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ELATE Social Justice Commission Spring Dialogue Panel

Monday, April 13 | 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET

This event is open to teacher educators and their preservice teachers/teachers-in-training. While membership is not required for this event, we invite you to become an NCTE member today!

Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event start time.

 

English Language Arts Teacher Educators’ (ELATE) Social Justice Commission invites teachers-in-training, teachers, and teacher educators to join a Spring Dialogue around the theme, “Resistance and Belonging: Creating a Homeplace in the Classroom.”

Attendees will engage with Diana Liu, Sandra Del Valle, and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, authors of “Toward a Joyful Resistance: Racial Literacy and the Creation of Homeplaces in the Secondary ELA Classroom” published in the July 2025 issue of English Journal.

 

At this event, members will

  • learn from and engage with authors Diana Liu, Sandra Del Valle, and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz around creating homeplaces in the classroom,
  • connect and network with teachers-in-training and teacher educators, and
  • be inspired and motivated to create English language arts classrooms that engage in curricular justice.

 

Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions.

 

 

FEATURED GUESTS

 

Diana Liu is a full-time high school ELA and English as a New Language educator who recently earned her doctorate in English education. She has been teaching in the secondary ELA classroom for 11 years. In addition to being a classroom teacher, she is an adjunct lecturer, a mentor to preservice teachers, a curriculum developer, and a co-chair of NCTE’s Asian / Asian American Caucus. She has been an NCTE member since 2018.

Sandra Del Valle is a former civil rights lawyer who became a teacher later in life. As a civil rights lawyer she authored the book, Finding Our Voices; Language Rights in the United States, and numerous articles on the civil rights of Latinos/as. She has been teaching in the secondary classroom for 14 years. As an educator, she authored “Outrageous Love:  Teaching Our Students of Color in a Broken Word,”  published in The Arrow (2022). In addition to teaching, Sandra is a member of the board of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York, and an NCTE member.

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is a professor of English education at Teachers College, Columbia University, the 2024 recipient of New York University’s Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award, and founder of the Racial Literacy Project at Teachers College. Her poetry collections, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (2020) and The Peace Chronicles (2021), center themes of truth, love, and transformation. In 2022, she delivered her TEDx Talk, “Truth, Love, & Racial Literacy.” A member since 2003, she actively serves on several NCTE committees.

 

FACILITATOR

 

Esther Hu, Boston University, Massachusetts