Conference Details

Join LLA for the 2021 Virtual Summer Institute, Saturday, July 10. We are excited to announce our keynotes for this year’s event: Dr. April Baker-Bell and Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte!

Our theme for the conference will reflect the possibilities or ways educational spaces have been reimagined during the pandemic. Our organization’s ongoing rejuvenation serves as an invitation for educators who believe that ALL children deserve personally meaningful learning contexts, that children (not programs) are the primary informants of literacy curriculum, and that teachers are experts in their classrooms to become active in the organization by sharing their visions and voices about the future of holistic literacy education.

Each of these ideas has particular relevance to the past and future of our organization and to the current state of literacy education.

• Personally meaningful learning contexts are ones in which children’s languages and cultures are valued and recognized as assets for learning and where educators engage children in using multiple literacies to explore issues of equity in their local and global communities.
• Curriculum is developed alongside children as they engage in authentic literacy events, and kidwatching is the foundation of this process. Instructional practices are selected with intention and implemented to support children’s developing language and literacy skills and literate identities.
• Teachers as experts explore current research, cultivate an inquiry stance, and engage in collaborative action research as a continuous cycle of professional growth.

The Summer Institute affords educators the opportunity to come together to learn and explore these beliefs through a variety of forums including individual presentations, workshops, symposia, panels, conversations, and poster sessions. We invite proposals that focus on the following:

• Collaborations between learners, teachers, parents, and community members, including community study, service learning, critical pedagogy, and social action
• Collaborative projects that cross boundaries within and across communities, states, and countries
• The use of technology, digital, visual, and critical literacies to bring us together across time and space, and across political, social, economic, and geographic boundaries
• How literacy and access to it positions us socially, economically, and politically
• What it means to be literate in varied languages and cultures
• How the meaning of literacy has changed and continues to evolve
• Including and nurturing diverse languages and literacies in bilingual, multilingual, and monolingual English settings
• Reading literature that reflects the lives of our students and broadens our scope to lived experiences other than our own
• How meaningful teaching and authentic learning engagements support individuals’ social and emotional well-being

In addition to other sessions, the NCTE Early Childhood Education Assembly sponsors an early childhood strand pertaining to the education of children from birth to age eight, their families, and teachers. Early literacy sessions also address diversities in early childhood and highlight practices and processes that are situated in social, historical, and cultural contexts.

Program and session details will be posted soon.

Institute Policies 

Registration

LLA 2021 will be a one-day virtual event held on Saturday, July 10.  Registration is now open!

• LLA member: $75

• NCTE member: $100

• NCTE nonmember: $150

• student: $75

• student nonmember: $75

Register

Summer Institute Program (pdf)

Information for Attendees

See the FAQ, Accessibility Guide, and Tutorial below for tips for participating in the 2021 Literacies and Languages for All Summer Institute.

LLA 2021 FAQ

LLA 2021 Virtual Platform Accessibility Guide

LLA 2021 Virtual Platform Tutorial Guide

Information for Presenters

In addition to registering for the Summer Institute, presenters will want to read the “Information, Recommendations, and FAQ” and “Presentation Accessibility Requirements” documents and will need to sign the “Speaker Agreement.” These documents are linked below. A “Student Consent Form” is also included below in case a session includes students.

LLA 2021 Presenter Information, Recommendations, and FAQ

LLA 2021 Speaker Agreement

LLA 2021 Presentation Accessibility Requirements

LLA 2021 Student Consent Form

Questions? Email us at NCTEevents@ncte.org.

Important Dates & Links

• Webcast Auditorium Orientation (access recording here)
• July 2: deadline for presenters to return signed speaker agreements (email: NCTEevents@ncte.org)
• July 2: deadline for presenters to upload files for Prerecorded/Scheduled and On-Demand sessions
• August 9: presentation archive closes at 11:59 p.m. ET