MCTE Fall 2026 Conference

Pre-Conference 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Land Acknowledgement, Membership Meeting, Welcome, and Con... 7:30am - 8:25am

Keynote: title tbd 8:30am - 9:30am

Keynote Follow Up: Title TBD 9:50am - 10:40am

Luncheon 11:45am - 1:00pm

Luncheon Address: tbd 12:10pm - 12:50pm

Exhibitor Space 7:00am - 3:00pm

Amplifying New Voices: The Future is Now! Exploring 2... 9:50am - 10:40am

When Nature Speaks Back: Shakespeare, Climate, and Pl... 10:50am - 11:40am

Shared Values, Shared Voices 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Rooted in Identity, Grounded in Place: Using Intersec... 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Examining Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Yo... 9:50am - 10:40am

Students Read and Write Climate Flash Fiction and Fla... 10:50am - 11:40am

Affirming Students’ Voice and Choice: Enacting Inquir... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

DIJE Inclusion: Title TBD 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Using Place-Based Learning as a Conduit to Disciplina... 9:50am - 10:40am

The Power of a Book: How Secondary Classroom Literatu... 10:50am - 11:40am

20 years of place-based writing: The benefit of retur... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Who Gets to Go Off Script? Positionality, Place, and... 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Stories Rooted in Place: Indigenous Mentor Texts for... 9:50am - 10:40am

Your Story is My Story: Using Graphic Novels to Explo... 10:50am - 11:40am

Whose Stories Travel Here? Route Maps to Narrative Vi... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

There's No Place Like Home: Poetry as Sanctuary 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Write 313: Cultivating Detroit Writing Teacher Identi... 9:50am - 10:40am

Understanding Artificial Intelligence through Environ... 10:50am - 11:40am

Beneath Our Feet, Above the Horizon: Using Local Hist... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

MCEE Meeting 9:50am - 10:40am

It’s All About Relationships! Collaboration and Conne... 10:50am - 11:40am

Opening the Door: How Cooperating Teachers Help Stude... 10:50am - 11:40am

Claiming Place and Voice: Decolonizing Literacy Instr... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

DIJE Equity: Title TBD 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Mindfulness Space 9:50am - 10:40am

Mindfulness Space 10:50am - 11:40am

Mindfulness Space 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Mindfulness Space 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Neuroplasticity, Literacy, and Humane Classrooms 9:50am - 10:40am

Building Writing Identity Through Choice and Place-Ba... 10:50am - 11:40am

Writing/Righting AI: Critical Literacy, Place, and th... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Teachers at the Helm: Building Sustainable School Cul... 2:10pm - 3:00pm

College as a Foreign Language: Teaching Academic Disc... 9:50am - 10:40am

Verse by Verse, Voice by Voice: Using Novels-in-Verse... 10:50am - 11:40am

"Make Every Day Meaningful:" Student-Centered Approac... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Constellations of Care: Humanizing the English Curric... 2:10pm - 3:00pm

What Makes Me, Me? Exploring the Identities of Charac... 9:50am - 10:40am

Where We Stand: Creating community partnerships for t... 10:50am - 11:40am

Literacy Justice in Action: Reimagining Early Interve... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Picture Pathways: Writing—and Righting—the Places We... 9:50am - 10:40am

Grounding the Immigrant Teacher: Developing a Critica... 10:50am - 11:40am

What Campbell Can't See: Placing Indigenous Narrative... 1:10pm - 2:00pm

Centering Transnational Students’ Voices and Affirmin... 2:10pm - 3:00pm