NCTE’s Secondary Section Has Selected a Program with the Best Professional Learning You’ll Ever Find
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. You’ll also be surrounded by a giant network of colleagues you’ll want to stay connected to all year long!
New This Year: New & Early Career Teacher Strand
Search the Convention app and see the Convention program for sessions in the New & Early Career Teacher Strand. These 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.
What Kinds of Sessions Can I Attend?
More than 600 sessions on the Convention program are designated for the secondary level. Here are just a few of the topics that will be covered:
- Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed
- Cultivating Creativity in the AP Language and Composition Classroom
Using Graphic Nonfiction in the Classroom - Books without Borders: Bridging Literacy and Justice through a Student-Led Banned Book Curriculum
Podcasting in the Classroom - Boldy Disrupting the Five-Paragraph Essay: Teaching Students to Dream with Project-Based Learning
The Intersection of Literacy Sport Culture and Society - Dungeons and Desktops: Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Foster Student Engagement
- The Nerdy Book Club: Dreaming of a More Empathetic World—One Book and Reader at Time
- Rooted in Dreams: Roundtable Discussions for Secondary School Writing Center Growth
- Here’s to the Ones Who Dream: Bringing Authentic and Equitable Grading Practices Into Traditional Grading Systems
- Opening the Worlds of Black Poetry: Teaching Jericho Brown, DaMaris B. Hill, Nikki Giovanni, Safia Elhillo, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes to High School Students
- Dreaming Futures: Centering Student Voices through Youth-Led Participatory Action Research
- Battling over Books: Confronting the Roots and Realities of Censorship in English Classrooms
- Boldly Serving Boys of Color: Engaging Young Men of Color in the ELA Classroom
Teaching Comics and Graphic Novels in a Rigorous English Classroom - Teach Like an MC: Utilizing a Hip-Hop Pedagogy to Activate Love, Joy, and Liberation in the Classroom
- Dreaming out Loud: Building Students’ Critical Media Literacy, Visual Storytelling, and Creative Writing Skills to Imagine and Realize New Futures
- Building a Science of Reading for Literature: Turning Research into Practice
I’m a School Principal—Are There Sessions for Me?
Yes! 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): “Abundance,” CEL’s Annual Convention, Sunday–Tuesday, Nov. 23–25. Learn more here.
Secondary Level Favorites:
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. 20, 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 during this much-loved ALAN Breakfast event on Saturday, Nov. 22, 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. 24–25. 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 a keynote speaker, award presentations, and announcements from leaders of the Secondary Section.
Saturday, Nov. 22, 12:30–2:30 P.M.