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NCTE amplifies the voice of educators through personal connection, collaboration, and a shared mission to improve the teaching and learning of English and language arts at all levels.
2018 NCTE Annual Convention
Join thousands of educators, experts, authors, administrators, publishers, and others in Houston, Texas, for the 2018 NCTE Annual Convention! November 15-18, 2018
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Find Yourself in the Stories of Teaching
This One Student
Kayla Roush, Secondary Section, Harrisburg, PA
Remembering the Student I Used to Be
Abigail Crane, Secondary Section, Overland Park, KS
How do you evaluate teachers who change lives?
Lorraine Cella, Secondary Section, Tenafly, NJ
Make Pinocchio A Real Boy
Cathy Leogrande, Teacher Education K-12 & Special Ed, Syracuse, NY
2018 NCTE Summer Institute
July 9-11
Providence, Rhode Island
How do we engage today’s students, in today’s world, with literary and nonfiction texts?
Join veteran teachers Leila Christenbury and Ken Lindblom in answering these questions in an event that will advance your practice and transform your classroom!
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2018 NCTE
Advocacy and Leadership Summit
Each year NCTE hosts an event on Capitol Hill for members to push for policy changes that support our profession and to share the wisdom of our experiences with legislators who need to understand the impact of their decisions on the communities we serve.
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