ELATE Events at #NCTE25
We welcome all #NCTE25 attendees to join English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) for these sponsored events! You can find all of the sessions in the ELATE strand in the searchable, online 2025 NCTE Annual Convention program. Use the filter function to select the ELATE Strand.
Friday, November 21, 2025
ELATE Luncheon featuring Mahogany L. Browne
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Four Seasons 1, Colorado Convention Center (ticket required)
Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, and educator. Browne has received fellowships from ALL ARTS, Arts for Justice, AIR Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, and Wesleyan University. Browne’s books include A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe, Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for Steppenwolf Theatre), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Browne’s Chrome Valley tour was highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner. She is the inaugural poet-in-residence at the Lincoln Center and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A book signing will follow the luncheon.
The 2025 ELATE award and research grant recipients will be honored during the Luncheon.
ELATE Commissions Meeting #1
3:30–4:45 p.m., Mile High Ballroom 4C/4D, Colorado Convention Center
All interested ELATE and NCTE members are invited to come learn about the ELATE commissions. After an overview from each commission, attendees can visit the commissions at roundtables to learn more about past and current commission projects.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Critical Issues in English Education: Research by ELATE Research Grant and Award Winners
8:15–9:30 a.m., Four Seasons 4, Colorado Convention Center
In this roundtable session, the recipients of the annual Research Initiative Grant, Graduate Student Research Award, Janet Emig Award, James Britton Award, and James Moffett Memorial Award, sponsored by English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE), present their award-winning works on current issues in the fields of literacy and English teacher education.
ELATE Commissions Meeting #2
1:15–2:30 p.m., Mile High Ballroom 1C/1D, Colorado Convention Center
All interested ELATE and NCTE members are invited to the working meetings of the ELATE commissions. In this meeting, commission members will be focused on ongoing projects and planning for the coming year.
ELATE Membership Meeting and Social
5:45–7:00 p.m., Four Seasons 4, Colorado Convention Center
All those interested in shaping English language arts teacher education are invited to attend this membership meeting and social to mingle with representatives from English education programs nationwide and prospective English education graduate students and PhD candidates.