2020 NCTE Virtual Annual Convention
November 19–22
All times below are Eastern Time (ET)
Our schedule includes
- Live sessions, including featured sessions, general session, keynote speakers, and concurrent sessions;
- Scheduled sessions (with live Q&A; and
- On-Demand sessions available at any time throughout the Convention!
See our program listings of live, scheduled, and on-demand sessions, as well as a list of exhibitors taking part in the virtual convention.
Included in the registration price are all sessions and speakers;
meal tickets are not required for the keynote “breakfast, luncheon, or brunch” events.
Content will be available for 60 days after the Convention.
Wednesday, November 18
7:00 p.m.–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, November 19
2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
5:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening!
6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m. 
Opening General Session — A Conversation with Trevor Noah
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Elementary Section Get-Together — Kimberly N. Parker and Gloria Boutte
Middle Level Meet-Up — Pablo Cartaya
Secondary Section Get-Together — “We Are More Than Our Struggle: Black Storytellers on Black Identity in Fiction” — Jerry Craft, Tiffany D. Jackson, justin a. reynolds, Julia Torres, Eric Velasquez, Renee Watson
Friday, November 20
12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Middle Level Luncheon — Aida Salazar
ELATE Luncheon — Phuc Tran
2:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall open
3:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
4:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
8:00 p.m.–9:15 p.m.
Friday General Session — Kali Fajardo-Anstine
and Juan Felipe Herrera
Saturday, November 21
9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Exhibit Hall open
9:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
ALAN Breakfast — Angie Thomas
9:30 a.m.– 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 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall open
12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
College Section Community Writing Workshop Presentation — Tobi Jacobi, John Tiedemann, and Veronica House
12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Secondary Section Luncheon — Chanel Miller
Children’s Books Awards Luncheon — Kate Temple, Jol Temple, Barry Wittenstein, Jerry Pinkney (includes announcement of 2021 award winners)
12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
All-Attendee Session & 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Program — Andrea Davis Pinkney
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall (open to all and scheduled with west coast attendees in mind)
Sunday, November 22
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall open
9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Children’s Literature Assembly Breakfast — Jason Reynolds
9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Affiliate Breakfast — Valerie Kinloch
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
National Writing Project Brunch — Ebony Flowers
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Closing General Session — Patrisse Khan-Cullors, including an interview with Jeff Chang
1:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall open
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Live and Scheduled sessions
CEL Convention — “Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent” (*additional registration required)
Monday, November 23
CEL Convention — “Dynamic Leadership: Inspiring Literacy Leaders to Imagine, Innovate, and Invent” (*additional registration required)
ALAN Workshop — “Book Brave” (*additional registration required)
Tuesday, November 24
ALAN Workshop — “Book Brave” (*additional registration required)