ALAN WORKSHOP AND CEL CONVENTION These events are being held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.


CEL ANNUAL CONVENTION NOVEMBER 19–21


Literacy Communities as Sites of Reckoning and Repair


We live in an era of seemingly ever-growing polarization: cultural, political, and social. Yet this divisiveness is often intentionally overstated. Despite all the sound and the fury that pundits and strategists have created around the so-called education culture wars, the narrative just does not hold. We know that most families are quite satisfied with both their schools and the curriculum their children encounter there. We also know that most Americans find themselves in bipartisan agreement on a host of political issues, from reproductive rights to clean energy, campaign finance, and gun laws.


At the same time, as our young people grow into adults, we know well the echo chambers that await; reductionist, intellectually lazy, and at their worst, downright hateful, these alternate realities—and their impact on our collective ability to read, write, speak, listen, and think clearly—loom large in the consciousness of literacy leaders. Yet as leaders, we are well positioned to play a vital role in envisioning and enacting alternatives to the narrative of deepening divides. With and within the literacy communities we lead, we can promote and facilitate social healing that restores people, communities, and nations. The Conference on English Leadership’s 2023 Annual Convention calls for us to do the difficult work of defining the means toward the change we seek in our social reality, of coming together to offer our many and varied approaches to literacy leadership as a powerful tool in the work of social healing.


Keynote Speakers


Sunday, Nov. 19: CAROL D. LEE, Edwina S. Tarry Professor Emerita in the School of Education and Social Policy and African American Studies at Northwestern University Monday, Nov. 20: CATHY FLEISCHER, Professor Emerita, Eastern Michigan University Monday, Nov. 20: SAWSON JABER, High School English Teacher and District Equity Leader, East Leyden High School, Franklin Park, IL Tuesday, Nov. 21: LUCAS JOHNSON, Executive Director of Civil Conversations and Social Healing at The On Being Project


ALAN WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 20–21


Audacious Dreams: Celebrating Imagination, Courage, and Freedom in YAL


To dream audaciously is to cast oneself into the dark holding a light of hope, buoyed by the belief that what is imagined can be. YAL deals in possibility, and the power of craft and creativity to imagine youth on the page. YA authors and illustrators create stories full of possibility highlighting the boundless ability of youth to make change in their lives. At the center of this year’s ALAN Workshop is a fundamental question: how do we encourage and nurture adolescent dreams? This is a question we must ask and answer, for all youth deserve to dream audaciously and in color as the main characters of their lives, full of hope, agency, and courage—ready for the next adventure.


For the 2023 ALAN Workshop, we will feature authors, illustrators, audio narrators, and publishers who empower and inspire by stretching the bounds of genre and creativity, who lift voices not yet heard and create new speculative worlds, who center characters in joy and adventure, and who authentically represent courageous youth empowered to be whatever they dream. Your Workshop registration includes an amazing box of books, the opportunity to hear from authors you and your students admire, breakout sessions, a reception with authors, and lunch.


Visit the NCTE Registration Desk to register for these events.


2023 NCTE ANNUAL CONVENTION PROGRAM 245


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