MAKE YOUR CASE TO ATTEND Why You Should Join Us at #NCTE21 Attending the 2021 NCTE 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 practice and rejuvenates their profession. 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, featuring nearly 500 sessions (200 live and prerecorded/scheduled, 300 on demand). Attendees will have access to sessions for a full 90 days following the Convention! NCTE’s Convention is the most historic annual literacy gathering for teachers and educators. Now celebrating its 112th consecutive year, #NCTE21 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 Annual Convention this November. For information on scholarships to cover Convention registration costs, please see https://ncte.org/annualconvention-scholarship-information/
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Again this year we’ll celebrate texts and provide inspiration for building classroom libraries with Build Your Stack. Several unique sessions featuring authors and educators talking about their favorite books and how to use them in the classroom will be on the program. While we are still finalizing the scheduled topics for 2021, here are a few examples from 2020: ● Asian American Texts That Don’t Reinforce Stereotypes ● Authors, What’s on Your Stack? ● Eating Your Cake: Text Sets to Spark Curiosity and Conversation ● Great New Picture Books and Graphic Novels You Might Have Missed ● Imagining a Better World through Stories of Love, Support, and Coming Together ● New K–12 Indigenous Texts That Belong in Your Classroom
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.
● Notable Verse Novels and Poetry Books for K–8 Classrooms
PARTICIPATION CREDITS
● Biographies and Memoirs: Meeting People while Socially Distancing
Plan to attend #NCTE21 with personal and school-based 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/2021convention/whyattend/ for details.
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● Representing Latinx Students’ Multiple Identities in the Classroom
● Translanguaging in LatinX Children’s and YA Books ● Unapologetically Me: Characters Confidently, Courageously, and Proudly Themselves ● Undaunted Voices: BIPOC Novels-in-Verse ● Using Poetry to Explore Our Intersectionality
