Convention

Program

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G Session9:30–10:45 a.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

H Session11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

Nominating CommitteesGrand Ballroom Room 120, Level OneNoon–12:45 p.m.

Books for Children LuncheonPremier Ballroom Room 318/319/320, Level Three12:30–2:30 p.m.Presenter: Jon Scieszka

Secondary LuncheonPremier Ballroom Room 315/316/317, Level Three12:30–2:30 p.m.Presenter: Sherman Alexie

College/CCCC LuncheonGrand Ballroom Room 114, Level One12:30–2:30 p.m.Presenter: Mike Rose

I Session1:15–2:30 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

IJ Session1:15–4:00 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

J Session2:45–4:00 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

JK Session2:45–5:30 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

K Session4:15–5:30 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

Special Interest Group5:45–7:00 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

Sunday, November 18

Registration, Exhibit Hall/Marquee Ballroom8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Exhibits, Exhibit Hall/Marquee Ballroom9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Affiliate Roundtable BreakfastGrand Ballroom Room 119, Level One7:15–9:15 a.m.Presenter: Ernest Morrell

Children’s Literature Assembly BreakfastGrand Ballroom Room 116, Level One7:30–9:45 a.m.Presenter: David Shannon

Nominating CommitteesGrand Ballroom Room 121, Level One8:00–9:00 a.m.

L Session8:30–9:45 a.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

Sunday General SessionPremier Ballroom Room 312/313/314, Level Three10:00–11:15 a.m.Presenter: Keith Gilyard

CEL LuncheonGrand Ballroom Room 116, Level One11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.Presenter: Nicholas Sparks

M Session11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

N Session1:00–2:45 P.M.

Title: _____________________________ Room: _________________________

CEL Social HourPremier Ballroom Room 315/316/317, Level Three5:30–6:30 p.m.

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Thursday November 15Registration and InformationNoon–6:00 p.m.Exhibit Hall/Marquee Ballroom

Who’s Where CounterFor Locating Convention RegistrantsNoon–6:00 p.m.Exhibit Hall/Marquee Ballroom

Today’s Timetable: An Overview2:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Featured Sessions4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Section Get-Togethers: Elementary, Middle Level, Secondary6:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Opening Mixer6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Thursday General Session

Committee on Resolutions8:00 a.m.–NoonDirectors Boardroom, Level TwoChair: Adam Banks, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Assembly of State Coordinators of English Language Arts8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Studio Room 4, Main Floor by Grand Garden Arena

NCTE/NCATE Program Reviewers Training Session8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.Studio Room 6, Main Floor by Grand Garden ArenaChair: Paul Yoder, Truman State University, Kirksville,

Missouri

Whole Language Umbrella Conference Executive Board MeetingNoon–4:00 p.m.Room 108, Level OneChair: Rick Meyer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

CEE Executive Committee Meeting9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Room 106/107, Level OneChair: Marshall George, Fordham University, New York,

New York

NCTE/NCATE Lead Program Reviewers Session4:30–6:00 p.m.Studio Room 6, Main Floor by Grand Garden ArenaChair: Paul Yoder, Truman State University, Kirksville,

Missouri

Meetings of Council CommitteesNCTE committees meeting between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Thursday are listed alphabetically immedi-ately below and meet at various times as noted. Committees may have open and/or working sessions as indicated after meeting times. Interested individuals are invited to attend open meetings as participants and working meetings as auditors.

Elementary Section Steering Committee8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.Room 105, Level OneChair: Frank Chiki, Chamiza Elementary School,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Middle Level Section Steering Committee8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.Room 109, Level OneChair: Jeffrey N. Golub, Seattle, Washington

Secondary Section Steering Committee9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.Room 104, Level OneChair: Kay Parks Haas, Johnson County Community College,

Overland Park, Kansas

Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines Advisory Committee1:00–5:00 p.m., workingStudio Room 1, Main Floor by Grand Garden ArenaChair: Tom Feigelson, Torah Academy, Teaneck, New Jersey

Standing Committee Against Censorship1:00–3:00 p.m., openRoom 110, Level OneChair: ReLeah Lent, Morgantown, Georgia

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38 Thursday Afternoon, 2:30–4:15 p.m

Thursday Featured Sessions2:30–4:15 p.m.

T.01 COMMUNICATE AND CONNECT: WRITING IN A NETWORKED WORLD (G)Grand Ballroom Room 121, Level One

Will Richardson

The ability to easily publish to the Internet has opened up all sorts of new possibilities for teachers to help students enhance their writing skills and become more effective communicators. In the age of Read/Write Web, every reader can truly be a writer as well. We-blogs, wikis, and Twitter and other social tools provide wide and diverse audiences from around the world for feedback and response. But they also require a more “connective writing” approach, one that focuses on building conversations, communities, and networks.

Presenter: Will Richardson, author, Corwin Press and Solution Tree, New Jersey

T.02 TEACHING: THE QUESTIONS WE ASK AND THE ANSWERS WE FIND (M–S–T)Grand Ballroom Room 123, Level One

Kelly Gallagher James Burke Penny Kittle

Teaching requires revision. Three high school teachers (who also study and write about their classroom prac-tice) will address questions that drive thinking in read-ing, writing, and speaking. Inspired by the research we read, the research we conduct in our own classrooms, and what we learn at NCTE, we collaborate to address the deep questions in our teaching.

Presenters: Kelly Gallagher, Anaheim Union High School District, California, “Write Like Them: Using Models to Improve Writing”

James Burke, Burlingame High School, California, “Talking about Writing: Improving Reading and Writing through Effective Discussion”

Penny Kittle, Kenneth High School, North Conway, New Hampshire, “Reading Like Writers”

The convention program begins on Thursday with four powerful 75-minute hands-on sessions. These sessions will allow attendees to begin their convention experience in interactive sessions with speakers who are known for their ability to conduct thought-provoking sessions.

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T.03 BUILDING READING COMMUNITIES ONLINE AND OFF (G)Premier Ballroom Room 318/319/320, Level Three

Sara Kajder Franki Sibberson

Donalyn Miller Teri Lesesne

Join these powerhouse teachers and experts in a discus-sion of how we engage and ignite students’ excitement for reading by utilizing all the tools at our disposal (digital and traditional) as we read and learn (and have fun) together.

Presenters: Sara Kajder, Shadyside Academy Middle School, Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania

Franki Sibberson, Indian Run Elementary School, Dublin, Ohio, “The Power of a Learning Community”

Donalyn Miller, Trinity Meadows Intermediate School, Fort Worth, Texas

Teri Lesesne, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas

T.04 LITERATURE LOVER’S LAMENT: LEARNING TO LOVE NONFICTION: CONNECTING REAL-WORLD TEXTS TO THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS (S–T)Grand Ballroom Room 117/118, Level One

Carol Olson Carol Jago Deborah Appleman

The Common Core State Standards require an increased focus on literary nonfiction. Yet most ELA teachers rely on fiction when they teach skills of reading and interpretation.

Presenters: Carol Olson, University of California, Irvine, “Helping Secondary English Learners to Write Analyti-cal Essays about Theme in Literary Nonfiction”

Carol Jago, University of California, Los Angeles, “Read ‘Non-Literary Texts’”

Deborah Appleman, Carleton College, Northfield, Min-nesota, “Igniting Passion about Nonfiction”

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40 Thursday Afternoon, 2:30–4:15 p.m.

Welcome toNCTE’s Circus of the Sun

Our Time to Dream • Connect • Ignite!

To stem the waning popularity of circuses in the early 1980s, Guy Laliberté gathered together a group of street performers to travel and entertain audiences throughout the province of Quebec. With the help of Gilles Ste-Croix, Laliberté and his troupe reinvented the circus by blending traditional circus skills to convey a story or theme, without animal performances. Rather than billing themselves as a circus, they named themselves Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun). �e stories of the many Cirque du Soleil performances allow audiences to interpret the shows any way they choose. �e novel formula helped audiences engage with the circus in a new way and successfully revitalized public interest in and support for this performance genre.

Laliberte once said, "Cirque was built on values and deep convictions which rest on the foundation of audacity, creativity, imagination, and our people who are the backbone of our success." Creativity is the heart of everything Cirque du Soleil does. Creative approaches reinvented the circus and, above all, the collaborative e�orts of talented people are the engine of the enterprise. By melding individual talent and creativity with a coordinated plan that the performers help to develop, Cirque consistently o�ers transformative performances.

�e theme for this NCTE Annual Convention is Dream • Connect • Ignite! Following the example of Cirque du Soleil, literacy education is undergoing a process of reinvention and renewal—an enterprise that will extend across this Convention. Cirque focuses on nurturing creativity and collaboration among its performers. We are literacy education’s planners and performers, and we must imagine, design, and implement creative approaches to engage and inspire our students.

"Everyone is creative, but it is up to us to tap into that powerful force." —Lyn Heward and John U. Bacon, Circue du Soleil: �e Spark— Igniting the Creative Fire �at Lives within Us All

Please stop by Booths 709 and 500 to thank Houghton Mi�in Harcourt and Bedford/St. Martin’s

for providing this reception.

All Section Get-Together ReceptionGrand Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

All Section Get-Together ReceptionGrand Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

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Elementary Section Get-Together Grand Ballroom Room 119/120, Level One

Section Get-Togethers 4:30–6:00 p.m.

Presiding: Frank Chiki, Chamiza Elementary School, Albu-querque, New Mexico

Introducing and Presenting Donald H. Graves Award: Latosha Rowley, Andrew J. Brown Academy, Indianapolis, Indiana

Winner of Donald H. Graves Award: Suzanne Lak, John M. Sexton Elementary School, St. Petersburg, Florida

Introducing and Presenting Outstanding Educator Award: Carmen Tisdale, Carver Lyon Elementary School, Columbia, South Carolina

Winner of Outstanding Educator Award: JoBeth Allen, The University of Georgia, Athens

Speaking: JoBeth Allen taught in the primary grades, includ-ing Head Start and Follow Through classrooms, before becoming a teacher educator in the language and literacy education department at the University of Georgia. She conducts action research with teachers who are exploring issues of educational equity and social justice in relation to literacy teaching and learning at home, in schools, and in the community. JoBeth has a long history of mentoring teachers, researchers, and writers with her involvement in the NCTE Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color (CNV) program and the National Writing Project. She has written numerous publications, and presented at various conferences over the years.

JoBeth Allen

Focusing on the presentation, roundtable discussion leaders will continue to involve participants in dialogue using the presentation as a lens. There will be time for greeting one another, welcoming newcomers, introducing members of the Elementary Section Steering Committee, and thanking outgoing members.

Table Number Discussion Leaders

1 Rochelle Dail, Syracuse University, New York

2 Debra Goodman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

3 Ken Goodman, University of Arizona, Tucson

4 Yetta Goodman, University of Arizona, Tucson

5 Allisa Hall, The University of Georgia, Athens

6 Amy Kay, The University of Georgia, Athens

7 Barbara Lehman, The Ohio State University, Mansfield

8 Susi Long, University of South Carolina, Columbia

9 Karla Jean Moller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

10 Tami Ogletree, University of West Georgia, Carrollton

11 Denise Payne 12 Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, Wydown Middle

School, Clayton, Missouri 13 Katie Wood Ray, independent author/

consultant, Waynesville, North Carolina

Each Get-Together welcomes teachers from across the country to meet others teaching at the same grade level while hearing level-specific speakers and exchanging ideas with others in a casual atmosphere.

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Middle Level Section Get-TogetherGrand Ballroom Room 115, Level One

Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Presiding: Jeffrey N. Golub, Seattle, WashingtonIntroducing Speaker: Susan Houser, Thurgood Marshall

Fundamental Middle School, St. Petersburg, FloridaSpeaking: Alan Lawrence Sitomer, author, speaker, and

classroom teacher, will explore ideas for engaging reluctant readers. Alan is California’s 2007 Teacher of the Year. In addition to his work as an inner-city high school English teacher and professor in the Graduate School of Educa-tion at Loyola Marymount University, he has authored 14 books for esteemed publishers such as Disney, Scholastic, Penguin/Putnam, and Triumph Learning. These include six young adult novels, three children’s picture books, two teacher methodology books, and a classroom curriculum series for secondary English language arts instruction called The Alan Sitomer BookJam. A nationally renowned speaker specializing in engaging reluctant readers, Alan is currently working to reshape literacy education across the United States. Alan has been an NCTE member since his 3rd year of teaching and has attended the NCTE Annual Convention every year since 2005.

Secondary Section Get-TogetherGrand Ballroom Room 111/112/113, Level One

Kylene Beers Robert E. Probst

Presiding: Kay Parks Haas, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

Leading Activity: Amy Magnafichi-Lucas, Illinois State Uni-versity, Normal

Introducing Speakers: Jocelyn Chadwick, Harvard Univer-sity, Cambridge, Massachussetts

Speaking: Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst will present “Literature as a 21st Century Skill” during the Secondary Section Get-Together. In a time of ever-changing tech tools and a push to read nonfiction, they believe that the close and (some might even say rigorous) reading of literature is critical in the development of 21st century learners. They will argue that imaginative literature is the foundation upon which literacy is built, share a new suite of lessons designed to transform struggling readers into observant, thought-ful readers, and explore the link between the reading of fiction and nonfiction texts. Writers, speakers, educators, and tech-savvy wanna-be’s, Bob and Kylene have worked together for over a decade helping teachers to improve the literacy lives of students. Kylene is the author of When Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do and Bob is the author of Response and Analysis. Together they are coeditors, with Linda Rief, of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice and coauthors of Notice and Note: Breakthrough Strategies for Improving Comprehension. Kylene has served the Council as editor of Voices from the Middle and NCTE President in 2008–2009, and Bob has served on the CEL Executive Committee, as a journalist columnist, and as a member of the Commission on Reading. In his spare time, Bob is a diver, and in her spare time Kylene is a gardener and cook. Together, they blame each other for a lack of spare time.

Opening Mixer 6:00–6:30 p.m.Premier Ballroom Foyer, Level ThreeMeet and mingle with new friends, old friends, and Council leaders.

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