2021-2030

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2021 No conference due to COVID 19
 

2020 (scheduled to host NCTE; moved to virtual due to COVID 19)

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2011-2020
 

2019 Teaching Tomorrow's Voices

Keynotes: Helen Thorpe, Tanaya Winder, Cornelius Minor

 

2018 Connecting Communities Through the Classroom

Keynotes: Penny Kittle, Camille T. Dungy, Shanna Peeples

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2017 Teaching in Balance

Keynotes: Matt de la Peña, Toluwanimi Obiwole, Dave Stuart, Jr.

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2016 For the Love of Teaching: Reclaiming the Classroom

Keynotes: Taylor Mali, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sarah Brown Wessling

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2015 The Literacy of Social Justice: Equity, Empathy, and Engagement

Keynotes: Linda Christensen, Antero Garcia, Patricia McCormick

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2014 A Cure for the Common Core: Reinventing Story

Keynotes: Chris Crutcher, Rebecca Rule, Ted Conover

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2013 Create, Innovate, Celebrate: Teaching in the Age of the Common Core

Keynotes: Jeff Anderson, Stevi Quate, Malinda Lo

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2012 Linking Literacies

Keynotes: Jim Blasingame, Sara Kajder, Mark Overmeyer

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2011 Expanding Literacies: Developing Critical Minds for Critical Times

Keynotes: Ernest Morrell, Laura Resau, Jovan Mays

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2001-2010
 

2010 (fall) Breakthroughs: Teaching in the Age of Discovery

Keynotes: Carol Jago, Teri Lesene, Gene Yang

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2010 (spring) Capturing Imagination: Inspiring the Magic of Language

Keynotes: Penny Kittle, Georgia Heard, Esmerelda Santiago

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2009 Creating a Teaching Life with Passion, Courage, and Conviction

Keynotes: Jeff Wilhelm, Sharon Draper, Sonia Nieto, Jimmy Santiago Baca

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2008 Literacy NOW!

Keynotes: Ralph Fletcher, Nikki Giovanni, Leonard Pitts, Dan and Dawn Kirby, Gene Yang

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2007 Visioning and Revisioning

Keynotes: Jeff Anderson, Nikki Grimes, Tim Hillmer, Richard Peck, Naomi Shibab Nye

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2006 Territories Ahead

Keynotes: Edward Bloor, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Billy Collins, Louann Reid, Judith Irvin

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2005 Today's Questions, Tomorrow's Answers

Keynotes: Barry Lane, Julie Anne Peters, Penny Kittle, Pam Houston

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2004 Range of the Possible: Ideas and Practices to Shape the Future

Keynotes: Chris Crutcher, John Golden, Sara Holbrook, Randy Bomer

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2003 Embracing the Magic: Discovering the Wonder in the Classroom

Keynotes: Janet Allen, Laurie Halse Anderson, Tod Marshall, Reggie Rivers, Tom Romano

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2002 Taking Stories to Heart

Keynotes: Carol Booth Olson, Bill Strong, Jim Burke, Kent Haruf, Lorri Hewett

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2001 Weaving New Fabrics for Learning

Keynotes: Kylene Beers, Li-Young Lee, Keith Gilyard

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1991-2000
 

2000 The Things We'll Carry

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1999 (hosted NCTE Annual Convention) Reimagining the Possibilities

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1999 Imagine the Possibilities

Keynotes: Linda Rief, Robert Probst, Christopher Paul Curtis, Dan Kirby

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1998 Steppin' Out

Keynotes: Maxine Greene, Charles Suhor, Sharon Draper, Caroline B. Cooney, Jack Collom

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1997 Voices Shaping the Future

Keynotes: Rudolfo Anaya, Lorna Dee Cervantes

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1996 Unlocking the Mystery of Language

Keynotes: John Berendt, Margaret Coel, Manuel Ramos, Jeff Golub, Warwick Downing, Alice Kawazoe

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1995 (theme unknown)

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1994 (Southwest Regional Conference) Changing Together: Classrooms and Communities

Keynotes: James Davis, Richard Lederer, Miles Myers, Peter Stillman

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1994 The Power of Story and Myth—Celebrating, Sharing, Learning

Keynotes: Opalanga Pugh, Will Hobbs

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1993 American Voices: Celebrating Diversity as Readers and Writers

Keynotes: Peter Elbow, Gary Soto, Vivian Davis, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Victor Villanueva

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1992 Vision and Revision: Challenges for the 1990s

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1991 A Legacy of Language

Keynotes: Richard Lederer, Peter Stillman, Chris Crutcher, Helene Willis, John and Kay Bushman, June Berkley, Bruce Appleby

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1981-1990
 

1990 (hosted NCTE Spring Conference)

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1989 The Many Modes of Communication

Keynotes: Bill McBride, Mark Medoff, Leonard Olguine

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1989 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Jill Scott, Ernest Boyer, Nat Hentoff, Vance Brand, Betty Miles

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1987 Celebrate Teaching

Keynotes: Ken Macrorie, Ellen Johnston-Hale, Alex English, Paula Danziger

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1986 Language & Life: One Story

Keynotes: Edward Albee, Robert Cormier, John Goodlad, Woody Paige, Lois Duncan, Ruth Vinz

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1985 Language: A Thinking Experience

Keynotes: Carol Kuykendall, Judith Crist, Sue Ellen Bridgers

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1984 A Time for Excellence

Keynotes: T.H. Bell, Neil Postman, Rex Brown, Robert Cormier

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1983 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Joyce Brothers, Dan Kirby, William Durr, John Stansfield

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1982 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Shelton Root, Diane Shugert, Muriel Bach

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1981 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Paul Brandwein, Muriel Bach, J. Evans Alloway, Toby Lurie, Clive Cussler, Al Grankowski

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1971-1980
 

1980 (theme unknown)

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1979 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Jack Perkins, Marilyn VanDerbur, Elaine Barbour, Calvin Frasier, John Maxwell

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1978 (theme unknown)

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1977 The Basics and Beyond

Keynotes: James Grey, Robert Newton Peck, Charlotte Brooks, Claudia Cohl, George Walter, Robert Sund

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1976 (theme unknown)

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1975 The Challenge of the Future from the Ferment of the Past

Keynotes: Morris Massey, Elizabeth Wooten, Ernest J. Gaines

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1974 (theme unknown)

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1973 (theme unknown)

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1972 Humanizing the Curriculum: Don't Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Keynotes: Stephen Dunning, Charlotte Brooks

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1971 (theme unknown)

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1962-1970
 

1970 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Richard Eberhart

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1969 (theme unknown)

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1968 (theme unknown)

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1967 (theme unknown)

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1966 (theme unknown)

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1965 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Charlton Laird

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1964 (theme unknown)

Keynotes: Arthur Kitzhaber

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1963 Achieve the Liaison Between the High School and the College, the Junior High and the High School, and the Junior High and the Elementary Schools

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1962 (theme unknown)