2024 November 21-24, Boston, MA: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
2025 November 20-23, Denver, CO: Colorado Convention Center
The NCTE Annual Convention has been in locations all over the country (even Hawaii) in its history!
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 (meeting postponed until February)
1917 Chicago
1916 New York
1915 Chicago
1914 Chicago
1913 Chicago
1912 Chicago
1911 Chicago
