

Colorado Language Arts Society
Past Conferences
2021-2030
2021 No conference due to COVID 19
2020 (scheduled to host NCTE; moved to virtual due to COVID 19)
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
2017 Teaching in Balance
Keynotes: Matt de la Peña, Toluwanimi Obiwole, Dave Stuart, Jr.
2016 For the Love of Teaching: Reclaiming the Classroom
Keynotes: Taylor Mali, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sarah Brown Wessling
2015 The Literacy of Social Justice: Equity, Empathy, and Engagement
Keynotes: Linda Christensen, Antero Garcia, Patricia McCormick
2014 A Cure for the Common Core: Reinventing Story
Keynotes: Chris Crutcher, Rebecca Rule, Ted Conover
2013 Create, Innovate, Celebrate: Teaching in the Age of the Common Core
Keynotes: Jeff Anderson, Stevi Quate, Malinda Lo
2012 Linking Literacies
Keynotes: Jim Blasingame, Sara Kajder, Mark Overmeyer
2011 Expanding Literacies: Developing Critical Minds for Critical Times
Keynotes: Ernest Morrell, Laura Resau, Jovan Mays
2001-2010
2010 (fall) Breakthroughs: Teaching in the Age of Discovery
Keynotes: Carol Jago, Teri Lesene, Gene Yang
2010 (spring) Capturing Imagination: Inspiring the Magic of Language
Keynotes: Penny Kittle, Georgia Heard, Esmerelda Santiago
2009 Creating a Teaching Life with Passion, Courage, and Conviction
Keynotes: Jeff Wilhelm, Sharon Draper, Sonia Nieto, Jimmy Santiago Baca
2008 Literacy NOW!
Keynotes: Ralph Fletcher, Nikki Giovanni, Leonard Pitts, Dan and Dawn Kirby, Gene Yang
2007 Visioning and Revisioning
Keynotes: Jeff Anderson, Nikki Grimes, Tim Hillmer, Richard Peck, Naomi Shibab Nye
2006 Territories Ahead
Keynotes: Edward Bloor, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Billy Collins, Louann Reid, Judith Irvin
2005 Today's Questions, Tomorrow's Answers
Keynotes: Barry Lane, Julie Anne Peters, Penny Kittle, Pam Houston
2004 Range of the Possible: Ideas and Practices to Shape the Future
Keynotes: Chris Crutcher, John Golden, Sara Holbrook, Randy Bomer
2003 Embracing the Magic: Discovering the Wonder in the Classroom
Keynotes: Janet Allen, Laurie Halse Anderson, Tod Marshall, Reggie Rivers, Tom Romano
2002 Taking Stories to Heart
Keynotes: Carol Booth Olson, Bill Strong, Jim Burke, Kent Haruf, Lorri Hewett
2001 Weaving New Fabrics for Learning
Keynotes: Kylene Beers, Li-Young Lee, Keith Gilyard
1991-2000
2000 The Things We'll Carry
1999 (hosted NCTE Annual Convention) Reimagining the Possibilities
1999 Imagine the Possibilities
Keynotes: Linda Rief, Robert Probst, Christopher Paul Curtis, Dan Kirby
1998 Steppin' Out
Keynotes: Maxine Greene, Charles Suhor, Sharon Draper, Caroline B. Cooney, Jack Collom
1997 Voices Shaping the Future
Keynotes: Rudolfo Anaya, Lorna Dee Cervantes
1996 Unlocking the Mystery of Language
Keynotes: John Berendt, Margaret Coel, Manuel Ramos, Jeff Golub, Warwick Downing, Alice Kawazoe
1995 (theme unknown)
1994 (Southwest Regional Conference) Changing Together: Classrooms and Communities
Keynotes: James Davis, Richard Lederer, Miles Myers, Peter Stillman
1994 The Power of Story and Myth—Celebrating, Sharing, Learning
Keynotes: Opalanga Pugh, Will Hobbs
1993 American Voices: Celebrating Diversity as Readers and Writers
Keynotes: Peter Elbow, Gary Soto, Vivian Davis, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Victor Villanueva
1992 Vision and Revision: Challenges for the 1990s
1991 A Legacy of Language
Keynotes: Richard Lederer, Peter Stillman, Chris Crutcher, Helene Willis, John and Kay Bushman, June Berkley, Bruce Appleby
1981-1990
1990 (hosted NCTE Spring Conference)
1989 The Many Modes of Communication
Keynotes: Bill McBride, Mark Medoff, Leonard Olguine
1989 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Jill Scott, Ernest Boyer, Nat Hentoff, Vance Brand, Betty Miles
1987 Celebrate Teaching
Keynotes: Ken Macrorie, Ellen Johnston-Hale, Alex English, Paula Danziger
1986 Language & Life: One Story
Keynotes: Edward Albee, Robert Cormier, John Goodlad, Woody Paige, Lois Duncan, Ruth Vinz
1985 Language: A Thinking Experience
Keynotes: Carol Kuykendall, Judith Crist, Sue Ellen Bridgers
1984 A Time for Excellence
Keynotes: T.H. Bell, Neil Postman, Rex Brown, Robert Cormier
1983 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Joyce Brothers, Dan Kirby, William Durr, John Stansfield
1982 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Shelton Root, Diane Shugert, Muriel Bach
1981 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Paul Brandwein, Muriel Bach, J. Evans Alloway, Toby Lurie, Clive Cussler, Al Grankowski
1971-1980
1980 (theme unknown)
1979 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Jack Perkins, Marilyn VanDerbur, Elaine Barbour, Calvin Frasier, John Maxwell
1978 (theme unknown)
1977 The Basics and Beyond
Keynotes: James Grey, Robert Newton Peck, Charlotte Brooks, Claudia Cohl, George Walter, Robert Sund
1976 (theme unknown)
1975 The Challenge of the Future from the Ferment of the Past
Keynotes: Morris Massey, Elizabeth Wooten, Ernest J. Gaines
1974 (theme unknown)
1973 (theme unknown)
1972 Humanizing the Curriculum: Don't Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Keynotes: Stephen Dunning, Charlotte Brooks
1971 (theme unknown)
1962-1970
1970 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Richard Eberhart
1969 (theme unknown)
1968 (theme unknown)
1967 (theme unknown)
1966 (theme unknown)
1965 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Charlton Laird
1964 (theme unknown)
Keynotes: Arthur Kitzhaber
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
1962 (theme unknown)