MCTE Fall 2026 Conference

MCTE Fall 2026 Conference

Welcome to MCTE’s Fall 2026 Conference!

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9:50am EDT

College as a Foreign Language: Teaching Academic Discourse for Success Room 61Melanie Rabine-Johnson Examining Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in the ELA Classroom Michigamme RoomNatalie Herman • Vaughn W. M. Watson • Joanne Marciano • Lara Slee • Benjamin Woodcock Write 313: Cultivating Detroit Writing Teacher Identities through Multiliteracies, Space, Place, and Joy Room 103BJanikka Winfree • Mary Neville

10:50am EDT

The Power of a Book: How Secondary Classroom Literature Can Be an Instrument for Racial Justice Room 102Anne Gere • Iffat Islam • Jenifer Rizo-Perez • Maci Wilcox Understanding Artificial Intelligence through Environmental Advocacy Room 103BAshley Kluting Verse by Verse, Voice by Voice: Using Novels-in-Verse as a Collaborative Gateway to Student-Authored Historical Narratives Room 61Dana VanderLugt • Corrinne Mielke • Valerie Davies When Nature Speaks Back: Shakespeare, Climate, and Place-Based Teaching Heritage RoomSheridan Steelman Where We Stand: Creating community partnerships for teaching place based justice Room 62John Lennon • Eric Hemenway Your Story is My Story: Using Graphic Novels to Explore Personal, Cultural and Historical Identities Room 103AAnnette Kelly • Cat Weaver

1:10pm EDT

"Make Every Day Meaningful:" Student-Centered Approaches to Teaching in a Youth Detention Center Classroom Room 61Mary McConnaha • Jerilyn Williams 20 years of place-based writing: The benefit of returning to write in the same place year after year Room 102Eric Wilkinson • Lindsay Ellis • Kaley Obney Affirming Students’ Voice and Choice: Enacting Inquiry-Based Grammar Instruction in Culturally-Relevant Ways Michigamme RoomDr. Christina M. Ponzio • Ian Striz • Jennifer Collard • Jocelyn Farkas • Kallie Crouch Beneath Our Feet, Above the Horizon: Using Local History and Science to Drive Student Writing Room 103BCourtney McCampbell Shared Values, Shared Voices Heritage RoomDerek Miller • Danielle Alexander What Campbell Can't See: Placing Indigenous Narrative Alongside the Hero's Journey in Secondary ELA Classrooms Willy RoomJohn Duffy

2:10pm EDT

Constellations of Care: Humanizing the English Curriculum Room 61Jason Westra-Hall Rooted in Identity, Grounded in Place: Using Intersectionality to Rewrite the Narratives Our Students Inherit Heritage RoomJessyca Mathews Teachers at the Helm: Building Sustainable School Culture Through Teacher Inquiry Room 110Courtney Parker There's No Place Like Home: Poetry as Sanctuary Room 103A/BYlisse joell Yepez Who Gets to Go Off Script? Positionality, Place, and Antiracist ELA Teaching Writing Room 102Rebecca Lee • Jeff Savage