors as Readers Celebrating Complexity in YA Literature Honoring Our Family Stories Building Better Readers through Book Clubs Remaking the “Literary Canon” The #OwnVoices Movement Structure of Story as Identity in Indigenous Literature

Attending the NCTE conference was a life-altering experience for me as a teacher. It really helped me process what I’m doing currently in the classroom, as well as where and how I’d like to move my classroom in the future.

For example, I attended a session that discussed allowing each and every student to share his/her voice.

I always thought I had been doing so, but during the conference, I was able to reflect and see that might not be the case. Therefore, I used a method—also from the session—that discussed using parts of a wellknown poem in a student’s own unique poem to show understanding of the poem’s meaning and theme.

I even took this a step further to reach a wider population in my classroom, and I created a poem template. That way, a student could still share his/her ideas and understanding, just with a little support. It was a hit, and I’ll continue to use what I’ve learned from the conference for years, and lessons, to come!

—Samantha Powers 12  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 14

5/17/19 2:21 PM

preview

official gear of ncte members

New apparel and more from ncte.org/store. preview Gear ad.indd 1 2019_Convention_Preview.indd 15

5/16/19 5/17/19 9:59 2:21 PM PM

MEAL EVENTS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Each full day of the Convention offers ticketed meals that also include talks by education luminaries, announcements of award winners in the various Sections and groups, announcements of the Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Children’s Book Award winners, and authors discussing current projects.

Register at http://convention.ncte.org/2019-convention/registration/.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / 11:30 AM–1:30 PM Middle Level Section Luncheon Ibi Zoboi is the author of the middle grade novel My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, as well as novels for young adults, including Pride and American Street, a finalist for the National Book Award.

She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / 11:30 AM–1:30 PM ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators) Luncheon Rainbow Rowell is the award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Carry On, Landline, Fangirl, Eleanor & Park, and Attachments. She has two forthcoming books, Wayward Son (September 2019) and the graphic novel Pumpkinheads (with illustrations by Faith Erin Hicks) (August 2019). Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and two sons.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 / 7:00–9:15 AM ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) Breakfast

Meg Medina’s books examine how cultures intersect, as seen through the eyes of young people. She brings to audiences stories that speak to both what is unique in Latinx culture and to the qualities that are universal. Her most recent book, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, is the winner of the 2019 John Newbery Medal and the 2018 Charlotte Huck Honor medal.

CAN’T PURCHASE A TICKET? 14  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 16

We always provide some seating for those who just want to listen!

5/17/19 2:21 PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 / 12:30–2:30 PM Children’s Book Award Luncheon The 2019 winners of the Charlotte Huck, Orbis Pictus, and NCTE Poetry awards will be honored and the 2020 awards will be announced. Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Auxier and Sandra Neil Wallace. Everyone with a ticket will dine at a roundtable with an award-winning author and/or illustrator (more than 30 attend every year!) AND receive one of their books.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 / 12:30–2:30 PM Secondary Section Luncheon New York Times-bestselling and award-winning authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Renée Watson will be in conversation together about their new books, Shout and Watch Us Rise.

Laurie Halse Anderson Renée Watson

Both authors’ writing spans young readers to new adults.

Both use their platforms as authors and speakers to advocate around issues for which they are passionate.

Anderson regularly speaks about combating censorship and the need for diversity in publishing. Watson is the founder of I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 / 7:00–8:45 AM Children’s Literature Assembly Breakfast The Children’s Literature Assembly (CLA) breakfast will feature celebrated author and illustrator Yuyi Morales. Her newest picture book, Soñadores / Dreamers (Holiday House, 2018), will be highlighted.

It is based on her immigrant tale that gives hope, imparts dreams, and passes book love on to others.

Morales’s book awards include several Pura Belpré Medals and Honors as well as a Caldecott Honor.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 / 7:00–8:45 AM Affiliate Roundtable Breakfast Alfredo Celedón Luján is Vice President of NCTE. He is also the dean of students, an English teacher, and a basketball coach at Monte del Sol Charter School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English and has also been assistant to the director at its Santa Fe campus. He has taught at both secondary and middle school levels.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 / 10:30-11:45 AM National Writing Project Brunch Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, National Writing Project Executive Director, will offer remarks about the state of the NWP network and their work this past year.

She will be joined by Mary Buckelew and Janice Ewing, who will discuss recent research related to their new book, Action Research for English Language Arts Teachers: Invitation to Inquiry.

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  15

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 17

5/17/19 2:22 PM

ELEMENTARY EXPERIENCE Teachers of our youngest students will find plenty to explore at #NCTE19. From incredible authors and illustrators, to the leading experts and innovators in our field, every hour is packed with sessions designed just for you. And every session will find you sitting next to other teachers who are just as passionate about early literacy as you are.

WHAT KINDS OF SESSIONS CAN I ATTEND? Over the course of the 2019 NCTE Annual Convention, there are more than 300 sessions designated at the elementary level, but you might be surprised at the ideas you can glean from sessions at EVERY level. Here are just a few of the topics: Your Story, My Story, Our Story: Picture Books to Explore Community Beyond Pro and Con: An Inquiry into Upper Elementary Argument Writing Story to STEM: Turning Gears in the Minds of Children

3 ELEMENTARY FAVORITES: ELEMENTARY SECTION GET-TOGETHER—Meet NCTE’s elected leaders who represent the Elementary Section, network with educators from across the country, and snack on hors d’oeuvres. Speakers will include Vivian Vasquez, winner of the 2019 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award.

WHAT IF I WORK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD? WILL THERE BE SOMETHING FOR ME? Absolutely! The latest and greatest in early literacy education can be found at the “Day of Early Childhood” on Saturday. These sessions are specially curated by the Early Childhood Education Assembly of NCTE and focus specifically on issues and strategies for teaching and advocating for preschool and early elementary-age children.

WHOLE LANGUAGE UMBRELLA There’s a strand of sessions at #NCTE19 built around whole language theory, research, and pedagogy. Meet the founders of the whole language movement and learn about what this approach to language learning looks like in today’s classrooms.

CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD LUNCHEON—Everyone gets a book and dines with an author. The 2020 award winners will be announced live, and the 2019 winners will speak.

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSEMBLY BREAKFAST—Beloved author Yuyi Morales is the keynote speaker, and all attendees get copies of a book by her.

In making the case to administrators as to why teachers should not just be allowed but be encouraged to go to the Convention, it is the professional development. It is the best professional development because it is chosen by the teachers, and choice matters in learning. ­—Deborah MacPhee, WLU President-Elect I look forward to the Convention every year, it’s almost my vacation from my real life. I look forward to meeting with other teachers from across the United States and really from all over the world. I look forward to learning from them as well as from the authors that I am reading with my students. It’s a way for me to charge my batteries.

—Jessica Martell, Elementary Representativeat-Large

16  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 18

5/17/19 2:22 PM

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG юБо 17

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 19

5/17/19 2:22 PM

MIDDLE LEVEL EXPERIENCE There is so much happening in the Middle Level at NCTE. From Section-specific events to a thoughtfully chosen program, you’ll notice an energized focus on crafting sessions that speak to the complexities of teaching students in the middle grades and bringing leading authors and educators to the podium. Discover new ideas, new tools, and new friends!

WHAT KINDS OF SESSIONS CAN I ATTEND? Over the course of the Convention there are more than 450 sessions designated at the middle level, but you’ll find plenty of interest at other levels as well. Topics include: A Reading Journey: Using Middle Grade Novels to Lead Students to Inquiry, Exploration, and Research Look, Write, See: Using Art to Develop Both Writing Skills and Art Appreciation Teaching the Immigrant Experience through Literature and Poetry

MIDDLE FAVORITES: MIDDLE LEVEL MEET-UP—Kick off your convention experience with this gathering of middle level attendees. There will be food, friends, the chance to meet Section leaders, and a talk by author and educator Torrey Maldonado.

ALAN BREAKFAST—YA author Meg Medina is the keynote for this much-loved breakfast event. If you’re looking for even deeper immersion in YA lit, you might enjoy the ALAN Workshop, November 25–26 (see p. 25). #WHYMIDDLEMATTERS is an overarching title for a few incredible learning experiences. This year the roundtable “Inquiry as Journeys of Educators; From Newbie to Veteran” will bring educators together to talk, reflect, and learn. The “Middle Level Mosaic” is another roundtable session that will put authors, teachers, and teacher educators in conversation on diverse texts and the ways these are used with middle grade students.

“The Convention is designed to create an ambience of membership. We seek to include all middle level teachers in a professional community where voices can be heard and where issues can be contemplated and resolved. Middle level teachers will leave with a sense of belonging and hope which inspires them to make a difference in their classrooms when they return home.” —Frances Lin, Middle Level Section Chair “Why do I attend the Convention and what do I enjoy most about it? I’ll be honest: it’s the family. I have an English language arts family nationally and internationally that I would not give up for anything. There’s something about the relationship building and the camaraderie that happens after you continuously attend, go to an event, share space, have conversations.

In addition to that, I get a chance to make new friends every year. So your family is always extending and growing. And I appreciate that about NCTE. It’s big, but it’s also not big. It’s large in number, but you also have an opportunity to find your place in the family.” —Tonya Perry, NCTE Member

18  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 20

5/17/19 2:22 PM

“The most valuable part about attending the Convention for me is the professional development and the sessions. And recently featured speakers have been unbelievable. I get inspired by the speakers and by the concurrent sessions that I attend.”

—Alfredo Celedón Luján, NCTE Vice President

“What’s most important about attending is the comradery with other teachers. To see what’s going on in other classrooms. To see the different kinds of changes that are going on in education. To see how I can better provide for my students.

To see the kinds of resources that I can obtain from other teachers, and especially from NCTE. There are so many resources, so many publications, so many things that all teachers can benefit from.”

—Aurelia Dávila de Silva, Middle Level Representative-at-Large

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 21

5/17/19 2:22 PM

SECONDARY EXPERIENCE NCTE’s Secondary Section has selected a program with the best professional learning you’ll ever find, and a giant network of colleagues whom you’ll want to keep connected to all year long. Whether you love teaching poetry, the Bard, critical literacy, choice reading, disciplinary writing, or some other specialty of grades 9–12, this Convention has you covered.

WHAT KINDS OF SESSIONS CAN I ATTEND? Over the course of the Convention there are more than 500 sessions designated at the secondary level. Here are just a few of the topics that will be offered: Blended and Personalized Learning: Leveraging Technology to Promote Student Inquiry A Sense of Belonging: What Ethnography Offers about Ourselves and Others Media as Mentor: 25 Ways Journalism Can Inspire Student Writing Creating Inclusive Reading Experiences in the Classroom

I’M A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL— ARE THERE SESSIONS FOR ME? This Convention is rich with learning experiences for everyone who supports literacy learning both in and outside the school, but if you’re an instructional leader searching for the maximum learning experience, you’ll also want to take advantage of NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL). Learn more about CEL’s Convention (November 24–26) on page 25.

3 SECONDARY FAVORITES: SECONDARY SECTION GET-TOGETHER— Gather with hundreds of other secondary teachers to kick off the Convention in this opening session that features a welcoming community, refreshments, and a keynote address from Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, NCTE member and author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games.

HIGH SCHOOL MATTERS—A bonanza for teaching ideas and the sharing of great innovations, this popular double session features a room full of roundtables, each hosted by an English expert who meets with attendees in small groups to share resources and strategies.

SECONDARY LUNCHEON—Renowned authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Renée Watson will be in conversation together about their new books, Shout and Watch Us Rise. The luncheon is also a great place to celebrate the work of secondary teachers through the annual awards presentation.

“I look back at ten years of attendance and each year I can pull something so special, and so unique, and so many ‘aha’ moments that I’m like ‘how did I miss this the year before?’ Then I go the next year and it’s something new. For first-time attendees who maybe need a rationale to attend, it’s going to be all about what’s new, what’s cutting edge, what’s right for kids, and being able to move forward with some ideas that are just going to make you a better teacher and make your students better learners.” —Tiffany Rehbein, Secondary Section Chair

20  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 22

5/17/19 2:22 PM

“The power of attending the Convention is relationships. It’s the same thing that happens in the classroom, where you can forge a strong relationship with someone, whether they’re another first-year teacher or somebody who’s been around for a lot longer. A lot of our elders who’ve been in the game for over 20 years, they show up at the Convention still because they want to invest in younger teachers like myself. I have gained a lot of wisdom and strength from the connections I have forged with people who have been English teachers for a long, long time.

Attending the Convention is professional development, but it is also that spiritual development that comes from understanding that you’re part of a continuum. It’s not just you alone doing this work or reinventing things that have already been done. You are part of a continuum and a really rich tradition of people who are continually trying to exemplify the best practices in serving children with regards to language arts and even librarianship and literacy instruction.

It is an unusual experience, and it really only happens in that way once a year.”

—Julia Torres, Secondary Representative-atLarge

“The best part of NCTE for me, especially at the Convention level, is being around classroom teachers who are passionate about what they do, who want to be with kids, talking about books and texts and really doing the work. Most recently I’m really engaged with some professors and some other teachers that are engaged in some social justice work. NCTE provides great interaction between teacher-educators and classroom teachers, inservice and preservice teachers. That synergy leads to a really great atmosphere where I think we can all move the profession forward.”

—Craig Young, NCTE Member

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  21

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 23

5/17/19 2:22 PM

COLLEGE EXPERIENCE NCTE’s College Section represents a wide diversity of experiences, and our convention offerings reflect that variety. You’ll find sessions presented by leaders from our Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) that address issues pertinent to teaching first-year writing and assessment in composition courses. You’ll also find hundreds of sessions that are tailored to the needs of those who work in teacher education at the college level; these address teacher preparation across the preK–12 spectrum. If you happen to teach college English, you’ll be intrigued by a range of interesting sessions on literature. There’s truly something for everyone.

WHAT KINDS OF SESSIONS CAN I ATTEND? Over the course of the Convention there are more than 250 sessions designated at the college level. Here are just a few of the topics: Voting Writes: Teaching about Voting in the Composition Classroom Literature Circles as Places of Inquiry in CollegeLevel Content Classrooms Hip-Hop Ed Online: How Distance Learning Can Embrace Cultural Relevance in Its Writing Curriculum

WHAT ABOUT RESEARCH? Each year the Annual Convention features a carefully selected set of sessions devoted entirely to current research in the field. Poster talks run every day and offer opportunities to talk one-on-one with researchers, and panel sessions bring together different perspectives on critical issues. You will be able to search the Research Strand on our online program to explore more than 170 sessions.

“There are a lotta good teachers in this nation, in this world. And why wouldn’t you want your teacher to learn from someone else, something that perhaps that teacher doesn’t even know is possible? And doesn’t even realize, ‘Wow, this is something that I never thought about in my class. And if I do these things that all these really wonderful teachers are doing, then maybe my students can get it just a little bit more too.’ Administrators need to send their teachers—full on send them, pay for them—so that their teachers can help their students.” ­ Cheryl Hogue Smith, Two-Year College English — Association Chair

I’M A TEACHER EDUCATOR— ARE THERE SESSIONS FOR ME? The English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE—formerly the Conference on English Education) puts together a special program with more than 400 sessions for those who are engaged in the preparation, support, and continuing education of teachers of English language arts/literacy. You can attend large roundtable sessions and meet dozens of people who have come to share their research, as well as smaller, more focused sessions on current issues in the field. Here is a sample of the topics that are covered: Constructive Coaching Conversations Democratizing Knowledge: Teacher Inquiry as Public Scholarship Considering Fences: Wonderings about Race and Appropriation in the Classroom Critical Media Literacy in English Education

COLLEGE FAVORITES: FEATURED COLLEGE SESSIONS—The College Section has designed special sessions that address current issues in the field that reverberate through our classrooms.

ELATE LUNCHEON—Celebrate the accomplishments of ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators) members via an awards ceremony and enjoy an incredible keynote by author Rainbow Rowell.

COLLEGE WORKSHOP—This is an immersive learning experience for college teachers that will take place from 2:45 to 5:30 on Saturday afternoon. The event will feature an awards presentation, a keynote address from Amanda Licastro, who teaches at Stevenson University and specializes in digital rhetoric. She will lead a hands-on workshop in which participants will explore the role virtual reality can play in their instruction.

22  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 24

5/17/19 2:22 PM

Help Your Students Cite Any Source and Master MLA Style

“Coming to Convention is about learning what your colleagues are doing elsewhere and being pleasantly surprised that we’re doing the same thing or we’re facing the same issues and struggles and we can learn from one another how to overcome those, as well as being delightfully surprised at ‘Oh, I’ve never considered doing it that way’ and begging, borrowing, and stealing others’ ideas on how to teach reading and writing and student self-awareness.”

—Shelley Rodrigo, College Section Chair “Whether you work at a bigger school or a smaller school, you can find a group of peers at NCTE that are going to push you to be better, and they’re going to push you to do more for your students in smarter ways than what you’re otherwise probably going to find.” ­—Christian Z. Goering, ELATE Chair

146 pp. • $15.00 E-book and large-print editions are also available.

Available at mla.org/handbook Lower-priced, shorter, and redesigned for writers at all levels, this groundbreaking edition of the MLA Handbook recommends one universal set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source. discover more resources online

style.mla.org

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  23

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 25

5/17/19 2:22 PM

DIVE INTO DEEPER LEARNING WITH A PRECONVENTION WORKSHOP Thursday, November 21 / 11:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

These four-hour sessions provide rich and interactive learning experiences focused on a single topic. Enrollment is limited, so register early! Complete workshop descriptions can be found on the convention website.

Baltimore Writing Marathon Body and Soul: Mindfulness Practices to Sustain Your Teaching (and Your Life) Building Inquiry in ELA through UDL Creating Joyful and Responsive Literacy Experiences Decolonizing the English Classroom: Why and How? Fake News Is Only the Beginning: Media Literacy Tools and Techniques for Your Classroom Fire Curiosity and Spark Joy in the Literacy Classroom with the Question Formulation Technique Fostering Students’ Critical Literacy and Inquiry with Apps and Tools Inquiry, Identity, and Equity: Teaching beyond Our Biases Operation Game Design: Building Quests for Personalized Learning in Your English Language Arts Classroom

“If you’re an administrator, I’d like to encourage you to advocate for the teachers and educators in your building. I serve as an academic administrator and have done so—this is my seventh year as an associate provost. I understand well what it means for budget to send people to conferences. I also understand very well what it means to have to deal with teacher turnover and issues of retention.

When I think about the cost of sending a teacher to a conference for professional development, for their growth, to know that their school or their district cares about them, it’s so high-value to invest in a teacher and have them spend those days here. It truly is investing in your students.

Teachers come back with ideas. They come back with a renewed vigor for studying and growing. They come back with a network for continued learning. They come back ready to share with others in your school.

When we review our sessions and our proposals for the Convention, we look very carefully that we are choosing sessions where the pedagogies, the curricular ideas are based on research; they’re sound, they’re focused on student learning, on outcomes, on things that can be assessed, that we know will work.”

—Leah Zuidema, NCTE Program Chair

Sustaining a Writing Project Site: Nuts and Bolts Teaching Multimedia, Citizen Journalism through “Our Democracy” The Black Arts Movement as Critical Media Literacy: From Be Bop to Hip Hop! Uprising in the Classroom: Using Oral History to Connect the Community to the Curriculum Using Global News to Creatively Connect with the World

24  2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 26

5/17/19 2:22 PM

CEL ANNUAL CONVENTION NOVEMBER 24-26, 2019 Baltimore, MD Creating Opportunities: Leadership to Ignite Movements and Momentum The work of literacy leaders is essential to school transformation. Sparks become flames. Ideas gain momentum. Strong leadership can shift the status quo.

Register via the CEL Convention website, http://www2.ncte.org/groups/cel/ convention/, where you can also find the most up-to-date information about speakers and topics.

The work of literacy leaders is essential to school transformation. But what, in this time of cultural and political divisiveness, should our priorities be?

How should we be moving things forward? What ideas, experiences, and opportunities should we support? What kind of momentum can we generate?

What kind of movements can we build? The 2019 CEL Annual Convention seeks to explore these concerns.

—Emily S. Meixner, 2019 CEL Program Chair

ALAN WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 25–26 / Baltimore, MD Exploring Adolescent Identities through YA Literature At the 2019 ALAN Workshop, we celebrate adolescent identity. We will look at the authors’ works as they present and define this concept, and will do our best to resist labels that are imposed as opposed to those that writers and adolescents select for themselves.

—Steven T. Bickmore, 2019 ALAN President Register on the NCTE convention registration page, and for the most up-to-date information, see the ALAN website: www.alan-ya.org/workshop.

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  25

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 27

5/17/19 2:22 PM

EXHIBIT HALL The NCTE Exhibit Hall is filled with the latest and greatest books and other classroom resources. You’ll have the chance to pick up advance reading copies (ARCs) and get books signed by your students’ favorite authors. You can talk with publishers about what’s new for the classroom and pick up texts to share with colleagues.

NEW: We’re extending Exhibit Hall hours from 4:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday evening so you can find a time to visit that doesn’t conflict with the sessions you want to attend.

The Convention Program and Convention App will both include maps of the Exhibit Hall for maximum planning efficiency. Watch for the Meet the Authors booklet to find out when your favorite authors will be appearing, and be sure to stop by the Build Your Stack® (learn more on p. 12) area to learn from your peers about the best books for your classroom.

TIPS FOR VISITING THE EXHIBIT HALL 1. Plan your trip in advance. If you want to get a book signed by a popular author, the line may be long, so you’ll either want to arrive early or plan to stay for some time.

2. Pack your travel bag inside a larger bag so you will have one empty bag for carting home books. There will be a shipping station in the hall to make it easy to box up your finds and send them home.

3. You can get access to all kinds of freebies, drawings, and other opportunities if you choose to join mailing lists for vendors on the floor. Your badge will have a QR code on the back that can be easily scanned to add your information to giveaway lists.

4. Talk to the publishers on the floor about what texts they’re excited about. Some will be sharing copies of books that aren’t even out yet. Others may put a previously unknown treasure in your hands.

Attendees find all kinds of neat ways to bring the treasures they find in the Exhibit Hall back to their classrooms. Here are two examples from last year!

“I can remember going to my first NCTE Convention and having books shipped back—I mean it was the best thing since sliced bread when I realized I could ship books back. And I brought back all that information to my chair and my colleagues in the English Department— all beautiful old grammar mavens. So, you know, I’m all of twenty-one and saying ‘I brought back all this information and we’re going to listen and it’s going to be great!’ They were not that excited, but they listened, they gave me voice. And from then on I was always allowed to go to NCTE’s Convention.”

—Jocelyn A. Chadwick, NCTE Past President

“Tomorrow, I return to my YA Lit class after my recent trip to #Ncte19 and celebrate ‘Booksgiving’ with my ELA preservice teachers!! All of these amazing titles will soon be in the hands of future teachers, as they begin to build their classroom libraries.

Can’t wait!!”

—Brooke Eisenbach, Lesley University, MA

26  2018 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 28

5/17/19 2:22 PM

WHO WILL BE THERE? 30 Minute Shakespeare Abrams ALAN – Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE American Shakespeare Center Amplify Arc Manor Custom Solutions Arte Público Press Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers Benchmark Education Bloomsbury Children’s Books Booksource Boyds Mills Press Candlewick Press Charlesbridge Publishing Children’s Literature Assembly of NCTE Chronicle Books Corwin DC Entertainment Disney Book Group Dover Publications Easy Grammar Systems edMe Learning Eerdmans Books for Young Readers EMC School Essentials in Education Fitzhenry & Whiteside Folger Shakespeare Library Follett Gareth Hinds / TheComic.com Great Mind Hachette Book Group USA HarperCollins HarperCollins Children’s Books HarperCollins Focus/Blink Heinemann Publishers Holiday House Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Division International Writing Centers Association – an NCTE Assembly James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Johns Hopkins University - MA Teaching Writing JSTOR & Artstor Kenyon Review Writers Workshops Kids Can Press LearnZillion Lerner Publishing

Little, Brown & Company Books for Young Readers Loose Canon Macmillan Adult Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Magination Press, American Psychological Association Membean, Inc. Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English myShakespeare National English Honor Society National Gallery of Art National Writing Project Norton Parkhurst Brothers Publisher Peachtree Publishers Pearson Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers Perfection Learning Perma-Bound Poetry Out Loud Publisher Spotlight Publishers Group West ReadNaturally Renaissance

2019 EXHIBITORS List current as of May 16, 2019.

Rethinking Schools Routledge Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Saddleback Publishing Sadlier Scholastic Inc. Seven Stories Press Share Your Learning Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sourcebooks SpringBoard, College Board Stenhouse Publishers Sterling Publishing StoriumEdu Teachers College Press Teacher’s Discovery Teaching Tolerance TeachingBooks.net The DBQ Project ThinkCERCA Tor-Forge Books Turabian / The Chicago Manual of Style Vermont College of Fine Arts Weird Enough Productions Wonderopolis Workman Publishers Write the World Zonderkidz/Zondervan

ANNUAL CONVENTION SPONSOR NCTE would like to thank Penguin Random House for their generous contribution and support of literacy education.

Education

Additional sponsorship opportunities are available for the Convention.

See http://bit.ly/NCTE2019Sponsors

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  27

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 29

5/17/19 2:22 PM

NEW FROM NCTE NCTE members have been hard at work writing rich and relevant texts that inform, engage, and inspire. Many NCTE authors will be presenting at #NCTE19. There’s nothing better than getting firsthand insight, not to mention that author autograph!

You can order online now at ncte.org/store or visit NCTE Central while you’re in Baltimore.

“I love seeing all my colleagues there. I get to see all the books that have just been published within the last year or the last few months. You get to learn from brand-new teachers who are presenting their ideas in sessions.

You get to meet with colleagues that you’ve gotten to know—and I’ve been going to NCTE for almost 30 years now. So every year there are more and more people that I recognize, and after a couple of years you get very comfortable going up to people that you don’t know but you’ve seen them before, and you just introduce yourself and you’ve made a new professional friend.

With the dawn of social media now, you also have been chatting with people on Twitter, and all of a sudden you see that [profile] picture walk by and you realize, ‘Hey, that’s that person that I tweet with.’ And that’s always great fun, to meet people in person that you know via social media.

So, for all those reasons, I greatly enjoy the NCTE Convention, and I won’t miss one. If there’s any way for me to attend, I go.” —Ken Lindblom, NCTE Author

28  2018 ANNUAL CONVENTION PREVIEW  #NCTE19

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 30

5/17/19 2:22 PM

E

Don’t Miss NCTE’s New Quick-Reference Guides!

Written and curated by some of the leading authors and voices in literacy education, these engaging and easy-access trifold guides offer brief, researchbased definitions, strategies, tips, activities, and more to address many of the core topics in English and language arts classrooms.

guides.ncte.org

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 31

REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  29

5/17/19 2:22 PM

2019_Convention_Preview.indd 32

5/17/19 2:22 PM