NEW! 2025 Convention General Information
The 2025 NCTE Annual Convention website, with registration, hotel, and program information.
The 2025 NCTE Annual Convention website, with registration, hotel, and program information, will be posted early next year as information becomes available. The Colorado Convention Center is the site of the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention, November 20–23. We anticipate rates for the hotels we will contract with in our blocks in Denver to range from $189 to $239 per night. Though the 2025 registration rates are not yet set, the 2024 rates can be used as a guide to budget for 2025.
Session types for the 2025 proposal form will again include an Individual Proposal session type (1–2 presenters only): You will be asked to choose to present a 30-minute session OR to be combined with other proposals on a similar topic (presenting for 15, 20, or 30 minutes, depending on how many other presentations are in the session; requests for this session type will be fulfilled if there are proposals to combine).
Each proposal must include teacher voices (at least one teacher from any level must be a presenter, including college faculty, preservice teachers, teacher educators, teacher librarians, literacy coaches, and retired teachers). Please indicate the number of teachers on your proposal and add them as presenters with their school affiliations.
When you submit a proposal draft, you will receive a confirmation email that will include information on re-entering the proposal system so you can edit the proposal, if needed. Be sure that the submitter’s name is in the first position in the list of presenters; this will ensure that the submitter will receive the auto-reply confirmation email and will be allowed to edit the proposal. Please add each presenter on your session to the proposal (don’t only list them in the Description or Annotation fields).
If you have started a proposal draft, be sure to follow the instructions in the email reply you receive to complete and submit the proposal (the status of “pending” means you finished and submitted your proposal; “work-in-progress” means you’ve started the proposal and will come back to it to finish and submit it). Use the “Save & Edit Later” button at the end of the form if you will want to go back into the proposal to make edits before the deadline. Once you have finished the edits, be sure to submit the proposal by clicking the “Submit” button before the deadline of 9:00 a.m. ET, Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
NCTE’s 2025 Convention is an in-person event
The unique qualities of this event are such that a hybrid format cannot meet the expectations of NCTE’s Annual Convention. NCTE recognizes that hybrid-format events allow particular benefits; however, both the participation rates and experiences of attending a hybrid Convention remotely in 2022 provided insight that such experiences are inequitable.
Multiple Speaking Roles Policy
To ensure maximum participation and a fair process for reviewing proposals, NCTE has adopted a policy of limiting individuals to speaking in no more than three (3) sessions at the Annual Convention. If any individual has more than three sessions that are accepted on the program, it is understood that the individual will be asked which three sessions they want to retain speaking roles in. This policy reflects NCTE’s commitment to include as many presenters as possible on the Convention program.
Chairing a session and participating in workshops, special interest group sessions, poster sessions, the Classroom Idea Exchange, committee or caucus business meetings, standing group- or assembly-sponsored panels or workshops, or mentoring-specific sessions, such as the Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Institute, do not count as speaking roles.
Questions about the Multiple Speaking Roles Policy may be sent to the Program Chair at NCTEevents@ncte.org.
CLASSROOM IDEA EXCHANGE
The Classroom Idea Exchange gives classroom teachers the opportunity to share their teaching practices with others who are searching for concrete and easily integrated teaching ideas. Submitters will use this form for Classroom Idea Exchange proposal submissions. The proposal deadline is 9 a.m. ET, Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
What You Will Need to Add to the Proposal Form & Explanation of Session Types
Can stay the same as 2024
- EXPLANATION OF STRANDS
Add this new strand after the NWP Strand
- New & Early Career Teachers Strand
sessions focus on highlighting issues for new teachers and celebrating those in the early years of their profession. Recognizing that teachers today take various paths to the classroom, these sessions will answer questions and offer strategies specifically curated for new and early career teachers and those who support them.