21 hands-on, practice-based sessions led by educators, authors, and specialists from across the field — dive deep into a single topic for extended, collaborative learning.
Workshops are practice-based sessions on one topic to be explored in depth with fellow educators. This year’s 21 workshops span topics including AI in literacy, coaching, Indigenous literature, restorative practice, media literacy, and more. All workshops take place on Thursday, November 19, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Add one to your schedule today when you register for NCTE 2026!
In this hands-on coaching laboratory, educators will practice coaching and being coached to build collective efficacy and support creative, student-centered ELA instruction. Through rehearsal of coaching conversations and structures, participants will explore how instructional coaching can move beyond compliance to foster thoughtful, instructional risk taking.
How should writing be taught now that AI can write for students? In this interactive, discussion-centered workshop, we'll demo practical policies, strategies, and tools to answer that question. We’ll cover AI-Assessment scales, truth & trust statements, revision tracking, assessment layering, and more human-centered approaches to writing instruction in an AI-infused world.
This hands-on workshop empowers grades 6–12 educators to integrate AI meaningfully into literacy instruction. Participants explore ethical use, build background knowledge, create vocabulary and text-structure routines, and develop classroom-ready lessons. Leave with strategies grounded in Scarborough’s Reading Rope.
In this presentation we offer varied approaches to the modalities of superhero texts that secondary English teachers can incorporate into their curriculum: graphic novels, print-based young adult adaptations of superhero stories, and film versions of superhero stories. Audience members will analyze curricular material as well as student samples to consider implications for their own classrooms.
Are you an educator who feels like you’re just getting by week to week, waiting for the next day off? Do you want to learn, grow, and develop but are not sure how to take those first steps? This session will teach you key strategies to unlock your own learning and accelerate your growth and development based on your own strengths and individual learning style to unlock your true potential.
This interactive session examines tensions between scripted curricula and language acquisition research. Drawing on the experiences of NYC educators, the session offers practical strategies for adapting standardized programs to serve multilingual learners while maintaining curriculum fidelity and proposes research-informed practices that both uphold and develop teachers' professional competencies.
Grade 6–12 teachers are invited to join NCTE’s Build Your Stack® for a special workshop to deepen their book knowledge with a focus on graphic novels, in community with other teachers! Attendees will be provided with books and given space to comfortably engage with the texts in their own ways. Small- and whole-group discussions will follow to share resources and ideas in a supportive environment.
This session will explore a nonviolent-centered, social justice approach to helping students practice healing and empathy through multigenre writing. Drawing from nonviolent communication (NVC), participants will explore powerful writing exercises for students and practice an inquiry-based, reflective process that supports people in fulfilling core needs in their own school community.
This session examines how compliance-driven Science of Reading mandates can erase identity and joy. Using fugitive pedagogy and the Five Pursuits of Genius, participants will leave with concrete strategies to humanize structured literacy, transform decodables into affirming texts, and advocate for liberatory, culturally sustaining literacy practices within restrictive policy contexts.
In this half-day workshop, participants will experience Hip Hop (W)righting Pedagogy in action and engage in Hip Hop as Humanities through dialogue, reflection, and hands-on curricular design that leverage MCing, DJing, graffiti, and breaking as culturally-responsible, justice-oriented, community-centered practices for students to write their words and “right” their worlds.
Join us as we explore how to integrate multimodal primary source documents into ELA curriculum. This workshop invites participants to imagine new ways of sparking student interest, innovate instructional practices that foster deep reading and creative assessment, and inspire connections to American literature using the Library of Congress collections to celebrate diverse American experiences.
Through guided walking, dialogue, and reflective reading and writing, participants will explore storytelling as a form of action and resistance. We invite educators to examine whose stories are amplified, whose are silenced, and how to intervene through justice-oriented, place-based literacy practices that employ storying as a liberatory practice.
Reimagine ELA as a multilingual, multimodal space where every student’s languages are a resource, not a barrier. Experience translanguaging strategies that ignite imagination, deepen critical literacy, and nurture belonging for all readers and writers.
In this Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) workshop, participants will explore creative and innovative uses of digital tools in English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Through hands-on experiences with NotebookLM, Twine, Gemini, SchoolAI, and more, attendees will design engaging, student-centered learning experiences that inspire critical thinking, creativity, and responsible AI use.
Engage literacy as a tool for restorative practice. Explore strategies that foster empathy, equity, student voice, and community in classrooms while aligning with NCTE and NYSEC’s mission of culturally sustaining, student-centered literacy.
After hearing a brief introduction from the facilitator, who has led previous NCTE writing marathon workshops in Baltimore, Anaheim, Columbus, Boston, and Denver, along with 100 NWP-sponsored Writing Marathons across the country, participants take part in a three-hour Writing Marathon, writing and sharing their writing in Philadelphia, then reflecting afterwards.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage with award-winning photojournalism documenting global conflict through a scaffolded inquiry process. We will discuss visual literacy and empathy in the age of social media/AI; model strategies for research and writing about social issues through multiple lenses; and reflect on how to foster student civic engagement in your classroom and community.
We tell our students that perfectionism is (as Anne Lamott writes) “the voice of the oppressor,” yet students still value polish over process and inquiry. This interactive half-day workshop engages educators in hands-on strategies that move writers from blank page to sustained revision, connecting sentence-level work to paper-level coherence and fostering agency, risk-taking, and meaning-making.
Early literacy begins at birth and is built through intentional teaching practices. This session highlights how King’s Kids Academy and Collegiate Prep implements a birth–8 literacy continuum using culturally sustaining instruction, oral language, storytelling, and family partnerships to support reading, writing, and meaning making across early childhood and elementary classrooms.
This interactive half-day workshop supports all educators in teaching Indigenous literature responsibly and accurately. Participants learn key concepts found in Indigenous literature, hear directly from Indigenous authors, examine Indigenous-authored texts, and explore culturally affirming approaches to text selection, analysis, and instruction.
PBS News Student Reporting Labs and WHYY are youth journalism training programs that equip students to report local stories in their communities, a process that encourages students to research, interview local leaders, and contextualize key issues. Join this workshop to learn how to bring multimedia storytelling into your classroom with ready-made resources, support, and publication opportunities.
Add a workshop — or several — to your NCTE 2026 registration and go deeper in Philadelphia this November.
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