Look Where We Are Going!
2026 November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Convention Center – imagine. innovate. inspire.
2027 November 18–21, Chicago, IL
And Look Where We Have Been!
The NCTE Annual Convention has been in locations all over the country (even Hawaii) in its history!
2025 Denver – Dreaming and Creating Our Shared Futures
2024 Boston – Heart, Hope, Humanity
2023 Columbus – Conexiones
2022 Anaheim – ¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light!
2021 virtual (original site: Louisville) – Equity, Justice, and Antiracist Teaching
2020 virtual (original site: Denver) – ¡Confluencia! Songs of Ourselves
2019 Baltimore – Spirited Inquiry
2018 Houston – Raising Student Voice: Speaking Out for Equity and Justice
2017 St. Louis – Teaching Our Students Today, Tomorrow, Forever: Recapturing Our Voices, Our Agency, Our Mission
2016 Atlanta – Faces of Advocacy
2015 Minneapolis – Responsibility, Creativity, and the Arts of Language
2014 Washington, DC – Story as the Landscape of Knowing
2013 Boston – Reinventing the Future of English
2012 Las Vegas – Dream•Connect•Ignite!
2011 Chicago – Reading the Past, Writing the Future (100th anniversary)
2010 Orlando – Teachers and Students Together: Living Literate Lives
2009 Philadelphia – Once and Future Classics: Reading between the Lines
2008 San Antonio – Because Shift Happens: Teaching in the Twenty-First Century
2007 New York – Mapping Diverse Literacies for the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities, Challenges, Promising Directions
2006 Nashville – The Compleat* Teacher
2005 Pittsburgh – On Common Ground
2004 Indianapolis – Significance
2003 San Francisco – Partners in Learning
2002 Atlanta – Celebrating the Languages and Literacies of Our Lives
2001 Baltimore – Re-Creating the Classroom
2000 Milwaukee – Teaching Matters
1999 Denver – Reimagining the Possibilities
1998 Nashville – Learning with Our Students: Growing as Teachers
1997 Detroit – Language as Moral Action
1996 Chicago – Honoring All Our Stories
1995 San Diego – Teaching for Lifelong Learning
1994 Orlando – Defining Ourselves and Our Work in a Changing World
1993 Pittsburgh – Democracy through Language
1992 Louisville – How Infinite in Faculties: Celebrating Ourselves as Teachers
1991 Seattle – Free to Teach/Free to Learn
1990 Atlanta – Educating the Imagination
1989 Baltimore – Celebrating Diversity
1988 St. Louis – Taking Language to Heart
1987 Los Angeles – Making Connections
1986 San Antonio – What We Will Be
1985 Philadelphia – Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Present
1984 Detroit – Teaching English 1984: Renaissance Art and Science
1983 Denver – Quality for All
1982 Washington, DC – Let the Best of the Past Inform the Future
1981 Boston – Sustaining the Essentials
1980 Cincinnati – Unity in Diversity
1979 San Francisco
1978 Kansas City
1977 New York
1976 Chicago
1975 San Diego
1974 New Orleans
1973 Philadelphia
1972 Minneapolis
1971 Las Vegas
1970 Atlanta
1969 Washington
1968 Milwaukee
1967 Honolulu
1966 Houston
1965 Boston
1964 Cleveland
1963 San Francisco
1962 Miami Beach
1961 Philadelphia
1960 Chicago
1959 Denver
1958 Pittsburgh
1957 Minneapolis
1956 St. Louis
1955 New York
1954 Detroit
1953 Los Angeles
1952 Boston
1951 Cincinnati
1950 Milwaukee
1949 Buffalo
1948 Chicago
1947 San Francisco
1946 Atlantic City
1945 Minneapolis
1944 Columbus
1943 New York (business meeting only)
1942 canceled (during the war—directors meeting only in Chicago)
1941 Atlanta
1940 Chicago
1939 New York
1938 St. Louis
1937 Buffalo
1936 Boston
1935 Indianapolis
1934 Washington
1933 Detroit
1932 Memphis
1931 Milwaukee
1930 Cleveland
1929 Kansas City
1928 Baltimore
1927 Chicago
1926 Philadelphia
1925 Chicago
1924 St. Louis
1923 Detroit
1922 Chattanooga
1921 Chicago
1920 Chicago
1919 Boston
1918 Chicago
1917 Chicago
1916 New York
1915 Chicago
1914 Chicago
1913 Chicago
1912 Chicago
1911 Chicago