Schedule
Archived sessions will be available to registrants until February 19, 2022.
All times are listed in Eastern time. Times below are subject to change.
Last updated: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Wednesday, November 17
- Virtual Platform Opens for Access to the Exhibit Hall, On-Demand Sessions, Poster Sessions, and More
5:30–7:00 p.m.
- Exhibit Hall Grand Opening!
7:00–8:30 p.m.
- Preconference General Session: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Nikkolas Smith, coauthor and illustrator of The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Thursday, November 18
1:30–2:45 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (A time block)
3:00–4:15 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (B time block)
4:30–5:45 p.m.
- Live Opening General Session: Michelle Obama, author and former US First Lady
6:00–7:30 p.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
6:00–7:15 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (C time block)
- Featured Session: Randy-Michael Testa, “Deeper Than Edutainment: Taking Books and Their Film Adaptations Seriously”
7:30–8:00 p.m.
- All Section Get-Together
8:15–9:00 p.m.
- Elementary Section Get-Together: Gholdy Muhammad, author, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
- Middle Level Meet-Up and 2021 Awards Celebration
- Secondary Section Get-Together: Eliot Schrefer
- College Section Get-Together and Celebration of the 2021 NCTE Richard C. Ohmann Award
Friday, November 19
10:00–11:30 a.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (D time block)
1:15–2:30 p.m.
- Live ELATE Keynote Session: Charles Person
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (E time block)
2:45–4:00 p.m.
- Live Middle Level Keynote Session: Eve L. Ewing
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (F time block)
3:45–5:00 p.m.
- Live College Level Keynote Session: Dr. April Baker-Bell
4:15–5:30 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (G time block)
- Featured Session: Kylene Beers and Jerry Craft, “Choice and Voice: What It Means to be an Independent Reader”
5:45–7:00 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (H time block)
- Featured Session: Carol D. Lee, Antero Garcia, Nicole Mirra, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, and Kris D. Gutiérrez, “Civic Reasoning and Discourse: The Role of Literacy Instruction in K-12 Classrooms”
6:00–8:00 p.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
8:00–9:15 p.m.
- Live General Session: George M. Johnson, author, We Are Not Broken
Saturday, November 20
9:00–11:00 a.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
9:30–10:45 a.m.
- Live ALAN at NCTE Keynote Session: Kekla Magoon, author, Revolution in Our Time
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (I time block)
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
- Live General Session: Colson Whitehead, author, Harlem Shuffle
12:30–1:45 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (J time block)
12:30–2:00 p.m.
- Live Children’s Book Awards Keynote Session: Janet S. Wong, Jen Bryant, Frank Morrison, Derrick Barnes, and Gordon C. James
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
2:15–3:30 p.m.
- Live Secondary Section Keynote Session: Kao Kalia Yang, author, Somewhere in the Unknown World
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (K time block)
3:45–5:00 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (L time block)
- Featured Session: Tamara Butler, Valerie Kinloch, Emily A. Nemeth, and Grace D. Player, “Where is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities”
4:30–6:30 p.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
5:15–6:30 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (M time block)
6:45–7:15 p.m.
- Virtual 89th Annual M.R. Robinson Event
7:30–9:00 p.m.
- Asian/Asian American Caucus Networking & Mentoring Event
- Cultural Celebration, Hosted by the Black and Latinx Caucuses
Sunday, November 21
9:00–10:15 a.m.
- Live Children’s Literature Assembly Keynote Session: Michaela Goade (Tlingit), illustrator, We Are Water Protectors; Carole Lindstrom (Tribally enrolled Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe/Métis Nation), author, We Are Water Protectors; Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole Nation), author, Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story; Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), author, Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids and Sisters of the Neversea; and Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation), author, We Are Still Here and Classified
- The Children’s Literature Assembly invites you to bid on original artwork by Tim Miller, Pete Oswald, Melissa Sweet, Aaliya Jaleel, Deborah Freedman, and Paola Escobar. All proceeds go toward continuing efforts to promote children’s literature.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (N time block)
- Live Featured Session: Gholdy Muhammad, Shamari Reid, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, and Anyah Nancy Jackson, “Genius, Joy, and Love”
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
- Exhibit Hall Staffed Hours
10:30–11:45 a.m.
- Live Affiliate Session and 2021 Affiliate Awards Celebration
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (O time block)
12:00–1:15 p.m.
- Live Closing General Session: Amanda Gorman, poet and activist, and Alfredo Celedón Luján, NCTE President
1:30–2:45 p.m.
- Live National Writing Project Keynote Session: Sangita Shresthova, PhD, “Toward Education Futures: Practicing the Civic Imagination”
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (P time block)
3:00–4:15 p.m.
- Live and Prerecorded/Scheduled Sessions (Q time block)
- Featured Session: Jevon D. Hunter, Melique Young, Jabari Blodgett, and Darren Cameron, “#BlackBoyLiteraciesMatter/s: A Retrospective Dialogue about Black Boyhood, Literacy, and Thrival in Buffalo, NY”
CEL Convention* — “Leading with Balance: Achieving Harmony with an Ever-Changing World”
Monday, November 22
CEL Convention* — “Leading with Balance: Achieving Harmony with an Ever-Changing
World”
ALAN Workshop* — “Well Versed”