MCTE Fall 2026 Conference

MCTE Fall 2026 Conference

Welcome to MCTE’s Fall 2026 Conference!

5:30pm EDT

Pre-Conference Red Cedar A/BTroy Hicks • Trixie Smith • Angela Knight • Kel Sassi • Lindsay Ellis • Jonathan Bartels • Jill Hoort • Leah Barnett • Tyler Detloff

7:30am EDT

Land Acknowledgement, Membership Meeting, Welcome, and Continental Breakfast Big Ten AKel Sassi • Benjamin Woodcock • Tyler Detloff

8:30am EDT

Keynote: title tbd Big Ten ARob Montgomery • Amanda Montgomery

9:50am EDT

Amplifying New Voices: The Future is Now! Exploring 21st – Century Teaching Ideas with the Next Generation of English Teachers Heritage RoomAmanda Stearns-Pfeiffer • Allen Webb • Katie Sluiter • Lindsay Ellis • Danielle Alexander • Greg Bartley • Joanne Marciano Keynote Follow Up: Title TBD Big Ten ARob Montgomery • Amanda Montgomery Mindfulness Space Room 104B Picture Pathways: Writing—and Righting—the Places We Call Home tbdAnna J. Small Roseboro Using Place-Based Learning as a Conduit to Disciplinary Literacy Room 102Laura Gabrion • Dr. Rosalyn Shahid • Jeffrey Austin

10:50am EDT

Building Writing Identity Through Choice and Place-Based Writing at the Elementary Level Room 110Lori VanHoesen • Jill Hoort • Miranda Shaffer • Paige VanAtta It’s All About Relationships! Collaboration and Connection in the Middle School ELA Classroom Room 104ADr. Karen Vocke • Samuel Gannon Mindfulness Space Room 104B Opening the Door: How Cooperating Teachers Help Student Teachers Build Classroom Relationships Room 104AAllie Banfield • Kailey Buettner Students Read and Write Climate Flash Fiction and Flash Memoirs Michigamme RoomAllen Webb • Zenaida Castillo • Julian Carney

11:45am EDT

Luncheon Big Ten A

12:10pm EDT

Luncheon Address: tbd Big Ten AKristin Arola

1:10pm EDT

Mindfulness Space Room 104B

2:10pm EDT

DIJE Equity: Title TBD Room 104A DIJE Inclusion: Title TBD Michigamme RoomKaren Rayner Mindfulness Space Room 104B