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NCTE would like to thank Heinemann and Scholastic for their generous contributions and support of literacy education.

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2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL CONVENTION

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NOT TO BE MISSED! This year’s Virtual Convention will provide exciting opportunities to bring the NCTE community together to engage in dynamic professional development programming, discover ways to connect, and network with other educators. We’ll have 76 live, 56 scheduled, and 266 on-demand sessions, and if you miss one you can still access it for 60 days after the Convention. You’ll have a front-row seat for our General Sessions, Keynote Speakers, and Featured Sessions. You’ll be able to collaborate both one-on-one and in private groups. Best of all, you won’t have to deal with travel delays, problems hearing presenters, and eating too much convention center food!

The good stuff kicks off Wednesday evening with “Boys of Color on the Page and in the Classroom,” a timely discussion with teachers and young adult/middle grade authors. And Thursday’s sessions begin at 2:30 p.m. ET, when you can come as you are! It wouldn’t be Convention without the Exhibit Hall, and our virtual setting lets you visit booths, see demos, enter giveaways, and even collect swag. Again this year, we’ll offer dedicated hours.

Plus, we’ll provide more inspiration for building classroom libraries with Build Your Stack!—over 30 unique sessions where authors and educators talk about using their favorite books in class.

WHAT’S INSIDE 3 Welcome from the Convention Chair 4–5 Schedule & Registration 6–7 Make Your Case to Attend 8–11 General Sessions & Build Your Stack® 12–15 Keynote Speakers 16–17 The Elementary Experience 18–19 The Middle Level Experience 20–21 The Secondary Experience 22–23 The College Experience 24 Featured Sessions 25 Postconvention Events 26–27 Navigating the Exhibit Hall & Networking Lounges 28–29 New NCTE Publications

“Rejuvenation. Going to an intense weekend of witnessing best practices. When I come away, I feel revitalized. It’s like a professional breath of fresh air.”

—Alfredo Celedón Luján, NCTE President & 2020 Annual Convention Program Chair

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Alfredo Celedón Luján Convention Chair With the help of friends, colleagues, and mentors, I constructed the theme for NCTE’s 2020 Denver Convention at the CCCC Annual Convention in Pittsburgh. My professional confluencias came to mind at “The Point,” where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet. In Pittsburgh I also learned about Denver’s Confluence Park—where the South Platte River and Cherry Creek join. Coincidentally, Whitman’s “Song of Myself” resonated at The Point, I thought: “A learner . . . a teacher . . . Of every hue and caste am I . . .” (section 16).

Confluencia is a word I’d first seen as the title of a northern New Mexican quarterly. In Pittsburgh, it became the central theme for Denver. I ran the idea past some allies, and with their help, advice, and criticism, I settled on “¡Confluencia! Songs of Ourselves.” I submitted my theme. It was passed to Marvin Young, NCTE’s photographer and artistic advisor.

That he and the design team were able to capture emails, Zoom meetings, conversations, photographs, and hundreds of words in one fluid image-metaphor was mind blowing.

I noticed that the amorphous figure and pea pod in the stream they created are transparent. The pea pod and its navigator are not floating on the surface of the stream of consciousness; they are part of it—integral to the flow. The rower is a lone pea in a pod, but why?

My theme and call for proposals had no such boat, no such figure, yet the boat and person are perfect.

Now I pondered the existential question: am I/are we the person in the vessel? As a member of NCTE, I have found myself navigating this boat alone—a lone pea in the organization—until I participated in the Rainbow Strand Committee, the Latinx Caucus, and the Executive Committee.

My first Convention was in Los Angeles in 1987; since then, I have attended most Conventions, where I’ve experienced writing workshops, reading intensives, brilliant keynote addresses, and pedagogical demonstrations. I have borrowed and stolen best practices from other teachers. The NCTE Annual Convention always energizes my learner-teacher self at the important Thanksgiving juncture of the school year.

Like all, I am hoping COVID-19 is arrested soon so that life as we knew it will reemerge. Until then, I look forward to seeing you all virtually, though in my mind we’ll be in Denver, where Songs of Ourselves will be sung in the ¡Confluencia!

Alfredo Celedón Luján Program Chair, 2020 NCTE Annual Convention

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SCHEDULE

All times below are Eastern Time (ET)

Our schedule includes • 76 live sessions, including featured sessions, general sessions, keynote speakers, and concurrent sessions; • 56 scheduled sessions with live Q&A; and • 266 on-demand sessions available at any time throughout the Convention!

Included in the registration price are all sessions and speakers; meal tickets are not required for the keynote “breakfast, luncheon, or brunch” tickets. Content will be available for 60 days after the Convention.

WEDNESDAY 11/18 7:00–9:00 p.m. Special Secondary Section Event — “Boys of Color on the Page and in the Classroom” with Lamar Giles, Cornelius Minor, Yusef Salaam, Nic Stone, Julia Torres, Ibi Zoboi

THURSDAY 11/19 2:30–3:45 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 4:00–5:15 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 6:00–7:15 p.m. Opening General Session: Trevor Noah 7:30–8:30 p.m. Section Events: • Elementary Section Get-Together: Kimberly N. Parker and Gloria Boutte • Middle Level Meet-Up: Pablo Cartaya • Secondary Section Get-Together: Jerry Craft, Tiffany D. Jackson, justin a. reynolds, Julia Torres, Eric Velasquez, Renée Watson

FRIDAY 11/20 12:30–2:00 p.m. Share Your Lunch with Our Keynote Speakers: • Middle Level Event: Aida Salazar • ELATE Event: Phuc Tran 3:00–4:15 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 4:30–5:45 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 6:00–7:15 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 8:00–9:15 p.m. Friday General Session: Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Cultural Celebration: Juan Felipe Herrera

SATURDAY 11/21 9:30–10:45 a.m. Share Your Breakfast with the ALAN Keynote Speaker: Angie Thomas 9:30–10:45 a.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Saturday General Session: Joy Harjo with the Performance Ensemble of the Bread Loaf Next Generation Leadership Network 12:30–1:45 p.m. College Section Community Writing Workshop Presentation: Tobi Jacobi, John Tiedemann, Veronica House

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12:30–2:00 p.m. Share Your Lunch with Our Keynote Speakers: • Secondary Section: Chanel Miller • Children’s Books Awards: Kate Temple, Jol Temple, Barry Wittenstein, Jerry Pinkney (includes announcement of 2021 award winners) 12:30–1:45 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 2:00–3:15 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 7:00–9:00 p.m. All-Attendee Session & CNV 20th Anniversary Celebration: Andrea Davis Pinkney

SUNDAY 11/22 9:00–10:15 a.m. Share Your Breakfast with the Children’s Literature Assembly Keynote Speaker: Jason Reynolds 9:00–10:15 a.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 10:30–11:45 a.m. Share Your Breakfast with Affiliate Leaders: Valerie Kinloch 10:30–11:45 a.m. Share Your Brunch with the National Writing Project: Ebony Flowers 10:30–11:45 a.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 12:00–1:30 p.m. Closing General Session: Patrisse KhanCullors, including an interview with Jeff Chang 1:45–3:00 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions 3:15–4:30 p.m. Live and Scheduled sessions CEL Convention — “Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent” (*additional registration required; see p. 25)

MONDAY 11/23 CEL Convention — “Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent” (*additional registration required; see p. 25) ALAN Workshop — “Book Brave: Using YAL to Rethink Spaces Together” (*additional registration required; see p. 25)

TUESDAY 11/24 ALAN Workshop — “Book Brave: Using YAL to Rethink Spaces Together” (*additional registration required; see p. 25)

REGISTRATION SIGN UP Registration for the 2020 NCTE Virtual Annual Convention includes access to all General Sessions, live and scheduled sessions, on-demand sessions, and the Virtual Exhibit Hall. Convention content will also be available for 60 days after the event. 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 October 31, 2020, denoted by an asterisk.

NCTE Member: $175/*$205 Nonmember: $350/*$380 Student Member: $110/*$120 Emeritus Member: $140/*$150 Group Rate: Groups of 10 or more college student members of NCTE from the same school can register for the Convention at a 30% savings. We’re also extending this discount to groups of 10 or more non-NCTE members from the same school or district registering at the nonmember rate. Please email annual2020@ncte.org to request this pricing.

Paying with a Purchase Order: Please send your purchase order to CustomerService@ncte.org

ALAN WORKSHOP: NOV. 23–24 This year ALAN Workshop attendees can choose to register to receive the books or to register to not receive the books. The ALAN book box will be shipped to the registrant’s preferred mailing address.

With the Books: NCTE member ALAN Workshop with the books: $150 Nonmember ALAN Workshop with the books: $200 Student member ALAN Workshop with the books: $75 Without the Books: NCTE member ALAN Workshop without the books: $125 Nonmember ALAN Workshop without the books: $175 Student member ALAN Workshop without the books: $50 Please note that membership in ALAN does not give an NCTE member rate for the ALAN Workshop.

CEL CONVENTION: NOV. 22–23 This year’s CEL Convention will feature programming on Sunday, November 22 (one keynote speaker and four sessions) and Monday, November 23 (two keynote speakers and eight sessions).

NCTE + CEL Member: $90 NCTE member only: $115 Nonmember: $165

Please note: All session participants, presenters, and attendees are required to register for the Convention.

“It feels like home, like the people are supposed to be there. Like a gathering of your favorite people.”

—Franki Sibberson, NCTE Past President “I get excited. It’s a time when I come to learn and see colleagues from across the country.”

—Sanjuana Rodriguez, NCTE member REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  5

MAKE YOUR CASE TO ATTEND Why You Should Join Us at #NCTE20 Attending the 2020 NCTE Virtual Annual Convention provides considerable opportunities for professional learning from the comfort of your home, office, or classroom. Typically, each November, thousands of literacy educators from across the country make the journey to a Convention that inspires their teaching and rejuvenates their profession.

“My first NCTE conference was easily the most fueling and invigorating ‘teacher thing’ I could do for myself.”

—Alex Bondar “I learned that spending my time, money, and effort to come to the national conference to present with my colleagues brings me closer to them in the shared expenditure of energy, and allows us to share some of the work we are doing at our high school with the rest of the teaching world.”

—Tracy Brennan “Authors sign novels, teachers present lessons, strangers become friends, and amid all this there is a shared love—for children, for teaching, for the power of words. I have always looked forward to it because there are few places I go where I’m surrounded by so many likeminded people at once.”

—Amanda Atkins

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They collect strategies and best practices for teaching literacy, language, and composition. They learn new ideas for delivering instruction that engages students and addresses the most pressing needs within the school and district. This year, we’ve created many of the same opportunities for our first virtual Convention, which features nearly 400 sessions (76 live, 56 scheduled, and 266 on-demand). Attendees will have access to sessions for a full 60 days following the Convention!

NCTE’s Convention is the most historic annual literacy gathering for teachers and educators. Now celebrating its 111th year, #NCTE20 connects educators to the most passionate and energetic minds in literacy. Attendees will hear from leading education voices as well as hundreds of national authors, all engaging together around the pressing topics of the field.

Below, you’ll find a few tools we’ve put together to help you build a strong case for attending NCTE’s Virtual Annual Convention this November.

For information on scholarships to cover Convention registration costs, please see https://ncte.org/annual-conventionscholarship-information/

FIRST TIME AT NCTE? Be sure to join us for a special First-Timers’ Welcome this fall.

We’ll offer tips and information on how to get the most out of your Convention experience. You won’t want to miss it! We’ll share details when they’re available.

PARTICIPATION CREDITS Plan to virtually attend #NCTE20 with personal and schoolbased literacy goals in mind. Select sessions aligned to those goals and be prepared to explain how they will contribute to your professional know-how in these areas. NCTE provides a certificate of participation and has partnered with the University of San Diego to offer continuing education credits. Note that each state has different rules for recertification processes, so be sure to check documentation requirements prior to the Convention. See http://convention.ncte.org/2020-virtualconvention/whyattend/ for details.

From Convention to Classroom

TEACHERS SHARE WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED “Although this was my first experience at NCTE, I know that this will now become an annual pilgrimage. I made many new professional connections, and I will be sharing many of the insights from this event with my department faculty at Kaiser High School on O’ahu. Perhaps one of the greatest benefits from these sessions is the realization of how much amazing work is being done by English teachers across the nation.

I had countless conversations with fellow teachers and academic professionals. Some of these talks helped to demystify the process of pursuing doctoral work in English education. It was encouraging to learn that what I do is of value, and I have been inspired to continue my process as a researcher in literacy, language, and culture.”

—Steven Penhollow, NCTE member

“This annual conference is an ideal place for educators to collaborate and share their expertise as many of us seek our own (authentic) professional development. The opportunity to learn, to reflect, and to dialogue with fellow English language arts instructors is just the professional development I seek as an English educator.”

—Shelly Garnett, NCTE member “To begin, NCTE’s Annual Convention has been my ultimate favorite PD and networking event of the year since I began attending in 2015 when I was awarded the High School Teacher of Excellence Award. It is amazing to see so many passionate, dedicated educators come together and create amazing conversations and moments, and to bring these innovative pieces of knowledge and tools back to our ELA classrooms.”

—Samantha J. Shaffner, NCTE member

“My favorite souvenir is my ‘Epic List of NCTE 2019 Book Recommendations.’ All the books I heard about in sessions, in hallways, in the Exhibit Hall, on posters, and from one especially interesting teacher in a really long line for hot dogs.

I suppose I’ll still be reading my way through the list when it’s time for the next Convention, but I’m also sharing it with parents and students, and encouraging them to join me on Goodreads to share their reviews of books on the list.”

—Heather Jones, NCTE member

“I am so glad that I attended the Annual Convention this year because our school is undergoing a K–12 curriculum review in June of 2020, and I learned a great deal about grammar instruction, reading and writing conferencing, deep author study, research and inquiry, and multimodal writing that I will be sharing with my colleagues during the review process.”

“Having been looking forward to this conference and building it up in my head since the summer, I was prepared to temper my expectations—but it was as amazing an experience as I was expecting. For me, one of the biggest takeaways was the validation of some of what I have been doing with the students. Because I am at such a small site within such a small district, I don’t really have a way to gauge what I am doing besides the feedback I get from my students and how they progress with their credits. Being so small and isolated, I often feel like I must be behind the times, but what I found was really validating.”

—Katharine Rose Sabo, NCTE member

—Diane Smith, NCTE member REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  7

GENERAL SESSIONS GENERAL SESSION / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 6:00–7:15 P.M. ET

TREVOR NOAH Trevor Noah is the host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Awardwinning The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which received the Thurber Prize for American Humor and two NAACP Image Awards. The Audible edition of Born a Crime, performed by Trevor, remains one of the top-selling and highest-rated Audible performances of all time. To date, Born a Crime has sold more than 1 million copies across all formats.

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In 2020, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah received six Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety Talk Series. He has written, produced, and starred in eleven comedy specials, most recently including the Netflix special Son of Patricia, for which he also received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.

Trevor’s stand-up success has spanned to sold-out shows across five continents. He hosts the Webby Award-winning podcast series On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast, exclusively on Luminary. In April 2018, he launched The Trevor Noah Foundation, a youth development initiative that enhances youth preparedness for higher education or entry into the workforce.

GENERAL SESSION / FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 8:00–9:15 P.M. ET

KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE is from Denver, Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere.

Fajardo-Anstine has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and Hedgebrook. She received her master of fine arts from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida.

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CULTURAL CELEBRATION / FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 9:30–10:45 P.M. ET

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA

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JUAN FELIPE HERRERA is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015–2016) and the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012 to 2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate.

Herrera’s many collections of poetry include Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, which received the PEN/ Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971– 2007; and Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include SkateFate; Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box; and Jabberwalking, which won an International Latino Book Award.

His nonfiction work Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes was a 2015 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.

GENERAL SESSION / SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 11:00 A.M.–12:15 P.M. ET Joy Harjo with the Performance Ensemble of the Bread Loaf Next Generation

JOY HARJO JOY HARJO’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. Harjo’s latest is a book of poetry from Norton, An American Sunrise.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 6:00–6:30 P.M. ET

VIRTUAL 88TH ANNUAL M.R. ROBINSON EVENT Please join Scholastic Chairman and CEO Dick Robinson as he hosts the annual M.R. Robinson event. This longstanding tradition captures the spirit of the Thanksgiving season in recognition of the dedication of teachers around the country.

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ALL-ATTENDEE SESSION & CNV CELEBRATION

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7:00–9:00 P.M. ET

ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY has had an illustrious thirty-year career in various facets of the publishing industry. Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, The Red Pencil, and Rhythm Ride: A Trip through the Motown Sound. Her work has garnered multiple Coretta Scott King Book Awards, the Boston Globe/ Horn Book Honor, and the Parenting Publications gold medal, among other citations. She is a four-time NAACP Image Award nominee, and recipient of both the Regina Medal and the Arbuthnot Honor Award, for her singular body of work and distinguished contribution to the field of children’s literature.

Additionally, she has served in a variety of leadership and executive roles, including her current role as vice president and executive editor at Scholastic, where she has served since 2005.

GENERAL SESSION

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 12:00–1:30 P.M. ET

PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS

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PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, California. Cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and founder of the Los Angelesbased grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and Sydney Peace Prize recipient. For 20 years, KhanCullors has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform, and is currently leading Reform L.A. Jails, a ballot initiative that was won in March 2020. She is currently the faculty director of Prescott College’s new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program, which she developed by nesting a curriculum focused on the intersection of art, social justice, and community organizing that is the first of its kind in the nation.

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JEFF CHANG

JEFF CHANG has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, URB, Rap Pages, Spin, and Mother Jones. He was a founding editor of Colorlines magazine, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He was also previously the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He is coauthor of the forthcoming young adult adaptation of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He lives in California.

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Get Ready to Build Your Stack®!

Again this year we’ll celebrate texts and provide inspiration for building classroom libraries with Build Your Stack. Unique sessions featuring authors and educators talking about their favorite books and how to use them in the classroom will be shown in the BYS Networking Lounge throughout the Convention.

Topics last year included: ● Celebrating Complexity in YA Literature ● YA Authors as Readers ● Reading Poetry in the Classroom ● Poetry ● Names Have Power: Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors ● Asian American Texts That Don't Reinforce Stereotypes ● Translanguaging in Latinx Children's and YA Books ● African American Literature ● Diverse Representations of Gender/Sexuality in Picture Books and in Middle Grade Novels

“My most memorable experience of #NCTE19 was wandering into a session I had not planned to attend, and finding it to be one of my favorite sessions.”

—Vanessa Cross, NCTE member “John Green’s speech was so important to me.

I’ve struggled with anxiety throughout my life, and his words brought me to tears; I felt as though he was talking to me. I also went to a smaller session about teaching Speak during the #MeToo movement. After the presenter finished, everyone shared lesson ideas for addressing the #MeToo movement in class, specifically addressing ways to emotionally support students during these sometimes tough discussions. It was really helpful to have time to sit and brainstorm with teachers from around the country about planning for these topics. Finally, the graphic novel chat was amazing. I loved learning the process of graphic novel design. In all, this was one of the best professional learning experiences of my nine-year career.”

—Sarah Grimesey, NCTE member REGISTER AT CONVENTION.NCTE.ORG  11

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Throughout the Convention you’ll have opportunities to hear 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. These events are included with your registration and will be available for 60 days after the Convention.

Share Your Breakfast with Our Keynote Speakers: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 / 9:30–10:45 A.M. ET ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) Event ANGIE THOMAS was born, raised, and still resides in Jackson, Mississippi, as indicated by her accent. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine with a picture included. She holds a bachelor of fine arts in creative writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in hip hop. She can also still rap if needed. She is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books (diversebooks.org). Her award-winning, acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and a major motion picture from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman Jr. Her second novel, On the Come Up, is available now.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / 9:00–10:15 A.M. ET Children’s Literature Assembly Event JASON REYNOLDS is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award honoree, a Printz Award honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. Reynolds is also the 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include When I Was the Greatest, The Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Look Both Ways, and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / 10:30–11:45 A.M. ET Affiliate Event VALERIE KINLOCH, president-elect of NCTE, is the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also an executive member of the AERA Consortium of University and Research Institutions and cochair of the Remake Learning Council.

In 2018, Kinloch was awarded the NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award. In 2015 she was awarded the NCTE Rewey Belle Inglis Award for Outstanding Women in English Education.

Her scholarship examines the literacies and community engagements of youth and adults inside and outside schools. Author of publications on race, place, literacy, and equity, her books include Service-Learning in Literacy Education: Possibilities for Teaching and Learning (2015), Crossing Boundaries: Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth (2012), Urban Literacies: Critical Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Community (2011), Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth (2010), June Jordan: Her Life and Letters (2006), and Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan (2004). In 2012, her book Harlem on Our Minds received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association, and in 2014, her book Crossing Boundaries: Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth was a staff pick for professional development by Teaching Tolerance magazine.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / 10:30–11:45 A.M. ET National Writing Project Event EBONY FLOWERS is a cartoonist and an ethnographer.

She was born and raised in Maryland. She holds a BA in biological anthropology from the University of Maryland College Park and a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she wrote her dissertation as a comic (mostly). Her expertise is in qualitative research and evaluation, picture-based methods, curriculum studies, and S.T.E.A.M. education.

Author and illustrator of the graphic novel Hot Comb, Flowers is a 2017 Rona Jaffe Award recipient, a 2019 Ignatz Award recipient for Promising New Talent, and a 2020 Believer Award recipient for Fiction. She was also nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Literacy (Young Adult Fiction). She lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Share Your Lunch with Our Keynote Speakers: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 / 12:30–2:00 P.M. ET Middle Level Section Event

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AIDA SALAZAR is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the middle-grade verse novels The Moon Within (International Latino Book Award Winner) and The Land of the Cranes (fall 2020), and the biographical picture book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Revolutionary Fighter (spring 2021), all published by Scholastic. She is slated to coedit with Yamile Saied Méndez, Calling the Moon: A Middle Grade Anthology on Menstruation by Writers of Color (Candlewick Press 2022). She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her story By the Light of the Moon (spring 2021), was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, California.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 / 12:30–2:00 P.M. ET ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators) Event

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PHUC TRAN has been a high school Latin teacher for more than twenty years, while simultaneously establishing himself as a highly sought-after tattoo artist in the Northeast. Tran graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. He taught Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit in New York at the Collegiate School and was an instructor at Brooklyn College’s Summer Latin Institute. Most recently, he taught Latin, Greek, and German at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. His 2012 TEDx Talk “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s TED Radio Hour. He has also been an occasional guest on Maine Public Radio, discussing grammar, classic literature, and Strunk and White’s legacy. Tran currently tattoos at and owns Tsunami Tattoo in Portland, Maine, where he lives with his family. He is the author of a memoir, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 / 12:30–2:00 P.M. ET Secondary Section Event

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CHANEL MILLER is a writer and artist who received her bachelor of arts in literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Her critically acclaimed memoir, Know My Name, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, and was named a best book of 2019 by TIME, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and People, among others. She is a 2019 TIME Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym, “Emily Doe.”

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 / 12:30–2:00 P.M. ET Children’s Book Awards Event KATE AND JOL TEMPLE are internationally awarded children’s authors whose books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Their recent picture book, Room on Our Rock, is an allegory about empathy and refugees. It can be read front-to-back or back-to-front for two different perspectives. The book received the Charlotte Huck Award for outstanding fiction with the potential to transform children’s lives. It was also listed as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association; named a Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts by the Children’s Literature Assembly; and selected for the ILA 2020 Teachers’ Choices Reading List.

Kate and Jol live in Sydney, Australia, with their two sons. They regularly visit schools and writers’ festivals to discuss ideas with young readers and writers. When they’re not writing, Kate pretends to play the piano and Jol makes little egg-carton shelters for his Star Wars characters.

BARRY WITTENSTEIN is the author of A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation, winner of the 2020 Orbis Pictus Award. He has written several picture books, including Waiting for Pumpsie and The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!). Barry lives in New York City.

JERRY PINKNEY is the illustrator of the 2020 Orbis Pictus Award winner A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation. The legendary author and illustrator’s many accolades include the Caldecott Medal, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, four New York Times Best Illustrated Books, and four gold medals from the Society of Illustrators.

He served on the National Council of the Arts, is a trustee emeritus of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and has taught at the Pratt Institute, the University of Delaware, and the University of Buffalo.

He lives in Westchester, New York.

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ELEMENTARY EXPERIENCE Teachers of our youngest students will find plenty to explore at #NCTE20.

From incredible authors and illustrators, to the leading experts and innovators in our field, every hour is packed with sessions designed just for you.

WHAT KINDS OF SESSIONS CAN I ATTEND? Over the course of the 2020 NCTE Virtual Annual Convention, there are more than 150 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: ● The Complex and Critical Work of YA Lit: Authors, Publishers, and Educators Imagine New Possibilities for Reading and Teaching ● When the Canon Needs Rescuing: Superheroes as a Disruptive Force ● Songs of Biography: Stories That We Must Share ● Connecting with Readers through Novels in Verse: A Confluence of the Heart ● Story: Own Voices in Nonfiction Children’s Literature

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 in more than 30 sessions in the Early Childhood Education strand. 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.

LITERACIES AND LANGUAGES FOR ALL (LLA) There’s a strand of sessions at #NCTE20 chosen by leaders of LLA, an NCTE Conference of holistic educators who believe that ALL children deserve personally meaningful learning contexts in which their languages and cultures are valued and recognized as assets for learning. LLA members integrate theories and practices of social justice; critical literacies; digital, multimodal, and biliteracies; and inquiry- and project-based learning that embodies the work of 21stcentury educators.

ELEMENTARY FAVORITES: ELEMENTARY SECTION GET-TOGETHER—Hear from NCTE’s elected leaders who represent the Elementary Section and speakers Gloria Boutte and Kim Parker, winners of the 2020 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award.

CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS LUNCHEON—The 2020 winners of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children will speak. Then the 2021 award winners will be announced live!

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSEMBLY BREAKFAST— Award-winning author Jason Reynolds is the speaker.

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“There’s a confluence of feelings—anticipation, walking into a space of not seeing someone for a year. You get to renew relationships, both personal and professional. It’s a very human thing to experience.”

—Roberta Price Gardner, NCTE Elementary Section Chair “I feel inspired. It’s a coming-home space for people who have been influential. NCTE feels like home, and I’m very productive when I go home. It’s a good time of renewal and rejuvenation.”

—Deborah MacPhee, LLA (Literacies and Languages for All) President

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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 Virtual Convention there are more than 200 sessions designated at the middle level, but you’ll find plenty of interest at other levels as well. Among the topics are the following: ● Constructing Confluent Classrooms: The Power of Read-Aloud in Middle School ● Literacy Centers: A Confluence of Grammar, Writing, Vocabulary, and Reading Choices ● Revolutionizing Reading: From Asking to Acting ● Carrying the Stories of Las Mariposes: Arts Integration as a Way for All Our Stories to Take Flight ● Using Multiple Sources for Narrative Writing in Middle School Classrooms

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MIDDLE LEVEL FAVORITES: MIDDLE LEVEL MEET-UP—Kick off your virtual Convention experience with this gathering of Middle Level attendees that features author Pablo Cartaya.

ALAN BREAKFAST—Author Angie Thomas is the keynote speaker for this much-loved event. If you’re looking for even deeper immersion in YA lit, you might enjoy the ALAN Workshop, November 23–24 (see p. 25); even though we won’t be in person, you can still get the box of books!

MIDDLE LEVEL LUNCHEON—Aida Salazar, author of The Moon Within and The Land of the Cranes, will speak during this Friday event. #WHYMIDDLEMATTERS is a series of incredible learning experiences on the program. This year the sessions are “Why Middle Matters—A Convergence of Texts: The Middle Level Mosaic,” “Why Middle Matters —Songs of Solidarity: Bringing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy into the Middle Grades Curriculum,” and “Why Middle Matters—Songs of the Heart: Convergence of Academic and Social-Emotional Learning and Song of Our Teaching: The Power of Convergence in Pedagogy.”

“It’s an escape from the classroom, but you’re excited for the information to bring back to the classroom. It energizes.”

—Frannie Lin, NCTE Middle Level Section Chair “The experience was amazing and overwhelming and all things in between! Cornelius Minor is a genius and I could listen to him all day. I loved seeing some of my favorite authors and educators just walking around like the ‘rest of us.’ They were approachable and so real. I had LOTS of moments of disbelief seeing Jason Reynolds and Nic Stone.

Then seeing Donalyn Miller eating a salad like the rest of us! Your ability to bring in all these amazing people is outstanding!!”

—Peg Bruno, NCTE member “I can say without exaggeration that this is the only professional conference I have ever attended where I never felt that my time was being wasted. Thank you for what you do.”

— James Meakim, NCTE Member “My local teachers’ presentation with fellow Baltimoreans was eye-opening; I'm amazed how NCTE brought us together— we would've never met otherwise, but we have so much in common.”

— David Hallman, NCTE Member “In my eleven-year career, this was the most inspiring, motivating, and helpful professional development.”

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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 stay 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?

I’M A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL—ARE THERE SESSIONS FOR ME?

Over the course of the Virtual Convention there are more than 200 sessions designated at the secondary level. Here are just a few of the topics that will be offered:

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 the offerings from NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL). Learn more about “Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent,” CEL’s Convention (November 22–23), on page 25.

● A Confluence of Perspectives and Place: How We Merge Youth Awareness and Voice in High School Classrooms ● ¡Confluencia! Reclaiming Our Voices through Our Stories in School ● Multimodal Ways of Knowing in Preservice Education: The Confluence of Literacy and Aesthetics in Teacher Learning ● When and Where We Speak: The Joy and Trauma of Black Girls in Adolescent Literature ● Scholars of Color Converge on Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy ● Blurring Boundaries between Secondary and Postsecondary: Working Together Helps Students Write Their Way into College

SECONDARY FAVORITES: SECONDARY SECTION GET-TOGETHER—Trade book authors Renée Watson, Jerry Craft, Tiffany D. Jackson, Eric Velasquez, Yusef Salaam and justin a. reynolds kick off the Convention for secondary teachers in this panel on Thursday afternoon. “We Are More Than Our Struggle: Black Storytellers on Black Identity in Fiction” will be facilitated by veteran language arts teacher and librarian Julia E. Torres.

SECONDARY LUNCHEON—This Saturday event will feature Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name, a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.

NEW! WEDNESDAY EVENING EVENT—Don’t miss “Boys of Color on the Page and in the Classroom,” a discussion with teachers and young adult and middle grade authors whose books center on boys of color facing a variety of societal issues. Among the panelists are Lamar Giles, Cornelius Minor, Nic Stone, Julia E. Torres, and Ibi Zoboi.

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“My experience was a culmination of moments.

As a writer who is also a forever educator, I left feeling delighted, overwhelmed, and grateful. This conference supported my spirit, fed my mind, and nudged parts of my soul I didn’t think anyone could find, let alone open.

A friend and colleague generously offered lodging at her house, allowing us to assimilate, question, and compare each day’s experiences.

The universe works, yet it is up to us to see the patterns and purpose and our place within the moments. Because we were present in the spaces provided by NCTE, we received daily presents.”

—Cheryl Womack-Whye, NCTE member

“It’s electric! (electric boogie).”

—Julia Torres, NCTE Secondary Level Representative-at-Large “I met a teacher who had been teaching for 50 years and was still eager to learn all she could to make sure her students succeeded.

That moment was awe-inspiring and an inspiration to me.”

—Vernastene Black, NCTE member “The DisruptTexts session was incredible. Eye-opening, meticulously planned, and fully engaging. I left with specific, actionable advice, many text recommendations, and a clear sense of how I want to move forward and can move forward in building an antiracist classroom.”

—Cate Bleyl, NCTE member

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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 members active in 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 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 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 Virtual Convention there are more than 100 sessions designated at the college level. Here are just a few of the topics: ● When Writing Teachers Write Daily for 60 Days: Findings from a 40-Year Experiment

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 100 sessions.

● The Writer in the Composition Classroom ● Academic Writing Can Be Personal, Too: The Confluence of Student Experience and College Composition

I’M A TEACHER EDUCATOR—ARE THERE SESSIONS FOR ME?

● Better Together: Confluence of Pop Culture, Argument, and Rhetoric

The English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) group puts together a special program with more than 80 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.

● Trauma in the College English/Composition Class

Here is a sample of the topics that are covered: ● You Are This Universe: Nature's Impact on Narrative and Identity ● Dire Straits: English Teacher Education and the Climate Crisis ● Audience, Purpose, and Publication: Creating and Promoting ● Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Changing the Literacy Narrative ● “Not about Fixing the Writing, but Helping the Writer”: Learning to Become Responsive, Reflective Writing Teachers through a Field Experience in a University Writing Center ● A Confluence of Hope in Writing and Writing Education

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

“Validation. Thousands of teachers hanging out, getting educated by other teachers. And inspiring. I always come away inspired.”

ELATE LUNCHEON—Celebrate the accomplishments of ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators) members at an awards ceremony and enjoy an incredible keynote address with Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In.

—Bradley Bleck, NCTE College Section Chair

COLLEGE WORKSHOP—This immersive learning experience for college teachers will take place from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.

ET on Saturday afternoon. The College Section Community Writing Workshop features Tobi Jacobi, professor of English and director of the University Composition Program and the Community Literacy Center at Colorado State University; John Tiedemann, associate professor in the University Writing Program at the University of Denver; and Veronica House, a faculty member in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder.

—Amy Walter, NCTE member

“Bringing a preservice teacher with me and seeing him experience NCTE for the first time was the most memorable and exciting experience I’ve ever had at the Convention.”

“It gives a sense that I am not alone. A sense of relief. It’s where all my geeky English stuff is celebrated.”

—Sharon Mitchler, Past TYCA Chair

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FEATURED SESSIONS These Live sessions offer in-depth discussion on topics of interest to English language arts educators at all levels. If you miss the live presentations, you can access the sessions for 60 days after the Convention.

THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 2:30–3:45 P.M. ET Engaging Learners in Critical Literacy through Indigenous Education: Natalie Martinez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Debbie Reese, American Indians in Children's Literature “It feels like home. No other time do you get that.

There are other conferences that are research based, but NCTE amplifies the teacher’s voice. It’s theoretical, but it welcomes teacher voices.”

—David Low, NCTE member

“The feeling hasn’t changed since 1982 when I first walked in. I was in awe. It’s like finding your people.”

—Roxanne Henkin, LLA (Literacies and Languages for All) Past President

THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 4:00–5:15 P.M. ET Rascuache Technology Pedagogy: Making Do with a Confluence of Resources: Cruz Medina, Santa Clara University, CA FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 6:00–7:15 P.M. ET Equity, Access, and Community: Teaching and Supporting Learners across Online Course Models: Jenae Cohn, Stanford University, CA; Laura Gonzalez, University of Florida SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 9:30–10:45 A.M. ET We Are Our Daughters’ Keepers: Nourishing Powerful Literacies of Black and Brown Girlhood: Danielle Filipiak, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Naomi Filipiak; Tracey Flores, The University of Texas at Austin; Vivian Flores; Raven Jones Stanbrough, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Zuri Hudson Stanbrough; Joanne Marciano, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Yolanda SealeyRuiz, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY; Carmela Watson SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 12:30–1:45 P.M. ET Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Rhetoric but Were Afraid to Ask—An Invitation: Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University, State College SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 2:00–3:15 P.M. ET History of Cultivating New Voices: Arnetha Ball, Stanford University, CA; María E. Fránquiz, The University of Texas at Austin; Juan Guerra, University of Washington, Seattle; Valerie Kinloch, University of Pittsburgh, PA; Carol Lee, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Tonya Perry, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia, Athens SUNDAY, NOV. 22, 10:30–11:45 A.M. ET Songs of Ourselves: Juan Felipe Herrera, 2015–2017 US Poet Laureate; Alfredo Celedón Luján, NCTE President and Program Chair, Monte del Sol School, Santa Fe, NM; Pat Mora, Author and Poet

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CEL VIRTUAL ANNUAL CONVENTION NOVEMBER 22–23 Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent Register via the CEL Convention website, http://ncte.org/ groups/cel/convention/, where you can also find the most up-to-date information about the schedule, speakers, and topics.

Sure, problems abound in our daily lives as leaders. We rush to put out fires and take care of the multitude of issues on our doorstep: we need to plan PD, sit on an interview committee, discipline a student, create schedules, collect data, grade papers, observe a teacher, and teach classes. There are so many things awaiting our attention. How do we ever have enough time to imagine the possibilities of an English classroom and actually bring them to fruition?

Literacy leaders need a community to grow as leaders and surround themselves with visionaries in order to create and channel vision into reality. That’s where CEL comes in. CEL is a community of leaders with a mission to raise our leadership potential, imagine a new idea, collaborate around a problem or practice, and envision instruction and programs that exceed expectations. In order to truly be more than managers, we need dedicated time and space to imagine, innovate, and invent alongside other dynamic leaders. The CEL Annual Convention provides us this opportunity.

—Karen Reed-Nordwall, 2020 Program Chair

ALAN WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 23–24 Book Brave: Using YAL to Rethink Spaces Together Register on the NCTE Convention registration page, http://convention.ncte.org/2020convention/registration/, and for the most up-to-date information, see the ALAN website: http://www.alan-ya.org/workshop.

The theme of this year’s workshop is “Book Brave: Using YAL to Rethink Spaces Together.”

For our 2020 gathering, we hope to shift power structures—both within and beyond the workshop. Responding to workshop participants’ requests, we aim to have greater diversity of session topics and presenters and more engaging interactions between authors, presenters, and attendees. We hope that sessions will spark conversation and explore the possibilities of young adult literature.

This year’s workshop will feature authors and presenters who are keenly focused on pushing the field and reimagining spaces—classroom spaces; library spaces; and spaces at large. We hope to design sessions that feature characters and/or themes that celebrate the diversity of young people in our schools and libraries.

—Ricki Ginsberg, 2020 ALAN President

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EXHIBIT HALL The NCTE Virtual Exhibit Hall is filled with the latest and greatest books and other classroom resources. During the Convention you’ll have the chance to talk with publishers about what’s new for the classroom.

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 Virtual Convention platform will include details of the Virtual Exhibit Hall that will help you navigate the booths and rooms. Many exhibitors are planning to host meet-and-greets with authors, so make sure you plan time to visit booths in the Virtual Exhibit Hall and be sure to stop by the Build Your Stack® area (learn more on p. 11) to learn from your peers about the best books for your classroom.

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Plan your booth visits in advance. Check out the schedule and note the designated hours for the Exhibit Hall. Grab a snack, get comfortable, and stop into booths to hear about upcoming books, resources, and more.

Just because we are virtual doesn’t mean you can’t snag some books!

Many vendors will be having giveaways throughout the Convention, so be sure to Leave Your Business Card when visiting a booth.

Vendors will be updating booth content throughout the Convention, so plan to visit and re-visit booths often!

Many publishers will host meet-andgreet opportunities with their authors throughout the Convention. When you visit a booth, text-chat or video-chat the booth representative and ask about what they have planned!

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“I loved seeing all the books and authors in the Exhibit Hall! Speaking to and meeting authors and, of course, receiving complimentary books for my classroom. Mainly because this was my first NCTE experience. I also loved the sessions and learning something new to take back to my classroom.”

—Carla Joyner, NCTE member “The Exhibit Hall was spectacular. Getting the chance to meet authors, get free books for my students, and see what is out there was an incredible experience.”

—Stephanie MacKenzie, NCTE member “Meeting Laurie Halse Anderson was a dream come true.

I ran into her while we were both perusing the Exhibit Hall, and she talked to me like we were old friends. I can’t wait to brag to my students about this moment!”

—NCTE member “I met the author of one of the books I’ve been teaching in my class for years (Thanhha Lai, who wrote Inside Out & Back Again). I was able to talk to her about my students’ responses to it, as well as some of the ways I go about teaching it to the class. It was such a great experience to be able to come back to my students and tell that story.”

—Christine Walther, NCTE member

2020 EXHIBITORS

List current as of 10/20/2020

WHO WILL BE THERE? 30-Minute Shakespeare ABRAMS The Art of Books Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) Albert Whitman & Company American Psychological Association: APA Style, APA Books, APA Videos, Lifetools, and Magination Press Books Barnes & Noble Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers Boyd Mills & Kane Build Your Stack® Candlewick Press Charlesbridge Publishing Chronicle Books College Board Corwin Crimson Dragon Publishing Disney Publishing Worldwide Easy Grammar Systems essaypop, LLC Hachette Book Group, USA HarperCollins Children’s Books HarperCollins Publishers Heinemann Publishing Holiday House Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference IDW Publishing Inkyard Press, an imprint of Harlequin

Kane Miller/Usborne Books Lead4Change Student Leadership Program Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Macmillan Publishers myShakespeare Paradigm Education National Council of Teachers of English: NCTE Central includes the Publication Store, Gift Shop, and Member Services National Writing Project Penguin Random House Education Penguin Young Readers Publisher Spotlight Random House Children’s Books Readers Magnet Scholastic, Inc. Seven Stories Press Simon & Schuster Soomo Learning Teachers College Press Turnitin W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company – High School Group Workman Publishing Write the World

JOIN US IN A NETWORKING LOUNGE! Join us in the Networking Lounges throughout the Convention. The Lounges are places to network with your colleagues, share your current reading list, find inspiration, or simply chat with others. NCTE has designed four lounges to accomplish just that! ● Confluencia Café: Join us for morning coffee chats, celebration toasts, and other focused conversations. ● What I’m Reading Room: Chat with your colleagues about all things books! ● Inspiration Station: Come recharge and get inspired by sharing experiences in the virtual classroom, creative ways you are adjusting to hybrid learning, and other topics that will inspire. ● Open Air Atrium: Want to simply chat? Come on in, the Open Air Atrium is your place!

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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 this year’s Virtual Convention. Attend their sessions and stop by NCTE Central for the newest in books, QRGs, and merchandise.

You can order these publications online now at store.ncte.org.

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, research-based definitions, strategies, activities, and more to address many of the core topics in English and language arts classrooms.

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The Norton Reader

Fourth High School Edition Thomas Cooley

Fifteenth High School Edition Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Joseph Bizup, Anne Fernald, & John Brereton

The perfect balance of readings and writing instruction for the AP® Language course. This reader and writing guide supports AP® Language students using engaging essays and practical writing instruction. The book presents reading and writing strategies together using marginal annotations to show the connections. Readings—arranged by method of development and written by classic, contemporary, and student writers—are balanced with writing advice.

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Known for the breadth and depth of its readings—classic and contemporary, shorter and longer—The Norton Reader will inspire AP® Language students to read and write about issues that matter. With more than 60 NEW selections from today’s most influential writers and thinkers—many of which are brief (1–2 pages) and accessible—The Norton Reader presents a rich variety of perspectives to help AP® students become curious, responsive readers. Introductions, questions, glosses, and contextual notes help foster close reading and careful writing.

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DIGITAL MEDIA THAT FOSTERS LEARNING Norton learning tools can be used on—and synced across—all computers and mobile devices. Schools can opt for a digital-only purchase or package digital access with print textbooks at a discounted price.

Norton Ebooks are an incredible value and give students and instructors an enhanced reading experience. Students can bookmark, search, and read offline.

A powerful highlighting and annotation tools encourage active reading.

InQuizitive for Writers delivers a game-like approach to practicing sentence editing and working with sources. The activities are adaptive so students receive additional practice in the areas where they need more help.

The Little Seagull Handbook ebook access is included with AP® Language books so that students assigned InQuizitive can link to the handbook for advice.

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