Dear Literacy Colleagues: Welcome home! Welcome home to NCTE this summer. We are here together to reflect and heal. As challenging as the last two years have been, we’re now at a crucial checkpoint in deciding how we move forward from here. Do we learn from the ways the pandemic may have inspired or incited us? Do we dedicate our lives to building humanity and recognizing the strength in everyone? We hope so. This program has been built with a new vision in mind. Time to slow down and think. Time to listen. Time to sing, dance, and renew in-person bonds that make all the difference. Hopefully, this also includes time to plan what might become restorative, humanizing practices that are sustained for years to come. This is NCTE’s first in-person event since November 2019. This has required us to slow down and rethink too. We ask for your patience as we regain our in-person footing and attend to new practices presented by ongoing health provisions and supply chain limitations. We also advocate for our service providers—the chefs, the food and beverage wait staff, the hotel staff—who are often carrying responsibility for more than one role. Let us please be patient, be kind, and share the joy of being together, even if it’s at a slower speed than desired. Slowing down offers new opportunities to see, to be seen, and to have space to reconsider. We thank our many speakers who share our vision for what’s needed this summer. Thank you for donating your time, your voice, and your ideas to the NCTE Homecoming. We acknowledge your generosity. We are so glad you are with us. Welcome home, Emily Kirkpatrick Executive Director
We Welcome Louisville’s Carmichael’s Bookstore to the NCTE Homecoming!
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HOMECOMING 2022 PROGRAM
