FEATURED SESSIONS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 / 6:00–7:15 P.M. ET Deeper Than Edutainment: Taking Books and Their Film Adaptations Seriously
Randy Testa
This session upends standard practice concerning using novels with their film adaptations, presenting an engaging alternative methodology [and central component of media literacy] we’ve created with educators and movie industry people alike for its value in shedding light on the value of treating books and movie adaptations as equal partners—which flies in the face of teacher wariness of film adaptations by Hollywood. Presenter: Randy Testa, Harvard Graduate School of Education
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 / 4:15–5:30 P.M. ET Choice and Voice: What It Means to Be an Independent Reader Kylene Beers, author and coauthor of the bestselling books When Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do, Notice and Note, Disrupting Thinking, and Forged by Reading, shares thoughts on what it means to be an independent reader, that type of reader who not only can struggle successful through a challenging text, but thinks deeply about texts that challenge our thinking. She’ll discuss the role of choice in developing the independent reader who is really an independent thinker and discuss what happens when censors decide to remove choice. As a part of this discussion, she will interview Jerry Craft, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize, and author of New Kid and Class Act.
Kylene Beers
Presenters: Kylene Beers, author and coauthor, When Kids Can’t Read/ What Teachers Can Do, Notice and Note, Disrupting Thinking, and Forged by Reading Jerry Craft, author, New Kid and Class Act
Jerry Craft
2021 NCTE ANNUAL CONVENTION PROGRAM
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