SECONDARY EXPERIENCE

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Whether you love teaching poetry, the Bard, critical literacy, choice reading, disciplinary writing, or some other specialty of grades 9–12, this Convention is rich with learning experiences for you. And for instructional leaders searching for the maximum learning experience, you’ll also want to join NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL) for its Annual Convention at the end of the NCTE Annual Convention.

Several hundred sessions on the Convention program are designated for the secondary level. Here are just a few of the topics that will be covered:
• Lifting Student Voice: Sociolinguistics in the English Classroom
• The Heart of Secondary School Writing Centers: Where Writing Feedback, Collaboration, Hope, and Humanity Thrive
• Empowering Your Neurodivergent Students and Colleagues, from an Autistic Teacher
• Teaching Young Adult Literature with and through Heart, Hope, and Humanity
• Voices for Hope and Humanity: Noisy Women in American History
• Understanding Multimodal Text Assessments
• We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) Presents: An Activation of Hope: Authors Speaking Out and Fighting Book Bans
• Every Word Matters: Strategies for Putting Heart, Humanity, and Music back into Poetry Instruction
• Civic Engagement with Global Perspectives in the English Classroom
• When Students Own the Learning: The Power of Metacognition
• Picture This! A Framework for Selecting Picture Books for the Secondary Classroom
• I’m with the Banned: Planning for and Engaging in Conversations about Book Bans
• Painting with Words: A Loving Gaze of Latina Teachers and a Call to Creating Spaces of Intentionality
• Fostering Voice, Heart, and Humanity through Writers’ Workshop
• What’s in a Grade? Best Practices for Equitable Grading in the English Classroom
• Knotted and Complicated: Teaching Writing in Secondary Contexts Can Be Tough
• The Power of Teaching Short Films: Literacy, Representation, Empathy, and Creativity
• Teaching Digital Writing in Communities with Heart, Hope, and Humanity
• The Most Human Thing We Do: Conversations in the English Classroom
• Creative Writing Portfolios to Celebrate Divergent Thinkers and Connect with Communities

This Convention is rich with learning experiences for everyone who supports literacy learning both in and outside the school, but if you’re an instructional leader searching for the maximum learning experience, you’ll also want to take advantage of the offerings from NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL): “LEADERSHIP matters; Leadership MATTERS,” CEL’s Annual Convention, Sunday–Tuesday, Nov. 24–26. Learn more here.

SECONDARY SECTION GET-TOGETHER: Meet members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee, hear Section updates and award announcements, gather with friends and colleagues over appetizers, and hear from a guest speaker, soon to be announced.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 5:45–7:00 P.M.

HIGH SCHOOL MATTERS: The NCTE Secondary Section has selected several sessions for its “High School Matters” series of sessions; topics include supporting student writers, oral history storytelling, student voice, critical literacies, setting goals in writing instruction, and more!

ALAN at NCTE: Hear from a popular author Ellen Oh during this much-loved ALAN Breakfast event on Saturday, Nov. 23, 7:00–9:15 a.m. If you’re looking for even deeper immersion in YA lit, you might enjoy the ALAN Workshop, Monday–Tuesday, Nov. 25–26. Every registrant will get a box of books! Both of these events can be added when you register for the Convention.

SECONDARY SECTION LUNCHEON: This event will feature author Celeste Ng, award presentations, and announcements from leaders of the Secondary Section.
Saturday, Nov. 23, 12:30–2:30 P.M.