saturday, November 19

7:00–9:15 a.m.

ALAN Breakfast Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE B302–B305

Speaker: S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton is the author of a number of bestselling and beloved books for young adults, including That Was Then, This Is Now; Rumble Fish; Tex; and of course, The Outsiders, which was written when she was just 16 years old. She has also written several picture books, a collection of short sto- ries, and a novel for adults. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma—the setting of The Outsiders—with her husband.

S. E. Hinton

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FEATURED SESSION F.01 Confronting Educator Advocacy with Preservice and te Early Career Teachers A302 This roundtable session gathers a wide range of voices from all levels of education to address the challenges and rewards of public advocacy, focusing on preservice and early career teachers. The experiences of veteran teachers, professors, and teacher educators will be shared to examine strategies to support teacher advocacy.

Chair: Paul Thomas, Furman University, Roundtable 8: Inclusion, Advocacy, and Greenville, SC Activism: Addressing Heterosexism and Roundtable 1: “What does this have to do Homophobia with me?”: Preservice Teachers and Culturally Toby Emert, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA Responsive Curriculum Roundtable 9: Making Meaningful Connections Ann David, University of the Incarnate Word, San Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Antonio, TX s

Roundtable 2: Advocacy for Racial Justice Lisa Martin, Gwendolyn Woolley Elementary at urd Jill Flynn, University of Delaware, Newark School, Las Vegas, NV Roundtable 3: Advocating for Disability Access Roundtable 10: Navigating the Labyrinth of First- Patricia Dunn, Stony Brook University, NY Year Teaching without a Map Lawrence Baines, University of Oklahoma, Norman Roundtable 4: Argumentation as Advocacy: a

Matthew Baker, Curtis Inge Middle School, Noble, y Preparing Teachers to Strategically Argue for OK Their Practice and Students Anny Fritzen Case, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Stacey Hill, U. S. Grant High, Oklahoma City, OK Christine Dawson, Skidmore College, Saratoga Anastasia Wickham, University of Central Springs, NY Oklahoma, Edmond Roundtable 5: Challenging Controversy: Affiliate Roundtable 11: Risk and Reward in Writing for Support Addressing Censorship Issues the Public? Sheila Benson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Christina Berchini, University of Wisconsin–Eau Falls Claire Katheryn Benway, University of Northern Iowa, Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia, Athens Cedar Falls Roundtable 12: Teacher Advocacy: A Southern Jennifer Paulsen, Cedar Falls Community Schools, IA Dilemma Kevin Roberts, Waterloo Writing Project, IA Nicole Amato, Pritzker College Prep, Chicago, IL Sean Connors, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Roundtable 6: Culturally Complex Classrooms: Kristen Marakoff, Travelers Rest High School, Teacher Advocacy for English Language Travelers Rest, SC Learners (ELL) Tracy Butler, Clemson University, SC Paul Thomas, Furman University, Greenville, SC Kaci Owen, Armstrong Elementary, Greenville, SC Roundtable 13: What Does Advocacy Look Like Bobbi Siefert, Furman University–TESOL, in the Rural and Small-Town School? Greenville, SC Rebekah Buchanan, Western Illinois University, Ashley Ziemer, Greenville Country School District Macomb Daneell Moore, Troy University, AL Roundtable 7: Grassroots Activism and the Right Patricia Waters, Troy University, AL to the City: Preservice and Early Career Teachers and Social Change Roundtable 14: Writing for the Public: Positive George Boggs, Florida State University, Tallahassee Stories, Critique, or Both Trevor Stewart, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Steven Zemelman, Illinois Writing Project

After this Featured Session, visit the Taking Action Hub in room A304 to discuss Everyday Advocacy and turn your learning into action!

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F.02 NCTE Awards Presentation e Nov y,

a a411 Join us as we celebrate recipients of NCTE’s highest honors. Complimentary coffee bar available. urd at s Chair: Susan Houser, NCTE President-Elect, middle level educator/consultant, St. Petersburg, FL

Presentation of the NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award Recipient: Kris Gutiérrez, University of California, Berkeley

Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award Recipient: Anna J. Small Roseboro, author, mentor, consultant, Grand Rapids, MI

Presentation of the James R. Squire Award Recipient: Arthur N. Applebee, awarded posthumously and Jerome C. Harste, Indiana University, Bloomington

Presentation of the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Recipient: David Greenberg, author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

Presentation of the NCTE Media Literacy Award Recipient: Carl Casinghino, Suffield High School, CT

NCTE Public Doublespeak Award Recipient: Donald Trump, New York, NY

Presentation of the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award Recipient: Matt de la Peña, author, Penguin Random House, New York, NY Honorable Mention: Courtney Kincaid, Richland Hills, TX

Presentation of the NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Awards Recipients: Steven Arenas, Westview High School, Avondale, AZ Patrick L. Harris II, Achievement Prep Elementary School, Washington, DC Sahar Shafqat, Albert G. Lane Tech College Prep High School, Chicago, IL Raven Jones Stanbrough, Michigan State University, East Lansing Trinity Thompson, Harlem Village Academies, New York, NY Renee Wilmot, Church Hill Academy, Richmond, VA

Presentation of the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English Recipient: Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why We Should Let Them (Scholastic, 2014) by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Boise State University, and Michael W. Smith, Temple University

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F.03 Digital Literacy Can’t Wait: F.05 Expanding Opportunities for Middle g Advocating for Access, Autonomy, m Level Readers: Comics, Lit Circles, and Authenticity and Whole-School Initiatives A305 B403 Have you successfully integrated read/write Looking to improve motivation among technologies in order to build students’ skills middle level readers? This session will discuss of digital literacy? Or perhaps you want to how you can implement comics, literature overcome challenges that keep you from circles, and whole-school initiatives to inspire doing so? This interactive session focuses on better literacy learning. these questions in order to create a network Presenters: Ruchelle Owens, University of South of educators who can support this work. Florida, Tampa, “Literature Circles: Practical Presenters: Kristen Turner, Fordham University, New Application Made Easy” York, NY Robin Bright, Faculty of Education, University of Bud Hunt, Clearview Library District, Windsor, CO Lethbridge, AB, Canada, “Improving Motivation Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, Mount for Reading among Adolescents: The Impact of a Pleasant Whole-School Literacy Initiative and a Reading for Sara Kajder, University of Georgia, Athens the Love of It Grant (Year One Findings)” s

F.04 2016 Notable Children’s Books in F.06 Meeting Characters in Caldecott at urd g the Language Arts e Books: What Does This Mean for B313 Today’s Readers? Members of the NCBLA committee will A315 a

describe the award criteria and present Who are the characters in Caldecott y thirty books selected for the 2016 Notable books? Do they reflect today’s children? Children’s Books in the Language Arts award. We explore character representations Small-group discussions will take place with from contemporary Caldecott books. selected winning authors and illustrators, We invite participants to look critically at deepening the participants’ understandings the limitations of this literature, become of these texts and strengthening their cognizant of awards recognizing diverse professional expertise. literature, and become advocates for putting Chair: Christine Draper, Georgia Southern University, diverse books in children’s hands. Statesboro Presenters: Nancy Johnson, Western Washington Presenters: Evelyn Freeman, The Ohio State University, Bellingham University, Columbus Miriam Martinez, University of Texas, San Antonio Pamela Jewett, University of South Carolina, Columbia Melanie Koss, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Holly Sims, Independence Elementary School, Bolingbrook, IL F.07 Mindfulness and Habits of Mind Diana Porter, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond c Infusion in Online Beginning Jennifer Sanders, Oklahoma State University, Composition Stillwater B307 Dick Koblitz, University of Missouri, Columbia Tradebook Authors: Jennifer Bertman, Macmillan Learn how to infuse mindfulness and the eight Children’s Publishing Group NCTE and WPA Habits of Mind into beginning Betsy Rosenthal, Millbrook Press composition online course design. The session Don Tate, Peachtree Publishers includes discussions of online learning and Richard Gregory Christie, GAS-ART GIFTS/North how to create infused lessons using research- Dekalb Mall based strategies. Learn current trends in Ali Benjamin, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers mindfulness and how to humanize your beginning composition online course. Presenter: Kelly Romirowsky, Arizona State University, Tempe Jackie Kibler, Arizona State University, Tempe Michael Pfister, Arizona State University, Tempe Michelle Stuckey, Arizona State University, Tempe

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m be g in Historical Truth e Literacy through Play: Young e B211 Children as Creative Digital Producers

e Nov y, Is there a place for emotion in historical a literature? How can emotional connections A312 develop respect for diverse viewpoints? This Participants will learn about powerful and

urd at panel of researchers and authors advocates playful ways in which iPads have been s for instruction that provides all students integrated in early childhood classrooms. with a robust exploration of historical topics Presenters will share specific strategies to through story. The truth is not just facts. support young children as they practice Moderator Glenna Sloan, Summerville, SC language and literacy skills and create and Presenters: Candace Fleming, Penguin Random House produce digital stories. In addition, ways to Myra Zarnowski, CUNY–Queens College, NY connect with parents will be shared. Mary Ann Cappiello, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Presenters: Kristin Rainville, Sacred Heart University, Barb Rosenstock, author, Vernon Hills, IL Fairfield, CT Victoria Fantozzi, Manhattanville College, NY F.09 Moving from “Practice Teaching” g Spaces to Meaningful Professional F.11 Blogging: How to Tell Digital Development Partnerships: m Stories with Phones, Websites Changing the “Experiences” s and Words in Field Experiences A303 B306 Sponsored by the Journalism Rather than simply providing “practice Education Association teaching” spaces for teacher candidates, field Do you want students to publish great stories placements should be spaces where university with new technology? This session is for you! faculty, cooperating teachers, and candidates Come see how Language Arts and Media all experience professional development. This teachers are using websites, blogging, video session describes how a teacher preparation and podcasting in their classes to inspire program and high school English department students to produce great content. Resources transformed a “traditional” field placement on how teaching media can align with the into a successful onsite training model. Common Core and teach students 21st Presenters: Erinn Bentley, Columbus State University, century skills will be here. GA, “The Methods Course Moves to High School” Presenter: Jonathan Rogers, Journalism Education Brittany Hobbs, Columbus State University, GA, Association “‘Wow, I Feel Like a Real Teacher!’—Candidates’ Perspectives” F.12 Everyone Has a Story: Authors Jennifer Gray, Muscogee County School District, Advocating for Student Writing Columbus, GA “Cooperating Teachers: The Open- g Door Classroom” A402 Tabitha Ginther, Muscogee County School District, Authors Crystal Allen and Zetta Elliott will Columbus, GA “Cooperating Teachers: The Open- present a shared discussion about their Door Classroom” advocacy work in schools where they lead Joshua Trowell, Columbus State University, GA, writing workshops and provide publishing “‘Wow, I Feel Like a Real Teacher!’—Candidates’ ideas for young authors. One teacher will Perspectives” describe his students’ experiences with the authors and how both were sponsored by the state’s NCTE affiliate. Chair: Dixie Keyes, Arkansas State University– Jonesboro, “Authors’ Visits to Schools as Advocacy Work for Student Writing and Social Change” Presenters: Corey Oliver, Conway Public Schools, AR, “Outcomes of Author Writing Workshops on Student Authors”

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Tradebook Authors: Crystal Allen, HarperCollins, Presenters: Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers “The Strikewriters: Writing Workshops for Young College, Columbia University, New York, NY Authors” Jessica Martell, Central Park East II, New York City Zetta Elliott, Rosetta Press, “Everyone Has a Story: Public Schools, NY Inclusivity in Writing and Publishing” F.16 Literacy and Justice for All F.13 Working toward a Culturally m B315 g Relevant Pedagogy with Jacqueline s What happens when teachers are given Woodson’s Literature embedded support to improve their B406 instructional practices? High school teachers This panel session will bring together award- in Michigan made a plan to address a literacy winning author Jacqueline Woodson, a challenge in their discipline and used student teacher educator, and inservice and preservice work to measure progress. Find out more teachers to discuss how teachers can use about how we facilitated this whole-school diverse children’s literature to support a critical initiative to improve student literacy. consciousness in themselves and their students. Presenters: Amy Miller, Novi Community School Attendees will participate in an interactive District, MI workshop featuring Ms. Woodson’s books.

Marsha Reid, Novi Community School District, MI s

Chair: Saba Vlach, University of Texas at Austin Michelle Evans, Novi Community School District, MI at urd Presenters: Sara Brumbelow, Magnolia Montessori for Megan Taylor, Novi Community School District, MI All, Austin, TX Elizabeth Lietz, Macomb Independent School District, MI Allison Duffy, Round Rock Independent School District, TX

F.17 Because There Is Power in Numbers: a

F.14 Self-Advocacy: Increasing IEP g Building a Network of English y m Understanding in Middle School Teacher Advocates in Your Region Students B207 B310 This presentation discusses the work several Are middle school students prepared with English teachers and one English teacher skills necessary to advocate for themselves in educator undertook to create a network of high school? Participants will learn to coach English teacher advocates in their region. students to understand their IEP, empower This professional network encourages them to have a voice at their IEP meetings, meaningful English teaching by connecting actively participate, and contribute to the IEP teacher educators, inservice and preservice process with emphasis on writing transition teachers, administrators, and others through statements. teacher-driven professional development and online communities. Presenters: Karen Tucker, Readington Township Public Schools, NJ Presenters: Deborah Bertlesman, WNY Maritime Melissa Spatz, Readington Township Public Schools, NJ Charter School, Buffalo, NY Shannon Burke Krukowski, Elmwood Village Charter Kevin Meyer, Readington Township Public Schools, NJ School, Buffalo, NY, “Standing Up Together: Creating Networks of Advocacy in English F.15 Reading, Writing, and Talk: Inclusive Language Arts Teaching” e Teaching Strategies for Diverse James Cercone, SUNY Buffalo State, NY, “Communities te Learners of Practice and English Teacher Advocacy: Why We A316 Need Professional Networks in English Teacher This workshop introduces inclusive strategies Education” for teaching language and literacy in Lisa Feyes, Sweet Home Central Schools, Amherst, NY, kindergarten–grade 2. Participants will “Hesitant at First: Veteran Teachers Becoming be invited into classrooms where diverse Re-Engaged in Advocacy through Teacher-Driven children’s experiences, strengths, and expertise Professional Networks” are supported and valued. Examples will Scott Reimann, Bryant and Stratton, “Standing Up focus on oral language, reading, and writing Together: Creating Networks of Advocacy in development and include diverse possibilities English Language Arts Teaching” for culturally relevant and inclusive teaching.

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m be m for Student-Centered, Purposeful, e Fiction Advocates for Empathy, and Motivating Assignments and Diversity, and Social Change s m Assessments B311 e Nov y, c a A310 Empathy toward others and advocacy for te How do we advocate for all student learners? diversity is more important than ever in

urd at This demonstration-based presentation schools. This teacher/author panel examines s highlights engaging activities that value historical fiction characters as role models student voice in response to texts. Participants for today’s children and provides participants will analyze poetry by Poe and Billy Collins with ways to respond to injustice and to engage in variations of Harvey Daniels’s obstacles through themed units, character literature circles. Participants will also leave studies, and social action projects. the session with sample teaching materials. Chair: Holly Mueller, Kings Local Schools, Kings Mills, OH Presenters: Kristin Sovis, Saginaw Valley State Presenters: Holly Mueller, Kings Local Schools, Kings University, University Center, MI Mills, OH Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer, Oakland University, Margaret Simon, Iberia Parish Gifted Program, LA Rochester, MI Respondents: Kirby Larson, Scholastic Janet Fox, author, Bozeman, MT F.19 Muslim Authors on the Hot Seat: Rita Williams-Garcia, HarperCollins g How Can I Advocate for Muslim Augusta Scattergood, Scholastic Students When I Have Questions Linda Sue Park, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Myself? F.22 The Best PD Is Local: Build Your B208 te Own Secondary and Higher How can teachers advocate between Education ELA Professional conflicting ideologies when they may have Development Collaborative questions and concerns themselves? Political correctness aside, this panel will be a chance B301 to clear the air. Ask any question about Islam The founders of a professional development and Muslims without fear of appearing racist. collaborative hosted at a local state No respectful question will be deemed off university share how four years of quarterly limits. sessions sustain ELA teachers 5–12 challenged by public school initiatives in Presenters: Rukhsana Khan, Groundwood Books Aisha Saeed, Nancy Paulsen Books curriculum, pedagogy, standardized testing, Reem Faruqi, Tilbury House Publishers and teacher evaluation; promote working relationships with higher education faculty F.20 Empowering Students to Learn, over collegial dinners; and support licensure renewal. e Lead, and Live Literate Lives John Kucich, Bridgewater State University, MA A407 Presenters: m Elizabeth Gonsalves, Abington High School, Abington, MA Nothing is more engaging than empowering students to take command of their learning F.23 Action Plans for Advocacy: and writing lives. In this space students are g LGBTQ Voices of Empowerment in energized and excited about the writing Education process. This panel shares specific strategies about engagement, peer-to-peer learning, B308 and blended learning that inspires students to Participants will engage in conversations actively participate in their learning process. aimed at increasing the power, presence, Presenters: Dana Johansen, Teachers College, and influence of LGBTQ voices in K–college Columbia University, New York, NY education and will collaboratively create Sonja Cherry-Paul, Teachers College, Columbia action plans for advocacy. Using diverse, University, New York, NY creative approaches, the keynote speaker Lisa Eickholdt, Georgia Gwinnett College, Liburn and roundtable leaders will guide attendees Patricia Vitale-Reilly, PVR Consulting in exploring ways to engage in intentional

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advocacy that leads to positive changes in Roundtable 11: Rethinking Advocacy: Working schools and society. with Preservice Teachers to Queer Communities, Chair: Nicole Sieben, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Schools, and Classrooms “Action Plans for Advocacy: LGBTQ Voices of sj Miller, Metro Center, New York University Empowerment in Education” Speaker: Stephanie Anne Shelton, University of F.24 Advocating for Public Education of Alabama, Birmingham, “Queering and Humanizing g Minority Students: What Is Needed LGBTQ Advocacy” for Literacy Learning? Roundtable 1: Advocacy through Teacher and A314 Community Development: Lessons from Pride The Black Caucus is proud to sponsor a School Atlanta panel discussion on effective literacy learning Scott Ritchie, Kennesaw State University, GA that addresses the needs of Black and Christian Zsilavetz, Pride School Atlanta, Inc. Latino/a children. The gap between minority Roundtable 2: Advocating for LGBTQ Youth populations has failed to decline. This session through YA Literature in the Secondary English will provide insights into how to advocate Class as well as instructional approaches for Danielle Lee, St. John’s University, New York, NY classrooms. Roundtable 3: Begin in Your Classroom: Safe Chair: Janeann Bean-Folkes, Marist College, s

Environments for Students with Disabilities Who Poughkeepsie, NY at urd Identify as LGBTQ Presenters: Phillips Adams, Hapeville Charter Career Tiffany Rehbein, East High School, Cheyenne, WY Academy, College Park, GA Roundtable 4: But Does It Make a Difference? What Jessie Goree, Clayton County Public Schools, Jonesboro,

High School and Preservice Teachers Say about GA a

Stonewall Award-Winning Books Stephanie Golden, IFE Academy of Teaching & y Marcos de R. Antuna, University of Texas, San Antonio Technology, College Park, GA Janis Harmon, Univeristy of Texas, San Antonio Andrea Conaway, Stilwell School of the Arts, Roxanne Henkin, University of Texas, San Antonio Jonesboro, GA Roundtable 5: College Student Athletes Advocate Shekema Silveri, IFE Academy of Teaching & as LGBTQ Voices on the Field Technology, College Park, GA Josefa Pace, SUNY College at Old Westbury Roundtable 6: LGBTQ Voices in Elementary and F.25 The Power of Student Agency in Middle School Literature: Front and Center e Elementary Assessment Rick Joseph, Covington School, Birmingham, MI A313 Roundtable 7: Looking Back to Move Forward: It is not enough that students want to Established LGBTQA Advocates Fostering Future become better readers and writers; they Activism have to know how to do so. Veteran fifth- Craig Young, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, grade teachers will share their experiences and Toby Emert, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA in helping to create a school culture in which Roundtable 8: Maps of What May Be: The student agency is valued and celebrated. Affordances of and Representations within Presenters: Kathleen Ginsberg, The School at Picturebook Biographies of LGBTQ Individuals Columbia University, New York, NY S. Adam Crawley, University of Georgia, Athens Julie Broderick, The School at Columbia University, Roundtable 9: Queer Visual Culture and Classroom New York, NY Advocacy Briana Asmus, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and Christopher Nagle, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Roundtable 10: Reading with Reason: Advocacy through College Level Book Clubs and Lit Groups Megan Kennedy, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA, and Kimberly Slusser, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA

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e Nov y, Learn how three educators with When most people think of STEM, they a different school cultures implement don’t envision English; that is a problem. #classroombookaday read alouds. Joined by This panel will share how to develop an

urd at picture book authors/illustrators, they will integrated program to deliver meaningful s share how they advocate for picture book literacy instruction. See examples of how to read-alouds at every grade level. This session support STEM with literacy content, and how will move you from research to benefits to to enrich English courses with content from action, leaving you with tangible plans. STEM disciplines. Co-Chairs: Jillian Heise, literacy consultant, Custom Chair: Tressie Norton, L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, TN Education Solutions Presenters: Sean Blevins, L&N STEM Academy, Angie Huesgen, Pattonville School District, MO Knoxville, TN Presenters: Jillian Heise, literacy consultant, Custom Darryl Fannon, L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, TN Education Solutions, “The What, the How, and the John Luke Bell, L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, TN Why of #classroombookaday” Misty Brown, L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, TN Tony Keefer, Dublin City Schools, OH Angie Huesgen, Pattonville School District, MO F.29 Service Learning: Empowering Surishtha Sehgal, Simon & Schuster Tradebook Authors: g Adolescents to Become Future Deborah Freedman, Penguin Young Readers Leaders and Advocates Cale Atkinson, Disney Book Group A405 Kate Messner, Chronicle/Bloomsbury/Scholastic Brendan Wenzel, Chronicle Books Service learning is an innovative way to foster advocacy for others. Grounded in research, F.27 The Things They Carried in a students write and communicate to authentic audiences. Participants, acting as students, s Community-Wide Reading Program: will work with classroom-ready handouts Creating Spaces of Advocacy discussing how to tweak the project to fit the for Teachers, Students, and the needs of their unique K–12 classrooms. Community Presenters: Lisa Iberis, Mahoning County Educational B210 Service Center, Canfield, OH In this presentation, teachers from different Angeline Theis, Mahoning County Educational schools in a medium-sized city will discuss Service Center, Canfield, OH the collaborative and innovative ways they furthered arts integration, community involvement, and teacher professionalism in a community-wide reading program of The Things They Carried to create important spaces of advocacy for themselves, their students, and their community. Co-Chair:s: Deborah Vriend Van Duinen, Hope College, Holland, MI Kathryn Schoon-Tanis, Hope College, Holland, MI Presenters: Audra Bolhuis, West Ottawa High School, Holland, MI, “Advocacy for Teachers as Professionals” Rob Kenagy, Hope College, Holland, MI, “Advocacy for School-Community Partnerships” Kathryn Schoon-Tanis, Hope College, Holland, MI, “Advocacy for Arts Integration”

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F.31 Literacy Inside Out: Connecting F.33 Advocacy, Privilege, and Productive e Inside Literacy with Outside Science g Tensions: English Language Arts and Engineering through Picture Teacher-Researchers Advocating m Books and Writing Lessons in the for Diversity in Sexual Identity te School Yard, School Garden, and and Gender Expression across Nearby Nature Differences in Schools A408 A404 Teachers can build engagement into literacy ELA teacher-researchers discuss advocacy workshops through collaborative outdoor for diversity in sexual identity and gender experiences in the schoolyard, school expression across lines of race, class, power, garden, and nearby nature. Attendees will and privilege. Their presentation draws on take away effective STEM-aligned reading/ their own experiences and on interviews writing lessons that build critical thinking, with teachers, administrators, and LGBTQQ observation, and problem-solving skills as families and students about barriers to and students build, experiment, explore, design, possibilities of advocacy for LGBTQQ people and model elements of science outdoors. in schools. Presenters: Heather Montgomery, author, Ardmore, TN Presenters: Ryan Schey, The Ohio State University, Cindy Jenson-Elliot, author, San Diego, CA Columbus, “Avoidances, Analogies, and s Jennifer Ward, author, Edwardsville, IL Uncertainties: Teachers’ Discursive Navigation of at urd Intersections of Sexuality and Gender with Race F.32 Making Space for Advocacy in YA and Social Class” s Speculative Fiction Lane Vanderhule, Hilliard Davidson High School, Hilliard, OH, “The Role of Race and Class in Queer a

B218 y Parents’ Efforts in Their Children’s Schools” In this moderated discussion, authors Courtney F. Johnson, Columbus City School, describe the ways their speculative Columbus, OH, “Unequal Access: How Social, young adult novels advocate for minority Geographic, and Racial Privileges Impact perspectives. We will discuss ways teachers Students’ Access to Advocacy” might present historical genre fiction to Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, help teens think critically about issues of Columbus, “The Role of Race and Class in Queer advocacy and include questions teachers Parents’ Efforts in Their Children’s Schools” might ask when looking at historical and Dorothy Sutton, Metro Early College High School, speculative fiction. Columbus, OH, “Avoidances, Analogies, and Chair: Rosalyn Eves, Southern Utah University, Uncertainties: Teachers’ Discursive Navigation of San Diego/Knopf Random House Intersections of Sexuality and Gender with Race Presenters: Tara Sim, Class of 2K16 author and Social Class” Jessica Cluess, Random House Megan Brown, Bishop Hartley High School, Elly Blake, Little/Brown Columbus, OH, “Avoidances, Analogies, and Roshani Chokshi, Class of 2K16 author Uncertainties: Teachers’ Discursive Navigation of Traci Chee, Penguin Random House Intersections of Sexuality and Gender with Race Emily Skrutskie, Flux Books and Social Class” Kim Swensen, Westerville City Schools, OH, “Unequal Access: How Social, Geographic, and Racial Privileges Impact Students” Jill Williams, Westerville City Schools, OH, “School Leaders’ Epistemologies of Difference and How These Affect Their Advocacy Efforts for LGBTQQ Families and Students in Schools” Caroline Clark, The Ohio State University, Columbus, “School Leaders’ Epistemologies of Difference and How These Affect Their Advocacy Efforts for LGBTQQ Families and Students in Schools” Jenell Penn, The Ohio State University, Columbus, “Unequal Access: How Social, Geographic, and Racial Privileges Impact Students”

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urd at A311 This session critically examines how s Educators have seen a stream of news comic books can offer powerful models reports about research on the language of of civic engagement when utilized in Los poor, African American, and Latinx children, Angeles high schools with working-class and the reports are often symptomatic of students of color. We highlight how the widely held deficit perspectives. This session interactions between comic book heroes explores the research, the reporting, and and their respective local communities the public response. Participants will leave become models of civic responsibility and equipped with understandings and ways to engagement for readers. respond in their own communities. Presenters: Peter Carlson, Green Dot Public Schools, Presenters: Randy Bomer, University of Texas at Los Angeles, CA Austin, "Deficit Thinking and Insults to Intelligence: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Public Discussion about the Language and Intelligence of Poor Children" F.36 Developing Advocacy in the ELA Aimee Hendrix Soto, University of Texas at Austin, g Classroom: A Critical Inquiry Community College, "Rehearsing Our Responses Approach to Informational and to Deficit Discourses about Children" Literary/Media Texts about Climate Catherine Lammert, University of Texas at Austin, Change and Sustainability "Rehearsing Our Responses to Deficit Discourses about Children" A403 Charlotte Land, University of Texas at Austin, Given the moral obligation to preserve "Rehearsing Our Responses to Deficit Discourses the planet, this session demonstrates about Children" critical inquiry approaches for addressing Ramón Martínez, Stanford University, "Continuing climate change and sustainability based on to Imagine Deficiency: The Persistence of Deficit students posing questions, developing a Discourses about Latinx Children and Parents" systems-based ecological perspective, and Jessica Rubin, University of Texas at Austin, advocating for change in these systems "Rehearsing Our Responses to Deficit Discourses through analyzing, evaluating, and creating about Children" informational and literary/cli-fi media texts. Natalie Svrcek, University of Texas at Austin, Chair: Jeff Share, University of California, Los "Rehearsing Our Responses to Deficit Discourses Angeles about Children" Presenters: Allen Webb, Western Michigan University, Saba Vlach, University of Texas at Austin, "Rehearsing Kalamazoo, “Climate Change Inquiry Using Our Responses to Deficit Discourses about Literary Classics, YA, ‘Cli-Fi’ Fiction, and Film” Children" Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, “A Critical Inquiry Framework for Analyzing Systems Impacting Climate Change” Cyndy Scheibe, Ithaca College, NY, “A Media Literacy Approach to Climate Change and Sustainability”

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F.37 Equity in Education: Deliberate F.39 Advocating for the At-Risk High g Methods, Content, and s School Student in a High-Stakes e Conversations Testing Landscape: No Walk in the B314 PARCC m Current events have inspired a closer look at B216 relationships and institutions that routinely Examine a model program that advocates produce unjust outcomes for people of color. for students who need an ELA indicator to This panel will acknowledge the brilliantly graduate in an ever-changing educational communal work that educators have done landscape, with a focus on high-stakes toward equity, and answer the question, standardized testing and the demands of the “How do we work toward changing the Common Core State Standards. Presenters structures and institutional practices that will share obstacles and successes, including have a more lasting impact on student specific examples and strategies, as success?” The answer to that question is a advocates for at-risk students. multifaceted one. It is a question of methods, Chair: Sherrie Erickson, Black Horse Pike Regional content, and school leadership. Participants School District, NJ will come away with best practices and Presenters: Sherrie Erickson, Black Horse Pike

procedures to foster reading, writing, and Regional School District, NJ s conversations in the classroom. Joanne Fudala, Black Horse Pike Regional School at urd Presenters: Lakisha Howell, Teachers College District, NJ Reading and Writing Project, New York, NY Cornelius Minor, Teachers College Reading and F.40 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in

Writing Project, New York, NY e Teacher Education a Brooke Geller, Teachers College Reading and Writing y B401–B402 Project, New York, NY s te This panel examines a myriad of approaches F.38 Reading Film for teaching diverse student audiences from a culturally relevant perspective. m B213 Chair: Tina Bly, University of Oklahoma, Norman s Film analysis leads to improved literacy and critical thinking skills. This panel will Roundtable 1: Something Jazzy: Advocating demonstrate three perspectives on teaching Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Teacher Education Marla Goins, The Ohio State University, Columbus film in middle and high school classrooms. Participants will actively engage in analyzing Roundtable 2: Educating for Critical Consciousness several genres, including short films and through Inquiry, Critical Literacy, and Social Justice trailers, documentaries, musicals, and Anastasia Macris, New York City Department of feature-length films. Presenters will share Education ideas on how to use film as a tool for literary Tiana Silvas-Brunetti, New York City Department of analysis, argumentation, and research Education writing. Nekia Wise, New York City Department of Education Presenters: Lynette Gottlieb, Ashbrook Independent Roundtable 3: Nurturing Literacies: Culturally School, OR Relevant Pedagogy as Healing for the Secondary Amy Knoke, Corvallis High School, OR Classroom Lisa Egan, Corvallis High School, OR Denise Burgher, University of Delaware; Stephanie Cariaga, Animo Locke 1 College Preparatory Academy, Long Beach, CA; Angela Meloni, New York City Department of Education; Elizabeth Sevilla, New York City Department of Education

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 137 f Sessions / 8:00–9:15 a.m. r 19 F.41 Tools and Talk: Building Teachers Hannah Mhoon, Springdale High School, AR, “Using

m be for Today’s ELA Classroom Argumentative Writing to Talk about Race in te Social Studies Classrooms” B201 Jennifer Penaflorida, University of Arkansas,

e Nov y, Lesson study and feedback tools can lend Fayetteville, “Using Argumentative Writing to Talk a structure and deliberation to preservice about Race in Social Studies Classrooms” teachers’ planning skill and field experiences. Clarice Thomas, Georgia State University, Atlanta,

urd at Clinical rounds engage preservice teachers “Designing Writing Curriculum That Encourages s in highly collaborative and structured Linguistic Diversity and Student Inquiry” experiences, modeled on hospital rounds. Ginney Wright, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, But to make any of these tools work, we’ll “Using Argumentative Writing to Talk about Race need to confront current issues in state in Social Studies Classrooms” assessments. Nikki Holland, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Presenters: Michelle Cosmah, Miami University, “Using Argumentative Writing to Talk about Race Oxford, OH, “Three Voices, Two Educational in Social Studies Classrooms” Organizations, One Collaboration: Using a Literacy Observation Feedback Tool to Improve Clinical F.43 Mathematics Workshops: Field Experiences” e Incorporation Writing into the Math Danielle Lillge, Missouri State University, Springfield, Curriculum te “‘Doing Diversity’: Clinical Rounds Partnerships B404 to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Frameworks for Equitable English Teaching” This presentation will explore ways Connor Warner, University of Missouri–Kansas City, students can express themselves through “High-Stakes Assessment and Bureaucratic writing within the mathematics curriculum. Ventriloquism in English Teacher Education” Participants will be guided through the Heather Wall, Hall County Schools, GA, “Lesson process of transforming mathematical Study as Professional Development: Encouraging calculations into the written word. Teacher Inquiry to Flourish” Connections to mini-lessson format and Irene Kleiman, Miami University, Oxford, OH, “Three conferring will be made. Voices, Two Educational Organizations, One Presenters: Courtney Flessner, Indiana University, Collaboration: Using a Literacy Observation Bloomington, “Advocating for Coherence in Feedback Tool to Improve Clinical Field Experiences” Reading, Writing, and Mathematics Workshops” Ryan Flessner, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, F.42 Writing, Reading, and Talking about “Advocating for Coherence in Reading, Writing, m Race and Multiculturalism and Mathematics Workshops” Susan Adamson, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, B405 s “Advocating for Coherence in Reading, Writing, This combined session will share new and Mathematics Workshops” perspectives on how to talk, write, and read about race and multiculturalism in the middle level. These interactive presentations will share student work samples and practical applications. Presenters: Nadia Behizadeh, Georgia State University, Atlanta, “Designing Writing Curriculum That Encourages Linguistic Diversity and Student Inquiry” McKenzie Crippen, Russell Middle School, Colorado Springs, CO, “The ABCs of Stereotypes, Respect, and Multicultural Understanding, or Why I Plan to Teach an Offensive, Commonly Banned Book First Thing Each Year”

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F.44 One Stop Advocacy: Humor, F.47 College- and Career-Readiness, s Dual Enrollment, Transition, and g English Learners, and the Role of Framework for Success ESL Educators c B215 B203 te This roundtable features approaches to Sponsored by TESOL ensuring student success: using humor to The transition to college- and career- improve student engagement, using the readiness standards has left many questions Framework for Success in Postsecondary about the impact upon English learners, Writing, preparing high school and first- and the role of ESL educators. TESOL year college students to transfer writing International Association has published a knowledge, embedding information literacy in series of reports looking at these questions, first-year composition, and assessment of how what has changed for ESL educators, and well students performed after the transition. what this means for teacher education. Scott Filkins, Champaign Central High School, IL Chair: Presenters: John Segota, TESOL International Roundtable 1: Wonder Twin Powers Advocate: Using Association Institutional Super Friends to Alter FYC Heather Lettner-Rust, Longwood University, Farmville, VA F.48 Protect Students’ Rights to Write: Roundtable 2: Aiken Advocating Information s g National Writing Project Practices at urd Literacy Partnerships in First-Year Composition and an Innovative Reflections Lynne Rhodes, University of South Carolina, Columbus Interactive Notebook Roundtable 3: Understanding the Transition from B408 High School to College for Eight Student Writers Scott Filkins, Champaign Central HS, IL This session demonstrates how one district a partnered with its local university to develop y Roundtable 4: A *Framework* for Writing literacy instruction anchored to NCTE’s Comprehension Writing Beliefs and the practices of the Kristina Lucenko, Stony Brook University, NY National Writing Project. Establishing a Roundtable 5: Stand-Up Comics: Instructional Humor new site, this district focused its institute and Student Engagement on content area writing using a formative Amy Wortley, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ assessment tool called the Reflections Notebook. F.45 Teachers + Teacher Educators Presenters: Kathleen Heubach, University of West g Examining and Resisting National Florida, Pensacola te Standards Kelly Aeppli-Campbell, Escambia County Public B202 Schools, FL Teaching is often the source of much Jennifer Mesa, University of West Florida, Pensacola discussion and legislation. This session offers Susan Densmore-James, University of West Florida, three papers that examine how teachers are Pensacola resisting, negotiating, and advocating for Dana Boddy, University of West Florida, Pensacola themselves and their profession in light of challenges. Presenters: Roberta Lenger Kang, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, “Stand Up for What? Negotiating the Pressures of Common Core and State Exams” Andy Goodwyn, University of Reading, England, “Advocating the English Teaching Profession in England: What Do the Teachers Say?” Cristina Romeo, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, “Stand Up for What? Negotiating the Pressures of Common Core and State Exams” Stephanie Abraham, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, “Counter Engagement: Refusing the PARCC and Questioning the Common Core”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 139 f Sessions / 8:00–9:15 a.m. r 19 F.49 Poetry and Social Justice: A F.51 Beyond Words and Images: m be e Multicultural Literacy Celebration g Advocating for Community- B204 Enriched Literacy Learning and Societal Equity through Children’s

e Nov y, This presentation addresses the study of a reading and writing poetry to promote social and Young Adult Literature justice inquiry. Participants will be immersed B316

urd at in a Multicultural Alive Literacy Celebration In this session, Georgia-based participants s as well as in a discussion about how to select (including an award-winning author and developmentally appropriate poems. illustrator, an independent bookstore Presenters: Roberta Ergle, University of Central owner, and university professors) discuss Florida, Orlando, “Voices to Be Heard: Advocacy how literacy-based community events can through Poetry Celebration!” enrich and expand the literary experiences Stephanie Brown, Eighth Street Elementary School, of readers of all ages, while simultaneously Ocala, FL, “Voices to Be Heard: Advocacy through addressing issues of social justice, Poetry Celebration!” representation, and the arts in society. Heather Johnston, Girls Prep Elementary Bronx, Chair: Laurel Snyder, Chronicle Books “Social Justice Poetry as Advocacy in the Presenters: Thomas Crisp, Georgia State University, Elementary Classroom” Atlanta, “Children’s Literature in/as Community Engagement” F.50 Stand Up for Powerful Reading Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA, “Interfaith e Instruction, Sit Down with Kids and Intertextuality: Independent Bookstores and and Books Children’s Book Creators as Agents of Change” B409 Jennifer Graff, University of Georgia, Athens, “Children’s Literature in/as Community Interactive read-alouds. Targeted small-group Engagement” instruction. Conferring with readers. These Richard Gregory Christie, GAS-ART GIFTS/North research-proven practices, along with a Dekalb Mall, “Beyond the Bookshelves: Cultivating robust classroom library, are key components Artistic Sensibilities and Craft in an Arts-Based of powerful reading instruction. Why would Children’s Bookstore” we do anything else? See these essential Respondent: Laurel Snyder, Chronicle Books practices in action and leave with practical ideas to share with your colleagues and students. F.52 Making the Journey Together: s Thriving in the First Years of Maria Walther, Gwendolyn Brooks Presenters: Teaching Elementary School, Aurora, IL te Pam Allyn, Scholastic, Inc A412 Jan Richardson, Scholastic Education Veteran teachers/authors share experiences, Karen Biggs-Tucker, Wild Rose Elementary School, St strategies, advice for early career teachers Charles, IL (and their mentors) to avoid pitfalls and build success. Believing that too many early career workshops, methods texts, and professional discussions often avoid challenging situations and scenarios, the panel focuses on realistic stories from the classroom, featuring the good, the bad, and the downright difficult. Chair: Penny Kittle, Kennett High School, North Conway, NH Presenters: Ken Lindblom, Stony Brook University, NY, “Take My Advice: Learning from a Veteran’s Mistakes” Leila Christenbury, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, “A Teacher’s Journey Begins with One Step”

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F.53 Teachers for Teachers, Including Roundtable 7: Get Your Phone App On for Teacher PD g Themselves: Roundtables for Colette Bennett, West Haven Public Schools, CT Efficacy & Self Advocacy Natalia Carson, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA Wayne Motley, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA A410 Stephanie Smith, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA How might teachers best take care of their Roundtable 8: Learning How to Advocate for ideas, their profession, and themselves? A Our English Teaching Profession: An Australian range of roundtable presentations answer Experience aspects of this question. Robyn Cox, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, Chair: Susan Honea, University of Phoenix, Tempe New South Wales Roundtable 1: A Pedagogy of Healing: Faces of Roundtable 9: T as in Trans* and Teacher: An English Educator Advocates Examination of the Lived Experiences of Transgender April Baker-Bell, Michigan State University, East Educators Lansing James Gilligan, San Francisco State University, CA Sakeena Everett, University of Illinois, Chicago Roundtable 10: Teacher Reflection as a Stance and Raven Jones Stanbrough, Michigan State University, a Form of Social Justice East Lansing Soyoung Lee, Kon-Kuk University, Seoul Korea Roundtable 2: Advocating for Complex Teaching: Roundtable 11: Transformational Teaching: Narrative Inquiry as Teacher Evaluation s Developing Reflective Practitioners through at urd Christina Berchini, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Professional Learning Communities Samuel Tanner, The Pennsylvania State University in Kellee Jenkins, Howard University, Washington, DC Altoona Roundtable 12: We Start Today: Building a Roundtable 3: Beyond Our Inner Circles: Women

Community of English Teacher Researchers a Academics’ Narratives of Challenge and Self- Janine Davis, University of Mary Washington, y Advocacy Fredericksburg, VA Jill Flynn, University of Delaware, Newark Aubrey Kennedy, University of Mary Washington, Tanetha Grosland, Professional Development and Fredericksburg, VA Training Audrey Lensmire, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN F.54 NCTE PRESLM Presents: A Stephanie Anne Shelton, University of Alabama, s Review of the Nation’s Best Birmingham Student Literary Magazines; and Amy Tondreau, Teachers College, Columbia International Collaborations among University, New York, NY Student Writers and Artists Roundtable 4: Caught in the Crossfire: How Urban B217 Teachers Advocate for Themselves and Their Students in the Cacophony of Institutional, State, and Sponsored by NCTE PRESLM (Literary National Achievement and Accountability Pressures Magazine Program) Katie Dickerson, Olney Charter High School, Our annual showcase of student literary Philadelphia, PA magazines: first, a slideshow presentation Roundtable 5: Combating Burnout: Teacher- of the 35 magazines recognized by NCTE Generated Professional Development in Urban with the "Highest Award" in the 2016 Communities PRESLM Program; then a demonstration of Annmarie Sheahan, University of New Mexico, our remarkable new digital anthology—an Albuquerque online forum for facilitating collaborations Roundtable 6: Educators Exploring Empathy in among student writers, artists, and magazine Emotional Intelligence advisors from around the country, and from Anita Celluccia, Westborough High School, American Schools Abroad. Westborough, MA Presenter: Tom Feigelson, Chair, NCTE PRESLM Kathleen Stoker, Westborough High School, Advisory Committee Westborough, MA

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 141 f Sessions / 8:00–9:15 a.m. r 19 F.55 Shakespeare Is for Everyone— Poster 6: ePortals: Playing with the Design Process m be m A Hands-on Workshop in for Pedagogical Purposes Differentiation Megan Mize, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, s and Shelley Rodrigo, University of Arizona, Tucson B407 e Nov y, Poster 7: Struggling Readers, Struggling Writers: a Sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare The Teaching of English for Academic Purposes Library in the Indonesian Higher Education from Two urd at

s Every child deserves to have—and is Perspectives capable of having—a real, direct experience Ananda Muhammad, Iowa State University, Ames with Shakespeare’s language. Learn how Nurir Rohmah, University of Missouri, Columbia to differentiate in a Shakespeare unit by Poster 8: It’s Your Turn: Exploring the Power of modifying the task, not the text. This hands- Table Top Gaming on session will show how to adapt a lively, Sharon Peck, SUNY Geneseo rigorous close-reading lesson for three Amy Shema, SUNY Brockport different learning groups: students with Poster 9: Improving Literacy through Creativity language-based learning differences, on- Daniel Weinstein, Great Neck South High School, level middle schoolers, and advanced high Great Neck, NY schoolers. Chair: Peggy O’Brien, Folger Shakespeare Library, F.57 Exhibitor Session: Teach More Washington, DC e Meaningful English Presenters: Spencer Nissly, Woodrow Wilson High m A406 School, Washington, DC Sponsored by Wit & Wisdom Alli Gubanich, AIM Academy, Philadelphia, PA From Great Minds, the nonprofit that F.56 Poster Sessions: Engaging created Eureka Math, comes a text-based ELA curriculum for grades K–8 that brings Instructional Strategies for the 21st s knowledge-rich content back into the Century c classroom. Teach Wit & Wisdom and you B206 Foyer teach more meaningful English with a There’s something for everyone in this curriculum that meets the expectations of buffet of poster sessions that offer concrete the new standards while celebrating the examples of effective strategies you can world of knowledge with students. use in your classroom right away. From new Presenter: Beth Petrosian, Account Manager, technologies to pen and paper techniques, Southeast you’ll leave with lots to ponder and lots to try. F.58 Research Foundation Grant Writing Poster 1: Technical Poetry: A Case Study of g Session Teaching Poetry Across the Curriculum A301 Maryam Alikhani, Teachers College, Columbia The Research Foundation funds two grant University, New York, NY programs every other year (in the odd Poster 2: Redefine Author’s Voice and Reader’s years): one for classroom teacher researchers Experience: Create Multisensory Writing with and one for researchers who may or may not Augmented Reality Technology be classroom teachers. Come learn how to Carrie Barbosa, South Portland High School, ME prepare a grant application for this program Poster 3: Tips and Tricks with ReadWriteThink.org along with techniques you might apply when Lisa Storm Fink, ReadWriteThink.org at NCTE, writing other grant applications. Urbana, Illinois Poster 4: The Art of Online Conversation: From Chair: Liz Spalding, University of Nevada Las Vegas Following to Speaking in Online Communities Renee Moreno, California State University Northridge Glenna Gustafson, Radford University, VA, and Melissa Lisanti, Radford University, VA Poster 5: Integrating Student Voice and Choice Tools into the Classroom Joseph Harris, Lawrence Kentucky School, Louisa, KY

142 2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program THE SCREENING ROOM: FILMS AT NCTE

Consider returning to the screening room after that 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. session for our screening of Shakespeare Uncovered: Romeo and Juliet! Now Screening at NCTE 2016 “A fatal turf war between neighborhoods haunts the g city of Richmond, CA. Donté Clark transcends the Sidney Marcus Auditorium violence in his hometown by writing poetry about his Sponsored by the Media and Digital experiences. Using his voice to inspire those around Literacies Collaborative him, he and the like-minded youth of the city mount Now Screening at NCTE screens recent feature films an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the hope of starting a real dialogue about and award-winning short films. All films featured violence in the city. Will Richmond force Donté to at the screenings can become springboards for compromise his idealistic ambitions? Or will Donté classroom study. As noted below, our selected films end Richmond’s cycle of trauma?” intersect with the various NCTE strands. Teaching tips about films screened at the conference and http://www.romeoisbleedingfilm.com/ materials about additional educational films that teachers may consider using for their classes will also 11:00 a.m.–12:35 p. m.

be supplied on our website and some will be offered s in print form. For information, teaching tips, and g I AM ELEVEN (95 minutes) at urd materials go to our website at Proud Mother Pictures http://nctescreeningroom.weebly.com. Genevieve Bailey, director, producer, Co-Chairs: Laura Brown, Adlai E. Stevenson High cinematographer, and editor

School a “Do you remember when you were 11? Stephanie Weiss, Barrington High School, Illinois y Consultants: Frank Baker, Media Literacy “Australian filmmaker Genevieve Clearinghouse, Columbia, SC Bailey traveled the world for Mary Christel, Indian Trails Public Library, Wheeling, IL six years talking with 11-year- William Kist, Kent State University, OH olds to compose this insightful, Jane Nickerson, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC funny, and moving documentary portrait of childhood. From an Facilitators: Christina Anker, Adlai E. Stevenson High orphanage in India, to a single- School, Lincolnshire, IL parent household in inner-city Denise Foster, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Melbourne, to bathing with Lincolnshire, IL elephants in Thailand, I AM Jolene Heinemann, Barrington High School, IL ELEVEN explores the lives and Melissa Mack, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, thoughts of children from fifteen countries.I AM Lincolnshire, IL ELEVEN weaves together deeply personal and at Kirsten Voelker, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, times hilarious portraits of what it means to sit at this Lincolnshire, IL transitional age. These young minds provide us with a powerful insight into the future of our world. 9:00–10:55 a. m. These children share their thoughts on a range of subjects such as love, war, global warming, music, s c Romeo Is Bleeding (105 minutes) terrorism, culture, family, happiness, religion and the Jason Zeldes, director; Michael Klein, future. This documentary enables us to explore an producer age where these ‘not quite kids, not quite teenagers’ Special note: briefly linger, between the frank openness and Attendees sometimes naivety of childhood, and the sharp and will have the surprisingly brave wisdom and knowing of adulthood. opportunity for a As much as it is a story about them, it is a story with brief Q & A with them, of what it is like to be eleven today.” the filmmakers http://www.iameleven.com/ directly following the film. A concurrent session will be offered at 2:45 in which presenters will share curricular ideas.

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awards, [this filmmaker has] decided that it’s finally m be 12:40–1:00 p. m. time to share The Present with the rest of the world. The Dam Keeper (18 minutes) The Present is based on a great little comic strip e m by the very talented Fabio Coala. The Present is a e Nov y,

a s Tonko House graduation short from the Institute of Animation, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, animation Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the artists Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, urd at

s While this animated film is Germany.” aimed toward elementary and middle school children, the art https://vimeo.com/152985022 and metaphor are rich enough for a high school class to 1:20–1:40 p. m. explore and discuss, especially as a model for creative writing. The Phone Call (20 minutes) Elementary and middle school s c grades would find this an Mat Kirby, director, writer, producer outstanding film for use in an This film won the 2015 Oscar for live-action short anti-bullying campaign. film. “The Dam Keeper, an original animated short film “Heather works in a by feature animation artists Robert Kondo and Dice helpline call centre. Tsutsumi, tells the tale of a young pig encumbered When she receives with an important job, and the meeting of a new a phone call from classmate who changes everything. . . . Set in a a mystery man, desolate future, one small town's survival is solely due she has no idea to a large windmill dam that acts as a fan to keep out that the encounter poisonous clouds. Despite bullying from classmates will change her life and an indifferent public, the dam's operator, Pig, forever.” works tirelessly to keep the sails spinning in order This film features an outstanding performance from to protect the town. When a new student, Fox, joins Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins. The story will Pig's class, everything begins to change. take viewers through a wide range of emotions. A Made up of over 8,000 paintings, The Dam Keeper great vehicle for teaching thematic ambiguity, social- blends traditional hand-drawn animation with emotional issues, and suspense. lush brushstrokes to bring Kondo and Tsutsumi's http://thephonecallfilm.com/ celebrated painting-style to life like never before.”

https://www.thedamkeeper.com/ 1:45–2:00 p. m.

1:05–1:15 p.m. s c S T U T T E R E R (12 minutes) Bare Golly Films e m The Present (4 minutes) Benjamin Cleary, writer/director and editor s c Jacob Frey, director and animator This 2016 Oscar-winning short What could pull film features a young man with a Jake away from cruel speech impediment, but an his video games? eloquent inner voice, who must Come see why face his worst fear. The ending this amazing film will leave you speechless! is likely to be the This film is an excellent vehicle most memorable for teaching storytelling, five minutes of characterization, film technique, your conference experience! This film has a wide voice, and irony. It also range of appeal as a teaching tool. We’ll have a bit of challenges our thinking about discussion after so we all can share ideas for using it social media and its influence on in the classroom. communication and relationships. “After a very successful festival circuit, running on http://www.stuttererfilm.com/ over 180 film festivals and winning more than 50

144 2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 2:05–2:30 p. m. of profound social and political changes in North American history. Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is s c Day One (25 minutes) also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes. Henry Hughes, writer/director; Michael Steiner, producer Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth offers audiences a “Inspired by a true story, Day One penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a depicts a new translator’s first day self-confessed renegade and human rights activist. In accompanying a US Army unit 2010, Yoko Ono honored Walker with the LennonOno as it searches for a local terrorist. Peace Award, for her ongoing humanitarian work.” As she quickly discovers, her job http://www.alicewalkerfilm.com/the-film/ will bring up brutal complexities as gender and religious barriers emerge with lives hanging in the 4:05–5:00 p. m. balance. This film offers older students a s g Shakespeare Uncovered: Romeo way to consider the complicated and Juliet (52 minutes) natures of war, culture, religion, and gender. It is gut- Produced by Blakeway Productions, 116

wrenching and unforgettable. Initially, it is likely to be Films, and THIRTEEN Productions LLC for s met with stunned silence, but will almost certainly WNET in association with PBS, Sky Arts, at urd promote thoughtful, rich classroom discussions of and Shakespeare’s Globe these complex issues. “Each episode [of http://www.dayonefilm.com/ Shakespeare Uncovered]

reveals the extraordinary a

world and works of y William Shakespeare and 2:35–4:00 p. m. the still-potent impact his plays have today. The s c Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth films combine interviews (85 minutes) with actors, directors and Kali Films Ltd. scholars, along with visits Pratibha Parmar, writer, director, and to key locations, clips producer from some of the most-celebrated film and television “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays is a feature documentary film staged specially for the series at Shakespeare’s Globe which tells the compelling story in London. . . . of an extraordinary woman’s Behind every Shakespeare play there is a story. journey from her birth in a paper- Shakespeare Uncovered reveals not just the elements thin shack in cotton fields of in the play, but the history of the play itself. What Putnam County, Georgia, to her sparked the creation of each of these works? recognition as a key writer of the Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what 20th Century. new forms of theater did he forge? What cultural, Alice Walker made history as political and religious factors influenced his writing? the first black woman to win How have the plays been staged and interpreted the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking from Shakespeare’s time to now? Why at different novel, The Color Purple, which has been transformed times has each play been so popular—or ignored? from a novel, to a Hollywood movie and latterly to And finally, why has this body of work endured so a successful Broadway musical. This universal story thoroughly? What, in the end, makes Shakespeare so of triumph against all odds is not that different from great?” Walker’s own story. Our featured episode examines Romeo and Juliet Born in 1944, the eighth child of sharecroppers, her and is hosted by Joseph Fiennes, who portrayed early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and Shakespeare playing Romeo in the Academy Award- poverty during some of the most turbulent years winning movie blockbuster Shakespeare in Love. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 145 G Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 m be G.01 The Intersection of Literacy, Sport, Culture, FEATURED SESSION and Society e m s te e Nov y,

a A302 Sponsored by The NCTE Collaborative on Contemporary Literacies, Popular Culture, and Out-of-School Spaces urd at s This roundtable session invites attendees to explore contemporary literacies and diverse teaching practices through the use of sports content and an examination of sports culture. Co-Chairs: Alan Brown, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Luke Rodesiler, Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne Speaker: John Schuerholz, Vice Chairman, Atlanta Braves

Roundtable 1: Roundtable 4: #LIKEAGIRL: Toward Offsetting Inequities Representations of the “Adolescent Athlete” in through the Study of Sports-Based Nonfiction Fiction Aimed at Middle School Students Luke Rodesiler, Indiana University-Purdue Mark A. Lewis, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore University Fort Wayne; Gina Mattioli, Tarpon Sports English and the Remaking of Struggling Springs High School, Tarpon Springs, FL Adolescent Reader Identity Sporty Girls and Tomboys: Negotiating the Dawan Coombs, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Rhetoric and Images of Female Athletes Athletes Read and Write …or Do They? Content Crystal Beach, Buford High School, Buford, and The Analysis of How Literacy Events Are Portrayed in University of Georgia, Athens; Katie Dredger, Sports Fiction James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Deborah Vriend Van Duinen, Hope College, Holland, MI Stranger Than Fiction? Engaging with the Roundtable 5: Occasionally Troubled Stories of Female Distance Playing on the Sidelines: The Marginalization of Runners African American Women in Children’s and YA Thomas C. Crochunis, Shippensburg University, PA Literature Roundtable 2: Rebekah Bruce, The Ohio State University, Model Essays, Sports, and Criticality: Examining Columbus the Everyday with Top Writers Booked! Sports and Literacy4Life for Immigrant Mitch Nobis, Seaholm High School, Birmingham, MI and Refugee Youth Capitalizing on Contemporary Issues in Sports: Bryan Ripley Crandall, Fairfield University, CT The Concussion Controversy The World of Sport in International Young Adult Robert Ford, North Branford High School, North Literature Branford, CT Wendy Glenn, University of Connecticut, Waterbury Teamwork: Collaborative Engagement with Roundtable 6: Sports Argumentation Forging Character: The Intersection of Nature, Alex Miller, Staples High School, Westport, CT Self, and Extreme Sports Roundtable 3: Elizabeth Dinkins, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY Inquiring into Sports and Values Building a Sports Literacy Program by Connecting Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Boise State University, ID Students and Authors Collectible Learning: Writing and Collecting Kelli Sowerbrower, Newnan High School, Newnan, GA Trading Card Sets for Cross-curricular Learning Mentoring Relationships, Books and e-Sports Billy Gerchick, Metro Tech High School, Phoenix Collaboratives: Elementary and University College, Scottsdale, AZ Partnerships Images of the Athlete: Sports and the Social Hannah Gerber, Sam Houston State University, Construction of Gender Huntsville, TX; Ruben Garcia, Sam Houston State David Pegram, Paradise Valley Community College, University, Huntsville, TX Phoenix, AZ

After this Featured Session, visit the Taking Action Hub in room A304 to discuss Everyday Advocacy and turn your learning into action!

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G.02 NCTE Research Awards Session G.04 Advocating for Culturally Sustaining B206 e Pedagogies in Early Childhood Classrooms The Purves and Promising Researcher Awards te will be presented during this session. The A301 Purves, Promising Researcher, and Russell The standardization and academic acceleration Award recipients will also present on their of early childhood curriculum results in schools research. void of play, inquiry, and ultimately, joy. In Chair: Django Paris, Michigan State University, East this session, early childhood teachers and Lansing teacher-educators share strategies for creating Alan C. Purves Award Recipient: culturally responsive and culturally sustaining Denise Dávila, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, pedagogies in early childhood settings. "#WhoNeedsDiverseBooks?: Preservice Teachers Co-Chairs: Alicia Boardman, Northern Parkway and Religious Neutrality with Children’s Literature" School, Uniondale, NY Introduction: Amanda Godley, University of Bilal Polson, Northern Parkway School, Uniondale, NY Pittsburgh, PA Roundtable 1: Creating Project-Based Curriculum Promising Researcher Award Recipients: for and with Kindergarten Children Tamara Butler, Michigan State University, East Lansing: Kathy Epps, Lake City Early Childhood Center, Lake

“‘We Need a Song’": Sustaining Critical Youth City, SC s Organizing Literacies through World Humanities” Michele Myers, University of South Carolina, Columbia at urd Christian Ehret, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Roundtable 2: Re-Vision(ing) Workshop: Stories of Canada: “Moments of Literacy Teaching and Collective Consciousness in a Community of Writers Learning in a Children's Hospital: Affects, Textures Jesse Gainer, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX and Temporalities” Nancy Valdez-Gainer, Austin Independent School a Introduction: Keisha Green, University of Massachusetts, District, TX y Amherst, Award Selection Committee Chair Roundtable 3: Urban Assemblages Re-Imagined David H Russell Award for Distinguished Research in Roberta Gardner, Georgia State University, Atlanta the Teaching of English Recipient: Rachel Gilmore, Usher/Collier Heights Elementary, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Boise State University, and Michael Atlanta, GA W. Smith, Temple University, Reading Unbound: Roundtable 4: “We live in a bad neighborhood”: Why Pleasure Matters to Our Kids and Our Country Challenging Perspectives and Creating Culturally Rosa Jimenez, Award Selection Introduction: Sustaining Pedagogies in Second Grade Committee Chair Janelle Henderson, J.B. Atkinson Academy, Louisville, KY Tasha Laman, University of Louisville, KY G.03 Instruction, Technology, and the Tytianna Wells Smith, University of Louisville, KY College Writing Classroom c Roundtable 5: Navigating the World and Ourselves B306 through Space and Place Panelists will discuss their books regarding Carmen Llerena, PS 75-The Emily Dickinson School, technology in higher education. Speaker Bozeman, MT 1 will show why instructors should help Haeny Yoon, Teachers College, Columbia University, writing students make the most of mobile New York, NY technologies. Speaker 2 will give an example Roundtable 6: “Why is immigration seen as a bad of mobile composition pedagogy via a thing?”: Second Graders’ Questions, Conversations, multimodal mapping project and a Write and Curriculum on Location assignment that encourages Nieves Marian-Gonzalo, Leal Elementary School, mobile writers to (re)connect with local Urbana, IL places. Speaker 3 will share some advice for Sandra L. Osorio, Illinois State University, Normal making and maintaining hybrid curriculum Roundtable 7: Dancing Our Way to Literacy Learning on campuses, including the roles of Shashray McCormack, Mill Creek Elementary School, administration, support staff, and faculty. Madison, AL Presenters: Claire Lutkewitte, Nova Southeastern Kathryn Whitmore, University of Louisville, KY University, Fort Lauderdale, FL Emily Zuccaro, University of Louisville, KY Ashley Holmes, Georgia State University, Atlanta Joanna Paull, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 147 g Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 G.05 Complicating Youth, Literacy, G.07 Literary Advocates of Diversity:

m be s Gender, and Race through the e The Synergistic Effects of Award- c Study of Young Adult Literature in Winning Nonfiction Literature English Teacher Education A312 e Nov y,

a te B315 This session focuses on the transformative This panel highlights current research in possibilities of award-winning nonfiction

urd at English teacher education that examines the literature that honors global voices, interests, s intersections between young adult literature and experiences while aligning with curricula and preparing preservice English teachers standards. Biographical counternarratives, to work with youth. Discussion will include synergistic stories of innovations and how the young adult literature course can progress, and representations of international facilitate preservice teachers’ thinking about role models will be shared as literary social constructs like adolescence/ts, youth, advocates for authentic representations of (il)literacy, gender, and race. self and society. Respondent: Robert Petrone, Montana State Chair: Jennifer Graff, University of Georgia, Athens University, Bozeman Respondent: Ying Cui, University of Georgia, Athens Presenters: Carlin Borsheim-Black, Central Michigan Presenters: Ying Cui, University of Georgia, Athens, University, Mount Pleasant “Going Global: A Critical Analysis of Award- Amanda Haertling Thein, University of Iowa, Iowa City Winning Biographical Picturebooks” Sophia Sarigianides, Westfield State University, MA Courtney Shimek, University of Georgia, Athens, Mark Sulzer, University of Cincinnati, OH “Factual Synergy: A Partnership between Visual Literacy and Orbis Pictus Award-Winning Books” G.06 From Zombies to Superheroes: m Helping Teens Use Digital and G.08 Remembering Arthur Applebee: A Tribute s Social Media Tools to Empower g and Engage Them with Literacy! B406 B214 NCTE lost one of its staunchest advocates How can teachers use digital tools and social and scholars this past year. Dr. Arthur media platforms as a means of engaging Applebee had an enormous influence their students as they compose and question on all aspects of literacy learning and and, ultimately, develop a sense of agency? teaching. Colleagues, former students, These presenters will demonstrate a diverse fellow researchers, and classroom teachers range of digital tools and technologies will offer tributes to the profound influence that will do just that. From Snapchat to Arthur Applebee had on our profession. Backchannel, Padlet to Haiku Deck, you will Chair: Sheridan Blau, Teachers College, Columbia come away from this lively session with free, University, New York, NY accessible tools that will transform your Presenters: Carol Booth Olson, UC Irvine Writing literacy classroom on Monday morning! Project Come prepared with your digital device Deborah Appleman, Carleton College, Northfield, MN charged up and ready for active learning! Jim Burke, Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA Chair: Timothy Shea, Millersville University, Millersville, PA Judith A. Langer, University at Albany, NY Presenters: Jeffrey Carpenter, Elon University, NC, James Marshall, University of Georgia, Athens “Backchannels Empower Students and Demystify Literacy” G.09 Advocating for Social Justice in Nicole DeGuzman, PA Leadership Charter School, c English Education West Chester, “Free, Accessible Apps for te A410 Engaging Students with Literacy and Giving Them What do advocacy and social justice mean Agency” for and within English education? This panel Lija Diem Stoltzfus, Harrisburg Area Community focuses on the role that the arts, imagination, College, PA, “Students Find Their Voices and activism, and standards can play in helping Develop Literacy through Social Media Tools” us to better advocate for understanding and solidarity through teacher education and teacher practice.

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Co-Chairs: Jennifer King, Bloomfield County School Shana Karnes, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV District, NJ; Erica Womack, Otterbein University, Chris Lehman, The Educator Collaborative Westerville, OH Jenny Martin, Bridgewater College, VA Respondents: Jennifer King, Bloomfield County Jeff Scheur, noredink.com School District, NJ; Erica Womack, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH G.11 Parents as Literacy Advocates: Roundtable 1: Briana Asmus, Western Michigan e Learning Together In and Out of University, Kalamazoo the Classroom c Roundtable 2: Meghan Barnes, University of Georgia, B201 Athens This session will discuss ways to implement Roundtable 3: Tamara Butler, Michigan State University, East Lansing Dialogic Reading into the curriculum to improve students’ oral language. Panelists Roundtable 4: Limarys Caraballo, Queens College— CUNY will also discuss ways in which parents can engage in a variety of literacy-related Roundtable 5: Noah Asher Golden, Chapman University, Orange, CA experiences that empower them as literacy advocates for their children. Roundtable 6: Amy Heath, University of Georgia, Athens Chair: Marshall George, Hunter College-CUNY,

Roundtable 7: Tara Star Johnson, Purdue University, “Reading Together, Learning Together: Dialogic s

West Lafayette, IN Reading in an Urban Elementary School” at urd Roundtable 8: Danette Long, Montana State Presenters: Jamie Margolies, New York City University, Bozeman Department of Education, “Reading Together, Roundtable 9: sj Miller, Metro Center, New York Learning Together: Dialogic Reading in an Urban

University Elementary School” a

Roundtable 10: Jeanne Muzzillo, Bradley University, Jenny Tuten, Hunter College-CUNY, “Reading y Peoria, IL Together, Learning Together: Dialogic Reading in Roundtable 11: Charlotte Pass, State University of an Urban Elementary School” New York, Cortland Kelly Allen, University of Arizona, Tucson, “Positioning Roundtable 12: Summer Pennell, University of North Parents as Literacy Advocates” Carolina, Chapel Hill Kisha Shoulders, PS 146, New York, NY, “Reading Roundtable 13: Jeanie Reynolds, University of North Together, Learning Together: Dialogic Reading in Carolina, Greensboro an Urban Elementary School” Roundtable 14: Amy Vetter, University of North Dannette Suarez, PS 146, New York, NY, “Reading Carolina, Greensboro Together, Learning Together: Dialogic Reading in Roundtable 15: Jennifer Whitley, University of an Urban Elementary School” Georgia, Athens Roundtable 16: Allison Wynhoff Olsen, Montana G.12 Writing for a Better World: Poetry State University, Bozeman g Response to World Events B210 G.10 Igniting Instruction—Round 2 When headlines shout tragic news, we often g A412 feel powerless. Yet poetry can help. In this An Ignite is the haiku of presentations. session, a panel of teachers and poets share In each of these high-energy talks, the ways to respond to world events and work speaker’s 20 presentation slides will advance to make positive change through poetry, automatically every 15 seconds. When the 5 beginning at the most personal level and minutes are up, so is the talk. These speakers later echoing out into the world. will fire up your imagination and illuminate Chair: Margaret Simon, Iberia Parish Gifted Program, new ways to kindle a passion for reading, Iberia, LA writing, collaborating, creating, and thinking Respondent: Katherine Bomer, University of Texas, Austin in your students. Presenters: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, author, Chair: Sandy Hayes, Becker Middle School, Becker, MN Orchard/Scholastic Presenters: Andrea Finkle, DeLand High School, Irene Latham, author, Birmingham, AL Deland, FL Laura Shovan, Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Jason Griffith, Arizona State University, Tempe Margarita Engle, Simon & Schuster Sarah Gross, Roux Associates Tara Smith, Glen Rock School District, NJ

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m be Penguin s in the Secondary, College, and Teacher-Education Classrooms Presenters: Kwame Alexander, Scholastic c Georgia Heard, author/independent consultant, B301 e Nov y, Nancy Paulsen Books, FL a te Drawing on their personal and professional JoEllen McCarthy, The Educator Collaborative experiences with autism spectrum disorder,

urd at the panelists describe how to approach this G.16 A Tale of Two Cities: Multicultural s increasingly diagnosed neurodevelopmental g Literature as Advocacy disorder from an assets-based perspective by A310 connecting English language arts content and e This session will explore the need for pedagogy to the existing literacy practices m and behaviors of students on the spectrum. teachers to use multicultural literature in any s classroom as a vehicle for advocacy and Chair: Robert Rozema, Grand Valley State University, social justice. The goal of this session is to Allendale, MI, “The Literacy Practices of provide tangible methods for teachers to Adolescents with Autism” increase student engagement within an ELA Presenters: Bruce Mills, Kalamazoo College, MI, classroom and their communities at large. “Teaching the Spectrum: Service-Learning, Participants will receive sample unit plans, Structured Reflection, and Advocacy in a First- book lists, and student products. Year Writing Seminar” Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia, Athens Presenters: Nicole Amato, Pritzker College Prep, “The Social Life of Autism-Spectrum Youth, and Chicago, IL, “A Tale of Two Cities: Multicultural the Pernicious Effects of Deficit Assumptions Literature as Advocacy” about Their Potential” Teresa Strait, Spartanburg Day School, Spartanburg, SC

G.14 Are You Protected from Mayhem? G.17 Multimodal Text and Practices m Using Commericals to Teach e Bridging Classrooms and Communities s Expository and Persuasive Writing A303 A311 This presentation describes “Finding True Diverse learners engage in multimodal North”–a lesson framework for deep literacy projects in two settings. The multimodal learning used to invite students into authentic literacy processes of diverse young learners, inquiry about significant issues. This session mediated through LEGOs, digital photography, includes a lesson demonstration using and software applications, will invite commercials to engage students in thinking discussion of advocating for active, student- that leads to exceptional expository or centered literacy instruction. Teachers, K–5 persuasive writing. students, parents, and community members co-constructing multimodal texts highlights Presenters: Carol Wickstrom, University of North how community multimodal projects exalt Texas, Denton family literacy and students’ out-of-school Leslie Patterson, North Star of Texas Writing Project, literacies, and bridge the gap of teachers’ Denton perceptions and student abilities. Marla Robertson, Utah State University, Logan Chair: Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University, G.15 The Heartwork of Teaching & Power Statesboro, “Teaching Reading and Writing g of L.O.V.E. through Multimodal Literacy Practices” Presenters: Amy Seely Flint, University of Louisville, A305 KY, “The Things We See When We Open Our Eyes: In this interactive session, award-winning A Community Multimodal Project” authors and literacy advocates will reflect Thais Council, Georgia State University, Atlanta, with participants on a curriculum of children “The Things We See When We Open Our Eyes: A driven by L.O.V.E. Learning the Power of Community Multimodal Project” Words, Opening Hearts and Minds, Valuing Ashley Hicks, Andrew P. Stewart Center, Atlanta, GA, Voices, Empowering All Learners. The panel “The Things We See When We Open our Eyes: A will explore L.O.V.E as the foundation for Community Multimodal Project” success in all schools.

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G.18 Reading, Writing, Reflections: G.20 Early Childhood Preservice e Empowering Student Voices e Teachers’ Emerging Understanding A313 te of Critical Literacy Students become their own advocates when A315 empowered to create strong identities and This session explores how preservice find their voices. Teachers from Zaharis teachers reconstructed their understandings School in Mesa, Arizona, discuss how they of critical literacy lessons using children’s covertly use literary experiences to help their literature. This session will share findings students have the desire and ability to voice from studies that examined early childhood opinions and stand up for their own learning and elementary students’ emerging and passions. understandings of critical literacy. Presenters: Kris-Ann Florence, Zaharis Elementary Chair: Ranita Cheruvu, William Paterson University, School, Mesa, AZ Wayne, NJ, “Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Mike Oliver, Zaharis Elementary School, Mesa, AZ Emerging Understandings of Critical Literacy” Presenters: Sue Mankiw, William Paterson University, G.19 Books as Advocates: Exploring Wayne, NJ, “Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ g How Immigration Stories in Emerging Understandings of Critical Literacy” Literature Can Shift Perceptions Vince Laverick, Bowling Green State University, s of Contemporary Immigration in OH, “You Read What in Class?: Using Children’s at urd Predominantly White Classrooms Literature to Prepare Preservice Teachers for Challenging Topics” A314

This session will illuminate how children’s G.21 Young Children Take Action: a

literature can act as “advocate” for the y e Helping Students Think Critically experiences of immigrant families and and Talk Openly about Difference children. Two K–12 and two university literacy to Promote Advocacy and Activism educators collaborate to demonstrate how deficit ideologies of contemporary A316 immigration can be deconstructed and In this session, educators committed transformed through children’s literature to addressing issues of equity in their in “predominantly white” elementary classrooms reveal how their students’ classrooms. perceptions of the world, influenced by Chair: Laura Roy, Penn State Harrisburg children’s literature, prompted them to Presenters: Drew Gingrich, 5th-grade teacher, reexamine their approach to schooling. Plantation, FL Presenters: Chris Hass, Center for Inquiry, Julia Keefer, Penn State University, University Park, Blythewood, SC, “Taking Off the Blinders: Helping PA Students Think Critically and Talk Openly about Difference” Sarah McKinney, Hunt Meadows Elementary, Easley, SC, “Young Children Take Action: Using Read- Alouds to Promote Advocacy and Activism in Our Community” Tiffany Palmatier, Center of Inquiry, Columbia, SC, “Taking Off the Blinders: Helping Students Think Critically and Talk Openly about Difference” Katie Stover, Furman University, Greenville, SC, “Young Children Take Action: Using Read-Alouds to Promote Advocacy and Activism in Our Community”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 151 g Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 G.22 Fighting an Uphill Battle: Social G.24 Power Up! Activating the Power of m be m Justice Advocacy in English g Teacher Voices s Educational Spaces A405 A403 e Nov y, c Teachers should be driving school a Through the use of personal narratives, three improvement, but we often silence our voices te English educators across multiple contexts of expertise and wait for administrative

urd at discuss their experiences resisting hegemony directives. Come learn how we’ve “powered s through social justice advocacy. The session up” our department by advocating for better examines our languaging of resistance and curricula and pedagogy, and leave with clear provides examples of how to sustain equity strategies for how you can do the same in projects while also maintaining personal your school. integrity and fostering relationships with Presenters: Hattie Maguire, Novi High School, Novi, MI allies. Michael Ziegler, Novi High School, Novi, MI Chair: Amber Pabon, University of Pittsburgh, PA Presenters: Megan Dale, Propel Schools/The G.25 Reframing the Gradual Release University of Pittsburgh, PA e Model as a Tool for Advocacy Amber Pabon, University of Pittsburgh, PA A407 Ashley Newby, Michigan State University, East Students need to be at the center of Lansing learning. When we take time to listen, we can advocate for them instructionally. G.23 Creative Educational Leaders Join us as we rethink the gradual release g for the 21st Century: Researcher- of responsibility model to create space to Teachers’ Collaboration e observe students, collect formative data, and A404 scaffold students to be problem solvers. c This panel presentation describes a “meta- Chair: Clare Landrigan, Teachers for Teachers, Waban, MA te analysis” of projects that six teachers and Presenters: Dorothy Barnhouse, literacy consultant, one researcher collaborated on using various Brooklyn, NY creative literacies such as drama, storytelling, Tammy Mulligan, Teachers for Teachers, Lexington, MA children’s literature, and digital arts. It Terry Thompson, Northeast Independent School explores the meanings of advocacy within District, San Antonio, TX teachers’ and researchers’ practices in one of the largest urban areas in the country. G.26 Kids Can Change the World through Chair: Ambika Raj, California State University, Los e Voice and Choice Angeles, “Creative Education Leaders for the 21st A408 Century” m Using examples from inquiry-based projects, Presenters: Jayro Alcantar Armenta, El Marion te teachers and administrators will demonstrate Language School, Los Angeles, CA, “Storytelling ways to help students develop powerful and Bilingual Immersion” voices. Presenters will share structures for Erin Bates, Sequoyah School, Pasadena, CA, “Planet student collaboration and age-appropriate Experts in a K–1 Class” research and presentation skills. Participants Karla Duarte, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, will engage in conversation throughout and CA, “Storytelling and Animation in a Community leave with resources for implementing this Arts Program” work in their own school. Veronica Roldan, Park Elementary, Alhambra, CA, “Drama in Fourth Grade to Enhance Soft Skills” Chair: Kathy Bartelmay, Duke School, Durham, NC Presenters: Amy Lau, Duke School, Durham, NC, “Second Graders Change the World” Annie Gentithes, Duke School, Durham, NC, “Sixth Graders Change the World” Jenny Murray, Duke School, Durham, NC, “Giving Teachers a Voice” Kathy Bartelmay, Duke School, Durham, NC, “Teaching Kids to Save the World”

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G.27 English Teachers in the Classroom: “Using Graphic Novels to Improve Media Literacy: A Democratic Journey” g Stories of LGBTQ Advocacy Rich Novack, Teachers College, Columbia University, B202 New York, NY, “Star Wars through a Lens of Classroom teachers, representing a range Critical Literacy” of levels, share stories of advocacy. Their narratives highlight the challenges and the G.30 Advocating for Student Voice: need to support students and colleagues who e Portfolios as an Integral Part of identify as LGBTQ, as well as the importance Our Learning Culture of inclusive curricula for all students. s B207 Presenters: Jacob McWilliams, University of Colorado c Portfolios offer us opportunities to assess Boulder, “Advancing Trans*Pedagogies: Advocacy te and Activism for Gender Diversity” learning in ways that encourage inquiry, Pat Jones, University of South Florida, Tampa, “I self-reflection, expression, and creativity in Wear My A with Pride: I Am an Advocate” both teachers and students. The presenters Taelor Rye, Wilkinson County High School, Irwinton, will explore portfolios as a means to attain GA, “Homophobia in Schools: Insufficient Teacher standards while advocating for individual Preparation” growth and community empowerment in both elementary, secondary, and university s

G.28 The Power of Author Visits settings. at urd B203 Respondent: Yvonne Siu-Runyan, Northern Colorado e University, Greeley Author visits are a big deal. However, many m Presenters: Anna Lee Lum, Kamehameha Elementary educators don’t feel equipped to pull them

School, Honolulu, HI a s off. This panel presentation is for those Christopher Au, University of Hawaii, Honolulu y wondering what a great author visit looks Jay Taniguchi, Hawaii Council of Teachers of English, and feels like and how powerful it can be. Honolulu You will gain tools and inspiration you need Kahea Faria, University of Hawaii, Honolulu to get started today! Mischa Lenchanko, University of Hawaii at Manoa Tradebook Authors: Chris Grabenstein, Random Sheri Fitzgerald, Pacific American Foundation House Children’s Books Stacy George, Hawaii Department of Education Liesl Shurtliff, Random House Children’s Books Stephanie Furuta, University of Hawaii at Manoa Matt de la Peña, Random House Children's Books Matthew McElligott, Random House Children's Books G.31 University, School, and State Facilitator: Suzanne Gibbs, Western School District, g Department of Education Warner Elementary School, Spring Arbor, MI c Relationships: Merging Goals Presenters: Julie Oliver, Western School District/ and Meeting Teacher Needs Western Elementary School, Parma, MI te B208 Suzanne Gibbs, Western School District, Warner Elementary School, Spring Arbor, MI Educators from one state will spotlight individual inquiries about the preparation G.29 Mind over Media: Exploring Critical and retention of literacy educators and s Literacy through Contemporary the professional learning of teachers in their context while inviting the audience Film, Graphic Novels, and and NCTE representatives to join in the Controlling Images conversation for an open, interactive session B204 that merges goals and promotes advocacy This session explores the use of for teachers. contemporary media in the classroom as a Chair: Dixie Keyes, Arkansas State University– means to promote critical literacy. Jonesboro, “Merging Inquiries into Collective Goals” Presenters: Luke Rodewald, Iowa State University, Presenters: Janine Chitty, University of Arkansas, Ames, “English Class Goes Hollywood: Using Fort Smith, “University Partners Program” Popular Film in the Secondary Classroom” Cindy Green, Virtual Arkansas, “Initiatives for Teacher Meghan Senjanin, De La Salle Institute, Chicago, IL, Development and NCTE Affiliate Work”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 153 g Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 Corey Oliver, Conway Public Schools, AR, “Being a G.34 Finding Your Voice: Using Their

m be Teacher and Teacher-Educator and Involvement s Eyes Were Watching God and Blues with State Department Initiatives” Music to Introduce Students to Sherri Thorne, Arkansas Department of Education, Text Comparison, Primary Source e Nov y, “State Department Goals for ELA Teachers and a New Inquiries” Analysis, and Creative Writing for a Donna Wake, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Specific Purpose

urd at “Inquiries from a Teacher-Educator and Affiliate B212 s Leader” An English teacher, a music teacher, and a Dawn Bessee, Crowley’s Ridge Ed. Cooperative, literacy leader discuss their collaboration on Jonesboro, AR a cross-disciplinary unit in which students “My Role as a Literacy Specialist at One State produced multimedia presentations comparing Education Cooperative and Related Inquiries for the expression of similar thematic elements in Teacher Growth and Development” literary and musical texts. Presenters: Brian Doering, Rockford East High School, IL G.32 Early Childhood Teacher-Educators Cindy Doering, Rockford East High School, IL e Examine Advocacy for Diversity Sara Okey, Rockford East High School, IL te and Social Justice in Language and Literacy Classrooms G.35 Advocating for English Classrooms B209 m as Artful Maker-Spaces (M-S) Educators share experiences in which tools s B213 for literacy advocacy arose in collaborative Out of a context of career- and college-ready work between teacher candidates and initiatives and emphases on STEM learning, teacher-educators. Using these stories, this this session presents ways to advocate presentation will demonstrate the critical role for craft and making in an English and art that observing, recording, and reflecting have collaboration. Participants will be invited to on a teacher’s ability to make thoughtful design books hacked with paper circuits and instructional decisions impacting literacy find their place as makers. advocacy and the whole child. Presenters: Charles Youngs, Bethel Park High School, Presenters: Carmen Colon, Bank Street College of Bethel Park, PA, “Adding English as the Silent E in Education, NY STEAM” Mollie Welsh Kruger, Bank Street College of Education, NY Kent Wallisch, Bethel Park High School, Bethel Park, Peggy McNamara, Bank Street College of Education, NY PA, “Making the A in STEAM”

G.33 Make Me a World: The Magic of G.36 Transformative Language, Literacy, s Multicultural Lit to Inspire and g and Advocacy: An Exploration Advocate for Students of Educational Experiences of B211 Incarcerated Youth This session features a discussion of B216 strategies to promote student advocacy This session examines educational experiences through the use of multicultural literature. of incarcerated youth. Panelists offer strategies Presenters: Katie Dickerson, Olney Charter High for teaching literacy skills, acknowledging mental School, Philadelphia, PA, “I Change Myself, I Change health conditions, and examining approaches to the World”: Encouraging Social, Emotional, and mitigating racial bias as a means to dismantling Community Development through Multicultural the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP). Literature” Chair: Jamal Cooks, San Francisco State University, CA, Rebecca Harper, Augusta University, GA, “Reading “Transformative Language, Literacy, and Learning: between the Lines: Using LGBTQ Literature with An Exploration of Educational Experiences of Middle and High School Teachers and Counselors” Incarcerated Youth” Presenters: Turshika Bennett, San Francisco State University, CA Arash Daneshzadeh, University of San Francisco, CA Donald Frazier, San Francisco State University, CA Bobby Nakamoto, San Francisco State University, CA

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G.37 The Achievement Gap: Realities and G.40 Culturally Diverse Young Adult s Implications m Literature: Voices of Advocacy and Community B217 s The first step toward advocacy is seeing. To B308 te this end, we will present the reality of the Sponsored by the CEE Commission on achievement gap, what it looks like on the the Study and Teaching of Adolescent ground—lessons, best practices, and student Literature work—which will speak to the differing needs In this conversation session, award-winning of our students and the implications for young adult authors Meg Medina and teachers in different contexts. Kekla Magoon discuss creating stories rich Presenters: Andrew Ravin, Teachers College, in culture and community as pathways Columbia University, New York, NY to advocacy. Table leaders will engage Gabriel Steinberg, The Salk School of Science Lower attendees in discussions related to teaching Manhattan, New York, NY culturally rich YA books that celebrate Min Kim, Stuyvesant High School, NY diverse communities and encourage Teddy Ligon, UD Team Charter School, Brooklyn, NY advocacy. Mallory Neidich, Village Community School, New York Chair: Kelly Bull, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore s at urd G.38 Spurring Advocacy That Empowers: Speakers: Kekla Magoon, author, Bloomsbury s Teaching Literature That Gives Meg Medina, author, Candlewick Press Voice to the Voiceless Roundtable 1: Teaching E. R. Frank’s Dime: B218 Awareness of the Human Trafficking Culture and Advocacy for the Justice, Recovery, and Reentry of a

In this session, participants will discover ways y to encourage students to be advocates for Victims the disenfranchised citizens of our world Steffany Comfort Maher, Western Michigan using Holocaust, Native American, and University, Kalamazoo African American literature. BYOD to actively Respondent: Emily Wender, Indiana University of engage via Kahoot It, Google platforms, Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA Grammarly, Instagram, Facebook, Socrative, Roundtable 2: Gaining Perspective: Point of View and other apps to discover practical as a Vehicle for Advocacy and Community-Building classroom lessons. in How It Went Down Ricki Ginsberg, University of Connecticut, Storrs Presenters: Craig Ewing, Saint Thomas Aquinas High Emily Pendergrass, Vanderbilt School, Fort Lauderdale, FL Respondent: University, Nashville, TN Lisa Bauman, Blue Valley West High School, Overland Park, KS Roundtable 3: Historical Fiction: Pathway to Paula McCarthy, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Advocacy Fort Lauderdale, FL Judith Hayn, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Boyd Bauman, Sumner Academy of Arts and Science, Respondent: Sean Connors, University of Arkansas, Kansas City, MO Fayetteville Roundtable 4: Culturally Diverse YAL: The Liminal G.39 Self-Advocacy: Career Exploration Space of a Seventh-Grade Tuscarora Resident g and the Autobiography Alice Hays, Arizona State University, Tempe Jody Polleck, Hunter College, New York, NY B307 Respondent: Roundtable 5: Neighbors to Friends: Working Students are constantly told that writing Together to Solve Personal and Community is essential to their futures and future Problems as Portrayed in the Novel One Day and careers. Yet they are not instructed how One Amazing Morning on Orange Street to advocate for themselves or navigate all Lisa Hazlett, University of South Dakota, Vermillion that is expected to choose a college major Respondent: Ann Marie Smith, University of Texas of and map a path to a career. How to bridge the Permian Basin, Odessa the disconnect? With a career and self- exploration writing assignment, of course! Presenter: Clarissa West-White, Bethune Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 155 g Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 Roundtable 6: Called to Speak: Texts That Advocate G.41 Dramatized: Live Performance,

m be for Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Teens m LGBTQ Literature, and Close Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Reading Respondent: Stacey Reece, University of Tennessee, s B309 e Nov y, Knoxville

a c Featuring a live performance of an excerpt Roundtable 7: Examining Bullying in Relation to te from a script adapted from YA author Self-Discovery and Identity in Yaqui Delgado Wants

urd at Julia Watts’s Lambda-Award-winning

s to Kick Your Ass Dawn Jacobs Martin, Notre Dame of Maryland novel, Finding H.F., this session highlights University, Baltimore the power of compelling storytelling to ignite discussion of LGBTQ topics and Respondent: Kelly Bull, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore demonstrates how to simply stage any text, once adapted for performance, in the ELA Roundtable 8: Those Among Us: Their Story classroom. and How We Foster Understanding and Provide Advocacy Chair: Craig Young, Bloomsburg University of Kathryn Kelly, Radford University, Radford, VA Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA Respondent: Katie Sluiter, Wyoming Public Schools, Tradebook Author: Julia Watts, Bella Books, Knoxville, TN Wyoming, MI Respondent: Toby Emert, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA Roundtable 9: Unsilencing YA Disability Literature El Deafo, a Graphic Memoir by Cece Bell Shannon Mortimore-Smith, Shippensburg University, G.42 Advocating for Themselves: Shippensburg, PA m Teaching Argumentation in Rural Communities Respondent: Wendy Glenn, University of s Connecticut, Storrs B310 Roundtable 10: Using The Absolutely True Diary of Looking for classroom-tested research- a Part-Time Indian to Advocate for Food Justice based strategies to improve argument Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, Aquinas College, Grand writing instruction in your classroom? Come Rapids, MI to this interactive session where teacher- Respondent: Travis Reyes, Arlington Public Schools, consultants from a National Writing Project Arlington, MA site will share a variety of strategies proven Roundtable 11: All American Boys: Finding a Voice effective for scaffolding argumentation in to Change the World through Advocacy middle and high school classrooms. Digital Shelly Shaffer, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, tools and resources will be shared. WA Presenters: Rachel Sanders, University of Georgia, Respondent:Terri Suico, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA Athens, “Making Your Case: Using PMI to Evaluate Roundtable 12: Opening Up Dialogue to Help Close and Organize Evidence” Down Stereotypes Rebecca Kaminski, Clemson University, SC, “Staking William Williams, Concord University, Athens, WV a Claim” Respondent: Allison Varnes, University of Tennessee, Sarah Hunt-Barron, University of South Carolina Knoxville Upstate, Spartanburg, “Acknowledging the Opposition: Building an Effective Counter”

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G.43 Deepening Critical Thinking via G.45 Advocating for Authenticity: m Evidence-Based Discussion g Instructional Strategies Based on an B311 Authentic Framework to Promote Critical reading requires the ability to build Critical Literacy strong evidence-based claims, but faced B314 with increasingly diverse learners, it’s 5E lessons based on authentic teaching and challenging to make this work accessible for learning encourage students to connect everyone. Enter the power of evidence-based what they learn in the classroom to their own discussions, designed to build community, lived experiences. Presenters will encourage spark rigorous thinking, and raise the level of participants to collaboratively investigate the reading, writing, and talk for all students. 5E’s through research-based instructional Presenters: Erica Fontana, East Side Community strategies, explore exemplar 5E lessons, and School, New York, NY reflect on their own lesson planning. Patricia Bryan, East Side Community School, Aimee Myers, University of Oklahoma, Norman New York, NY Gage Jeter, University of Oklahoma, Norman Sherry Ormond, East Side Community School, New York, NY G.46 Narratives as Advocacy m Compositions: Teaching Critical s G.44 Why Middle Matters: Teacher at urd s Writing in English Methods Classes m Voices through Digital Book Publishing B312 c B316 Sponsored by the Middle Level Section te Presenters will focus on how writing a

Steering Committee was used in English methods classes to y Teacher voices need to be heard and shared. advocate self-awareness, empowerment, In this Middle Level–sponsored session, meet and collaboration. Students wrote critical middle level educators from various states as narratives on identity, relationships, and they share lesson plans and ideas. See how the decision to teach for printed classroom others advocate for kids, and take away ideas books using Web-based publishing. that you can apply to your own classroom. Presenters will discuss how perspectives on project-based learning and teaching writing Chair: Amy Gutierrez Baker, West Jefferson Middle School, West Jefferson, CO were impacted. Presenters: Elizabeth Edenkrans, Murphy Middle Presenters: Darlene Russell, William Paterson School, Murphy, TX University, Wayne, NJ Angela Fair, Huntington Middle School, Newport Jessica Mastropaolo, William Paterson University, News, VA Wayne, NJ Karen Johnson, Twality Middle School, Tigard, OR Chuck Miller, J.T. Henley Middle School, Crozet, VA Jennifer Schroeder, Brookpark Middle School, Grove City, OH Maya Woodall, Austin Middle School, Douglasville, GA

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 157 g Sessions / 9:30–10:45 a.m. r 19 G.47 Developing a Reading Identity: Speakers will share insights and tools into

m be When I Was Your Age how to engage readers, meet CCSS’s, g stimulate inquiry, and develop critical reading B403 e and thinking skills. What are the reading habits, interests, and e Nov y, Presenters: Carole Boston Weatherford, Little Bee a m preferences of educators? There’s school; Books, “Connecting the Past and the Present with s then there’s life. This session advocates for Words That Inform and Inspire”

urd at professional development. Donna Knoell, Educational Consulting, “Advancing s Chair: Teri Lesesne, Sam Houston State University, Content Literacy Instruction with Engaging, Huntsville, TX, “Developing a Reading Identity: Content-Rich Trade Books” Research into Teacher and Librarian Reading Habits” Jen Bryant, Penguin Random House, “Dots and Presenters: Ari Zeiger, Delgado Community College, Words: Choosing Just the Right, Precise Words to New Orleans, LA, “When I Was Your Age: Teacher- Communicate Powerful, Big Ideas” Authored Books to Inspire Young Writers” Kate Messner, Chronicle/Bloomsbury/Scholastic, Karin Perry, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, “Passionately Curious: The Art of Bringing Science TX, ”Developing a Reading Identity: Research into to Life through Questions and Inquiry” Teacher and Librarian Reading Habits” Patricia Hruby Powell, Chronicle Books, “Compelling Sarah DeBacher, University of New Orleans, LA, Social and Political Issues in Verse That “When I Was Your Age: Teacher-Authored Books Communicates Life-Changing History” to Inspire Young Writers” Debbie Levy, Simon & Schuster, “Powerful Nonfiction Messages: A Song, A Race, and a Voice” G.48 Stories of Advocacy: Latina Mothers e and Daughters Writing, Sharing, G.50 Teaching Literacy through History and Ways of Knowing m g B408 B404 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American s This presentation will open the seams of an History will demonstrate and discuss how te after-school and summer writing workshop teachers can create a dynamic classroom for Latina adolescent girls and their mothers. experience and encourage student interaction We will discuss how a Third Space was by “teaching literacy through history.” constructed with and for girls and their Educators will learn to use primary source mothers that invited them to write, draw, and documents—including letters, speeches, art, share stories from their lived experiences. and literature—to engage students and build connections in the humanities. Chair: Renee Moreno, California State University, Northridge Presenters: Timothy Bailey, The Gilder Lehrman Respondent: April McNary, SunnySlope High School, Institute of American History, “Teaching Literacy Phoenix, AZ through History” Presenters: Autumn Warntjes, Landmark Elementary Michelle Wade, Milwaukee Public Schools, WI School, Glendale, AZ Erik Bloch, Greenwich High School, CT Tracey Flores, Arizona State University, Tempe Adriana Toles, Challenger Middle School, Glendale, AZ G.51 Growing Advocacy Online: Using g Research and Blogging to Inform G.49 Advocating to Maximize the Power and Reach Audiences e and Increase the Use of Nonfiction B409 Trade Books as Essential Components m Sponsored by the CEE Commission on of Instruction: Presenting Award- Writing Teacher Education s Winning Authors Whose Books of te What are the best ways to speak up for Nonfiction and Biography Inform, our students, and where can we and other Inspire, and Engage Readers advocates make our voices heard most B407 effectively? Join editors and authors from Award-winning authors will discuss their the writing advocacy blog Writers Who Care research, idea formation, writing, and to discuss why teachers need to become creative ways they inform and engage more vocal, and how they can do so. readers as they craft nonfiction science Chair: Kristen Turner, Fordham University, New York, NY and social studies books and biographies.

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Respondents: Ann David, University of the Incarnate G.54 Empowered Families Empowering Word, San Antonio, TX g Student Writers: A Community- Melinda McBee Orzulak, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Driven, Family Writing Workshop Presenters: Eileen Buescher, The Ohio State University, Columbus A402 Leah Zuidema, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA In this interactive session, presenters describe Mark Letcher, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL a community-driven, family writing workshop Sarah Hochstetler, Illinois State University, Normal and guide audience members in considering frameworks and strategies for adapting the G.52 Lessons on Poverty: Perspectives, workshop model to local contexts. m Opportunity, Validation Presenters: Catherine DeLazzero, Teachers College, B405 Columbia University, New York, “Purpose and s Frameworks” Sponsored by the Georgia Council of Marcelle Mentor, Teachers College, Columbia Teachers of English University, New York, “Strategies for Adapting the According to 2011 US Census data, one in five Workshop Model to Local Contexts” children live in poverty. Schoolchildren face Mijin Yeom, Architecture Engineering Construction hunger, poor medical care, and homelessness Industries, “Resources and Planning”

daily. Three Georgia educators discuss how Chris Ziegler, Teachers College, Columbia University, s to advocate for students living in poverty New York, “Assessment Tools and Criteria” at urd and how to introduce these topics in the ELA classroom. G.55 Exhibitor Session: Tackling Tough Presenters: Merrill Davies, author and retired g Topics educator, Rome, GA A406 a Chanon Collins, Tift County High School, Tifton, GA y Julie Rucker, Tift County High School, Tifton, GA Sponsored by Newsela A Newsela Certified Educator will walk you G.53 The Early Career Experience: What? through strategies to tackle tough real-world g So What? Now What? tough topics via Newsela articles. By having B215 these discussions in the classroom, students will learn to advocate for both themselves If you are early in your career in education and their classmates. OR you are someone who formally mentors early career educators, this session is for you. Connect with other educators in similar roles, and engage in generative conversations with your peers around topics related to your unique interests and needs. In this open space environment, think creatively with one another about how your colleagues and NCTE can support you in growing your practices of teaching, scholarship, and leading at your school or college and in your professional organizations. Session Designers: Juan Guerra, University of Washington at Seattle Lara Hebert, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL Anna J. Small Roseboro, author, mentor, consultant, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 159 H Sessions / 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. r 19 H.01 Exploring Perspective: Authors and resources that launch and sustain reading

m be g Readers at Work communities, empower teachers and young readers, and grow professional practice. B301 e Chair: Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer, Inc.

e Nov y, This session connects four children’s authors a with their readers, fourth-grade students Roundtable 1: Gertie’s Guide to Greatness Kate Beasley, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group who have participated in a year-long study Roundtable 2: Why Are You Giving Us Jail Paper?: urd at of the authors’ works. Via prerecorded s video, students will draw on their reading The Importance of Knowing Students’ Journey experiences to initiate discussions about Cathy Blackler, Santana High School, Santee, CA texts, the writing process, and their Roundtable 3: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings wonderings as readers. Margarita Engle, Simon and Schuster Facilitator: Patrick Allen, Douglas County Schools, Roundtable 4: Secrets of Librarians Douglasville, GA Teri Lesesne, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Presenters: Kirby Larson, Scholastic Roundtable 5: The House That Reading Built: Book Susan Long, author Access and Children in Poverty Barbara O’Connor, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer, Inc. Augusta Scattergood, Scholastic Roundtable 6: Reigniting High School Reading with Picture Books H.02 Strategies for Equitable, Cindy Minnich, Upper Dauphin Area High School, g Sustainable Literacy Assessment: Elizabethville, PA A Roundtable Offering Roundtable 7: Creating a Nerdy Culture at Your School B401–B402 Colby Sharp, Albion School District, Albion, MI This roundtable provides an interactive Roundtable 8: Advocating for Students’ Choice in opportunity to learn about literacy Selecting Books assessment in four areas—(1) assessment Katherine Sokolowski, Monticello Middle School, facilitating students moving across levels; (2) Monticello, IL assessment including parents and community Roundtable 9: The Great American Whatever partners; (3) assessment options living Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster alongside and talking back to standardized measures; and (4) assessment functioning as H.04 Meet the Editors a form of advocacy for students. g A301 Chair: Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University, Participants will have the opportunity to Tallahassee meet journal editors, explore the publishing Roundtable 1: Scott Filkins, Champaign Central High possibilities available with the NCTE journals School, IL program and with affiliate and assembly Roundtable 2: Peggy O'Neill, Loyola University, journals, and discuss specific article Baltimore, MD prospects with the editors. Submission Roundtable 3: Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, St. Louis guidelines will be available for all NCTE University, MO journals. Roundtable 4: Lisa Scherff, Cypress Lake High Chair: Kurt Austin, National Council of Teachers of School, Fort Myers, FL English Roundtable 5: Franki Sibberson, Dublin City Schools, OH Editors: Ricki Ginsberg, University of Connecticut, Roundtable 6: Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State Storrs, coeditor, The ALAN Review University, Tallahassee Wendy Glenn, University of Connecticut, Storrs, coeditor, The ALAN Review H.03 The Nerdy Book Club: Every Reader Danielle King, University of Connecticut, Storrs, g Has Value and a Voice coeditor, The ALAN Review A302 Melissa Ianetta, University of Delaware, incoming The Nerdy Book Club, a community blog, editor, College English follows one creed, “Every reader has value Lesley Roessing, Armstrong State University, editor, and a voice in our community.” In this Connections interactive session, share your experiences Tara Star Johnson, Purdue University, English Education and explore instructional moves and

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David Gorlewski, State University of New York at New Presenters: Eva Thomas, Pocopson Elementary Paltz, coeditor, English Journal School, West Chester, PA, “Strategies for Using Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth University, Literature and Creative Nonfiction about the coeditor, English Journal Immigrant Experience” Oona Abrams, Chatham High School, New Jersey, Connie Zitlow, retired teacher educator, Ohio English Leadership Quarterly Wesleyan University, Delaware, “Fostering Future Donna Sayers Adomat, Indiana University, coeditor, Teachers’ Understanding of the Immigrant The Journal of Children’s Literature Experience” Karla J. Möller, University of Illinois at Urbana- Tradebook Authors: Reyna Grande, Simon and Champaign, coeditor, The Journal of Children’s Schuster, “Writing the Immigrant Story in Memoir: Literature One Author’s Personal Approach” Angela Wiseman, North Carolina State University, Mitali Perkins, Charlesbridge Publishing, “Writing the coeditor, The Journal of Children’s Literature Immigrant Story: One Author’s Novel Approach” Jonda C. McNair, Clemson University, coeditor, Language Arts H.06 The Power of Postmodern and Kelly Wissman, University at Albany, coeditor, e Wordless Picture Books for Reading Language Arts and Writing Instruction Lisa Storm Fink, National Council of Teachers of B211

English, Urbana, IL, readwritethink.org s

Mary Juzwik, Michigan State University, coeditor, What are the possibilities of postmodern at urd Research in the Teaching of English and wordless picture books in a literacy Mandie Dunn, Michigan State University, editorial workshop? How can teachers use these assistant, Research in the Teaching of English engaging texts to promote all students’ learning? Presenters will present powerful

Scott Jarvie, Michigan State University, editorial a

assistant, Research in the Teaching of English instruction for students’ reading, writing, and y Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University, coeditor, speaking development. Talking Points Presenters: Victoria Bertone, Hofstra University, Deborah MacPhee, Illinois State University, coeditor, Hempstead, NY, “The Rights of Readers: Talking Points Discovering the Pleasures and Purposes of Print Sara Kajder, University of Georgia, coeditor, Voices through Wordless Stories” from the Middle Jennifer Kopaska, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Shelbie Witte, Oklahoma State University, coeditor, “The Rights of Readers: Discovering the Pleasures Voices from the Middle and Purposes of Print through Wordless Stories” Will Fassbender, University of Georgia, editorial Michele Marx, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, assistant, Voices from the Middle “The Rights of Readers: Discovering the Pleasures and Purposes of Print through Wordless Stories” H.05 Advocating for Immigrants and Sylvia Pantaleo, University of Victoria, “Developing g Refugees through the Use of Student Narrative Competence” Creative Nonfiction and Literature: Two Authors, a Librarian, and a H.07 “We Lift as We Climb”: Navigating Teacher Educator Sharing Stories g Academe as Persons of Color, and Strategies Narrating Experiences as Inside- A412 Outsiders Two authors, a teacher educator, and a A405 school librarian discuss advocating for Sponsored by the Black and Latinx immigrants and refugees by providing Caucuses access to literature and creative nonfiction Moderator: Juan Guerra, University of Washington, titles about the Ellis Island experience, the Seattle “forced” immigration of slavery, and modern Presenters: Jung Kim, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL day refugee experiences. Author stories, Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University, Columbus teaching strategies, and bibliographies will Ramón Martínez, Stanford University, Stanford, CA be provided. Linda Prieto, University of Texas at San Antonio Chair: Lois Stover, Marymount University, Arlington, VA Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 161 h Sessions / 11:00 a.m–12:15 p.m. r 19 H.08 Writing with Artifacts: (Re)Narrate Presenters: Matthew Heys, Millard West High School,

m be Omaha, NE g a Powerful Teacher/Self Lloyd Hoshaw, Millard West High School, Omaha, NE A407

e Nov y, What happened when a small group of H.11 Young Children and Materials a teachers collaborated in an out-of-school e Expanding Writing Possibilities: writer’s workshop and learned to use and c Aesthetic Inspirations, Literacy

urd at create artifacts? We’ll share how our artifacts

s Desirings, and Co-Curators of served to strengthen our sense of well-being. te Literacies Join us and learn how to use artifacts to (re) narrate your teaching and your health. A311 Chair: Audrey Lensmire, Augsburg College, Sponsored by the Center for Expansion Minneapolis, MN of Language and Thinking Presenters: Aubrey Hendry, Hiawatha Leadership The panelists share examples of young Academy, Minneapolis, MN, “King” children’s moment-by-moment composing Amanda Mohan, Minneapolis Public Schools, MN, processes as they intra-act and co-curate “Beneath” multimodal literacies with a range of materials. Anna Schick, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/ These panelists draw on theories that support St. Paul, “Writing with Artifacts” the notion that humans and non-humans Samantha Scott, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, together produce new ways of knowing about “Why Waste Such Profound Thoughts in a Bathroom?” writing, being writers, and doing writing. Marie D. S. Voreis, Minneapolis Public Schools, MN, Presenter: Alan Flurkey, Hofstra University, “Assumptions” Hempstead, NY Candace Kuby, University of Missouri, Columbia H.09 Peer-to-Peer Critiques: Tara Gutshall Rucker, Columbia Public Schools, MO s Incorporating First-Page Critique Jaye Thiel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Sessions into the Classroom Angie Zapata, University of Missouri, Columbia A303 H.12 Never Too Young to Stand Up for First-Page critique sessions are widely used Your Beliefs: Critical Media Literacy at professional writing conferences, helping e in Elementary School Classrooms authors gain valuable, anonymous insight m A312 on the impressions of their manuscript. te First pages are read aloud and critiqued This session shares how four elementary with the criteria: What works? What needs school teachers integrated critical media help? Would I keep reading? Here, these literacy practices into their standards- techniques are adapted for the classroom. based curriculum with fourth- and sixth- Presenters: Courtney Stevens, author, Nashville, TN graders. Presenters analyze the impacts Kristin Tubb, author, Arrington, TN that these practices had on their practice, school relationships, and students’ levels H.10 SynBQ: The Intersection of of achievement and social responsibility by s Synthesis & DBQ Essays sharing lessons and student work. A310 Chair: Veronica Garcia, University of San Diego, CA Respondent: Nicole Mirra, University of Texas, El Paso Sponsored by the Center for Presenters: Vanessa Ariaza, Darnall Charter School, Expansions of Language and Thinking San Diego, CA, “Beginning the Journey: Can Teachers of AP English Language and Critical Media Literacy Work Here?” Composition and AP US History discuss how Ali Kayatta, Darnall Charter School, San Diego, CA, students engage with history as a dynamic “Expanding the Work: Exceeding Expectations for text in order to become effective advocates Student Production” in our democracy. A project involving Susan Roche Portillo, Darnall Charter School, San student research, peer revision, and creation Diego, CA, “Getting Started: Teaching Students as of a hybrid Synthesis/DBQ question will Critical Citizens” serve as a focus for discussions. Tiffany Holiday, Darnall Charter School, San Diego, CA, “Looking Forward: How Critical Media Literacy Can Transform an Entire School”

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H.13 Making Children Visible through H.15 Advocating for Young Children’s e Storytelling and Multimodal g Right to Learn, Thrive, and Play Practices e A315 A313 It is through questioning our practices and This session explores how children assert their knowing our children that we can create identities with their sociocultural worlds through early childhood classrooms where children multimodal literacies and rich storytelling. thrive and where children develop personal and community advocacy. Chair: Tara Lencl, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, “I Have a Story to Tell!: Chair: Julia Lopez-Robertson, University of South Making Children Visible through the Power of Carolina, Columbia, “Advocating for Young Story” Children’s Right to Learn and Create Meaning in Presenters: Dana Frantz Bentley, Buckingham Their Own Way” Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, MA, Presenters: Cam DeCock, Mount Eagle Elementary “I Have a Story to Tell!: Making Children Visible School, Alexandria, VA, “It’s Their Day: Keeping through the Power of Story” Kindergarten a Place Where Children Thrive, Play, Tran Nguyen Templeton, Teachers College, Columbia and Learn” University, New York, “’GG Stands for Good Guys’: Tammy Frierson, Richland Two, Columbia, SC,

Making Sense of Children’s Multimodal Practices” “Advocating for Young Children’s Right to Learn s

Haeny Yoon, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Create Meaning in Their Own Way” at urd New York, “’GG Stands for Good Guys’: Making Althea Greenstone, Fairfax County Public Schools, Sense of Children’s Multimodal Practices” Falls Church, VA, “It’s Their Day: Keeping Kindergarten a Place Where Children Thrive, Play,

H.14 The Power of Inquiry, Investigation and Learn” a e & Play: Igniting Deep Learning and Allison Groner, Hagood Elementary School, Pickens, y Joyful Growth SC, “Advocating for Young Children’s Right to Learn and Create Meaning in Their Own Way” A314 Mary Jade Haney, Horrell Hill Elementary School, This session explores how educators can Hopkins, SC, “Advocating for Young Children’s advocate for play and encourage children to Right to Learn and Create Meaning in Their Own co-construct meaningful class investigations, Way” leveraging joyful work in play to meet Katie Keier, Fairfax County Public Schools, Falls standards and create change. Church, VA, “It’s Their Day: Keeping Kindergarten Chair: Kristine Mraz, New York City Board of a Place Where Children Thrive, Play, and Learn” Education, NY, “The Power of Play: Igniting Deep Jordan Wright, Fairfax County Public Schools, Falls Learning and Joyful Growth” Church, VA, “It’s Their Day: Keeping Kindergarten Presenters: Renee Dinnerstein, Independent early a Place Where Children Thrive, Play, and Learn” childhood consultant, “Meaningful Learning through Inquiry, Investigation, and Play” H.16 Black Caucus Open Forum Alison Porcelli, P.S. 59 Beekman Hill International g A402 School, New York, NY, “The Power of Play: Igniting This open meeting provides a space for Deep Learning and Joyful Growth” NCTE members interested in issues of ELA Dana Roth, New York City Department of relevant to Black students, communities, Education, “Meaningful Learning through Inquiry, knowledges, experiences, and textual Investigation, and Play” expressions. It explores issues of equity in Katie Rust Brown, New York City Schools, “Meaningful ELA that sit at the intersection of policy, Learning through Inquiry, Investigation, and Play” practice, and research to highlight and Adele Schroeter, New York City Department of interrupt systems of disparity that devalue Education, “The Power of Play: Igniting Deep Black bodies, lives, and perspectives. Learning and Joyful Growth” Cheryl Tyler, Teachers College Reading and Writing Co-Chairs: David E. Kirkland, New York University, Project, Columbia University, New York, “The Power New York of Play: Igniting Deep Learning and Joyful Growth” Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State University, Columbus

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 163 h Sessions / 11:00 a.m–12:15 p.m. r 19 H.17 Latinx Caucus Open Forum H.21 An Invitation to Writing and

m be g A403 g Action: Preserving and Promoting We welcome educators to join the open c Inclusivity in Basic Writing Courses meeting to learn more about our history, B202 e Nov y, te a membership, and future directions of the This session will address various models of Caucus. The meeting is a space for educators basic writing courses as pathways to college

urd at committed to issues of equity and justice readiness and a comprehensive advocacy s pertaining to the lives and ways of knowing of plan for basic writers, with a particular focus Latinx students, families, and communities to on the needs of non-traditional learners network and share resources. in community colleges. It will explore Co-Chair: Tracey Flores, Arizona State University, the writing instructor’s role as a student Tempe advocate in and out of the college classroom. Sandra L. Osorio, Illinois State University, Normal Presenters: Jessica Dean, Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN, “An Invitation H.19 Reading Aloud NSTA Outstanding to Writing: Preserving and Promoting Inclusivity in e Trade Books Basic Writing Courses” Chitralekha Duttagupta, Utah Valley University, Orem, A408 UT, “Do, Not Tell—Less Talk and More Action: After an overview of the varied genres and Advocacies for Basic Writers” text types present within the National Science Susannah Kilbourne, Lafayette High School, Lexington, Teachers Association Outstanding Trade KY, “An Invitation to Writing: Preserving and Books, classroom teacher presenters will Promoting Inclusivity in Basic Writing Courses” discuss experiences using them in whole-class Kathryn Stewart, Greenville Technical College, interactive readalouds. Participants will have the Greenville, SC, “An Invitation to Writing: Preserving opportunity to examine the books and identify and Promoting Inclusivity in Basic Writing Courses” titles for their own interactive readalouds. Chair: Gary Bingham, Georgia State University, Atlanta H.22 Exploring High School Ethnic Facilitators: Thomas Crisp, Georgia State University, m Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy Atlanta Across Contexts Mehmet Gultekin, Georgia State University, Atlanta s B203 Laura May, Georgia State University, Atlanta c Presenters : Megan Lankford, DeKalb County School te Sponsored by the Black and Latinx District, Atlanta, GA, “Considering Biographical Caucuses Figures as Literary Characters” What is ethnic studies? Why is it significant? Tiffany Lundy, DeKalb County School District, Atlanta, How is it enacted? In this presentation, each GA, “Reconsidering Engagement: Identifying Multiple panelist will take a different perspective Types of Participation” (Latin@ studies, Black studies, and Indigenous studies) to demonstrate the importance of H.20 Empowering Communities of ethnic studies and the ways it can be enacted. te Readers: Book Clubs and Service Respondent: Ernest Morrell, Teachers College, Learning Columbia University, New York B201 Presenters: Donja Bridges, The Ohio State University, These panelists will share the ways in which Columbus, “Free-Dumb Fighting: Liberating the they have used shared reading practices to Mis-Education of American Youth through Black engage teachers as advocates and create Studies” communities of students. Panel highlights Cati de los Rios, Teachers College, Columbia include hearing from teacher candidates, and University, New York,”Literacies of Power: learning about how the book I Am Malala Exploring Multilingual and Multiliterate Repertoires worked as a class assignment. in a Chican@/Latin@ Studies Class Tim San Pedro, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Presenters: Anne Katz, Armstrong State University, “Ethnic Studies for All” Savannah, GA, “Redefining the Reading Professor’s Role: Advocating for Creative Learning Opportunities for Teacher Education Candidates” Jenny Rich, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, “Advocacy Book Clubs in Teacher Education”

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H.23 Literacy Instruction with Digital Roundtable 4: Designing Writing Assignments That s Media: Collaboration, Diversity, Make Students Think Jim Burke, Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA c Advocacy B204 Roundtable 5: Using Mentor Texts as a Pathway for te Problem-Solving This panel shares four classroom research Lynne Dorfman, Pennsylvania Writing and Literature projects: a student research project on social Project media movements such as #blacklivesmatter, Rose Cappelli, Pennsylvania Writing and Literature an upper-division college multimedia Project, West Chester assignment asking students to cite each Roundtable 6: Creative Writing Strategies Using other’s projects, a Writing through Media Latino Voices course using maker media, and research Ruth Culham, The Culham Writing Company about teaching diverse undergraduate students using digital media. Roundtable 7: Finding Time for Inquiry in an Overstuffed School Schedule Presenters: Michelle Crooks, Grossmont College, El Harvey “Smokey” Daniels, Heinemann Cajon, CA, “From Tweets to the Streets: Exploring the Power of Social Media Movements” Roundtable 8: Reading and Writing to Problem- Rochelle Gold, University of Southern California, Solve Editing Issues Kelly Gallagher, Anaheim Union High School District, CA Los Angeles, “Collaboration and Digital Writing s

Assignments” Roundtable 9: Essential Moves That Support at urd Madison Jones, University of Florida, Gainesville, Student Independence and Ownership “Ekphrastic Media: Visualizing Advocacy in the Gravity Goldberg, Gravity Goldberg, LLC Writing Classroom” Roundtable 10: Using Read-Aloud and Independent

Kenya Mitchell, University of California, Davis, Reading as a Springboard to Creative Dialogue and a

“Writing at the Crossroads: Supporting Diverse Engagement y Student Writing in the Digital Realm” Mary Howard, literacy author/consultant, Broken Arrow, OK H.24 Reading and Writing: Pathways Roundtable 11: Pathways to Informational Literacy: g for Students to Creative Thinking, Reading, Writing, Wondering Together Innovation, and Problem-Solving Linda Hoyt, author/consultant, Powell Butte, OR B206 Roundtable 12: Can Students Learn to Be Engaged? How Teachers Can Open the Pathways to Creative Roundtable leaders will focus on topics that Thinking, Innovation, and Problem-Solving address problem-solving while reading and Ellin Keene, author/consultant, Denver, CO writing and how reading and writing inspire students to think creatively and develop Roundtable 13: Integrating Multicultural Voices in innovative ideas. Participants can attend the Language Arts Classroom Joan Kindig, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA conversations by teachers, educational writers, and researchers from elementary, middle, and Roundtable 14: Working from a Creative Spark— high school, and authors of children’s books. Characters Have Problems to Solve Lester Laminack, author/consultant, Asheville, NC Chair: Laura Robb, Powhatan School, Boyce, VA Roundtable 15: Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Roundtable 1: Poetry Power! Turbocharge Your Doing in All Disciplines Students ReLeah Cossett Lent, ReLeah Lent Educational Consulting Kwame Alexander, Scholastic Roundtable 16: The Play May Be Just the Thing: Roundtable 2: Courageous Commitments; Knowing Accidental Pathways to Fluency Development, and Nurturing Readers and Writers through Core Creative Thinking, and a Closer Reading of the World Literacy Practices James Nageldinger, Elmira College, Elmira, NY Pam Allyn, Scholastic, Inc. Roundtable 17: Keeping Poetry Central to the Core Roundtable 3: Unbelievably Simple and Concrete of Reading and Writing Activities in Structural Design of a Text: Dreaming Linda Rief, Oyster River Middle School & UNH It Up as a Writer, Nailing It as a Reader Gretchen Bernabei, Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy, San Antonio, TX

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m be for Increasing Divergent Thinking and Inquiry When “EdTPA and the Licensing of Teachers: Advocating Reading Fiction and Nonfiction for a Better Way to Prepare Teachers” Laura Robb, Powhatan School, Boyce, VA Kate Sjostrom, University of Illinois at Chicago,

e Nov y, “Re-storying to Resist: Writing Our Way to

a Roundtable 19: Using Reading Strategies as a Writer and Writing Strategies as a Reader: Starting from a Advocacy in English Education” Place of Strength urd at Jennifer Serravallo, Heinemann H.27 English and Science Teachers s Roundtable 20: Everything Is a Remix: Combining m Unite! University and Middle Grades Fiction, NonFiction, Biography, and Visuals in Teachers Collaborate to Design and Context to Create an Innovative Reading and Writing Promote Cross-Curricular, Ethics- Experience Based Argument Writing Instruction Deborah Wiles, Scholastic, Inc. B209 Roundtable 21: Courageous Commitments: Knowing This session will share strategies and and Nurturing Readers and Writers through Core encourage discussion, using curricular Literacy Practices strategies, writing samples, and rubrics from Kari Yates, Moorhead Area Public Schools, Moorhead, MN argument writing in middle school science classrooms to demonstrate cross-curricular H.25 Advocacy through the Art of writing and teaching practices. g Storytelling Presenters: Brendan Callahan, Kennesaw State B207 University, GA A panel of accomplished educators with wide Jennifer Dail, Kennesaw State University, GA experience and substantial insight into all levels Michael Dias, Kennesaw State University, GA of advocacy work will present their own stories Bryan Gillis, Kennesaw State University, GA of advocacy experiences. They will suggest how to include storytelling in advocacy work H.28 Living the Learning: Finding the and options for activities for those wishing to g Curriculum in Our Own Practices advocate at even an introductory level. B210 Chair: Robert Dandoy, PCTELA From basketball courts to activist rallies, Presenters: Lu Ann McNabb, National Council of spaces abound where apprentice-type Teachers of English relationships thrive. What happens when Shanna Peeples, Amarillo Independent School District, TX teachers make space for strong, fluid Matt Skillen, Elizabethtown College, PA apprenticeships with their students? Join us to discuss ways we reflect on our own H.26 Stories of Advocacy in English practices to support our students’ growing te Education: Methods, Community and practices as readers, writers, inquirers, and Licensure activists. B208 Presenters: Amanda Blake, Center for Inquiry, Three different ways of thinking about advocacy Columbia, SC in English education: advocating for progressive Lyn Mueller, Center for Inquiry, Columbia, SC practice—restorying teaching—within methods Susanne Pender, Center for Inquiry, Columbia, SC and field instruction; advocating for social Emily Whitecotton, Center for Inquiry, Columbia, SC engagement in a community activism project; and advocating for better ways for our teachers to get licensed in the field. Chair: Todd DeStigter, Univerity of Illinois at Chicago Presenters: Lauren Bell, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Building Stories: Creating Community and Fostering Civic Literacy beyond the English Classroom”

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H.29 From High School to College: H.31 Spirit Club!: Advocating for s Supporting Students’ Self- m Inclusion and Engagement through Advocacy of Literacy Skills Reading Books by Authors of Color B212 B214 The transition from secondary to Teacher-advisors for the middle school postsecondary reading expectations is reading club “Spirit Club” will talk about challenging for many college students, starting a new club focused on reading requiring them to adapt and develop books written by Coretta Scott King Award strategic comprehension skills. This session recipients in a suburban district. Discussion will identify ways classrooms can support the will include examples of navigating support for transition to the rigorous and self-initiated and barriers to a reading club using books by demands of college learning. Final discussion authors of color. will examine opportunities for secondary/ Co-Chairs: Cynthia Devese, Westerville City Schools, post-secondary collaboration. Westerville, OH Chair: Judith Franzak, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Jill Williams, Westerville City Schools, Westerville, OH MD Presenter: Tammy Domingos, Westerville City Presenters: Christina Camillo, Salisbury University, Schools/The Ohio State University, Columbus

Salisbury, MD, “Literacy in the STEM Fields: The Sarah Novak, Westerville City Schools, Westerville, OH s

Language of the Lab” Chaundra Tyson, Westerville City Schools, Westerville, OH at urd Courtney Harned, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, “Self-assessment Journals: H.32 Research Roundtables #1 Developing a Sense of Control over Achievement m c B215

in the College Context” a s te In this roundtable session, researchers Heather Porter, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, y present findings on pressing issues in “Academic Engagement Outside of Class: Linking literacy, language, and learning across Skill and Disciplinary Learning” communities. H.30 Moving Advocacy Forward: Chair: Django Paris, Michigan State University, East e Teachers and Parents Reading and Lansing Roundtable 1: Research on Hip Hop, Poetry, and c Writing Black Male Literacies B213 Robert Marx, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, “I This presentation illustrates how culturally don’t have a burden on me anymore, ‘cause I let it relevant texts were used to engage, elicit out’: Spoken Word Poetry in the English Language discussions, and write texts with Latino/a Arts” parents about social justice and equity. H. Bernard Hall, West Chester University, PA, “Raging We share the results of a family literacy against the Machine from inside the Machine: project, the ways that teachers tapped into Collaborative Practitioner Research, Hip-hop parents’ rich cultural literacies and linguistic ILL-Literacies, & ‘(W)righting’ Poetry in the Urban knowledge, and advocacy plans. English Language Arts” Presenters: Anita Hernandez, New Mexico State Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland University, Las Cruces Baltimore County, “Catchin’ the Beat: Critically Jose Montelongo, New Mexico State University, Las Examining Why Black Male Literacies Matter” Cruces Lamar Johnson, Michigan State University, East Nancy Valdez-Barraza, Dona Ana Elementary, Las Lansing, “Catchin’ the Beat: Critically Examining Cruces, NM Why Black Male Literacies Matter” Brenda Villalobos-Gonzalez, Gadsden School District, Sakeena Everett, University of Illinois, Chicago, Sunland Park, NM “Catchin’ the Beat: Critically Examining Why Black Male Literacies Matter”

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m be Understanding Equity Literacy Classroom Betina Hsieh, California State University, Long Beach, Christina Robison, University of New Hampshire, “Using Twitter to Advocate for Professional Durham, “Helpers and Haters: Literacy

e Nov y, Community and Professional Development among Sponsorship among Rural Teens” a Preservice English Candidates” Sarah Morris, West Virginia University, Morgantown, Joseph R. Jones, Columbus State University, GA, “Yik “Collaboration, Space, and Place in the

urd at Yak: How Can It Help English Teachers Dismantle Composition Classroom” s Homophobia?” Shauna Wight, Southeast Missouri State University, Kate O’Hara, New York Institute of Technology, Old Cape Girardeau, “Advocating College Access Westbury, “Voices of Empowerment: English through Authentic Writing” Language Learners, Their Teachers, and Technology” Roundtable 8: Research in Youth Literacies and Roundtable 3: Using Digital Spaces and Tools for Social Justice Understanding Equity Antero Garcia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Kevin Cordi, Ohio Northern University, Ada, “Digital “Crossing the Boundaries of Design, Research, and Communities as a Place to Advocate for Reading, Advocacy: Youth-Driven Co-Design and Powerful Reflection, and Out-of-Class Awareness” Critical Literacies” Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Chris Lewis, Mountain View High School, El Monte, “Digital Communities as a Place to Advocate for CA, “Crossing the Boundaries of Design, Research, Reading, Reflection, and Out-of-Class Awareness” and Advocacy: Youth-Driven Co-Design and Jeremy Hyler, Fulton Schools, Middleton, MI, “Digital Powerful Critical Literacies” Communities as a Place to Advocate for Reading, Danielle Fillipiak, Teachers College, Columbia Reflection, and Out-of-Class Awareness” University, NY, “Crossing the Boundaries of Design, Roundtable 4: Exploring Functions, Perceptions, Research, and Advocacy: Youth-Driven Co-Design and Boundaries of Technology in the Classroom and Powerful Critical Literacies” Jeffrey Carpenter, Elon University, NC, “Educator E. Sybil Durand, Arizona State University, Tempe, Perceptions of the Global Read-Aloud” “Learning Self-Advocacy through Young Adult Pernille Ripp, Oregon School District, WI, “Educator Literature and Youth Participatory Action Perceptions of the Global Read-Aloud” Research (YPAR)” Jodi Whitehurst, Arkansas State University–Beebe, Kristina Stamatis, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Boundaries to Instructional Use of Facebook in “Crossing the Boundaries of Design, Research, and Higher Education: A Grounded Theory Collective Advocacy: Youth-Driven Co-Design and Powerful Case Study” Critical Literacies” Roundtable 5: Exploring Functions, Perceptions, Michael Domínguez, University of North Carolina, and Boundaries of Technology in the Classroom Chapel Hill, “Syncretic Literacies and Ontological April Sanders, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, “The Healing: The Literacy of Youth Participation in a Roles and Functions of Microblogging in the Culturally Sustaining Learning Ecology” Classroom Discussion” Roundtable 9: Argmentation and Disciplinary Julia Reidy, Kennesaw State University, GA, “Adopting Literacy Practices Technology for Responding to Student Writing: Jon-Philip Imbrenda, Salisbury University, MD, “Pitfalls How Student and Instructor Priorities Intersect” and Potentials in the Teaching of Argument” Kathryn Dixon, Texas A&M University Commerce, Kristine Gritter, Seattle Pacific University, WA, “Clever “The Roles and Functions of Microblogging in the Language as Signs of Growth Mindset: The Classroom Discussion” Rhetorical Strategies of Migrant Adolescents in Rebecca Putman, Tarleton State University, Structured Debate Competitions” Stephenville, TX, “The Roles and Functions of Megan McDonald Van Deventer, University of Microblogging in the Classroom Discussion” Minnesota Twin Cities, “Reading Like a Student: Roundtable 6: Advocating for African American Classroom Practices That Harness Student Children: African American English as a Tool for Literacies to Enhance Disciplinary Literacy” Learning Julie Antilla-Garza, Seattle Pacific University, WA, Catherine Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Argumentation and Disciplinary Literacy Practices— Gholnecsar E. Muhammad, Georgia State University, Clever Language as Signs of Growth Mindset: The Atlanta Rhetorical Strategies of Migrant Adolescents in Janeann Bean-Folkes, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Structured Debate Competitions”

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H.33 When the Supreme Court Is Not H.35 Advocating for Literacy: Working s Enough: Advocating for Change in m with Experienced and Preservice the Classroom Teachers to Re-Imagine the s B216 Teaching of Whole Class Texts c Two high school teachers and one B218 te administrator will share their advocacy for In this interactive session, two 9th-grade the study of literature with sexual minority teachers and a university instructor will characters at the forefront: the success share an approach to teaching whole-class and challenges. Each story will be followed texts that puts students at the center of the by audience feedback. Together, we hope reading process. The session will include a to continue the conversation of how to discussion of specific strategies and ways advocate for ourselves and our students. to advocate for student-centered, literacy- Presenters: David Noskin, New Trier High School, based instruction. Winnetka, IL Presenters: Brady Nash, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Patrick Finnessy, Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, IL School, Austin, TX William Fritz, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Deborah Kelt, University of Texas at Austin Lincolnshire, IL Dorothy Weller, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, TX s

H.34 Advocacy for a Better World: H.36 Finding Merit in Popularized at urd s Ethical Reasoning in Turbulent s Pedagogies: Making “Mindset” Times c Meaningful in ELA Classroom B217 B306 te a

How can we prepare our students to be Sponsored by the College English y responsible citizens and to advocate for Association justice in a complex world? Using Paul and In this session, designed especially for Elder’s Understanding the Foundations of teachers of high school and post-secondary Ethical Reasoning, the Universal Declaration writing, we share the process and results of of Human Rights, and literary texts, an intervention to support student success. students consider the world from an ethical developed and piloted in writing classrooms, perspective. Attendees will engage in course and walk attendees through the theory of activities and will leave with concrete lessons our intervention and implementation that and resources. yields seemingly “magical” results. Presenters: Karen Cunningham, Glenbrook North Presenters: Stacy Bailey, University of Northern High School, Northbrook, IL Colorado, Greeley Kerry Galson, Glenbrook North High School, Jeraldine Kraver, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley Northbrook, IL Courtney Luce, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley Nicholas Timmer, Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, IL H.37 Victor Villasenor and Leonard Davis c in Conversation: Negotiating How Dis/Ability Studies in Education Theory Shapes the Teaching of College-Level Text-Based Writing B307 How much of a role do teachers play in an individual’s school success? In this session I define Disability Studies; evaluate the role teachers played in Victor’s schooling; and apply theory to Victor’s academic experience. Presenter: Lisa Tucker, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 169 h Sessions / 11:00 a.m–12:15 p.m. r 19 H.38 Advocacy for Higher Education their learning! Students from area schools

m be s Readiness: Ideas for How Parents, will lead roundtable conversations that invite High School Teachers, and Higher you to brainstorm right beside them. What c works? What doesn’t? Where do we go next? Education Faculty Can Work e Nov y, Chris Lehman, The Educator Collaborative a Together Co-Chairs: Rozlyn Linder, The Literacy Initiative B310 Roundtable 1: Middle level students from Chestnut

urd at The transition from high school to higher

s Log Middle School, Douglas County School education can be daunting for students, System, Douglasville, GA parents, high school teachers, and instructors Roundtable 2: Middle level students from Coweta in institutions of higher education. In this County Middle School, Coweta County School presentation we will present ideas to help System, Newman, GA all parties come through this major life Roundtable 3: Middle level students from Lithia occurrence successfully by working together Springs Elementary School, Douglas County to advocate for students’ readiness. School System, Lithia Springs, GA Presenters: Nikki Falco Buss, Starkville High School, MS Roundtable 4: Middle level students from Mountain Peggy Hopper, Mississippi State University, Starkville Park Elementary School, Gwinnet County Public Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi, Schools, Lilburn, GA Oxford Amanda Witt, Oxford High School, Oxford, MS H.41 NCTE Collaborative Roundtable g B313 H.39 Creating Creative Writing Camps Sponsored by the NCTE Collaboratives g for Kids: Authentic and Digital Writing Practices for the Early NCTE Collaboratives are groups established by members who have a passion for Grades a particular topic or field within our B311 professional community. This roundtable This panel presentation will describe a session will give Collaborative members summer creative writing camp for students and others with an interest in joining a entering 4th–9th grades. The Bearswrite: Collaborative a chance to meet, network, and From Pencils to Pixels camp has concluded learn about new initiatives and studies. five successful summer sessions. Camp Chair: Jocelyn Chadwick, NCTE Vice President, Harvard faculty will discuss the camp structure and Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA methods used supporting young authors in writing. Student products will be shared. H.42 Creating Global Perspectives Co-Chairs: Janie Mason, Arkansas Council of g through Collaborative Projects and Teachers of English and Language Arts (ACTELA) Crowd-Curated Cultural Collections Donna Wake, University of Central Arkansas, Conway B314 Presenters: Etta Niswonger, ACTELA Vickie Rogers, ACTELA This session describes a comprehensive Elizabeth Rollans, ACTELA six-month PD program designed to prepare Stephanie Vanderslice, University of Central teachers to integrate culture and global Arkansas, Conway perspectives in their classrooms. Presenters Jeff Whittingham, University of Central Arkansas, Conway will synthesize strategies, technologies, and products used with inservice teachers and H.40 Why Middle Matters: STUDENTS will discuss facets of participant learning. m Advocate for Next Steps in Middle Presenter: Mike P. Cook, Auburn University, Auburn, AL Level Teaching and Learning Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Ruie Pritchard, North Carolina State University, B312 Raleigh Sponsored by the Middle Level Section Steering Committee Student voices + adult choices = a new future! In this Middle Level sponsored session, join middle schoolers advocating for

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H.43 A Vision for English Education: H.46 Advocating for Student Voice—Key m Transcending Current Reforms and e to Improving Instruction and Higher- s Advocating for Our Profession m Order Thinking: Effective Classroom Practices Developed by the Center c B315 te This interactive panel will address the on English Learning & Achievement te question, “How might the profession B404 advocate for English education in a way Sponsored by the Center on English that aligns with our traditions and prepares Learning & Achievement (CELA) prospective teachers to meet the future?” This collaborative classroom session by CELA The session will highlight areas of change Partnership for Literacy coaches invites within ELA and facilitate discussions about participants to discuss issues essential to how to advocate for the profession. developing higher-order thinking. Coaches use Chair: Donna Pasternak, University of Wisconsin, a variety of effective instructional materials Milwaukee and strategies and discuss why and how they Presenters: Samantha Caughlan, CEE Methods work. Included are tools that can be used to Commission, Lansing, Michigan, “K12 Content advocate for such effective instruction. Standards and Associated Assessments” Presenters: Janet Angelis, University at Albany, NY Heidi Hallman, University of Kansas, Lawrence, s Karen Polsinelli, University at Albany, NY “Preparing Teachers for Racial, Cultural, and at urd Johanna Shogan, University at Albany, NY Linguistic Diversity” Donna Pasternak, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, H.47 Exploring the Other: How Popular “New Technologies and New Literacies in English m Culture Sparks Conversations and Education” a

Laura Renzi, West Chester University, PA, “Field s Change within the Classroom y B408 Experiences and Their Relationship with the ELA c Methods Course” Increasingly, pop culture texts serve an Leslie S. Rush, University of Wyoming, Laramie, exciting role in classrooms at all levels. This “Content-Area Literacy Requirements” demonstration will provide mini-lessons, handouts, and activities that show how H.44 Keeping It Real: Authentic Learning courses across the curriculum and from e through Classroom Publishing middle school to college can promote critical m B316 thinking and social justice by using YA novels, graphic novels, and films to explore how Each year, our students incorporate nearly s society defines and relates to the Other. every aspect of the ELA curriculum to write and publish a book; some of them are Presenters: Susan Epting, Newberry College, even available in bookstores! Learn to use Newberry, SC classroom publishing to motivate and inspire Amanda Hodges, Newberry College, Newberry, SC your students with authentic audiences, real- Christy Wendland, Newberry College, Newberry, SC life applications, cross-curricular experiences, and meaningful learning! For all ages. Presenters: Dawn Burnette, Fayette County School System, Fayetteville, GA Jamie Lovett, retired English teacher, Gwinnett County Schools, Hoschton, GA

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 171 h Sessions / 11:00 a.m–12:15 p.m. r 19 H.48 Failure in College Writing Courses: American Baptists and Puerto Rican

m be c Critical and Optimistic Perspectives Pentecostals in the US; Muslims and Tamil Hindus in the UK) highlighting children’s and B409 teachers’ agency and expertise. Insights for

e Nov y, Sponsored by the College Section teaching in secular settings and advocacy will a Steering Committee be generated. This panel, sponsored by the College Section, Chair: Dinah Volk, Cleveland State University, OH

urd at engages research on failure by connecting

s Presenter: Eve Gregory, Goldsmiths, University of it with gaming, rituals and embodiment, and London, England, “Intertwined Worlds: Hindu/ assignment design, and by attending to the Saiva Faith Teachers’ Flexible Language Practices needs of repeating students: the precarious as a Bridge between Faith and School in population of those who re-take our writing Contemporary London” classes after failing them previously. Arani Ilankuberan, Goldsmiths, University of London, Chair: Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at England, “Intertwined Worlds: Hindu/Saiva Faith Lafayette Teachers’ Flexible Language Practices as a Bridge Respondent: Asao B. Inoue, University of Washington, between Faith and School in Contemporary London” Tacoma Vally Lytra, Goldsmiths, University of London, England, Presenters: Kurt Bouman, Bridgewater, MA, “‘Back “Intertwined Worlds: Hindu/Saiva Faith Teachers’ Again?’ Repeated Failure in Writing Classes” Flexible Language Practices as a Bridge between Steven Engel, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, “EPIC Faith and School in Contemporary London” FAIL: Unpacking Students’ Talk about Failure in a Tryphenia Peele-Eady, University of New Mexico, Gamified Writing Classroom” Albuquerque, “Reading from the Scriptures: Timothy Oleksiak, Bloomsburg University, Negotiating Language and Literacy in the Black Bloomsburg, PA, “Persistent ‘Quality-Failure’ and Church Context” Alternative Academic Rituals” Andrey Rosowsky, University of Sheffield, England, Justin Thurman, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA, “Heavenly Entextualizations: How Young Muslims “From Work to Quality to Product: Three Design Are Inducted into the Multilingual Liturgical Emphases for Productive Failure Assessment” Practices of Their Faith” Dinah Volk, Cleveland State University, OH, H.49 Grammar to Get Things Done “Collaborating to Generate Insights for Secular m B405 Teaching Practice and Advocacy” s Sponsored by the Georgia Council of H.51 Story as Advocacy: The Work of Teachers of English te g Kevin Henkes This interactive session will investigate B309 approaches to grammar instruction anchored in real-world situations. “Form” and “function” This session features Kevin Henkes, his editor, dominate conventional grammar lessons, but and participants as we celebrate Kevin’s an emphasis on “use”—how grammar concepts decades of work as an author and illustrator can help us get things done in our lives— who advocates for children. Kevin and his can help make grammar more immediately editor will share their creative process. relevant for students. Audience participation will be incorporated and encouraged throughout the session with Presenters: Darren Crovitz, Kennesaw State both face-to-face and tweeted questions. University, GA Michelle Devereaux, Kennesaw State University, GA Presenters: Jackie Arnold, University of Dayton, OH Trish Bandre, Salina Public Schools, Salina, KS H.50 Children’s Literacies, Languages, Virginia Duncan, Greenwillow Books Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow Books e and Identities Nurtured in Religious Mary-Kate Sableski, University of Dayton, OH te Settings: Insights for Secular Teaching Practice and Advocacy A316 Panelists will share descriptions of children’s languages, literacies, and identities nurtured in diverse religious communities (African

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H.52 Advocating Change in the Reading Poster 2: Teaching the Difficult: Teacher m Workshop Classroom: Go between Candidates’ First Steps toward Guiding Secondary the Lines Students to Develop Critical Thinking Skills s Michele Castleman, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH B406 Bailey Seevers, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH te Coauthors and educators Michael Anthony Sarah Wott, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH and Joan Kaywell take participants “Between Poster 3: Impact of Coaching on Changing the Lines” to introduce a new grades 7–12 Teachers’ Practices classroom reading workshop paradigm: Jeffrey Dillard, DeKalb County Schools, AL social engagement, collaborative student Poster 4: Using Johnston’s Choice Words for inquiry, on-demand writing, and YA Teacher Inquiry literature all connected to the ELA academic Jessica Gallo, University of Montana, Missoula standards. Bailey Hermann, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Michael Anthony, Muhlenberg School Presenters: Poster 5: Creative Digital Advocacy: A Problem/ District, Reading, PA Solution Writing Unit and a PechaKucha Joan Kaywell, University of South Florida, Tampa Rachelle Hooper, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX H.53 Elevating Inquiry and Discussion Poster 6: An International Collaboration to Integrate Smart Phones in Secondary ELA m with Literature in Middle Level s

Classrooms at urd Classrooms Blanche O’Bannon, University of Texas–Knoxville B407 Poster 7: Entering the Research Realm: My First In this dynamic combined session, presenters Year as a PhD Student will share their highly effective approaches. Stephanie Reid, Arizona State University, Phoenix a

Topics to be demonstrated and discussed Poster 8: Have You CAMPED in Your Classroom y are assessing sustained discussion, teaching Today? social justice using novel studies, and Sandra Slaughter, Indiana University, Bloomington teaching nonfiction texts in tandem with fiction. H.55 Exhibitor Session: Newsela PRO Presenters: Helen Hemphill, Tennessee Humanities g in the Classroom Council, Nashville A406 Michelle Walker, Fordham University, New York, NY, “The Talking Trick: Cultivating and Assessing Sponsored by Newsela Sustained Discussion in the Era of Exit Slips” A Newsela Educator Specialist will Sharon Yates, Middle Tennessee State University, demonstrate how Newsela PRO makes Murfreesboro, “Teaching Fact with Fiction” it easy to see each student’s areas of mastery and growth, allowing you to easily H.54 Poster Sessions: Innovations in individualize instruction for every student. s Teacher Education and Professional Learning c B206 Foyer te Whether you’re teaching students to become teachers, or striving to become a better teacher yourself, these poster presentations provide a range of ideas that represented the quest for continuous improvement at the core of our field.

Poster 1: Empowering Future ELA Teachers to Take Action through Online Professional Development Kathryn Caprino, University of Florida, Gainesville Terri Suico, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

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12:30-2:15 p.m.

Children’s Book Awards Luncheon thomas murphy ballroom

The winners of the 2016 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children will speak at this Luncheon. Presiding: Ted Kesler, Queens College, Flushing, NY, and Detra Price-Dennis, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY Keynote Speakers: Don Brown, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, “Orbis Pictus Don Brown Sharon M. Draper Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Winner” Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, “Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Winner”

2016 Award Recognition: Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Presenter: Cyndi Giorgis, Award Committee Chair, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recipient: Don Brown for Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers

Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction Presenter: Barbara Kiefer, Award Committee Chair, The Ohio State University, Columbus Recipient: Sharon M. Draper for Stella by Starlight, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

2017 Award announcements: Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Presenter: Cyndi Giorgis, Award Committee Chair, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction Presenter: Barbara Kiefer, Award Committee Chair, The Ohio State University, Columbus Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children Presenter: Karen Hildebrand, Award Committee Chair, Delaware City Schools, OH

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Secondary Section Luncheon B302–B305

Presiding: Katie Greene, West Forsyth High School, Cumming, GA Speaker Introduction: Janis Mottern-High, Twin Falls High School, Twin Falls, ID Speaker: Leila Christenbury Leila Christenbury is Commonwealth Professor of English Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. A past president of NCTE, Christenbury was the recipient of NCTE’s Distinguished Service Award in 2008. She has written for and served as editor for a variety of NCTE journals and has authored 10 books. A frequent speaker Leila Christenbury across the country on issues of English teaching and learning, Christenbury has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, CNN, and in the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and U.S. News & World Report.

Award Recognition: s High School Teachers of Excellence Award at urd Presenter: Lawrence Butti, Mineola High School, Garden City Park, NY Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award

Presenter: David Gorlewski, State University of New York, New Paltz, and Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth a

University, Richmond y Recipients: Jennifer Ansbach, Manchester Township High School, NJ, “Using Memorials to Build Critical Thinking Skills and Empathy” (March 2016) Kiran Subhani, New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL, “Photos as Witness: Teaching Visual Literacy for Research and Social Action” (November 2015) English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award Presenter: David Gorlewski, State University of New York, New Paltz, and Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Recipient: Robert Rozema, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, “Manga and the Autistic Mind” (September 2015)

College Section/Conference on College Composition and Communication Luncheon B308

Presiding: Joyce Locke Carter, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Introducing Speaker: Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Speaker: Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deborah Brandt is professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where, for nearly thirty years, she taught undergraduate writing and graduate courses in literacy, contemporary writing theory, and research methods. Her research explores the social history of writing as seen through the experiences of everyday people. This work draws on hundreds of biographical accounts of people from all walks of life to trace how writing literacy changes over time and with what social impact. Her book Literacy in American Lives (2001) won the CCCC Outstanding Book Award, the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, and the 2003 Grawemeyer Award in Education. Brandt’s research has been recognized with support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Spencer Foundation, among other sources. Deborah Brandt

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m be m Students a Voice in Digital Spaces empathize with the unique perspectives of others. s B207 Presenters: Sera Arcaro, Raleigh Charter High School,

e Nov y, When we open our inbox or check a social NC, “Advocating Empathy: Using Stories to Break a network, we are presented with arguments: through Stereotypes” product reviews, memes, videos, and more. Lisa Springle, Raleigh Charter High School, NC,

urd at To elevate their voices, students need to

s “Advocating Empathy: Using Stories to Break critically read and write arguments across through Stereotypes” these digital spaces. Join the conversation as we explore unique ways to teach these skills. I.04 Minecraft Opera: Advocating the Co-Chairs: Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, s Application of Out-of-School Mount Pleasant Literacies to ELA Standards Kristen Turner, Fordham University, New York, NY c B213 Presenters: Alex Corbitt, The Bronx School of Young Leaders, “Arguing Online: Yelp and Amazon Students wrote the story for an opera Reviews” performed within Minecraft, a video game. Lauren King, Urban Assembly School of Design and Starting with Mozart, OPERAcraft inspired Construction, New York, NY, “‘Can We Do This students to create characters, plot, and for Every Class?’ Pairing Traditional and Digital dialogue. Using this out-of-school literacy, Argument in PSAs” a passion of many students, to link to ELA Valerie Mattesich, Pascack Valley High School, standards offered a way to create a third Hillsdale, NJ, “Blogs and Memes as Argument space in the classroom. through Visual Design” Chair: Katie Dredger, James Madison University, Betsy Reid, Trinity Episcopal School, Richmond, VA, Harrisonburg, VA, “Writing Narrative in “A Progression of Teaching Digital Argument” Operacraft” Presenters: Ivica Ico Bukvic, Virginia Tech, I.02 Mindful Writing Blacksburg, “Collaborating Across Disciplines” g A303 Tracy Cowden, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, “Interdisciplinary Work and the Meaning of Mindful Writing is a classroom demonstration Diction” for all writing instructors. Teachers are shown Donna Thompson, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, how to improve student writing and increase “Interdisciplinary Project Management” classroom equity through management of Ariana Wyatt, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, “Inventing student-to-student conversation about their OPERAcraft” writing processes. Writing strategies are examined in light of research on working memory and executive function. I.05 Creating Reading Advocates Across Disciplines Presenters: Matthew Johnson, Community High, Ann g Arbor, MI, “Reading, Writing, and Relationships” A311 Ken McGraw, Community High, Ann Arbor, MI, An author, a librarian, and a teacher will show “Reading, Writing, and Relationships” attendees how to “de-nerdify” their school libraries, hook their colleagues in other I.03 Advocating Empathy: Using Stories disciplines into sharing and promoting the s to Break through Stereotypes love of reading, and learn how YA authors A310 spread the love of reading and inspiration for writing through tours and school visits. Our classrooms can be places where Reba Gordon, Trinity Preparatory School, empathy breaks through stereotypes if we Presenters: Winter Park, FL actively advocate for students to see the Amy Christine Parker, Random House humanity in others. Two high school teachers Georgia Parker, Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, FL will discuss pedagogical approaches that deliberately encourage students to confront

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I.06 The Future Is Now: Exploring 21st Laura Snyder, Brown University, Providence, RI g Century Teaching Ideas with the Karen Spector, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Next Generation of English Teachers Katie Stover, Furman University, Greenville, SC Terri Suico, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN B401–B402 Bonnie Sunstein, University of Iowa, Iowa City Sponsored by the CEE Graduate Strand Jennifer VanDerHeide, Michigan State University, East (CEE-GS) Lansing In this wide-ranging session sponsored by the Deborah Vriend Van Duinen, Hope College, Holland, MI CEE Graduate Strand (CEE-GS), undergraduate Patricia Waters, Troy University, AL and master’s level preservice English teachers Nigel Waterton, Montana State University, Bozeman from across the nation will lead roundtables Allen Webb, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo exploring 21st century teaching ideas and Allison Wynhoff Olsen, Montana State University, research-driven pedagogical practices. Please Bozeman join us in support of these outstanding future Carl Young, North Carolina State University, Raleigh English teachers. Michelle Zoss, Georgia State University, Atlanta *Student presenters are determined after the Respondents: Tara Anderson, UNC-Chapel Hill program deadline. Attendees will receive a Meghan Barnes, University of Georgia, Athens separate program with the names of roundtable

Crystal Beach, Buford High School, GA, and s leaders and their presentation titles upon

University of Georgia, Athens at urd entering the session. Julie Bell, Michigan State University, East Lansing Co-Chairs: Alan Brown, Wake Forest University, Sheila Benson, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Winston-Salem, NC Falls Luke Rodesiler, Indiana University–Purdue University Nikel Bussolati, Wando High School, Charleston, SC Fort Wayne a Kathryn Caprino, University of Florida, Gainesville y Mentors: Susanna Benko, Ball State University, Muncie, IN Steffany Comfort Maher, Western Michigan Carlin Borsheim-Black, Central Michigan University, University, Kalamazoo Mount Pleasant Annamary Consalvo, University of Texas at Tyler Ashley Boyd, Washington State University, Pullman Ann David, University of the Incarnate Word, San Alan Brown, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Antonio, TX Dawan Coombs, Brigham Young University, UT Michelle Falter, North Carolina State University, Thomas C. Crochunis, Shippensburg University, PA Raleigh Jill Flynn, University of Delaware, Newark Brent Goff, The Ohio State University, Columbus Paula Greathouse, Tennessee Tech University, Aaron Levy, Kennesaw State University, GA Cookeville Sheryl Long, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC Alice Hays, Arizona State University, Tempe Christy McDowell, Henderson State University, Amy Heath, The University of Georgia, Athens Arkadelphia, AR Cathy Leogrande, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY Joan F. Mitchell, Wake Forest University, Winston- Mark A. Lewis, Loyola University, MD Salem, NC Victor Malo-Juvera, University of North Carolina at Caitlin Murphy, The Ohio State University, Columbus Wilmington Elaine O’Quinn, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Melinda McBee Orzulak, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Erin Parke, University of South Florida, Tampa Robert Montgomery, Kennesaw State University, GA Jeanie Reynolds, University of North Carolina, Daneell Moore, Troy University, AL Greensboro Matthew Nelson, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC David Schaafsma, University of Illinois, Chicago Robert Petrone, Montana State University, Bozeman Stephanie Anne Shelton, University of Alabama, Rebecca Powell, University of Southern Mississippi, Tuscaloosa Hattiesburg Kate Sjostrom, University of Illinois, Chicago Luke Rodesiler, Indiana University–Purdue University Kelli Sowerbrower, Newnan High School, GA Fort Wayne Larkin Weyand, Brigham Young University, UT Tom Romano, Miami University, Oxford, OH Shelbie Witte, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Pauline Schmidt, West Chester University, PA Lauren Zucker, Fordham University, New York, NY Shelly Shaffer, Eastern Washington University, Cheney Nicole Sieben, SUNY at Old Westbury, NY Thomas B. Smith, Utah Valley University, Orem

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m be e Advocating for Using Humorous g Affirming Pedagogy and Practice in m Mentor Texts for Close Revision and the English Classroom Creation B307 e Nov y, a B208 Our classroom demonstration will support Like writing, humor is a craft dependent on teacher educators and inservice teachers

urd at clear images, musical rhythm, audience in learning to organize classrooms that are s connection, and effective organization. Close safer and more affirming of queer youth. This revising for humor makes writing fun and more session will engage participants in building accessible. Interact with four middle-grade knowledge, raising awareness, and developing fiction authors who will share humor through action plans for affirming gender and sexual mentor texts, close reading, writing, and diversity in their own unique education revision. contexts. Chair: Margaret Hale, University of Houston, TX Presenters: Bethy Leonardi, University of Colorado– Presenter: Wendy Shang, Scholastic, “Stretch of the Boulder Imagination: Using Creative Problem-Solving to Sara Staley, University of Colorado–Boulder Discover Humorous Situations” Tradebook Authors: Crystal Allen, HarperCollins, I.10 Windows of Literacy: Exploring “Finding the Shetland Pony in a Pile of Poop: g Intersections and Experiences of Humor in Unexpected Places” Race and Gender in America Jeff Anderson, trade book author, “Lunch, Gym, and A314 Embarrassment: Connecting Passages to Craft and Creation” Speakers will share how to create safe Cece Bell, author/illustrator, “Stop the Violins: classroom communities and flexibility in Keeping ‘Disability Lit’ Maudlin-Free” curriculum to include multiple student Donna Gephart, Random House Children’s Books, identities. Participants will experience “Tips and Tricks for Young Writers to Tickle Funny interactive activities that can be implemented Bones Using Mentor Texts” into early childhood to high school classrooms. Discussions will allow attendees I.08 Understanding Floats on a Sea of to ask questions, share experiences, and g Talk: The Power of the Selfie-Center cultivate pathways for an inclusive learning Data community. A312 Presenters: Amy Fabrikant, Teachers College/ LGBTQIA Advocate, New York, NY Panelists will share results, ever-changing Tiana Silvas, New York City Department of Education, NY dimensions, and the power of the Selfie Center in kindergarten through sixth-grade I.11 The Bread Loaf International Peace classrooms. Participants will view videos g Literacy Network: Connecting of student selfie stories and learn the steps for implementing a Selfie Center. Panelists Classrooms, Communities, and will demonstrate how to analyze the Selfie- Cultures over the (In)visible Lines Center videos and participants will learn how A315 to use a feedback scale developed by Selfie- The Bread Loaf International Peace Literacy Center teachers. Participants will walk away Network welcomes you to a story of with simple, effective, and dynamic ways advocacy for cultural understanding and to integrate technology into their literacy relationship building across difference. We block(s). showcase emergent technologies connecting Presenters: Deb Craig, Stratham Memorial School, NH teachers and students globally, share critical Mandie King, Dondero Elementary School, and inclusive literacy practices, and propose Portsmouth, NH participatory, immersive, and exploratory Melissa Mastin, Stratham Memorial School, NH pedagogies for global literacy. Cynthia Merrill, University of New Hampshire, Durham Chair: Richard Gorham, Bread Loaf School of English, Bonnie Painchaud, Loudon Elementary School, NH Andover, MA Olivia Van Ledtje, Moharimet Elementary School, Durham, NH

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Respondent: Damián Baca, University of Arizona, I.14 This Is What Accountability Looks Tucson g Like: Perspectives on Educational Presenters: Ceci Lewis, Cochise College, Douglas, AZ Accountability to Children and Brendan McGrath, Boston Public Schools, MA Communities Mohsin Tejani, The School of Writing, Karachi, Pakistan A403 David Wandera, The College of New Jersey, Ewing This session explores accountability from a range of perspectives including those of I.12 Impacting Early Literacy through educational activists, researchers, parents, g Family Engagement and educators. Our goal is to move beyond A316 test scores to consider what communities want for their children and schools. Panel Dalton State College faculty and teacher members will explore opportunities for candidates share two programs that delivered challenging initiatives that fail to serve literacy activities outside the classroom for children. at-risk students, including ELLs. Results Catherine Compton-Lilly, University of suggest short-term demonstration activities Presenters: Wisconsin, Madison, “Listening to Parents and with parents have a positive impact on literacy Communities” readiness skills when parents practice the Todd Lilly, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, s

activities in a workshop environment and at urd “Advocacy and Teacher Education” apply the activities at home. sj Miller, Metro Center, New York University Presenters: Sharon Hixon, Dalton State College Tim Slekar, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, Jacquelyn Mesco, Dalton State College “Activism and Education” a

I.13 Black Girls Read: An African I.15 Surviving Teaching: Advocating for y g American Read-In Celebrating the g a Healthy, Sustainable Life, Inside African American Female Literary and Outside of the Classroom Legacies of the Past, Present, and A404 Future Teaching is an extremely challenging A402 profession full of conflicting demands. This This panel presentation will describe our panel discussion will explore why we think process of organizing and implementing teaching is so challenging in the modern era an African American Read-In entitled Black and how we have worked in our department Girls Read! The purpose of this event was to make the job more sustainable to the to combine reading with performing arts to benefit of our students and ourselves. celebrate the literary traditions of African Chair: Jay Stott, Fairview High School, Boulder, CO American female authors. This event also Presenters: Tracy Brennan, Colorado Language Arts aimed to advocate for the often overlooked Society population of African American girls and Paul Bursiek, Fairview High School, Boulder, CO teens by incorporating activities that sought Jaime Rodrigues, Fairview High School, Boulder, CO to shape their literate identities and inspire Sarah Zerwin, Fairview High School, Boulder, CO them to build upon the work and legacies of noteworthy African American women in our history. Co-Chairs: Charity Gordon, Georgia State University, Atlanta Nicole Dukes, Georgia State University, Atlanta Presenters: Maima Chea, Georgia State University, Atlanta Thais Council, Georgia State University, Atlanta

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m be g Tools for Teaching Students to Nancy Horvat, Crayola Argue for Themselves Presenter: Cheri Sterman, Crayola A405 e Nov y, I.19 Beyond Comfort: Confronting the a Effective advocacy requires the abilities to te Need for Social Justice, Diversity, create a persuasive argument and present and Intercultural Competence

urd at that argument. This session offers strategies, s lessons, and digital tools to develop those B201 abilities in ourselves and in our students. Teachers do not have the luxury of Learn practical, classroom-tested ways to teaching from their personal experience give all students the ability to advocate for and knowledge and assuming appropriate their positions and themselves. coverage. Teaching today requires far Presenters: Lindsay Metcalfe, Overlake School, greater knowledge and breadth. Panelists Redmond, WA in this session will examine diverse young Sandy Otto, Osseo Independent School District, adult literature, creating cultural self(ies), Maple Grove, MN and understanding students’ realities in the Erik Palmer, Cherry Creek Schools, Greenwood context of state policies and standards. Village, CO Chair: Ruth Caillouet, Georgia Gwinnett College, Dave Stuart, Cedar Springs Public Schools, MI Lawrenceville, “Using Multimodal Literacy to Develop Intercultural Competence: Preservice I.17 Harnessing the Power of the Read- Teachers Creating Cultural Self(ie)s” e Aloud to Evoke Change: In the Presenters: Rebecca Kaminski, Clemson University, Classroom, the Playground, and SC, “Going beyond the Comfort Zone to Beyond! Advocate Change: Developing Teachers’ Attitudes A407 and Understanding about Diversity through Multicultural YA Literature” What if we were able to use read-aloud Kerry Newman, Prince William County Schools, time to help students consider diverse VA, “English Teaching and a Justice-Pedagogy perspectives and advocate for new ways of Continuum: Merging Our Policies and Standards being? This panel will examine how analyzing with Youths’ and New Teachers’ Realities” peer stories, bringing read-alouds into Rachel Sanders, University of Georgia, Athens, choice time, and teacher advocacy can help “Going beyond the Comfort Zone to Advocate students live their lives with empathy. Change: Developing Teachers’ Attitudes Presenters: Allyse Bader, Teachers College Reading and Understanding about Diversity through and Writing Project, Columbia University, NY Multicultural YA Literature” Katie Clements, Teachers College Reading and Kinga Varga-Dobai, Georgia Gwinnett College, Writing Project, Columbia University, NY Lawrenceville, “Using Multimodal Literacy to Marie Mounteer, Teachers College Reading and Develop Intercultural Competence: Preservice Writing Project, Columbia University, NY Teachers Creating Cultural Self(ie)s” Alissa Reicherter, Teachers College Reading and Kristien Zenkov, George Mason University, Fairfax, Writing Project, Columbia University, NY VA, “English Teaching and a Justice Pedagogy Continuum: Merging Our Policies and Standards I.18 Reading Illustrations and Creating with Youths’ and New Teachers’ Realities” e Art Enhances Writing A301 I.20 Writing on the Mirror: A Path to Hands-on and interactive, this session s Self-Advocacy will explore how art builds literacy skills. B214 Participants will receive “cross-walks” that Writing is an act of both self-expression and align art and language arts standards, self-definition. In this reflective and interactive read illustrations to decode insights about presentation, teachers will demonstrate how characters, settings, and plot, and then to integrate critical literacy into student create visuals and write original narratives writing to explore texts as windows and that extend the story, using art to inspire mirrors and to encourage a sense of self- compelling characters, stunning scenes, and definition and self-advocacy for our students. dramatic plots.

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Presenters: Peter Elliott, The John Cooper School, Carolyn Obel-Omia, Rhode Island College, The Woodlands, TX Providence, “’How Can You Tell Me I’m Safe?’: Laura Gellin, Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, IN Creating Spaces for African American Boys to Talk through Literature Circles” I.21 Helping Each Other Out: Using I.23 Learning to Confer: How s Student Groups B202 g Experienced and New Teachers c Learn to Confer with Student Presenters in this session will share how they c te Writers used collaborative small student groups to te enhance multimodal assignments, advocate B209 for social equity, contextualize American Conferring with student writers one-on- short stories via the New Yorker magazine, one is notoriously hard to do well. Research and pair FYC students with seniors. offers guidance on what happens in a good Presenters: Chad Littleton, University of Tennessee at conference, but little is known about how Chattanooga, “Collaboration through Advocacy: any teacher actually learns to do it. This Using Group Projects to Build Better Writers and interactive session will focus on research Better Advocates” and teaching experiments addressing how teachers learn to confer. Mariette Ogg, US Coast Guard Academy, New s

London, CT, “Textuality through a Monocle: Presenters: Anne Elrod Whitney, Pennsylvania State at urd Advocating for Periodical Studies in First-Year University, University Park, “Learning to Confer in Writing Courses” Collaboration between Mentors and Interns” Carolina Pelaez-Morales, Columbus State University, Jim Fredricksen, Boise State University, ID, “Learning GA, “Helping Each Other Out: Lower and Upper to Create a Culture of Feedback” a

Division Students Engage in a Collaborative Colleen McCracken, State College Area School y Assignment” District, PA, “Learning to Confer in Collaboration Ellen Stockstill, Penn State Harrisburg, PA, between Mentors and Interns” “Empowering Advocacy in the Multimodal Deana Washell, State College Area School District, Composition Classroom” PA, “Learning to Confer in Collaboration between Mentors and Interns” I.22 Implementing Powerful Literature e Circles for African American I.24 Tribe-Minded Approaches to Boys and for Students as Social g Developing Teacher Advocates Advocates te B210 B204 This panel showcases approaches to First we’ll present a structure for literature professional development that emphasize circles that provides a dialogical space for novelty, experimentalism, and the power students’ critical conversations, viewing of peers: EMUs, Edmodo cohorts, and themselves as social advocates. We will then social media. These fresh, teacher-centered present a project in which a group of African approaches focus on collaborative learning American fourth- through seventh-grade through experience, expertise, and a genuine boys discussed issues of racial identity and desire to build each other up through racism in literature circles. We will provide a professional practice. list of social justice novels for these purposes. Chair: Liz Spalding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Presenters: Jennifer Crosthwaite, University of Presenters: Fawn Canady, University of Nevada, Las Nevada–Las Vegas, “Students as Social Advocates: Vegas Implementing Literature Circle Roles to Support Stacey Dallas Johnston, Clark County School District, Critical Dialogue” NV, “Student and Teacher Advocacy through Michael Obel-Omia, Cambridge Friends School, Social Media” MA, ”’How Can You Tell Me I’m Safe?’: Creating Benjamin Koch, The Adelson Educational Campus, Spaces for African American Boys to Talk through Las Vegas, NV Literature Circles” Marilyn McKinney, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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m be g Banned Books Choice, Voice, and Differentiation Michele Haiken, Rye Middle School, NY, and B211 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

e Nov y, Join our panel of educators, authors, and

a Roundtable 2: When It Comes to SKYPE, Believe the free expression advocates as we provide Hype: Advocating for Reader/Author Connection via teachers and administrators with useful tools SKYPE Sessions and Blitzes urd at and resources to help them understand how Paul Hankins, Silver Creek High School, Sellersburg, IN s challenged books and graphic novels enhance classroom experiences, while empowering Roundtable 3: Google Classroom for Flipped them to navigate potential challenges to the Learning and Critical Digital Reading Holly Mueller, Kings Local Schools, OH material. Roundtable 4: Sharing Students’ Words and Voices Presenters: Betsy Gomez, Comic Book Legal Defense through Online Gatherings and Digital Platforms Fund Laura Purdie Salas, Millbrook Press Jennifer Holm, Random House Children’s Books Talia Hurwich, New York University, NY Roundtable 5: Connections and Collaborations Meryl Jaffe, Johns Hopkins University Center for through Student Blogging Margaret Simon, Iberia Parish Gifted Program, LA Talented Youth, Baltimore, MD Mike Jung, Scholastic Roundtable 6: Transforming Writing Lives through the Artful Blending of Technology and Poetry I.26 Writing Centers as a Vehicle for Carol Varsalona, independent ELA consultant, Rockville m Teacher, Preservice Student, and Centre, NY High School Student Advocacy s I.28 A Truly Place-Based Pedagogy: B212 s Drawing upon Rural Contexts to This session maps the pathway to Reimagine Teaching English establishing an effective high school B217 writing center with a special focus on urban schools. A high school writing center can Join a discussion about how secondary cultivate student writers, support teachers English teachers utilize the unique features and increase the quality and quantity of of their rural and remote teaching contexts writing and writing instruction that occurs in to engage their students in powerful, placed- secondary schools. based literacy learning. Presenters will discuss specific activities and units of study they have Presenters: Allison Casper, Revere Public Schools, MA developed, and audience members will leave Stephen Gordon, University of Massachusetts, Boston with practical ideas to implement. Denise Patmon, University of Massachusetts, Boston Chair: Allison Wynhoff Olsen, Montana State University, Josh Tetenbaum, Boston Public Schools, MA, and Bozeman Snowden International, Boston, MA Respondent: Robert Petrone, Montana State University, Bozeman I.27 Authentic Voice in a Digital World: Presenters: Alan Hoffman, Savage Public Schools, MT Megan Motley, Carson City High School, NV e Using Technology in Our Literate Lives Elizabeth Reierson, Miles City High School, MT m B215 s I.29 Building Student Agency through How can teachers be digital change agents, c s Partnerships and Performance transforming reading and writing lives in K– Opportunities college classrooms? Join a panel of authors B218 and educators from varied backgrounds to explore technology innovation in student- Learn how an urban high school and a centered learning spaces where choice leads university partner established a culture to increased voice. of student advocacy through a variety of performance opportunities, including monthly Chair: Carol Varsalona, independent ELA consultant, open mic sessions, a writing group, and Rockville Centre, NY collaboration with local theater companies. Presenters will share strategies for participants to develop similar activities in their schools.

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Presenters: Nicole Cordero, Amundsen High School, Chair: Vaughn Watson, Michigan State University, Chicago, IL East Lansing Timothy Duggan, Northeastern Illinois University, Respondent: Jamila Lyiscott, Teachers College, Chicago Columbia University, NY Tanya Nguyen, Amundsen High School, Chicago, IL Presenters: Limarys Caraballo, Queens College, City University of New York, “Research and Teaching I.30 Preparing Teachers to Be in Action: YPAR as a Culturally Sustaining Lens in g Advocates for Standard English Preservice English Teacher Education” Learners Mandie Dunn, Michigan State University, East te Lansing, “Planning for Criticality: Reimagining B301 the Curriculum of a Secondary English Teacher Sponsored by the Linguistic Society of Education Program” America Danielle Fillipiak, Teachers College, Columbia In this Linguistic Society of America-NCTE University, NY, “Research and Teaching in Action: panel, we discuss how English teachers can YPAR as a Culturally Sustaining Lens in Preservice advocate for Standard English learners— English Teacher Education” students who speak something other than Davena Jackson, Michigan State University, East mainstream English. We explore ways teachers Lansing, “Planning for Criticality: Reimagining

can meet the literacy and pedagogical needs the Curriculum of a Secondary English Teacher s

of their diverse learners and serve as advocates Education Program” at urd for them in the classroom and the world. Jody Polleck, Hunter College, New York, NY, Presenters: Jeanne Bissonette, University of North “Dismantling the Status Quo: Building Preservice Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Building Advocacy Teachers’ Knowledge and Skills with Culturally

through Critical Language Pedagogy” Responsive and Critical Literacy” a Michelle Devereaux, Kennesaw State University, GA, Shannon Prince, Michigan State University, East y “Learning Advocacy: Inservice and Preservice Lansing, “Planning for Criticality: Reimagining Teachers’ Understandings of Language Ideologies” the Curriculum of a Secondary English Teacher Amanda Godley, University of Pittsburgh, PA, “Building Education Program” Advocacy through Critical Language Pedagogy” Melissa Schieble, City University of New York–Hunter Jessica Hatcher, North Carolina State University, College, “Preparing Preservice English Teachers Raleigh, “Building Advocacy through Critical to Examine Queer, Inclusive, and Heteronormative Language Pedagogy” Discourses in the ELA Classroom” Mary Hudgens Henderson, Winona State University, MN, “Considering the Needs of Standard English I.32 Engaging Readers with High-Stakes Learners and English Language Learners” g Fiction and Nonfiction in the Chris Palmer, Kennesaw State University, GA, Classroom “Learning Advocacy: Inservice and Preservice B309 Teachers’ Understandings of Language Ideologies” No wonder airport bookshops abound with Jeffrey Reaser, NC State University, “Building thrillers. Readers of all ages are enthralled by Advocacy through Critical Language Pedagogy” compelling books packed with action and intrigue. In this panel, four award-winning I.31 Promoting and Sustaining Critical authors talk about their new works and how c and Culturally Responsive teachers can use high-stakes narratives to Pedagogy with Preservice Teachers te engage young readers from elementary to in Urban Settings young adult. B306 Presenters: Neal Bascomb, Scholastic, “Thrillers: This panel offers perspectives from teacher Young Adult Nonfiction” educators who work with preservice English Alan Gratz, Scholastic, “Thrillers in the Classroom” teachers in urban settings. The purpose is Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic, “High-Stakes to provide an overview of their research Nonfiction Connections to STEM and CCSS” which explores the benefits and challenges Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, “Building Knowledge of teaching critical and culturally responsive through High-Interest Nonfiction and Fiction” pedagogy and how these efforts are sustainable once students have entered the field.

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 183 i Sessions / 1:15–2:30 p.m. r 19 I.33 Turning Writing about Reading Into Chair: ReLeah Cossett Lent, ReLeah Lent Educational m be m an Extraordinary Force for Teens Consulting Respondent: Marsha Voigt, Barrington 220 School s (Instead of Forcing Kids to Write about Reading): Grades 5–12 District, IL e Nov y, Presenters: Janet Anderson, Barrington 220 School a B310 District, IL Find out how to make writing about reading ReLeah Cossett Lent, ReLeah Lent Educational

urd at a joyful, intellectual experience . . . really! Consulting, IL s Learn to launch this work with zeal, vary Kathleen Duffy, Barrington 220 School District, IL it over time, and leverage it to deepen Kelly Hansen, Barrington 220 School District, IL analytical skills and discourse. We’ll practice Nick Yeager, Barrington 220 School District, IL on print and digital texts, and study high- leverage feedback to raise the level of work. I.36 I Kissed Grading Goodbye Chair: Katy Wischow, Teachers College Reading and g B315 Writing Project, Columbia University, NY Find out what happened when one teacher Presenters: Mary Ehrenworth, Teachers College gave up grading in 12th-grade English. We’ll Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, share the triumphs, the foibles, the do-agains, NY, “Raising the Level of Discourse and Writing and the do-overs. Get tips for implementing with Flash Debates, Flash Drafting, and Feedback goal-based grading in broad sweeps and Cycles” small steps in your own classroom and Audra Robb, Teachers College Reading and Writing making students advocates for their own Project, Columbia University, NY, “Varying the educational growth. Genres for Writing about Reading: A Unit of Study Allison Marchetti, Trinity Episcopal on Companion Books” Presenters: School, Richmond, VA I.34 Voices in Verse: Exploring Rebekah O’Dell, Trinity Episcopal School, Richmond, VA Literature through Performance m I.37 From Comment to Conversation: B311 g Multimodal, Collaborative Feedback This session will highlight the power of verse in the Writing Process e novels for engaging diverse middle school B316 students, for Readers Theater performance, m and for teaching the craft and structure of Writing teachers are always looking for s poetry. Led by a panel of poets, participants better ways to respond to students’ writing. will perform alongside the poets themselves Presenters will share feedback strategies and and explore the instructional potential of this resources, including multimodal response unique form. tools for written, audio, video, conference, peer, and tutor responses, cross-grade/ Jeannine Atkins, Simon & Schuster Presenters: school literacy discussions, and writing Margarita Engle, Simon & Schuster shareouts, as well as classroom materials and Patricia Hruby Powell, Chronicle Books samples of student work. Sylvia Vardell, Texas Woman’s University, Denton Janet Wong, Pomelo Books Chair: Kathryn Spradlin, Amos P. Godby High School, Tallahassee, FL I.35 Growing Literacy Leaders: The Key Presenters: Marie Graham, Mount Vernon g to Schoolwide Change Presbyterian School, Sandy Springs, GA Nicole Martin, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, B314 Sandy Springs, GA What happens when literacy is at the core Amy Mildebrath, Florida State University, Tallahassee of professional learning? A district near Chicago has created a sustainable model with documented advantages: embedded disciplinary literacy, increased student learning, and the emergence of strong literacy leaders. Discover how to implement such an initiative in your school or district.

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I.38 Eyes, Ears, and Mouth: Facing Facts Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania, te of Teaching and Learning Philadelphia, “Community-Based Inquiry and Advocacy in a Multilingual and Multiethnic B403 Catholic Parish: Creating a Shared Vision and The days of one-teacher, one-classroom Educational Justice and Immigrant Rights” teaching are behind us, probably forever. Caroline Clark, The Ohio State University, Columbus Educators must work together in a variety of Marcelle Haddix, Syracuse University, NY, “When My ways to ensure all students, all future teachers, Reflection Looks Back at Me: A Retrospective and all practicing teachers are supported. on Being a Black Woman Community-Engaged Panelists will discuss three topics related Literacy Scholar” to teacher and student support: building Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia, Athens, intentional and cooperative professional “Establishing a Position as Advocate in the relationships through talk; developing a Mainstream Media, or Sticking Your Head in the powerful and responsible voice as an educator; Lion’s Mouth: It Might Smell Bad in There, and It and using video to enable cooperation Looks Scary, but Maybe You Can Get Him to Purr” between inservice and preservice teachers. Presenters: Gina Blackburn, Grove City College, PA, I.40 Teaching the Multimodal Research “Advocating for ELLs through Virtual Preservice g Essay: Cinemagraphs, Instagram, Field Work” Pictographs, and Digital Journalism s James Davis, Iowa Writing Project/University of B408 at urd Northern Iowa, “Policy, Advocacy, and Teacher Voices” This session will introduce methods of Michelle Palmer, Hall County Schools and White teaching interactive story creation, including cinemagraphs, maps, looping video, parallax

Sulphur Elementary, Gainesville, GA, “Coaching for a scrolling, data visualization, and animation, to Growth: Empowering Teachers through Dialogue” y Jennifer Spangler, Rowland Middle Academy, supplement the writing, creating an immersive Harrisburg, PA, “Advocating for ELLs through reading experience. Guided reading activities Virtual Preservice Field Work” to facilitate the comprehension of interactive Anne Weir, WACO Community Schools, Wayland, IA stories and a unit on interactive story creation Katie Wheeler, Cheyenne, Wyoming, “Policy, will be shared. Advocacy and Teacher Voices” Presenters: April Brannon, California State University, Fullerton, “Multimodal and Super Sensorial: Place- I.39 Advocacy over Time in NCRLL: Based Writing for Millenials” David Pegram, Paradise Valley Community College, g Literacy Researchers Reflecting on the Role of Activism in Their Phoenix, AZ, “Cinemagraphs: How to Analyze an Scholarly Lives Image When the Image Moves” Elle Yarborough, Northern Essex Community College, B404 MA, “Writing Interactive Stories: Platforms and Sponsored by the National Conference Assignments” on Research in Language and Literacy (NCRLL) I.41 Evidencing Understanding and The National Conference on Research in g Making Learning Visible with Quick Language and Literacy has a history of Writes advocacy, working with NCTE and other B409 organizations to influence educational policy. Located in that history, this presentation Presenters will lead participants through highlights the work of four esteemed NCRLL hands-on engagement strategies that scholars, reflecting on their activism as promote deeper thinking while evidencing researchers and discussing possibilities for understanding of language arts and content advocacy. area information through an updated use of quick writes. Classroom tested. Structured Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, Presenters: but fun. Visible learning in action. All Columbus, “Working with and on Behalf of Queer students, all abilities. Youth through Literature in and out of Schools” Presenters: Sara Holbrook, Boyds Mills Press Libbie Royko, Eastlake Middle School, OH Michael Salinger, author, Mentor, OH

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urd at will discuss how we have found ways to Dynamics in a One-to-One Classroom s use “banned” or “inappropriate” literature Merideth Garcia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to reach our marginalized students. We are Roundtable 6: Teachers’ Perceptions of Coding especially focused on how we can implement Curricula: Looking to Make Meaning beyond Skills these texts during the regular school day. Hannah Gerber, Sam Houston State University, Co-Chairs: Sara Landing, Vanderbilt University, Metro Huntsville, TX Nashville Public Schools, TN Renee O’Neal, San Jacinto Elementary School, Deer Emily Pendergrass, Vanderbilt University, TN Park, TX Marlowe Brant, Metro Nashville Public Presenters: Roundtable 7: Digital Rhetorics: Exploring Critical Schools, TN Media Literacies and Persuasion through Digital Keith Woodruff, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Media Projects Vanderbilt University, TN Thor Gibbins, State University of New York at Oneonta I.43 Mentor Teachers’ Digital Practices: The impact of a Parallel Pedagogy Roundtable 8: Teacher Learning and District g Leadership: Developing Cultures and Partnerships on Preservice Teacher Learning That Support Teacher and Student Digital Literacies A302 Liz Homan, Waltham Public Schools, MA Sponsored by the CEE Commission on Roundtable 9: Promoting Speaking and Listening New Literacies Standards Using Dialogic Discussion and Roundtable topics provide opportunities to Technology in the Secondary Classroom explore the myriad ways that new literacies are Amelia Kibbie, Lisbon Schools, IA used within language arts to support critical Roundtable 10: Advocating for and Empowering literacies and transformative education. To Teachers to Creatively Incorporate Digital Elements that end, presentations are focused not only into the Composition Process Using Smart Phone on student advocacy, but also on how the Applications and Online Communities participatory nature of digital literacies offers a Stephanie Loomis, Georgia State University, Atlanta space for teacher empowerment. Roundtable 11: How Teachers Learn to Code: Co-Chairs: Katherine Garland, Santa Fe College, What the Teaching of Coding Can Learn from the Gainesville, FL Teaching of Writing Ryan Rish, State University of New York at Buffalo Tom Liam Lynch, Pace University, New York, NY Speaker: Allen Webb, Western Michigan University, Roundtable 12: Teacher Advocates: Leveraging Kalamazoo, "Using Digital Texts to Inspire Critical Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities Inquiry and Civic Engagement" and Virtual Education for Students Who Are Roundtable 1: Opt-In: At-Risk African American Physically Unable to Attend School Maureen McDermott, Nova Southeastern University, Adolescents Gaming, Coding, and Learning Benita Brooks, Sam Houston State University, Fort Lauderdale, FL Huntsville, TX Roundtable 13: Deconstructing Hollywood Teacher Nancy Votteler, Sam Houston State University, Representations and Advocating for More Realistic Huntsville, TX Portrayals of Teachers and the Teaching Profession J. Patrick McGrail, Jacksonville State University, AL Roundtable 2: More Than One Way to Tell a Story: Ewa McGrail, Georgia State University, Atlanta Using Narratives in Digital Lessons Kevin Cordi, Ohio Northern University, Ada Roundtable 14: Advocates for Change: Middle School Roundtable 3: Learning to Teach with Digital Tools: Students and Digital Public Service Announcements Insights from Inservice Teacher Reflections During on Bullying Clarice Moran, North Carolina State University, Raleigh and After Immersive PD Will Fassbender, University of Georgia, Athens

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Roundtable 15: Mindfulness in a Digital World: children’s books that used storytelling to Using an Intersection of Social Media and teach a lesson in math or the sciences to an Mindfulness-Based Practices to Support Beginning audience of first graders. The results inspired Teachers this panel. Nicole Olcese, University of Central Florida, Orlando Presenters: Susan Guinn-Chipman, University of Roundtable 16: Impacting Summer Learning Colorado–Boulder for Urban Middle School Students Using Digital Deborah Hollis, University of Colorado–Boulder Technologies to Project Student Voice Danny Long, University of Colorado–Boulder Tonya Perry, University of Alabama, Birmingham Roundtable 17: Using Swivl and Digital Video to I.45 The 21st Century Waltz: Facilitate Preservice English Teachers’ Reflective m “Connecting the Dots” Practices B405 Amy Piotrowski, Utah State University, Logan, and s Katie Rybakova, Thomas College, Waterville, ME Sponsored by the Georgia Council of Roundtable 18: Enabling and Affording Digital Teachers of English Literacies in the Secondary Classroom When teachers couple the study of literary David Premont, Chantilly High School, VA texts with the examination of informational Roundtable 19: Research Writing Rewired: Using primary documents in history, students are

Inquiry and Digital Tools to Engage Students in the able to “connect the dots”; they learn how s Research Process to waltz in the process! Teachers will learn at urd Dawn Reed, Okemos Public Schools, MI how to use an interdisciplinary framework Roundtable 20: English/Language Arts Teachers' to create powerful learning experiences and Roles as School-Level Digital Literacy Leaders enhance critical thinking. Mary Rice, University of Kansas, Lawrence Presenters: Trudy Delhey, Cobb County School a y Roundtable 21: Community Asset Mapping with District, Marietta, GA Youth Engaged in Service Carolyn Waters, ELA/literacy consultant; retired Ryan Rish, State University of New York at Buffalo Georgia Department of Education, ELA Program Roundtable 22: Best Apps 2016 for Supporting Manager Advocacy Efforts Rae Schipke, Central Connecticut State University, I.46 Taking Action through the News New Britain g Media Roundtable 23: Using Digital and Social Media to B401 Compose in a Young Writers’ Camp The focus will be on gaining access to public Amy Vetter, University of North Carolina, Greensboro media by three presentations on strategies Roundtable 24: Using 21st-Century Media to Teach followed by audience participation in Self Advocacy and the Research Process: Students breakout groups. Seeking Solutions to Social Problems in Their Presenters: Millie Davis, National Council of Teachers Communities of English, Urbana, IL Clarissa West-White, Bethune-Cookman University, Les Perelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daytona Beach, FL Cambridge Roundtable 25: Try It Tomorrow! Leveraging Digital David Slomp, University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada Tools to Access, Ask, Create, and Understand in a Participatory Culture Kristin Ziemke, Big Shoulders Fund, Chicago, IL I.47 Exhibitor Session: Reading across g the Curriculum I.44 Children’s Books in the College A406 g Classroom: A Case Study in Sponsored by Newsela Collaboration A Newsela Educator Specialist will share A313 close reading strategies that can be used One year ago, a university writing instructor with students at any reading level. These asked his students, junior- and senior-level strategies help students interact with the text science majors, to write and illustrate original to aid them in both classroom discussions and mastering reading skills.

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m be FEATURED SESSION J.01 Rethinking Literacy Education in the Age Of Mass g e Nov y, Incarceration: Literacy Educators and The Dismantling a Of The School-To-Prison Pipeline A305 urd at

s This session examines preventative, responsive, and restorative literacy learning strategies for dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. Panelists will offer critical ideas for teaching literacy in ways that promise to transform the lived experiences of a diverse range of learners prior to, during, and post detention.

Presenters: Deborah Appleman, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Jamal Cooks, San Francisco State University, CA David E. Kirkland, New York University sj Miller, Metro Center, New York University Maisha Winn, University of Wisconsin, Madison

After this Featured Session, visit the Taking Action Hub in room A304 to discuss Everyday Advocacy and turn your learning into action!

J.02 Why Middle Matters: Middle Level J.03 Culturally Responsive Writing m Mosaic e Workshops: Using Diverse Mentor B312–B313 Texts and Mentor Authors to Promote Advocacy in the Early Years Middle level educators, don’t miss this star- studded line-up as the capstone to our A301 #whymiddlematters sessions! This year’s These presentations address writing through Mosaic features dynamic teacher-educators the voices of writers in K–2nd Grade and how and award-winning YA authors—like Laurie teachers can use diverse mentor texts and Halse Anderson and Jason Reynolds—in diverse authors to promote advocacy in the conversation about literature, student early years. engagement, and advocacy. Join us as we Chair: Erin Miller, University of North Carolina at demonstrate why the middle level matters! Charlotte Sponsored by the Middle Level Section Presenters: Sinéad Harmey, Queens College, Queens, Steering Committee NY, “Advocating for the Voices of Young Writers” Co-Chairs: James Blasingame, Arizona State Bobbie Kabuto, Queens College, Queens, NY, University, Tempe “Advocating for the Voices of Young Writers” Shanetia P. Clark, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD Brian Kissel, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Jason Griffith, Arizona State University, Tempe “Culturally Responsive Writing Workshops: Using Presenters: Sara Ahmed, Bishops School, Diverse Mentor Texts and Mentor Authors to San Diego, CA Promote Advocacy in the Early Years” Laurie Halse Anderson, Simon & Schuster Adriana Medina, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Harvey “Smokey” Daniels, author, Heinemann “Culturally Responsive Writing Workshops: Using Jason Reynolds, Simon & Schuster Diverse Mentor Texts and Mentor Authors to Promote Advocacy in the Early Years” Kindel Nash, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Culturally Responsive Writing Workshops: Using Diverse Mentor Texts and Mentor Authors to Promote Advocacy in the Early Years” Kathleen Olmstead, College at Brockport, SUNY, “Advocating for the Voices of Young Writers”

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Karen Wood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Marva Solomon, Angelo State University, San Angelo, “Culturally Responsive Writing Workshops: Using TX; and Shanna Saverance, Wall Independent Diverse Mentor Texts and Mentor Authors to School District, Wall, TX Promote Advocacy in the Early Years” Hannah Dodds, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX Roundtable 11: Reading and Responding across J.04 Specific Writing Classroom Multiple Complex Texts: Advocating for Student g Practices: A Menu of Ages, Genres, Voice and Collaboration Strategies, and Goals Lisa Richardson, University of Alaska Southeast, A302 Juneau Attendees may choose from roundtable Roundtable 12: Advocating Social Change through presentations and discussions of innovative Our Writing by Using the Plus-Minus-Interesting approaches to teaching writing in various Instructional Strategy Rachel Sanders, University of Georgia, Athens classroom settings. Roundtable 13: Composition Class as Rhetorical Chair: Renee Stites, Parkway Southwest Middle School, Situation Ballwin, MO Courtney Schoolmaster, South Louisiana Community Roundtable 1: Multimedia Essays for Remixing College, Lafayette Critical Inquiry Jules Beesley, The LAMP (Learning about Multimedia J.05 Collegial Conversations: Facing s Project), New York, NY at urd Challenges in Our Classrooms D. C. Vito, The LAMP (Learning about Multimedia s Project), Brooklyn, NY B309 Roundtable 2: Composition Class as Rhetorical Sponsored by the Secondary Section

Situation Steering Committee a Erin Breaux, South Louisiana Community College, In this session, members of the Secondary y Lafayette, and Oana Chiviou, South Louisiana Section Steering Committee will facilitate Community College, Lafayette conversations among secondary section Roundtable 3: Reading Film: Another Approach to members about issues and trends that Analysis and Writing teachers and students face in classrooms and Joseph Dietrich, The Master’s School, Dobbs Ferry, NY schools. Roundtable 4: Interdisciplinary Multi-Genre Presenter: Katie Greene, West Forsyth High School, Projects: Art, Theatre, and Physical Education Cumming, GA Teachers Writing as Course Advocates Katie Dredger, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA J.06 #advocacy: Promoting Real-World Roundtable 5: Now That’s a Good Question! g Literacy and Social Change through Questioning for Content Area Literacy Twitter Erik Francis, Maverik Education, Scottsdale, AZ B408 Roundtable 6: Inverting the Literacy Twitter can enable students to find Autobiography: From Celebration to Advocacy membership and voice in communities David Franke, SUNY Cortland existing within and beyond the walls of the Roundtable 7: Writing Rocks! Engaging Strategies classroom. This presentation will familiarize for All! participants with Twitter, providing Rebecca Harper, Augusta University, Augusta, GA classroom-based examples of how it can Roundtable 8: Beyond Writing Strategies: Advocating work as a tool for advocacy and literacy for Authentic Learning in ELA Classrooms with Multi- learning within the limitations of the lingual Students instructional day. Melinda McBee Orzulak, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, Facilitator: Steve Fulton, Kannapolis Middle School, and Maja Teref, Von Steuben High School, Chicago, IL Kannapolis, NC Roundtable 9: Advocating for Student Success in Presenter: Tony Iannone, University of North Carolina Postsecondary Writing: Defining Empathy and its at Charlotte Writing Project Role in Developing “Habits of Mind” Matthew Kilian McCurrie, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Roundtable 10: The Story of My Life: Memoir, Magic, and Fun for Middle Grade Writers

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e Nov y, Many teachers have extended the definition a a book or lesson plan proposal, working with of writing to include technology. This session, an editor, and negotiating the publication therefore, will provide an opportunity for

urd at process at NCTE. Senior staff from the Books teachers to better understand how to assess s Program and ReadWriteThink.org will share students’ digital compositions, such as those insights and advice about all aspects of the done in PowerPoint. This session will provide publishing process, from the proposal stage an opportunity for teachers to view and to publication. assess sample digital compositions created Chair: Kurt Austin, National Council of Teachers of in PowerPoint. English, Urbana, IL Presenters: Rebecca Barria, Georgia State University, Presenters: Lisa Storm Fink, ReadWriteThink.org at Atlanta NCTE, Urbana, IL Amy Seely Flint, University of Louisville, KY Bonny Graham, National Council of Teachers of Sarah Turnbull, Georgia State University, Atlanta English, Urbana, IL J.10 Agency and Advocacy for Early J.08 Texts That Invite Us to Speak for e Childhood Literacy m Ourselves: Advocating for Spoken A313 Word Poetry as Content and as s Advocacy projects within school, community, Pedagogy te and family contexts of early childhood A311 are presented. The topics include gender Two presentations advocate for a focus representations in public library story time, on youth spoken word (YSW) and hip-hop gender construction in the classroom, and in the high school literature curriculum promoting second language learning in and preservice teacher classroom. First, childhood. participants explore YSW and hip-hop as Chair: Lucy Spence, University of South Carolina, a frame for studying literary movements. Columbia Second, we consider YSW as a format for Presenters: Josh Hill, University of South Carolina, exploring teaching as performance. Columbia Presenters: Abigail Kindelsperger, University of Mary Rea, University of South Carolina, Columbia Illinois, Chicago, “From Ars Poetica to Our Poetics: Jennifer Stowe, University of South Carolina, Teaching Spoken Word as English Education Columbia Praxis” Kaci McClure, Louisiana State University, Baton J.11 Corners on Our Curving Classrooms: Rouge, “’Invisible Man Got the Whole World e Restoring Voice to Students and Watching’: Teaching Literary Movements through Staff m Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Poetry” A314 Andrea Vaughan, University of Illinois at Chicago, s Our presentation seeks to empower both “From Ars Poetica to Our Poetics: Teaching te Spoken Word as English Education Praxis” teachers and students to restore their Susan Weinstein, Louisiana State University, Baton voices in the educational experience. We will Rouge, “’Invisible Man Got the Whole World demonstrate how an interactive Restorative Watching’: Teaching Literary Movements through Justice Circle expands and restores the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Poetry” narrative through literature to a school-wide community. Presenters: Kristen Berger, Highland High School, Pocatello, ID Glenda Funk, Highland High School, Pocatello, ID Debbie Greco, Highland High School, Pocatello, ID Story Holston, Highland High School, Pocatello, ID Jena Wilcox, Highland High School, Pocatello, ID

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J.12 “I used red to show hope”: Young J.14 Education Advocacy, Civic e Children Create Meaning in Writing g Engagement, and Activism: te and Art Ecological Schooling in the Age of A315 Standardization The presenters will share mini-lessons, A403 including picture books, they use with their Three educators draw on empirical research kindergarten and first-grade students that in two different high schools and a teacher teach the children to communicate through education program in order to discuss what art as well as written language. Examples of it means to advocate for and participate in children’s work that show their critical and school and community-based activism in the symbolic thinking and their decision making era of the Common Core. Panelists describe will be shared. lessons learned from advocacy and civic Presenters: Michelle Doyle, Pot Spring Elementary activism. School, Timonium, MD Chair: Brian Charest, The Nova Project, Seattle, WA Laura Fuhrman, Pot Spring Elementary School, Presenters: Lauren Bell, University of Illinois at Timonium, MD Chicago, “Sharing a Vision: Engaging Educators, Jenna Loomis, Seventh District Elementary School, Students, and Community in Advocacy and Civic

Parkton, MD Involvement” s Ray Martens, Towson University, MD Joel Jarosky, Innovative and Alternative Education, at urd Prisca Martens, Towson University, MD Madison, WI, “Advocating, Implementing, and Elizabeth Soper, Pot Spring Elementary School, Collaborating: Authenticity and Community-Based Timonium, MD Learning in School”

Robbie Stout, Pot Spring Elementary School, Jesus Antonio Laurel, Chicago Public Schools, IL, a

Timonium, MD “Resisting Standardization in the Classroom: The y Lessons from Mechanized Teaching, Student J.13 Texts Not Terms: Teaching AP Advocacy, and Civil Discourse” s Literature and Composition for Student Success J.15 Authors Exploring Diverse A402 g Perspectives in the Classroom This panel invites participants to collaborate A404 with members of the Advanced Placement Young adult authors of diverse backgrounds Literature and Composition Committee discuss the importance of empowering to advocate for curriculum and methods students by giving them opportunities to that increase students’ abilities to interpret see their own stories in literature and to use literary meanings. Presenters will provide their own voices in the writing they produce. background, context, and practice to analyze Panelists provide examples of diverse books, literary texts for instructional design and prompts, assignments, and projects to be classroom use and increase student success. implemented in the classroom. Chair: Brandon Abdon, Director of Advanced Presenters: Traci Chee, Penguin Random House Placement English Curriculum and Content Roshani Chokshi, Class of 2K16, New York City, NY Development, College Board, Duluth, GA Audrey Coulthurst, Class of 2k16, New York City, NY Presenters: Leslie David Burns, University of Rahul Kanakia, Class of 2K16, New York City, NY Kentucky, Lexington Tara Sim, Class of 2K16, New York City, NY Minaz Jooma, Millburn High School, NJ Erin Summerill, Class of 2K16, New York City, NY Brian Sztabnik, Miller Place High School, Miller Place, NY

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m be m Agile Formative Assessment for University, University Park Studying Complex Texts Danielle Zarnick, Great Valley School District, s Malvern, PA A405 e Nov y, Respondent: Anne Elrod Whitney, Pennsylvania State a Students’ developing interpretations of University, University Park complex texts can be messy! This interactive

urd at session engages attendees in a collaborative J.19 Critical Issues in English Education: s formative assessment mapping process to te Research by CEE Research Initiative anticipate and make sense of the messiness. Award Winners This planning process supports agile A410 formative assessment of students’ talk and writing so teachers can adjust instruction in In this session, the recipients of the annual the moment. Research Initiative grants sponsored by the Conference on English Education (CEE) Presenters: Vivian Mihalakis, Bill and Melinda Gates present their award-winning research on Foundation current issues in the fields of literacy and Anthony Petrosky, University of Pittsburgh, PA English teacher education. Nicole Renner, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Chair: Melanie Shoffner, Purdue University, West J.17 The Power of a Question: Teacher Lafayette, IN e Research as an Advocacy Tool Roundtable 1: (Re)Educating the Senses to A407 Community Literacies: Prospective Teachers Using Sound to Listen for Difference This presentation will focus on the nearly Cassie Brownell, Michigan State University, East unlimited potential to advocate for Lansing, and Jon Wargo, Wayne State University, meaningful school change when educators Detroit, MI undertake action research in schools and classrooms. Participants will hear panelists Roundtable 2: Writing with Video: Advocacy in describe their action research and will sculpt Professional Learning Communities around Digital a potential action research question to use in Literacies in Rural Schools David Bruce, University at Buffalo, NY, and Sunshine their own settings. Sullivan, Houghton College, Houghton, NY Presenters: Amy Clark, Christ Episcopal School, Roundtable 3: Black Lives Matter in Multimodal Covington, LA, “Bringing Reluctant High School Literacy Practices: A Descriptive Case Study of Readers and Writers to the Beauty of Poetry” Resistance Writing within a Literacy Collective Valerie Geschwind, Teachers College Reading and Designed to Disrupt Racism Writing Project, New York, NY, “Supporting Gholnecsar E. Muhammad, Georgia State University, Teachers as Action Researchers: A Coach’s Role” Atlanta Ellin Keene, author/consultant, Denver, CO, “Action Research as a Tool for Advocacy” J.20 Let’s Hear It for the Girls! Kate Norem, The Bush School, Seattle, WA, “Helping Young Writers Find Authentic Audience and m Empowering Girls to Find Their Purpose: An Action Researcher’s View” te Voices through Literature B208 J.18 Second Graders in Control: Given the male-centric literature canon, e Exploring Open Inquiry in Primary how do we ensure that middle-grade girls Classrooms in our classes are empowered in classroom te A408 literature in order to sustain engagement at an age when reading skills typically plateau? What happens when second graders are Join us to explore how to include girls’ voices allowed control of their learning and can in our classrooms through data, resources, choose what topics they read and write and lessons. about each day? This panel will share the triumphs and challenges of creating an Presenters: Marlowe Brant, Metro Nashville Public inquiry-based, student-driven classroom. Schools, TN, “Sustaining Interest in an After- Participants will leave with practical ideas for School Book Club for Girls” using open-inquiry in their own classrooms.

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Jennifer Futrell, Hutchison School, Memphis, TN, J.23 Extraordinary Women, Must-Read “Reading Motivation as It Relates to the Middle- m Stories: A Look at the Most-Circulated Grade Girl” Books in a Public School Lauren Huddleston, Hutchison School, Memphis, TN, “Through the Looking Glass . . . But No One Looks B204 Like Me: Marginalized Girls’ Voices in Literature” This presentation identifies reasons why Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, knowing what adolescents want to read is TN, “Rethinking Literature in a Veteran Teacher’s vital to creating lifelong, successful readers. Classroom” Three dynamic authors present new books Respondent: Barry Gilmore, Hutchison School, that focus on the lives of extraordinary Memphis, TN women. Chair: Jason Wells, Abrams J.21 It Takes a Department: Addressing Presenters: Andrea Beaty, Abrams g Advocacy in Our Backyard Tonya Bolden, Abrams, “Extraordinary Women, Must- c B202 Read Stories: How Readers Can Find Female Heroes in New Literature” This session addresses the need for Teri Kanefield, Abrams, “Extraordinary Women, Must- advocacy at the university level for the Read Stories: How Readers Can Find Female following reasons: better family leave Heroes in New Literature” s policies, inclusion of adjunct faculty, Kimberly McCuiston, Francis Marion University, at urd mentoring, controlling degree plans of Florence, SC, “What Middle Schoolers Want: A students, and implementation of dual- Look at the Most-Circulated Books in a Public enrollment programs. School District’s Middle School Libraries” Natalie Dorfeld, Florida Institute of Technology, Chair: Fiona Robinson, Abrams, “Extraordinary Women, a

Melbourne, “What’s Your Name Again?: Making Must-Read Stories: How Readers Can Find Female y Adjuncts Feel Valued” Heroes in New Literature” Presenters: Lisa Bullard, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY, “Advocating for Greater J.24 Going Public: Teachers Embracing Gender Equity in Higher Education: Asking for g Activist Identities Better Family Leave Policies” Kimberly Miller, Grove City College, Grove City, PA, B207 “Dazed and Confused Professors: Advocating for Teacher stereotypes often involve fixed Success through Mentoring” identities surrounded by books, students, Joanna Paull, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, curricula, and administrators. Teachers OH, “We Are Not Just a Service Department: are not “just teachers.” We’re writers, Advocating for a Departmental Voice” policymakers, social justice activists, school board members, even bookstore owners. J.22 Ramon Veal Seminar Advocacy begins when teachers move g B401–B402 beyond the isolation of their classrooms, embody multiple identities, and engage in The Ramon Veal Seminar involves mentoring the public sphere. between early-career or beginning Bess Altwerger, Towson University, MD researchers and experienced mentors. Chair: Presenters: Erika Chavaria, Howard County Public Presenters: Cindy O’Donnell-Allen, Colorado State Schools, Ellicott City, MD, “Teacher as Activist: University, Ft. Collins Beyond the Curriculum” Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia, Athens Kimberly Feldman, Univerisy of Maryland, Baltimore Michael W. Smith, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA County, “Teacher as Policymaker: Beyond the Teacher’s Lounge” Iris Kirsch, Baltimore City Public Schools, MD, “Teacher as Bookstore Owner: Beyond the Classroom” Nancy Rankie Shelton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “Teacher as Writer: Beyond Academic Writing”

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m be c Teacher Preparation professional growth. B201 Chair: Dawan Coombs, Brigham Young University, te Provo, UT, “Dialogical Approaches to Advocacy” This panel focuses on counteracting e Nov y, Presenters: Karen Brown, Provo High School, UT, a colorblindness and cultivating “adolescent “’Principals’ of Advocacy and Leadership: Rigor, advocacy” among preservice teachers. Relevance, and Relationships”

urd at Chair: Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University, Kari Caulder, Salem-Keizer Public Schools, Salem, OR, s Columbus “Supporting Teachers as Learners” Presenters: Sarah Capello, University of Pittsburgh, Paige Cole, North Oconee High School, Bogart, GA, PA, “Critical Blind Spots in the English Teacher “Anger, Action, and Agency” Education Classroom” Cecily Yeager, Diamond Fork Junior High School, Deborah McMurtrie, University of South Carolina Spanish Fork, UT, “Engaging New Teachers in Aiken, “Adolescent Advocacy in Middle Level Reflective Inquiry” Teacher Preparation Programs” Amber Pabon, University of Pittsburgh, PA, “Critical J.28 Romeo Is Bleeding: Bringing Blind Spots in the English Teacher Education m Shakespeare, Spoken Word Poetry, Classroom” and Social Justice to the ELA s Classroom J.26 Voices from the Ground Level: B211 te Writing as Advocacy in a World of Standardization Inspired by the award-winning filmRomeo is Bleeding, this session will showcase the soon- B209 to-be released documentary and the Pressures to standardize instruction tax a accompanying curriculum, Re-mixing teachers’ ability to hear the multiple and varied Shakespeare, currently being piloted in schools voices of children. In this session, university nationwide. The multi-faceted curriculum instructors discuss how their course design addresses universal themes including privilege, created opportunities for preservice teachers power, education, community violence, to explore their identity through writing in poverty, trauma, loss, reconciliation and the hopes that they would create similar forgiveness. environments for children. Chair: Mary Christel, Indian Trails Public Library, Chair: Mary Guay, University of Georgia, Athens, Wheeling, IL “Voices from the Ground Level: Writing as Presenters: Donte Clark, RYSE Center, Richmond, CA Advocacy in a World of Standardization” Molly Raynor, RYSE Center, Richmond, CA Presenters: Jennifer Allen, University of West Georgia, Fran Sterling, Blueshift Education, Denver, CO Carrollton, “Course Design: Creating a Community Jason Zeldes, director, Los Angeles, CA of Writers” Chelsey Bahlmann Bollinger, University of Georgia, J.29 Teachers, Coaches, Advocates: Athens, “Preservice and Inservice Teachers’ m Empowering Students with Literacy Takeaways from an Advocacy-Focused Writing B212 Methods Course” s S. Adam Crawley, University of Georgia, Athens, “The Come join us as we share what we have Need for Advocacy: Existing Tensions and Our/ learned in our yearlong literacy/English class Researchers’ Philosophies” designed to address the academic, social, and emotional needs of incoming ninth graders J.27 Dialogical Approaches to Teacher labeled as “not proficient” and how we utilize those lessons in our other role as coaches to m Advocacy impact literacy across our schools. s B210 Co-Chairs: Charrai Hunter, Broughton High School, te Dialogical approaches to advocacy situate Raleigh, NC leaders as colleagues who advocate with Jean Jett, Sanderson High School, Raleigh, NC others rather than on behalf of others. As a Presenters: Sarah Coombs, Wake County School, result, teachers and students ultimately learn Cary, NC to advocate for themselves. This session Kelley Schroeder, Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC explores dialogical strategies for members Respondent: Teresa Bunner, Wake County Schools, of school and district leadership seeking to Cary, NC

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J.30 Engaging Critically with Sports- Cecelia Price, University of North Texas, Denton, “Secondary Teachers’ Experiences with m Based Media to Foster Digital and Media Literacies Multimodal Literacy Design” s Eliane Rubinstein-Avila, University of Arizona, Tucson, B213 “Examining the Multimodal Turn: Analyzing c Sponsored by the SLAM Assembly Perspectives of Graphic Novels throughout the The ubiquity of sports media presents vast Educational Lifespan” opportunities for teachers to foster media and Patrick Thomas, University of Dayton, OH, “Analyzing digital literacies among adolescents. In this Instructor Responses to Students’ Multimodal interactive session, attendees are invited to Writing” explore instructional methods for engaging Roundtable 3: Pursuing Advocacy and Critical students in the analysis and production Reflection in Literacy Curricula and Education of various media, including sports-based Jeanne Bissonnette, Iowa State University, Ames, documentaries, television broadcasts, and “The Food Stamps Incident: Critical Colleagueship online content. and Critical Reflection as Precursory Advocacy Literacies” Chair: Carl Young, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Teresa Fisher-Ari, Georgia State University, Atlanta, “For Profit, Not for Learners: Rejecting ‘Reform’ Presenters: Carolyn Fortuna, Rhode Island College, Providence, and IDigItMedia.com, “Replicating Literacy Curricula and Advocating for Authentic s at urd Research as a Pathway to Digital Literacy Learning” Literacy in Urban Elementary Classrooms” Stephanie Jones, University of Georgia, Athens, “Telling Kara Kavanagh, James Madison University, Our Own Stories: Using Documentary Film to Profile Harrisonburg, VA, “For Profit, Not for Learners: School Sports Narratives” Rejecting ‘Reform’ Literacy Curricula and Luke Rodesiler, Indiana University-Purdue Advocating for Authentic Literacy in Urban a University, Fort Wayne, “Satiric Remixes: Crafting Elementary Classrooms” y Commentaries about Sports and Society” Anne Martin, Georgia State University, Athens, “For Profit, Not for Learners: Rejecting ‘Reform’ Respondent: Hannah Gerber, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Literacy Curricula and Advocating for Authentic Literacy in Urban Elementary Classrooms” J.31 Research Roundtables #2 Kwangok Song, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, “Landscape of Inequity in Literacy Education: e c B215 ‘How Do We Advocate With, Not For?’” s te In this roundtable session, researchers Angela Stefanski, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, present findings on pressing issues in literacy, “Landscape of Inequity in Literacy Education: language, and learning across communities. ‘How Do We Advocate With, Not For?’” Chair: Django Paris, Michigan State University, East Roundtable 4: Research on Disciplinary Literacies Lansing across Student + Teacher Learning Roundtable 1: On Gender and Performance: Student Ann Lawrence, University of South Florida, Sarasota- and Teacher Ideology + Identity Manatee, “Challenges of Teacher Response to Christopher Parsons, University of Michigan, Ann Students’ Disciplinary Writing” Arbor, “I’m not saying boys can’t be feminists, Michael Sherry, University of South Florida, Tampa, but . . .: An Interview Study of Ideologies about “Challenges of Teacher Response to Students’ Gender, Feminism, and Literacy” Disciplinary Writing” Ashby Rushing, The Potomac School, McLean, VA, Roundtable 5: Research on Disciplinary Literacies “Six Characters in Search of a Teaching Identity” across Student + Teacher Learning Roundtable 2: Examining Multimodal Reading, Elizabeth Dinkins, Bellarmine University, Lousiville, KY, Writing, and Curriculum Design “Advocating Expertise: Building Teacher Capacity Sarah Mathews, Florida International University, in Disciplinary Literacy” Miami, “Examining the Multimodal Turn: Analyzing Christine Price, Oldham County Schools, Crestwood, Perspectives of Graphic Novels throughout the KY, “Advocating Expertise: Building Teacher Educational Lifespan” Capacity in Disciplinary Literacy” Anne Peel, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, Katherina Sibbald, University of California, Davis, “Listening Like Writers: A Formative Experiment “Disciplinary Gatekeeping: A Critical Reflection on Examining the Effects of a Podcast-Based Inquiry Teaching Literary Analysis in Writing Conferences” Unit on Adolescent Students’ Writing Fluency”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 195 j Sessions / 2:45–4:00 p.m. r 19 Roundtable 6: Supporting and Valuing Writing in LaToshia Woods, Arkansas State University,

m be the High School and College Classrooms Jonesboro, “Beyond the Content: Supporting the Becky Childs, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, Literate Disposition of Preservice Teachers” SC, “Valuing a Variety of Voices: Using Digital Kamania Wynter-Hoyte, University of South Carolina,

e Nov y, Badges to Support Linguistic Diversity in a First- Columbia, “Preparing Preservice Teachers for a Year Composition Program” Diverse Classrooms: Critical Encounters with Shannon Gramse, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Multicultural Literature”

urd at “Perspectives on Undergraduate Research as a

s Roundtable 9: I Am, Because We Are: Supporting Bridge to College and University Writing” Refugee and Immigrant Youth through Year-Long J. Daniel Hasty, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, Literacy Collaboration SC, “Valuing a Variety of Voices: Using Digital Jessica Baldizon, Cesar Batalla School, Bridgeport, CT Badges to Support Linguistic Diversity in a First- Bryan Ripley Crandall, Fairfield University, CT Year Composition Program” William King, Bassick High School, Bridgeport, CT Kelsey Hatley, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, “The Reading and Writing Transition from High J.32 Developing Better Writers through School to College” m Evidence-Based Argumentation Andrea Malouf, Salt Lake Community College, UT, Activities “Perspectives on Undergraduate Research as a s B216 Bridge to College and University Writing” Come learn EBATM activities that help Roundtable 7: Supporting and Valuing Writing in students draft complex arguments, analyze the High School and College Classroom Denise Paster, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, and argue via text, and revise their work. TM SC, “Valuing a Variety of Voices: Using Digital Schools that consistently use EBA found Badges to Support Linguistic Diversity in a First- a 35 percent increase in the number of Year Composition Program” students who could write arguments using Sandra Salazar-Hernandez, University of Utah, valid evidence and reasoning to support Salt Lake City, “Perspectives on Undergraduate claims. Research as a Bridge to College and University Chair: Steve Schappaugh, National Speech & Debate Writing” Association, Ripon, WI Jennifer Stone, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Presenters: Mary Dibinga, Boston Latin Academy, MA “Perspectives on Undergraduate Research as a Bridge to College and University Writing” J.33 Empowering Students through a Christie Toth, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, m Social Justice Approach Centered “Perspectives on Undergraduate Research as a on Sports and Society Bridge to College and University Writing” s B217 Rachael Wendler Shah, University of Nebraska- c Lincoln, “Advocating for College Access through te Sponsored by the Genders and High School-University Writing Partnerships: Sexualities Equality Alliance Research-Based Best Practices” The English language arts classroom Roundtable 8: Unpacking Literacy and Diversity provides fertile ground for examining cultural with Preservice Teachers views perpetuated in the sports world and Shannon Howrey, Kennesaw State University, through popular media. In this interactive Kennesaw, GA, “The Impact of Preservice session, attendees are invited to explore Teachers’ ‘Ways of Being’ on Their Responses instructional methods for engaging students to Counter-Narrative Literature of Latino in critical literacy practices that stand to Immigration” foster a more socially just school sports Sanjuana Rodriguez, Kennesaw State University, culture. Kennesaw, GA, “Preparing Preservice Teachers Co-Chairs: Lisa Scherff, Cypress Lake High School, for Diverse Classrooms: Critical Encounters with Fort Myers, FL Multicultural Literature” Nicole Sieben, SUNY College at Old Westbury Natasha Thornton, Kennesaw State University, Presenters: Katherine Garland, Santa Fe College, Kennesaw, GA, “Preparing Preservice Teachers Gainesville, FL, “Using Sports-Related Film to for Diverse Classrooms: Critical Encounters with Explore How Stereotypes Are Formed” Multicultural Literature”

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Katherine Mason Cramer, Wichita State University, J.36 Transforming the English Classroom “Using Sports-Themed YAL to Interrogate c into an Advocacy Forum for Homophobia and Transphobia in School Sports” Workforce Development Respondents: Alan Brown, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC B307 Bill Konigsberg, Scholastic, New York, NY Teachers will use cell phones and online media to explore ways to not only improve J.34 Crazy Wisdom: Promoting Well- student reading and writing, but also to s Being vis-à-vis an English Mental broaden student knowledge about career Health Curriculum interests. Participants will actively use their cell phones to access reading materials that B218 are of personal interest, share findings in Concern for mental health calls for more small groups, and then share with everyone. instruction in promoting students’ social Presenter: Effie Fields, Southern Union State and emotional health. Schools play a Community College, Opelika, AL role in students’ positive psychological development, but the extent to which this J.37 Neuro-Writing: Using is reflected in curricula varies. We focus on research, dialogue, and praxis to promote m Neuropsychology to Enhance Student Writing s

awareness, understanding, and empathy s at urd around mental well-being. A303 Presenters: Patrick Finnessy, Lake Forest Academy, Paragraphs. Thesis sections. Transitions. Lake Forest, IL, “Research That Promotes Well- Why, exactly, do we teach these strategies? By better understanding—and teaching—

Being in an English Mental Health Curriculum” a

Denise Foster, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, core neuroscience concepts like attention, y Lincolnshire, IL, “Literature That Promotes Well- mental imaging, and prior knowledge, we Being in an English Mental Health Curriculum” can empower students to better understand and use rhetorical strategies. This engaging J.35 Developing Our Profession from session will model minilessons for connecting e the Inside: Learning and Growing neuroscience to writing. te in a School-Embedded Literacy Presenters: Lucy Dugan, Galena High School, Reno, NV Methods Course Chase Mielke, Plainwell Community Schools, Plainwell, MI B301 Jeff Miller, Quantum Learning Network, Oceanside, CA In this presentation, representatives from J.38 Making the Invisible Visible a long-standing professional development school will share and discuss the innovative s B310 ways they are inquiring into literacy practices English and art history classrooms join forces through collaborative instructional cycles in to share an interdisciplinary approach to a school-embedded literacy methods course. Ellison’s Invisible Man. Examining cultural Come and see how preservice and classroom materials, the panel demonstrates their teachers, university faculty, supervisors, collaborative approach showing how Invisible principals, and literacy coaches are engaging Man comes to understand his world through in developing our profession from the inside. the visual, aural, tasted, smelled, and touched parts of his America. Presenters: Morgan Belcher, Starke Primary School, Pekin, IL “Classroom/Mentor Teacher Perspective” Presenters: Michael Bieze, Marist School, Atlanta, GA, Jean Glick, Pekin 108 School District, Pekin, IL, “PDS “An Art History Perspective” Supervisor Perspective” Shannon Hipp, Marist School, Atlanta, GA, “A Deborah MacPhee, Illinois State University, Normal, Classroom English Teacher’s Perspective” “University Faculty Perspective” Sarah Muirheid, Marist School, Atlanta, GA, “College Board AP English Literature Perspective”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 197 j Sessions / 2:45–4:00 p.m. r 19 J.39 Let the Teachers Drive: Inquiry as J.41 Encouraging Dialogue, Not m be g Professional Development g Recitation: Using Family Dialogue Journals to Build Relationships and te B311 Create Curriculum in K–12th Grade

e Nov y, This session will focus on using inquiry and a teachers’ educational passions to drive deep, Classrooms meaningful professional development. We B316

urd at will highlight how reflection and a growth Family dialogue journals (FDJs) are a way s mindset, along with teacher voice and for teachers to engage families in students’ choice, built a foundation of professional literacy activities and enhance partnerships growth through inquiry. We will explore the by encouraging dialogue between families, development and sustainability of teacher students, and teachers. This session inquiry circles. addresses the benefits of FDJs, the details Presenters: Katherine Reed, Noblesville Schools, of implementing them, and the challenges Noblesville, IN of including students’ out-of-school lives in Jen Townsend, Noblesville Schools, Noblesville, IN classroom instruction. Lisa Wescott, Noblesville Schools, Noblesville, IN Presenters: Angela Dean, Madison County High School, Danielsville, GA J.40 A Snapshot, a Thoughtshot, They’re Jen McCreight, Hiram College, Hiram, OH g Writing . . . OH MY!: Writing Amber Simmons, Red Clay Writing Project, Athens, GA Workshop for Diverse Literacy Classes J.42 Teachers Taking Teaching B315 te Personally: Narrative, Story, Leaders and teachers from a summer and Social Media in the Lives of writing academy share writing workshop Teachers processes that prove effective for their B403 diverse classrooms. From the classrooms of In contrast to some media portrayals, a gifted education teacher, an elementary teachers are people, too! In these panel reading specialist, and an ESOL teacher, presentations, educators take up the participants will compose a snapshot, reflect personal aspects of being a teacher. They with narrative, and play with syntax. focus on how advocacy can be a labor of Facilitator: Jenny Martin, Bridgewater College, love, how blogging and tweeting can bring Bridgewater, VA new life and renewed attention to teachers Presenters: Reilly Belton, Rockingham County Public as experts, and how telling teacher stories Schools, Harrisonburg, VA can empower today’s educators. This is a Katherine Brubaker, Shenandoah County Public session that will help sustain and empower Schools, Woodstock, VA English educators. Heather Gigliotti, Rockingham County Public Schools, Presenters: Colette Bennet, The Educator’s Harrisonburg, VA Room, Fairburn, GA, “Change the Narrative: Dee Grimm, Rockingham County Public Schools, How Teachers Can Use Blogging as a Tool Harrisonburg, VA in Advocating for Teachers as the Experts in Alice Trupe, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA Education” Nandita Gurjar, University of Central Florida, Orlando, “Advocating for Professional Capital for Preservice Teachers: Role of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital through Twitter” Rick Jetter, educational consultant, Buffalo, NY, “How to Use Stories to Initiate Educators’ Self-Reflection and Professional Development Goals” Taylor Norman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, “Teaching, I Love You: Five English Teachers Find Their Professional Identity through Acts of Advocacy”

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Katie Sluiter, Wyoming Public Schools, Wyoming, MI, Kylene Beers, this panel of illustrious “Change the Narrative: How Teachers Can Use educators will offer its insights about the Blogging as a Tool in Advocating for Teachers as importance of independent reading, student the Experts in Education” book selection, and other pressing issues on Franchesca Warren, The Educator’s Room, Fairburn, teachers’ minds. Find out how the joy and GA, “Change the Narrative: How Teachers Can Use power of literacy has transformed the lives Blogging as a Tool in Advocating for Teachers as of those four educators and what they are the Experts in Education” doing to assure that others reap the benefits of a rich and engaging life among books. J.43 Promoting Language and Literacy The aim of the panel is to help teachers m Development for English Learners help students craft reading lives in which they make their own book choices and s in the Mainstream Classroom: Crafting Successful Standards- read deeply and with clear purpose. The te Aligned Lessons right book is a key. It can open a world of profound understanding, empathy, and joy. B404 Presenters: Kwame Alexander, Scholastic Sponsored by the Center for Applied Pam Allyn, Scholastic Linguistics Kylene Beers, Reading and Writing Project/Teachers

Presenters will share the Education College, Columbia University, New York, NY s Connections lesson plan template (LPT), Ernest Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University, at urd designed to facilitate teachers’ development New York, NY of Common Core Standards–aligned and –sheltered lessons for English learners. The J.45 Culturally Relevant Literacy

template, a related rubric, and instructional e Teaching, Kindergarten through a strategies approach CCSS implementation 4th Grade y from a sociocultural perspective; the LPT A316 includes prepopulated drop-down menus with WIDA standards. In this session, through vivid examples from kindergarten through fourth-grade Presenters: Joanna Duggan, Center for Applied classrooms, four teachers share ways of Linguistics, Washington, DC engaging in culturally relevant literacy Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Center for Applied teaching in pluralistic urban settings. Linguistics, Washington, DC Lindsey Massoud, Center for Applied Linguistics, Presenters: Alicia Boardman, Northern Parkway Washington, DC School, Uniondale, NY Christopher Frederick, Center for Applied Linguistics, Carmen Llerena, P.S. 75-The Emily Dickinson School, Washington, DC New York Jessica Martell, Central Park East II, New York City J.44 Expert-to-Expert on the Joy Public Schools Abigail Salas, PS 75-The Emily Dickinson School, New g and Power of Reading: A Panel Discussion York Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Columbia B314 University, New York Ernest Morrell, NCTE’s immediate past president, Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal winner, and Pam Allyn, founder of LitWorld, sit down for a lively and thought-provoking conversation about the joy and power of literacy. Moderated by past NCTE president

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 199 j Sessions / 2:45–4:00 p.m. r 19 J.46 Place-Based Youth Participatory J.49 Keeping the “ASS” Out of

m be s Action Research in Suburban, Urban c Assessment: Best Practices for and Rural Environments Program Assessment B406 B306 e Nov y, a This presentation showcases place-based Programmatic assessment is a reality but pedagogies and Youth Participatory Action it need not be a monster under the bed for

urd at Research (YPAR) in suburban secondary English departments. This session will look s English classroom environments and discusses at ways English programs might assess how they might be implemented in urban and their efficacy by looking at one program’s rural settings. Teachers will discuss classroom experiences in grappling with program activities that engage students through critical assessment over the past dozen years. literacies and advocate for social change within Presenters: Gerald Burns, Franklin Pierce University, local communities. Rindge, NH Chair: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia Sarah Dangelantonio, Franklin Pierce University, University, New York, NY Rindge, NH Presenters: Rich Novack, Teachers College, Columbia Donna Reck, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH University, New York, NY Craig Southard, Fairfield Warde University, Fairfield, CT J.50 Put Those Words to Work: Effective Respondent: Amy Azano, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg e Ways to Teach Vocabulary and Eliminate Word Poverty J.47 Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating m B405 g Community s B409 Sponsored by the Georgia Council of The Academy of American Poets and NEH/ Teachers of English EDSITEment are joined by inaugural poet- Make vocabulary study fun and memorable storyteller Richard Blanco to celebrate the with innovative strategies and engaging power of contemporary American poetry to activities that employ students’ multiple address cultural polarization and foster new intelligences and get them drawing, rapping, forms of community and understanding. and rhyming vocabulary through practical, Educator-in-residence Madeleine Fuchs Holzer brain-based ideas that improve vocabulary and program specialist Shelley NiTuama share understanding and retention in all content curriculum resources. areas. Facilitator: Shelley NiTuama, EDSITEment/National Presenter: Lesley Roessing, Armstrong State Endowment for the Humanties University, Savannah, GA Presenters: Richard Blanco, Academy of American Poets Madeleine Fuchs Holzer, Academy of American Poets J.51 CEE Commission Meetings B206 J.48 Advocacy through Literacy for Minority Students Sponsored by the Conference on m English Education B214 s The CEE Commissions will continue These presentations explore the literacy discussions and ongoing work during this experiences of minority students, specifically session. Interested convention attendees are Latin@ and Filipin@ adolescents in the encouraged to attend. southeastern United States. The panelists will explore how the students construct their cultural Chair: Melanie Shoffner, Purdue University, West identity in a white-privileged society. Taking a Lafayette, IN postcolonial and critical literacies stance, these Roundtable 1: CEE Commission on Arts and presenters examine cultural-identity construction Literacies in the context of English classrooms. Roundtable Leaders: Katherine Macro, University at Buffalo, NY, and Michelle Zoss, Georgia State Chair: Jungyoung Park, University of Florida, Gainesville University, Atlanta Presenters: Cody Miller, P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School, Gainesville, FL Liaison: Ken Lindblom, Stony Brook University, Stony Kate Yurko, The College at Brockport, NY Brook, NY Xiaodi Zhou, University of Georgia, Athens

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Roundtable 2: CEE Commission on English Methods J.52 Igniting Reading with Sudden Fiction Teaching and Learning s B407 Roundtable Leaders: Samantha Caughlan, East Lansing, Michigan, and Laura Renzi, West Chester Bob Probst, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and Sheridan University, PA Blau explore ways to help students engage Sudden Fiction. Probst shows how to draw Liaison: Tonya Perry, University of Alabama, Birmingham struggling readers into these stories; Wilhelm Roundtable 3: CEE Commission on Dismantling the explains how students build scripts to make School-to-Prison Pipeline texts come alive; Blau describes how “choral Roundtable Leaders: David E. Kirkland, New York reading” and “passage sharing” open up University, NY, and sj Miller, Metro Center, New these stories. York University Liaison: Mollie Blackburn, Ohio State University, Columbus Chair: Joseph O. Milner, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Roundtable 4: CEE Commission on the In-Service Sheridan Blau, Teachers College, Graduate Programs and Professional Development Presenters: Columbia University, New York Roundtable Leader: Lisa Eckert, Northern Michigan University, Marquette Robert Probst, Marathon, FL Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Boise State University, ID Liaison: Thomas M. McCann, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Roundtable 1: Jordan Daniels, Isidore Newman

School, New Orleans, LA s Roundtable 5: CEE Commission on New Literacies, at urd Technologies, and Teacher Education Roundtable 2: Elizabeth Kahn, Northern Illinois Roundtable Leaders: Katherine Garland, Florida University, DeKalb, IL State University, Tallahassee, and Ryan Rish, Roundtable 3: Joan F. Mitchell, Wake Forest University at Buffalo, NY University, Winston-Salem, NC a Liaison: Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, Roundtable 4: Caitlin Murphy, The Ohio State y Mount Pleasant University, Columbus Roundtable 6: CEE Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature J.53 Advocating for and Facilitating Roundtable Leader: Kelly Bull, Notre Dame of m Student Inquiry in a Multimodal Maryland University, Baltimore World Steven Bickmore, Louisiana State University, s Liaison: A412 Baton Rouge This session demonstrates approaches to Roundtable 7: CEE Commission on Social Justice in using inquiry to help students advocate Teacher Education Programs for their own learning. The speakers will Roundtable Leaders: Noah Asher Golden, Chapman demonstrate how they utilized multimodal University, Orange, CA tools to assist students in advocating for Jennifer King, State University of New York, Geneseo themselves in new learning environments, in Erica Womack, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH engaging in inquiry about multimedia, and in Liaison: Deb Bieler, University of Delaware, Newark inviting the community into their learning. Roundtable 8: CEE Commission on the Teaching of Sarah Bonner, Heyworth Junior High Poetry Presenters: School, Heyworth, IL Roundtable Leaders: Bonner Slayton, Moore Norman Technology Center, Norman, OK, and Danny Wade, Antero Garcia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Washburn University, Topeka, KS Robin Seglem, Illinois State University, Normal Kristina Stamatis, University of Colorado-Boulder Liaison: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Roundtable 9: CEE Commission on Writing Teacher Education Roundtable Leaders: Patricia Dunn, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and Jim Fredricksen, Boise State University, ID Liaison: Anne Elrod Whitney, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 201 j Sessions / 2:45–4:00 p.m. JK Sessions / 2:45–5:30 p.m. r 19 J.54 Poster Sessions: Trends and JK.01 The 2016 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte m be g Techniques with Texts g Huck Honor Book Award-Winning B206 Foyer Authors and Illustrators Share Their

e Nov y, Stories and Insights

a What kinds of texts are you using with students and how are you engaging with B203 them in the classroom? This poster session Sponsored by the Charlotte Huck and urd at

s offers a range of answers to that question, as Orbis Pictus Committees well as concrete techniques and tools for all The 2016 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck grade levels. honor book authors and illustrators will Poster 1: “Reading and Writing in Free Verse,” Lisa share stories of their journey to produce Ciecierski, Pennsylvania State University, Erie their nonfiction and fiction titles and provide insight into their writing process. Participants Poster 2: “Advocating for Young Learners by Increasing Access and Comprehension of will learn of the research, decisions about Informational Texts,” Cindy Jones, Utah State craft, and the construction of ideas in University, Logan, UT creating these books. Poster 3: “Deepening Literary Appreciation Using Co-Chairs: Cyndi Giorgis, University of Texas at El Bruner’s Modes of Thought,” Matthew McConn, Paso Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY Barbara Kiefer, The Ohio State University, Columbus Poster 4: “Valuing Stuff: Materials Culture and Committee Members: Mary Ann Cappiello, Lesley Artifactural Literacies in the Classroom,” Mia University, Cambridge, MA Mercurio, Southern Connecticut State University, New Desiree Cueto, Tuscon Unified School District, AZ Haven, and McKenna Mercurio Morse, Greens Farms Denise Dávila, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Academy, Westport, CT Erika Thulin Dawes, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Poster 5: “Making Poetry Personal,” Chris Pauling, Jeanne Gilliam Fain, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN Pine View School, Osprey, FL Jennifer Graff, University of Georgia, Athens Poster 6: “Valuing Stuff: Materials Culture and Joyce Herbeck, Montana State University, Bozeman Artifactural Literacies in the Classroom,” Regine Marie Lejeune, Western Oregon University, Randall, Southern Connecticut State University, New Monmouth Haven Ruth McKoy Lowery, The Ohio State University at Mansfield Poster 7: “Prolific Readers Are Future Leaders,” Detra Price-Dennis, Teachers College, Columbia Christiana Succar, Cocoa Beach, FL University, New York, NY “Advocating for Students in the Academy: Poster 8: Marianne Richardson, The Heritage School, Newnan, GA Improving Student Success through Guided Library Scott Riley, Singapore American School Research,” Belinda Wheeler, Claflin University, Stacey Ross, Austin Independent School District, TX Orangeburg, SC Angie Zapata, University of Missouri, Columbia

J.55 Exhibitor Session: Bridging Tradebook Authors: Susan Campbell Bartoletti, g Connections: Primary Sources and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Current Events Readers Loren Long, Penguin Books for Young Readers A406 Lisa Mantchev, Simon & Schuster Sponsored by Newsela Mitali Perkins, Charlesbridge Publishing A Newsela Educator Specialist will share Laurel Snyder, Chronicle Books activities that allow students to engage Duncan Tonatiuh, Abrams Books for Young Readers with a primary source and connect it to Taeeun Yoo, Simon & Schuster contemporary events. By pairing texts, students will be able to compare and contrast ideas, empowering them to discuss their world.

202 2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program K Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m.

FEATURED SESSION K.01 SLAM: Advocating the Use of Media and 21st Century Literacies with Preservice Teachers m s te A302 Through the Studies in Literacies and Multimedia Assembly, members are preparing preservice teachers to teach and facilitate students’ use of 21st century literacy skills and tools in and out of the classroom. Participants will hear from a variety of experiences in advocating for 21st century literacy perspectives with preservice teachers.

Chair: Shelbie Witte, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Roundtable 1: Multimodal Texts and MAP with Preservice Teachers Charles Jurich, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Roundtable 2: The Latest and Best 2.0 Tools for the 21st Century Classroom Sara Kajder, University of Georgia, Athens Roundtable 3: Utilizing New Literacies as Bridge Texts Amanda Lickteig, Emporia State University, KS s st

Roundtable 4: 21 Century Supervision of Student Interns at urd Katie Rybakova, Thomas College, Waterville, ME Amy Piotrowski, Utah State University, Logan Roundtable 5: Everything Old Is New Again: Bringing Shakespeare into the 21st Century Maria Bolner, West Chester University, PA a

Jacob Kline, West Chester University, PA y Pauline Schmidt, West Chester University, PA Roundtable 6: A Four-Part Approach for Reading Print and Nonprint Texts Vicki Sherbert, Kansas State University, Manhattan Roundtable 7: Using Digital Tools to Strengthen Academic Vocabulary with ESL Students Lauren Zucker, Fordham University, New York, NY

After this Featured Session, visit the Taking Action Hub in room A304 to discuss Everyday Advocacy and turn your learning into action!

K.02 Nobody Expects the Spanish Hannah Whitaker, Denver School of Science and m Inquisition: How a Coalition of Technology, CO, “Obtaining Administrative Advocates Defended the Students’ Support for Highly Challenged Books and Rippling s Benefits of Teaching Diverse Books for Students Right to Read and Attained of All Backgrounds” c Unexpected Results Presenters: Chris Brook, ACLU of North Carolina, A315 “What Fighting for Intellectual Freedom Means Teachers, students, community members, on a Bigger Scale—State and National: How Each and rights advocates discuss the powerful— Fight Continues to Influence Civil Rights” and unexpected—results of a book Craig Fischer, Appalachian State University, Boone, challenge that rippled out from small-town, NC, “Coalition Building and Public Intellectualism” conservative Appalachia. Learn how an Nathaniel Fischer, University of North Carolina at attempt to remove Isabel Allende’s The Chapel Hill, “As a Student: Effects of Speaking House of the Spirits from the classroom at an ASU Teach-In, Being Interviewed by NPR, spurred these advocates to defend Participating in a Read-In and Board of Education intellectual freedom. Meetings, and Being Interviewed by FOX News at an ACLU Rally” Co-Chairs: Mary Kent Whitaker, Watauga High School, Boone, NC, “Opportunities and Challenges Kauner Michael, University of North Carolina at Related to Advocating for Students and for Thoughtful Literature”

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m be Student/Faculty Petition Presented to the Board m Advocating for Future Lives of Education and the Ripple Effect of Father through Writing Running in Next BOE Election” s A303 e Nov y, Max Schlenker, Yale University, New Haven, CT, “As a a Student: Effects of Being a Deciding Student This panel invites English language arts Representative Vote on the School Committee educators to expand the vision of what it

urd at during the Challenge, Speaking at an ACLU Rally means to prepare K–12 students to write for s prior to Final BOE Meeting, and Writing College college, the workplace, and the community. Entrance Essays about the Challenge” We will share insights, stories, and lessons of ELA teachers engaging their students in K.03 Doing More Isn’t Doing Better: How writing to advocate for their future lives. g to Be a Teacher and Have a Life Presenters: Tanya Baker, National Writing Project, B217 Berkeley, CA, “Writing to Engage with Community and Civic Spaces Using Scientific Evidence“ With class sizes today reaching Jessica Early, Arizona State University, Tempe, unmanageable numbers, how can teachers “Career Path Interviews and Interview Profiles“ expect to spend a reasonable amount of Tom Fox, National Writing Project, “Refocusing the time reading and responding to student Goals of Argument Writing“ work? When regularly faced with a looming Christina Saidy, Arizona State University, Tempe, pile of 150+ papers, how do we strike a work/ “Career Path Interviews and Interview Profiles” life balance? Panelists will explore solutions for making English teachers’ lives more manageable. K.06 Author Visit 101: Creative Advocacy e in Action Chair: Beth Shaum, St. Frances Cabrini, Brooklyn, NY A305 Presenters: Kevin English, Belleville, MI m Lindsay Grady, Fenton Area Public Schools, MI An author visit is a powerful catalyst in s Dave Stuart, Cedar Springs Public Schools, MI shaping school literacy culture. Working Amy Watkins, Van Buren Public Schools, Belleville, MI te with young adult authors—advocates for teens’ issues who value artistic expression K.04 Advocating for Change: Telling Our as the answer for surviving and thriving in e Stories about Bullying and Making this human endeavor—is an unforgettable Change in Our Worlds experience, igniting imaginations. Infinitely. m Handouts will cover funding to final hour. B210 s Chair: Jennifer Paulsen, Cedar Falls Community In this session, we explore the role of Schools, IA te microaggressions and the deeper issues Tradebook Authors: e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Candlewick that are involved in bullying and harassment Press in middle schools, especially with LGBT Matt de la Peña, Random House Children’s Books students. We will also focus on two concrete Meg Medina, Candlewick Press projects that inspire students to advocate for themselves and others in long-lasting and K.07 Improv Out: Using Drama to Engage potentially transformative ways. g Students and Capture Emotions on Presenters: Roxanne Henkin, University of Texas, San the Page Antonio, “Advocating for Change: Challenging the Microaggressions Involved with Bullying” A310 Kalpana Iyengar, University of Texas, San Antonio, Experience the power of improv to spark “The Kahani Project: Disrupting Bullying through creative and critical skills in your students’ Advocacy” writing. Occasionally, all students have Anita Pickett, Woodlawn Academy, San Antonio challenges with the page, and teachers Independent School District, “The Paws and Claws have difficulty scaffolding their efforts. Our Advocacy Project” workshop employs the joy and rigor of improv to guide teachers through the writing process in a fresh way. Facilitators: Molly B. Burnham, HarperCollins/ Katherine Tegen Books

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Heidi Haas, independent educator/Northampton High share a different message. Come prepared to School, MA think about ways technology can empower Lisa Papademetriou, Sierra Nevada College, Incline our young students. Village, NV Chair: Franki Sibberson, Dublin City Schools, OH, “Empowering Young Children with Digital Tools” K.08 Day of Early Childhood Closing Presenters: William Bass, Parkway School District, e Session—“It’s time to re-write the Chesterfield, MO, “Authentic Learning through a story”: Active Anti-Racist Teaching Digital Lens” through Critical Dance and Olivia Van Ledtje, Moharimet Elementary School, Visual Arts Literacies in the Early Durham, NH, “Moving from the Self-ME to the Childhood Classroom Self-WE: Crafting My Digital Identity One Video at a Time” A311 Katharine Hale, Arlington Public Schools, IL, Teachers want to DO something but seek “‘Branding’ Young Writers through Blogging” support for teaching anti-racism in early Lynsey Burkins, Dublin City Schools, OH, “Young childhood classrooms. This presentation Children Make Sense of the World Using Digital describes a decolonizing approach to using Tools” critical dance and visual arts literacies to help Jennifer Burton, Barrington Community Unit School

children learn literacy and anti-racism through District 220, IL, “The Importance of Digital Tools s examinations of African American, African, for Students of Poverty” at urd and Latino/a dance and visual art forms. Katie Dicesare, Dublin City Schools, OH, “Using Chair: Roberta Gardner, Georgia State University, Digital Tools for Student Reflection” Atlanta, “African American Art as a Place for Sarah McKinney, Hunt Meadows Elementary, Easley,

Possibility” SC, “Kindergarteners Need Authentic Audiences a Presenters: Alicia Boardman, Northern Parkway Too” y School, Uniondale, NY, “Culturally Relevant Cindy O'Donnell-Allen, Colorado State University, Literacies in Elementary Classrooms: Re- Fort Collins, “From Inquiry to Advocacy: Helping positioning Marginalized Histories and Heritage Youth Become Citizen Scientists Using Multimodal through Critical Dance Literacies Pedagogies” Tools” Susi Long, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Karen Terlecky, Dublin City Schools, OH, “Coaching “Culturally Relevant Literacies in Elementary for Student Agency” Classrooms: Re-positioning Marginalized Histories Melissa Wells, Spartanburg District 6, SC, “Reading and Heritage through Critical Dance Literacies the Word and the (Digital) World: Engaging Pedagogies” Kindergarteners in Critical Digital Literacy” Shashray McCormack, Mill Creek Elementary School, Louisville, KY, “Culturally Relevant Literacies K.10 Making Nonfiction Pop: in Elementary Classrooms: Re-positioning m Collaborative Inquiry and Climate Marginalized Histories and Heritage through Change (NCTE Author Strand) Critical Dance Literacies Pedagogies” s B306 Bilal Polson, Northern Parkway School, Uniondale, NY, “Culturally Relevant Literacies in Elementary Building on the tradition of literature circles, Classrooms: Re-positioning Marginalized Histories this session uses Learning Experience and Heritage through Critical Dance Literacies Organizers (LEOs) to explore multimodal Pedagogies” texts around the most pressing issue of our time: global climate change. Teachers will K.09 Beyond Cute: The Digital Work of engage in a research-based active learning experience where they work with innovative e Young Children ways to explore print and nonprint texts A312 (film, podcasts, cartoons, etc.) with students. Sponsored by the SLAM Assembly Nonfiction and fiction “climate change in the Too often, young children and their digital classroom” resource lists will be provided. work are seen as “cute.” The thinking, Chair: Pam Goble, Community Consolidated School decisions, and learning that take place are District 93, Aurora University, Benedictine overlooked. Through a fast-paced Ignite University, IL format, this team of diverse educators will Presenter: Ryan Goble, Glenbard Township High School District 87, Glen Ellyn, IL; mindblue.com

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 205 k Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m. r 19 K.11 Equity and Social Justice: Using Chair: Millie Davis, National Council of Teachers of

m be English, Urbana, IL g Informational Texts and Literature in Urban and Rural Classrooms Presenters: Lynn Dickinson, HP Kids Read to Help Young Readers Become Emily Knox, University of Illinois at Urbana- e Nov y, Champaign a Informed Advocates and Global Lu Ann McNabb, National Council of Teachers of Citizens English, Washington, DC

urd at A314 s To be effective advocates for causes they K.14 The Power of Wonder and Inquiry care about, students need to evaluate, e in the Classroom and at Home process, and communicate information. A404 These abilities encompass media and visual m Wonder and inquiry help develop the will literacies. Literature and informational texts s to learn and cultivate curiosity, which leads play a crucial role in providing readers with te students to exploration and discovery. How foundational and historical context and in can teachers foster wonder and inquiry while helping to nurture empathy and awareness. maintaining rigor and meeting standards? Presenters: Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Our panelists will share strategies to Deborah Wiles, Scholastic incorporate wonder and inquiry both inside Brian Williams, Georgia State University, Atlanta and outside the classroom! : Brittany Howell, National Center for Families K.12 Thinking Outside the Bubbles: Chair Learning, Louisville, KY Taking Advantage of Reading and g Presenters: Louise Borden, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Writing Reciprocity to Encourage Georgia Heard, author/independent consultant, North Deep, Critical Thinking in Palm Beach, FL Elementary Students Kristin Ziemke, Big Shoulders Fund, Chicago, IL A316 Harness the power of reciprocity between K.15 A Multimodal Framework: reading and writing! With a focus on critical g Providing Students with Diverse thinking, the presenters will explore some of Opportunities to Make Meaning and the hardest-to-teach areas of reading and Communicate writing for elementary students: inference, A405 interpretation, and synthesis in reading; and This hands-on workshop focuses on the elaboration, structure, and focus in writing. creation, implementation, and assessment Presenters: Colleen Cruz, Teachers College, Columbia of a multimodal unit of study. Participants University, New York, NY of the workshop will be provided tools that Lester Laminack, author/consultant, Asheville, NC break down the components of diverse Reba McDaniel Wadsworth, consulant & author, modes, building a deeper semiotic awareness Decatur, GA and positioning educators to assess in Jennifer Serravallo, Heinemann ways other than traditional monomodal approaches. K.13 How Teachers, Parents, and Presenters: Rachel Jeantet, Midway Park Elementary, g Communities Can Keep Students Euless, TX Reading Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton A403 Whitney Young, University of North Texas, Denton How can teachers keep students reading in the face of challenges to books they have assigned or recommended? This panel will discuss how teachers can address these challenges, by understanding the challengers, creating workable policies, and engaging parents and community members to support them.

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K.16 Fostering Advocacy Schoolwide: K.19 Encouraging Preservice Teachers e Reading and Writing for Argument te to Be Global, Cultural, and Personal A407 Advocates This presentation is designed to support B201 the development of opinion/argumentative Panelists present tools and tales to inspire literacy practices for educators working attendees to engage preservice teachers as with students in grades K–5. Presenters advocates. University relationships, black will share instructional methods, such as speculative fiction, counternarratives from debate protocols and interactive writing, children’s literature, and culturally relevant and show how these and other methods can instruction will be explored for their promise support students’ argument practices and and possibility. engagement in advocacy. Presenters: Tabora Johnson, Medgar Evers College, Chair: Mary Ehrenworth, Teachers College, Columbia CUNY, “Preservice Teachers’ Culturally Relevant University, New York, NY Literacy Instruction for Linguistically Diverse Presenters: Kelly Boland-Hohne, Teachers College Students” Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, Valin Jordan, George Washington University, New York, NY Washington, DC, “Performing the Self as Raced

Rebecca Cronin, Teachers College Reading and and Gendered: White Female Preservice Teachers s

Writing Project, Columbia University, New York, NY Exploration of the Self through Counternarratives at urd Celena Larkey, Teachers College Reading and Writing in Children’s Literature” Project, Columbia University, New York, NY Salika Lawrence, Medgar Evers College, Annie Taranto, Teachers College Reading and Writing City University of New York, “Preservice Teachers’

Project, Columbia University, New York, NY Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction for a

Linguistically Diverse Students” y K.18 Poet Advocates: Using Poetry Jonathan Ostenson, Brigham Young University, g to Advocate for Teaching and Provo, UT, “Building on University Relationships to Learning in the 21st Century Support Early-Career Teachers” A412 Bevin Roue, Michigan State University, East Lansing, “Preservice Teachers’ Culturally Relevant Literacy During this panel presentation, members Instruction for Linguistically Diverse Students” of the NCTE Executive Committee and the CEE Commission on the Teaching of Poetry K.20 A Culture of Respect in the Classroom: will read and discuss poems that advocate Silence, Listening, and Place for teaching and learning in the 21st century. s c Participants will leave inspired to use poetry te B202 as a vehicle for healing, peace, validation, The presentations in this session share power, and advocacy. ways of actively respecting students, their Co-Chairs: Bonner Slayton, Moore Norman home cultures, and their communities. They Technology Center, Norman, OK argue that a classroom that has space for Danny Wade, Washburn University, Topeka, KS contemplative silence, rhetorical listening, Presenters: Jocelyn Chadwick, NCTE Vice and stories can help culturally diverse President, Harvard Graduate School of Education, students form identities in the academy. Cambridge, MA Presenters: Jenny Heil, Tulane University, New Katie Decker, Central High School, Cheyenne, WY Orleans, LA, “Contemplative Silence and the Susan Houser, NCTE President-Elect, middle level Classroom” educator/consultant, St. Petersburg, FL Sharon Peck, SUNY Geneseo, NY “Community Ted Kesler, Queens College, City University of New Stories: Making Place Relevant” York Esther Schupak, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Michael Moore, Georgia Southern University, “Advocating for a Culture of Respect: Listening Statesboro Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom” Melanie Shoffner, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Anne Thurmer, University of Phoenix, “Advocating Rebecca Sipe, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti for a Third Place: Student Identity Formation in Bonner Slayton, Moore Norman Technology Center, Academic Discourse” Norman, OK Danny Wade, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 207 k Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m. r 19 K.21 In Class: Grammar, Novels, and Rachel Jones, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA

m be te College Prep Kelli Sowerbrower, Newnan High School, Newnan, GA Michelle Zoss, Georgia State University, Atlanta B204 Roundtable 3: Creative Responses to Literature:

e Nov y, Panelists engage special topics that emerge in Advocating for the Arts in ELA with Preservice a English classes. Grammar is and has a political Teachers history; don’t teach grammar until you truly Lindsay Nebergall, Western Illinois University,

urd at understand it. College preparation is taking Macomb s on renewed interest from postsecondary Alexis Phares, Western Illinois University, Macomb institutions and secondary students and Maggie Wallace, Western Illinois University, Macomb their parents; how do we know who to Alisha White, Western Illinois University, Macomb engage? And, if you’re teaching one novel Roundtable 4: Exploring Teacher Literacy Identity to your whole class, are you looking for through Art ways to differentiate? This panel will provide Cara Mulcahy, Central Connecticut State University, information and time for questions and New Britain answers. Louise Shaw, Southern Connecticut State University, Presenters: Hal Hinderliter, University of Wisconsin– New Haven Milwaukee, “The Evolution of Grammar as Political Roundtable 5: Exploring Tough Social Issues in Act” Children’s Books through Art Mary Ellen Kubit, University of Central Arkansas, Sara Bangert, Indiana University–Purdue University, Conway, AR, “College Prep for Everyone: Using Indianapolis Evidence to Engage Grade-Level Students in Chris Leland, Indiana University-Purdue University, Advanced Composing Practices” Indianapolis J. Bradley Minnick, University of Arkansas at Little Anne Ociepka, Indiana University-Purdue University, Rock, “College Prep for Everyone: Using Evidence Indianapolis to Engage Grade-Level Students in Advanced Composing Practices” Roundtable 6: How to Use Drama Pedagogy in the Secondary Classroom Sara Ranzau, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX K.22 COAL Roundtable: Issues of Advocacy g in and for the Arts in ELA Roundtable 7: Idea Bundles: Visual and Verbal Media Inspire Ideas for Writing B206 S. Rebecca Leigh, Oakland University, Rochester, MI This session will offer an opportunity to Roundtable 8: More Than Graffiti: Painting Playbills see presentations, hear about research, Cheryl Staley, Carbondale Community High School, IL and enter into discussions about various Roundtable 9: Partners in Literacy: Empowering a issues of advocacy with respect to the arts Joyful Culture of Literacy via the Arts in classrooms of all ages. Presenters will be Whitney Blair, Ball State University, Muncie, IN demonstrating, displaying, and discussing Rachel Wildeman, Ball State University, Muncie, IN ways in which the arts can be incorporated Peggy Rice, Ball State University, Muncie, IN into the teaching of English, as well as how that fosters literacy and learning. Roundtable 10: The Arts and Higher Order Reasoning Kay W. Cowan, University of Tennessee at Co-Chairs: Katherine Macro, University at Buffalo, NY Chattanooga Michelle Zoss, Georgia State University, Atlanta Roundtable 11: Who Should Play? Casting Drama Roundtable 1: Changing the Lens: Using Art-Full (Especially Shakespeare) in the Classroom and Reflective Journaling and Multicultural Children’s Paying Attention to Intersections of Art and Literature to Explore Issues of Anti-Racism and Identity Social Justice Roni Dean-Burren, University of Houston, TX Jane Baskwill, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Timothy Duggan, Northeastern Illinois University, Nova Scotia, Canada Chicago Roundtable 2: Bring Your Methods Courses to the Laura Kuntzmann, West Chester University, PA Stage! Advocating for the Arts in an Era of High- Jesse Reick, West Chester University, PA Stakes Testing Amanda Rementer, West Chester University, PA Charity Gordon, Georgia State University, Atlanta Pauline Schmidt, West Chester University, PA Tommy Jolly, Georgia State University, Atlanta Laura Turchi, University of Houston, TX

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Roundtable 12: Writing with a Reader’s Eye: Using K.25 Rethinking Writing: Advocating for Photography as a Tool for Engaging Writers s Digital and Multimodal Composing Michael DiCicco, Northern Kentucky University, B408 Highland Heights c Tammie Sherry, Northern Kentucky University, This interactive session focuses on both ELA Highland Heights teachers and students composing in digital media, offering strategies for and examples Roundtable 13: The Poetry Performance…Rocked of compositions including hypertext the House Wendy Williams, Arizona State University, Tempe poems, videos, trailers, kinetic poetry, and multimodal memoirs. Panelists will share K.23 Unmasking and Asking: Teaching how both teachers and students learn to compose effectively in new digital and with Doors Wide Open g multimodal environments and the learning B207 opportunities this creates. This panel of educators, a district Presenters: Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University, administrator and three teachers, will share Nashville, TN their experiences as they sought to challenge Robin Jocius, The Citadel, Charleston, SC how they had long been doing professional Emily Pendergrass, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,

development. They will share how a district TN s

administrator moved to collaborating as a David Sabey, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN at urd co-teacher and “going back” into classrooms to co-teach. K.26 Classroom, Community, and the Presenters: Linda Cady, Groton Public Schools, CT e World: Inquiry and Advocacy Lola Colette, Groton Public Schools, CT A408 a Andrea Davis, Groton Public Schools, CT y Leslie Forbes, Groton Public Schools, CT Led by their sense of wonder, teachers and children in a preschool class took K.24 ¡Ojo! Latino/a Characters as up an inquiry stance as they engaged in literacy, outdoor education, and discovery. Advocates: Bilingual, Culturally e In an elementary classroom, teachers and m Relevant Chapter Books students co-constructed a curriculum that B208 investigated and responded to the assets Isn’t finding culturally relevant and bilingual and challenges in their diverse community. texts a challenge? Arte Público Press Other elementary students and teachers presents authors René Saldaña and Lydia explored issues surrounding the refugee Gil, who will discuss their chapter books crises and asked: How do we decide to help? featuring Latino/a protagonists in meaningful Chair: Caryl Crowell, Borton Magnet School, Tucson, AZ stories. Educators Alfredo Luján and Lorena Presenters: Ariel Robinson, University of Missouri- Germán will share practical pedagogy tips Columbia, “Wonder, Exploration, and Discovery in for using these texts in the classroom. an Inquiry-Based Curriculum” Chair: Denise Dávila, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alexandra Panos, Indiana University, Bloomington Presenters: Lorena German, The Khabele School, Allison Burgeson, Fayette School Corporation, Austin, TX Connersville, IN, “How Do We Decide How to Lydia Gil, University of Denver, CO Help? The Refugee Crisis and Ideas for Reading Alfredo Luján, Monte del Sol Charter School, Santa and Writing for Advocacy” Fe, NM Dahlia Constantine, Teachers College, Columbia René Saldaña, Texas Tech University, Lubbock University, New York, NY Respondent: R. Joseph Rodríguez, University of Texas at El Paso

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 209 k Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m. r 19 K.27 Heroes of Advocacy: Changing K.29 Digital Literacy and Multimodal

m be g Communities, Changing Lives m Authorship B211 s B213

e Nov y, This session provides strategies for using In this presentation, we will discuss the a stories about heroes to develop literacy aims, benefits, and difficulties of producing skills while inspiring students to tap their an online literary magazine for high school

urd at own heroic potential to implement change. students. Topics will include technology s Participants will learn ways to use hero texts access and usage, project-based learning, for project-based learning in classrooms, and writing pedagogy, and the importance of will receive Young Heroes Materials aligned digital literacy. Check out the website at with Common Core State Standards. www.westwoodlitmag.com Chair: Linda Rief, Oyster River Middle School and Presenters: Laura Benton, Woodford County Public University of New Hampshire, Durham Schools, Versailles, KY Presenters: T.A. Barron, Penguin Young Readers Matthew Haughton, West Jessamine High School, Barbara Ann Richman, Gloria Barron Prize for Young Nicholasville, KY Heroes Fran Wilson, Madeira City Schools, Cincinnati, OH K.30 Life-Notebook-Fiction: How e Authors Use Real-Life Experiences K.28 Finding Their Voices: Promoting to Spark Fiction (and How Your m m Student-Centered Discussion Students Can, Too!) through Digital Tools s s B214 B212 te c The truth makes great fiction. Six children’s In this teaching demonstration, participants authors and a middle school reading will experiment with a variety of digital teacher will discuss how experiences such tools to foster broad engagement, greater as a childhood interest in musical theater, accountability, reflection, and authentic living behind the Berlin Wall, and giraffe-led learning. Participants will consider how to harassment have informed their work, and use tools such as Zaption, Google Docs and how students can mine their own experiences Surveys, and infographics in innovative ways to write fiction. designed to promote student voice in the Chair: Kellee Moye, Hunter’s Creek Middle School and classroom. Orange Co. Public Schools Chair: Christina Ponzio, Michigan State University, Presenters: Rita Williams-Garcia, HarperCollins East Lansing Respondent: Anne Nesbet, Candlewick Press and Presenters: Christian Clarke, Brooklyn Tech High University of California–Berkeley School, NY Tradebook Authors: Elana Arnold, Houghton Mifflin Amy Matthusen, East West School of International Harcourt Studies, Flushing, NY Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Claire Legrand, Simon & Schuster Heidi Schulz, Bloomsbury Kids

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K.31 Bridging the Parent/Professor K.33 Nurturing Advocacy: Prompting te Divide: Active Advocacy as English s Student Action through National Educators English Honor Society for High B215 Schools English educators play multiple roles: B218 teachers, teacher educators, researchers, National English Honor Society (NEHS) parents, among others. When these roles advisors from Georgia high schools, along intersect, and we realize that our own children with staff from the National English Honor are faced with school policies and practices Society, will share examples of how students that conflict with our knowledge of best are nurtured toward becoming advocates practice, how do we negotiate these tensions for literacy as a fundamental component of in ways that can benefit all involved parties? compassionate schools and communities. Chair: Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, Aquinas College, NEHS, established in 2005, now has Grand Rapids, MI over 800 high schools around the world engaged in deepening the understanding Roundtable 1: “I’m Emery’s Mom”: Conducting and appreciation of English language arts. Research in Your Child’s School Jacqueline Bach, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Presenters will share how they move their

students beyond the classroom to be s Roundtable 2: When the Five-Paragraph Essay effective literacy ambassadors; information at urd Rears Its Ugly Head—In Your Own Child’s Classroom will also be provided on how to become a Jonathan Bush, Western Michigan University, chartered member of the NEHS community. Kalamazoo Presenters: Jim East, Brookstone School, Columbus, GA Roundtable 3: Who’s Doing the Talking? Rethinking Caroline Fitzpatrick, Alvernia University, Reading, PA a Teacher and Student Talk in the Classroom Randy Gingrich, Cambridge High School, Milton, GA y Erica Hamilton, Grand Valley State University, MI John Manear, Seton-La Salle High School, Pittsburgh, PA Roundtable 4: Opting In or Opting Out Cathy Kelly Power, Milton High School, Milton, GA Mark Letcher, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL Dave Wendelin, National English Honor Society Roundtable 5: Providing Secondary ELA Professional Development as a Stakeholder K.34 A Transfer of Knowledge: Advocating Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, Aquinas College, Grand te for Increased Use of Digital Literacies Rapids, MI by Preservice and Practicing Roundtable 6: Out of the Classroom and into the Teachers for Literacy Instruction Community Deborah Vriend Van Duinen, Hope College, Holland, MI B301 Roundtable 7: On the Same Team: Learning The presenters will share outcomes of their Together through a Professional Reading Group study in which preservice and practicing Leah Zuidema, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA teachers engaged with online applications that required them to use new technologies K.32 Advocating for Change: Using Issue- to develop literacy. Participants will view Based Argument Writing to Bridge projects that used Padlet, Kidblog, Quizlet, s StoryboardThat, Kaboom!, word cloud the High School-to-College Gap c generators, and VoiceThread. Attendees will B216 participate, so please BYOD. te In this session, high school and college Presenters: Francine Falk-Ross, Pace University, instructors will share successful strategies New York, NY and materials from a unit titled “Advocating Roberta Linder, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH for Change,” in which students research a contemporary issue that affects their lives and then write a research-supported argument to advocate for positive change. Students find this assignment to be engaging, relevant, and most important, empowering. Presenters: Nicolette Amann, Humboldt University, McKinleyville, CA Rachel Watson, McKinleyville High School, CA

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 211 k Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m. r 19 K.35 Advocating for Student Agency in K.38 Using Adolescent Fictions to m be e Reading and Writing Conferences g Advocate Students Finding m A313 Their Own Voices in Writing and Establishing Writer Identity

e Nov y, In this panel, the presenters will discuss how a reading and writing conferences are a place B311 where teachers can help students become This panel presents research-in-progress on

urd at thoughtful, independent meaning makers how an eighth-grade language arts teacher s who know how to creatively and critically uses classic and modern adolescent fictions think and talk about the work they are doing. to advocate students exploring their own Chair: Carl Anderson, author and literacy consultant, voices in writing and facilitate students to Brooklyn, NY establish writer identity within a school year. Presenters: Carl Anderson, author and literacy Chair: Xiaodi Zhou, University of Georgia, Athens consultant, Brooklyn, NY, “Writing Conferences: A Presenters: Jennifer Cheveallier, P.K. Yonge DRS, Place to Teach Students to Think and Talk About University of Florida, Gainesville Creative Work” Lin Deng, University of Florida, Gainesville Vicky Vinton, literacy consultant, Brooklyn, NY Rongrong Dong, University of Florida, Gainesville

K.36 Poetry Writing Lessons for College K.39 The 21st Century Waltz: What c Students: Sijo, a Korean Poetic m Happens When Teachers Form Collaborate? te s B307 B315 This demonstration moves through a three- Students need to learn how to think; the 21st week lesson unit on poetry, specifically Sijo, century demands it! DBQs engage students in the English classroom. Sijo is a Korean in thinking, analyzing, synthesizing, speaking, three-line, structured poem which is about and writing. When teachers couple the twice longer than hiaku. This session aims to study of literary text with the examination widen the forms we can give to students in of primary documents in history and English the English classroom, particularly for ESL classes, students get the message in stereo, students. and learn how to waltz in the process— Presenters: Kyung Min Kim, Miami University, Oxford, OH symbolically, of course. Learn how to use an interdisciplinary framework to create K.37 What’s the Big Idea: Fostering powerful learning experiences for students. c Interest in Service and Technology Presenters: Elizabeth Cobia, Cobb County School in the Composition Classroom District, GA B310 Trudy Delhey, Cobb County School District, GA Rhonda Lokey, Campbell Middle School, Smyrna, GA This presentation describes how Kaplan Martha Ruffner, Campbell Middle School, Smyrna, GA University’s Composition II course teaches students to use digital media forms such as PowerPoint, Animoto, and Prezi to advocate ideas for change in their communities. Students learn to design presentations that allow them to communicate their ideas beyond the confines of a classroom setting. Presenters: Carrie Hannigan, Kaplan University Stephanie Thompson, Kaplan University

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K.40 Research Foundation Research Grant Exist? Perception of Gender Norms in YA Novel Covers” g Recipients' Research Presentation Denise Ousley, University of North Carolina, B403 Wilmington, “Do Girl Books and Boy Books Exist? Three research grant recipients, Toby Emert, Perception of Gender Norms in YA Novel Covers” Jennifer Escobar, and Robert Marx report on their research findings from their projects on K.42 Advocating to Increase Use of how middle school daughters of refugees e Poetry as an Integral Component increased their literacy skills through m of Literacy Instruction and to Help multimedia storytelling, on how variety Readers Experience the Magic and of text selections in a community college s Wonders of Poetry: Presenting composition class leads to more student engagement and learning, and on the effects te Authors Whose Books of Poetry of using spoken-word poetry in ELA middle Engage, Inspire, and Inform Readers school classrooms. B406 Chair: Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Award-winning authors of poetry will discuss Columbia University, NY the ways they use lyrical language, imagery, Presenters: Toby Emert, Agnes Scott College, and imagination to craft poems and verse to

Decatur, GA, “ESL Learners and High-Tech engage readers. They will discuss their idea s

Storytelling: Promoting Academic Confidence” formation and writing techniques, and the at urd Jennifer Escobar, Moreno Valley College, Redlands, synergy involved when words, rhythm, and CA, “Examining the Effects of a Critical Reading emotion come together to communicate big, Selection Framework and Process in the important ideas and information.

Community College Classroom” Presenters: Jeannine Atkins, Simon & Schuster a Robert Marx, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, “‘My Leslie Bulion, c/o Margaret Quinlin, Publisher, “Using y Sadness Is a Knife’: Spoken Word Poetry in the Verse to Share and Engage with Fascinating English Language Arts Classroom” Science” Nikki Grimes, Bloomsbury, “The Power of Poetry to K.41 Identity & Equity in Children’s and Tell Important Stories” g YA Literature Donna Knoell, Educational Consulting, “Helping e B405 Educators Recognize the Importance of Using Poetry as an Integral Component of Literacy #WeNeedDIverseBooks is a national s Instruction” movement to increase representation in Marilyn Singer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt literature. This session offers three studies that push publishers, teachers, and communities to select and engage literature at the intersection K.43 Action for Social Justice—Giving of gender identities, racializations, and well- g Meaning to Students’ Reading, being. Writing, and Research Presenters: Pamela Coke, Colorado State University, B407 Fort Collins, “Performing Adolescence on the Page This interactive session explores the power and in the Classroom: Using Adolescents’ Literature to advance students’ literacy development to Advocate for Students’ Mental Health” through investigation and action on social Cara Crandall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, issues that matter to them. This approach “The Politics of Girls: Female Friendships as is essential for developing students as the Troubled and Troubling in YA Novels about active, engaged citizens our society needs. Bullying among Girls” We’ll discuss together instructional practices, Denise Ives, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, experience authentic activities, and consider “The Politics of Girls: Female Friendships as applications in our classrooms. Troubled and Troubling in YA Novels about Chair: Steven Zemelman, Illinois Writing Project Bullying among Girls” Presenters: Sara Ahmed, Bishops School, San Diego, Soowon Jo, University of Florida, Gainesville, CA, “Cultivating Awareness to Prepare Students “Analysis of Second- and Third-Grade Common for Choosing Activism” Core English Language Arts Text Exemplar Set” Sara Wicht, Teaching Tolerance, Montgomery, AL, Kelli Logue, Hamilton County Public Schools, “Student Assessment Tasks for Civic Engagement” Chattanooga, TN, “Do Girl Books and Boy Books

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 213 k Sessions / 4:15–5:30 p.m. r 19 K.44 Advocating for (Trans)Literacy in K.46 So, You Say You’re Not a Writer . . .

m be g a Digital Age: Tackling Words and g B309 Images Critically and Closely with e The coauthors of the Two Writing Teachers Students blog are known for fostering a nurturing e Nov y, m a B408 community for teachers who write. In this As technology and schooling are session, participants will learn how to develop

urd at continuously evolving, teachers must their writing lives and how to set attainable s equip students with literacy skills needed writing goals. Participants will leave with the to participate, engage, and succeed in confidence they can live a writer’s life. our global and digital society. To do so, Presenters: Deb Frazier, Hilliard City Schools, OH, students must read, decode, and think “Your Writing Life Matters” critically, moving between printed texts and Betsy Hubbard, Olivet Community Schools, MI, digital interactions for communication and “Fearless Feet: Stepping into Poetry” producing information. Elizabeth Moore, Chittenden East Supervisory Union/ Presenters: Michele Haiken, Rye Middle School and Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District, Manhattanville College, New York, NY VT, “Finding Inspiration for Your Own Writing Life” Emily Keating, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, Dana Murphy, Woodridge School District 68, NY Woodridge, IL, “Using a Writer’s Notebook to Steve Siden, Actively Learn, Seattle, WA Notice and Play” Respondent: Tara Smith, Glen Rock School District, K.45 Authentic Writing: Powerful Poetry NJ, “Writing to Discover Your Place in the World” m and Touching Personal Narratives K.47 Embracing Identity: Art as B409 g Advocacy in the Work of Jeff Mann This session will present a variety of B314 approaches to engage middle level te learners in the writing process. Topics to be A reading and conversation about identity presented and discussed include multigenre and Appalachia featuring guest author poetry, empowering student activism, and Jeff Mann. Through his award-winning writing conference approaches with English poetry, essays, and novels, Mann explores language learners. and celebrates overlapping identities, particularly as an Appalachian gay man Presenters: Sylvia Draughn, P. B. Ritch Middle School, who resists common stereotypes. Mann and Dallas, GA, “The Power of ‘Where I’m From’: A other Appalachian educators will discuss Vehicle for Student Authenticity and Advocacy” classroom ideas and suggestions for further Sierra Gilbertson, Fosston High School, MN, reading. “Empowering Students with Activist Poem Writing” Presenters: April Asbury, Hollins University, Michelle Keough, Dallas, GA, “The Power of ‘Where Roanoke, VA I’m From’: A Vehicle for Student Authenticity and Judy Byers, Fairmont State University, WV Advocacy” Angela Clevinger, Pulaski County Schools, VA Respondent: John Hambly, Radford University, Radford, VA Speaker: Jeff Mann, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

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K.48 Advocating for Independent K.50 To Stress or Not to Stress: How a m Reading and Supporting Students c Teacher Handles It in Becoming Their Own Reading A402 te Advocates Teacher stress is a major concern and it B316 affects every aspect of our profession. In this session, examine how one school Listen to the experiences of four educators implements independent reading as its core sharing how they cope with stress and serve reading curriculum and addresses state as advocates to preservice teachers and standards within a workshop framework. beginning teachers. Come and share your Then select from interactive roundtable experiences in a discussion on teacher stress sessions that address specific instructional and advocacy. practices and lessons. Presenters: Harrie Buecker, University of Louisville, Presenters: Barbara Clark, Solon City Schools, OH Kentucky, “Teachers As Advocates: Coping Sarah Gellott, Solon Middle Schools, OH Mechanisms for Teacher Stress and What It Means Scott Hatteberg, Solon Middle Schools, OH to Be an Advocate in the Teaching Profession” Emilie Macek, Solon City Schools, OH Lori Henderson, Union College, Barbourville, KY, Denise N. Morgan, Kent State University, OH “Teachers as Advocates: Coping Mechanisms

for Teacher Stress and What It Means to Be an s K.49 Celebrating Miles Myers (1931–2015): Advocate in the Teaching Profession” at urd g Scholar, Teacher, Professional Exemplar, and NCTE Executive K.51 Asian/Asian American Open Forum Director g B308 We invite all educators to join this a

B302–B305 y community of members who support one A celebration of the life and work of former another on scholarship by and/or about NCTE Executive Director Miles Myers. After Asian and Asian American language very brief presentations focusing on his practices, rhetorics, and literacy education. major contributions in different precincts of the profession of English, this session Chair: Jung Kim, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL will turn into an open forum for sharing memories and stories of a beloved mentor K.52 Exhibitor Session: WWSD? and colleague. g (What Would Shakespeare Drink?) Chair: Sheridan Blau, Teachers College, Columbia A406 University, New York, NY, “Miles, as Theorist, Sponsored by Cambridge Univeristy Historian, Radical Activist, and Mentor for Our Press Profession” Come join us for a “bowl of wine” and some Presenters: Mary Ann Smith, National Writing tips and tricks on how to engage your Project, Berkeley, CA, “Miles Myers and the Making students with the language of Shakespeare. of the National Writing Project” This casual cocktail hour will showcase Patricia Lambert Stock, Michigan State University, games and activities designed to guide your East Lansing, “Miles Myers and the Reanimation of students through the Bard’s best works. the NCTE College Section”

2016 NCTE Annual Convention Program 215 SIG Sessions / 5:45–7:00 p.m r 19 SIG.01 Reaching Diverse Learners through Co-Chairs: Lauren Aimonette Liang, University of

m be Utah, Salt Lake City g Grammar Instruction B309 Linda Parsons, The Ohio State University, Marion Thomas Crisp, Georgia State University, Atlanta Sponsored by the Assembly for the e Nov y, Presenters: Barbara Lehman, The Ohio State a Teaching of English Grammar University, Columbus Join ATEG for an exploration of ways to make Evelyn Freeman, The Ohio State University, Columbus grammar instruction relevant and engaging to urd at Matt de la Peña, Random House Children's Books s a diverse array of students! Sherry Saylors will Donna Gephart, Random House Children’s Books present Grammar Clinic, a free 12-week class, Christopher Meyers, Disney Publishing Worldwide open to all, which teaches grammar through hands-on activities. Sean Ruday will discuss how SIG.04 Online Teacher Resources and Apps song lyrics can help students identify and think g for Learning and Advocacy metacognitively about key grammatical concepts. B206 Ashlyn Kemp will describe the importance of teacher attitude to grammar instruction. Sponsored by the Assembly on Computers in English Co-Chairs: Sean Ruday, Longwood University, Farmville, VA Sherry Saylors, Prince George’s Community College, Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) Largo, MD promotes cooperation among individuals who Presenters: Ashlyn Kemp, Longwood University, have an interest in technology infusion into Farmville, VA English language arts and literacy instruction. Sean Ruday, Longwood University, Farmville, VA Join us at the SIG meeting to share app Sherry Saylors, Prince George’s Community College, ideas and online resources for learning and Largo, MD advocacy activities in the classroom. Look for us in the NCTE Connected Community at SIG.02 Secondary School Writing Centers http://ncte.connectedcommunity.org/ace. m B401–B402 Chair: Ewa McGrail, Georgia State University, Atlanta s Sponsored by the International Writing Presenters: Ewa McGrail, Georgia State University, Centers Association: An NCTE Assembly Atlanta c The International Writing Centers Association J. Patrick McGrail, Jacksonville State University, AL (IWCA) invites current and prospective writing Judy Arzt, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT center directors to connect with each other at this interactive SIG. We will focus on how SIG.05 Life Stories, Teaching Stories: professional international, regional, and local The Enduring Value of Conversation networks can prepare, connect, and support B404 writing center directors as we advocate for our Sponsored by the Gender and Literacy positions and our programs. Assembly Presenters: Amber Jensen, George Mason University, The exemplar of Rewey Belle Inglis reminds Fairfax, VA us of the enduring influence of caring Andrew Jeter, The Idea Lab teachers—and of the necessity of drawing Jackie Grutsch McKinney, International Writing Centers sustenance from one another as we navigate Association our professional lives. In reflecting on her own path as a learner and teacher, Anne DiPardo SIG.03 CLA Master Class 2016: Diverse will explore our basic human need to be seen c Children’s Literature at the University and engaged. As Carl Jung observed, “One te B406 looks back with appreciation to the brilliant Sponsored by the Children’s Literature teachers, but with gratitude to those who Assembly touched our human feelings,” for “warmth is Join authors and experts in the field of diverse the vital element for the growing plant and children’s literature in discussions of topics for the soul of the child.” Looking back with relevant to teaching at the university level. We gratitude, Anne will contemplate this too- will explore the state of diversity in children’s often unnamed, relational part of teaching literature, the changing landscape of researching that has enabled her own growth and work. and teaching literature of diversity, and the Chair: Deborah Bertlesman, Western New York selection and acquisition of quality titles. Maritime Charter School, Buffalo, NY Presenter: Anne DiPardo, University of Colorado, Boulder

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SIG.06 ALCA Annual Assembly: Roundtable 4: Langston Hughes and Countee g Advocating Appalachia Cullen, Teresita Hunt, Cane Ridge High School, Nashville, TN B314 te Roundtable 5: Juan Felipe Herrera and Pat Mora, Sponsored by the Assembly on Tracey Hughes, Maret School, Washington, DC Literature and Culture of Appalachia After a brief session of assembly business, SIG.08 Zen and the Art of English Teacher including our journal ALCA-lines, we will Maintenance: Writing as a Way of continue a dialogue with guest author Jeff Dancing with Others, and with Life Mann and other Appalachian educators. Join B308 us for a conversation about the challenges and possibilities for educators and writers in Sponsored by the Assembly for mountain and rural communities. This meeting Expanded Perspectives on Learning is open to all. The current Common Core State Standards assign “argument” a “special place” in writing, Chair: April Asbury, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA and literacy generally. But isn’t that itself Presenters: James Tyler Chadwell, West Virginia University, Morgantown, and George Mason “arguable”? Might the true “common core” of our humanity contain more both of heaven University, Fairfax, VA

and of earth than has been dreamt of so far s John Hambly, Radford University, VA

by the CCSS? Come dance with us tonight! at urd Tiffany Martin, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV Yes, get ready to move your butt (in non- challenging, non-threatening ways)! Then see SIG.07 Teaching American Poets: Artful what deep writing that doesn’t just “argue” m Advocates for Equity with others and life, but dances with them, B215 a s can do for us. A preview of our 23rd Annual y Sponsored by the Assembly on Summer Conference in the Rockies next June: c American Literature “Writing as a Way of Being Human.” English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley famously Co-Chairs: Yvonne Siu-Runyan, University of called poets “the unacknowledged legislators Northern Colorado, Greeley of the world.” American poets, both classic Bruce Novak, The Foundation for Ethics and Meaning and modern, have claimed this mantle by Presenters: Vajra Watson, University of California, Davis imaginatively advocating for a more just Fuad Elhage, University of Georgia, Athens world that values the experience of every individual and group. As Adrienne Rich put SIG.09 Genders and Sexualities Equality it, “when poetry lays its hand on our shoulder g Alliance (GSEA) Annual Business we are, to an almost physical degree, Meeting touched and moved. The imagination’s B405 roads open before us, giving the lie to that brute dictum, ‘There is no alternative.’” This Sponsored by the GSEA session will explore the many ways in which The purpose of this Assembly is to provide a American poets have artfully tackled barriers forum for ongoing and sustained discussion relating to race, ethnicity, gender, social among all individuals who share a professional class, sexuality, and ability, seeking to move commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and minds and open hearts. Roundtable leaders trans (LGBT) students, teachers, issues, and will share strategies and foster discussion academic materials as they pertain to the about ways to invite students to travel with teaching of English at all levels of instruction. American poets along these imaginary roads The Assembly is committed to the inclusion that lead to a more equitable world. of LGBT issues and texts in English studies and English language arts classrooms, Tracey Hughes, Maret School, Washington, DC Chair: fostering research and scholarship, addressing Donte Roundtable 1: Lucille Clifton and Rita Dove, heterosexism and homophobia in academic Tates, Maret School, Washington DC, and school settings, supporting lesbian, gay, KaaVonia Hinton- Roundtable 2: Maya Angelou, bisexual, and trans students and teachers, and Johnson, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, broadening cultural diversity through more Katie Ellis, Darlington Roundtable 3: Walt Whitman, inclusive understandings of difference. School, Rome, GA Chair: Nicole Sieben, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY

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e Nov y, The Early Childhood Education Assembly The purpose of the English as a Second a provides a home for all who work with young Language Assembly (ESLA) is to encourage children. We look forward to engaging in interchange among teachers of English at

urd at dialogue as we seek to support teachers of all levels on issues in bilingual education and s young children with a strong emphasis on English as a second language. This session will promoting thoughtful practices that enhance provide information about the ESL Assembly the teaching and learning of young children and how to connect with their members. within and across diverse communities Chair: Clara Lee Brown, University of Tennessee, Chair: Erin Miller, University of North Carolina, Knoxville Charlotte SIG.14 NCTE Assembly for Research SIG.11 Emeritus Assembly Business (NCTEAR) Business Meeting Meeting B311 B307 Join members of this assembly whose The Emeritus Assembly will conduct its purpose is to discuss inquiry into literacy business meeting, including information on practices and to consider continually what it joining the assembly, exploring what the means to engage in that inquiry; to provide assembly does and connecting with other opportunities for researchers in different Emeritus members to become part of this sites and from different perspectives to retired, but active, group of NCTE members. come together to learn from one another; to Presenter: Anna J. Small Roseboro, author, mentor, encourage greater participation in research consultant, Grand Rapids, MI by teachers from all levels of schooling; to promote the growth of research and SIG.12 SLAM Business Meeting researchers through the forum provided by B407 the Assembly for Research; to support the development of early-career researchers Sponsored by the Studies in Literacies through assembly activities such as the and Multimedia Assembly Midwinter Conference; and to provide a Studies in Literacies and Multimedia democratic body that strives to incorporate Assembly (SLAM) disseminates and research activities into the broader goals and promotes research and information related to practices of NCTE. the field of multimedia and literacies; invites Co-Chairs: Jamal Cooks, San Francisco State dialogue among all individuals interested in University, CA the field of multimedia and literacies; and Huili Hong, East Tennessee State University, Johnson promotes advances in the field of multimedia City and digital literacies not limited to uses of multimedia in classroom teaching; modes of SIG.15 JEA Mentoring for Journalism research production with digital tools; and Advisers in Newspaper and cultural shifts in relation to societal uses of multimedia. Yearbook Courses B301 Chair: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Are you a beginning journalism teacher advising a publication or yearbook or want to start a journalism program at your school? If so this session will go over the JEA free mentoring program and the resources available to you to help build a strong program at your school. Chair: Jonathan Rogers, Journalism Education Association

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8:00–9:30 p.m. Sponsored by

Saturday General Session Sidney Marcus Auditorium

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, A MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow, Coates has received the s at urd National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations.” He lives in New York with his wife and son. a

Presiding: Susan Houser, NCTE President-Elect, middle level y educator/consultant, St. Petersburg, FL Ta-Nehisi Coates

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