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2026 NCTE Annual Convention

November 19–22, 2026

Philadelphia, PA

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Online Professional Learning

 

Text and Tech: Reading Together book club - Every 3rd Thursday Feb-June 2026, 3-4 PM ET - Kristin Ziemke book - Sora NCTE

Text and Tech: Reading across Content

Thursday, June 18 | 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET

Text and Tech: Reading Together is an interactive book club designed for educators interested in supporting students as lifelong readers in any format, from print to tablet and everywhere in between. Co-produced by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Sora reading platform, this webinar series will be a deep dive into NCTE’s Text and Tech: Reading All Ways in K–8.

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NCTE event promo (Instagram square aspect) — Joyful Multimodal Composition Series; same Monday June 22 3:00 p.m. ET event content as ID 645020, recomposed for square format with stacked Chris Goering and Holly Sheppard Riesco circular headshots and the Joyful Literacies book cover at upper right

Joyful Multimodal Composition Series

Session 1: Grounding the Work & Mapping the Possibilities

Monday, June 22 | 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET

Learn from authors of Joyful Literacies who will share what it means to move from singular “literacy” to plural “literacies”; discuss the specific framing of joy, play, and multimodality as rigorous academic practices, not just “fun” add-ons; and highlight examples of multimodality from the book or from their classrooms.

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NCTE Classroom Corridors event promo (Instagram square aspect) on muted green — large purple 'CORRIDOR CONNECTIONS:' headline then 'REAL TEACHERS, REAL TOPICS, REAL INSPIRATION' (REAL TOPICS in mustard); 'WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 6:30–7:30 P.M. ET' date; cream pill panel at bottom right with the Classroom Corridors lightbulb-and-open-book illustration, the NCTE square brandmark, and the tagline 'Expertise and Inspiration from Elementary Teachers'

Corridor Connections: Real Teachers, Real Topics, Real Inspiration

Wednesday, June 24 | 6:30–7:30 p.m. ET

We know the power of teachers sharing their stories. Writers thrive in community, and NCTE’s Elementary Teacher Cohort provides a community for teacher writers, working to support and amplify their voices—including through leading the development of Classroom Corridors.

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Joyful Multimodal Composition Series

Session 2: Joy in Practice: Spotlighting Multimodal Composition

Monday, July 13 | 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET

The second installment of the Joyful Multimodal Composition Series will showcase Fandom Transformation Projects, which invite youth to create multimedia artifacts to move pop culture communities toward justice.

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Joyful Multimodal Composition Series

Session 3: The Implementation Workshop

Monday, July 28 | 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET

The final installment of the Joyful Multimodal Composition Series will focus on attendees working to remix an upcoming activity, lesson, or unit they plan to teach and begin designing a multimodal component using a shared design template prepared by the facilitator.

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Conferences and Conventions

 

Registration Now Open: 2026 Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, August 3-5 2026 Charlotte NC - NCTE NCTM

2026 NCTE-NCTM Joint Conference

August 3–5

Charlotte, NC

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NCTE 2026 Annual Convention Philadelphia 'Lock In Last Year's Registration Rate' social-media promo (Instagram square aspect) — black-and-white photograph at left of five diverse smiling attendees (a man with long dark hair and glasses, a woman in a striped shirt, a woman with purple scarf, a woman with dark coat, a woman with red tote and book) at a previous convention; magenta-purple gradient 'LOCK IN LAST YEAR'S REGISTRATION RATE' circular text overlay top right; 'imagine. innovate. inspire. / 2026 Philadelphia / Annual Convention / November 19-22' lockup at lower right with NCTE square brandmark

2026 NCTE Annual Convention

November 19–22

Philadelphia, PA

Register today!

Event Resources

 

Web Seminars

NCTE Writes

#NCTEchat

National Celebrations

 

NCTE Advocacy and Leadership Summit

National Day on Writing

October 20 (every year)

African American Read-In

February (all month long, every year)