On Leadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, October 23 | 7:00–8:15 p.m. ET
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Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time.
Join CEL to explore leadership decisions regarding text selection through the lenses of curriculum development, professional learning, financial decisions, and book challenge procedures and processes. A panel of literacy leaders will share their experiences with the organizational structures, limitations, opportunities, and processes involved in selecting novels for English classrooms. Following the panel discussion, attendees will discuss text selection in their own school contexts. Any NCTE or CEL member interested in engaging in this work is invited to attend!
Literacy leaders will listen to a panel discussion and then join small-group discussions to
- Apply the findings of NCTE’s recent study, The State of Literature Use in US Secondary English Classrooms, to explore and critique the curricular and financial processes schools employ to determine the literature used in secondary English classrooms;
- Learn methods to support teachers in discussing literature selection, developing curriculum, and implementing pedagogical decisions to augment students’ literature experiences; and,
- Discuss challenges to text selections that affirm student reading experiences and honor community realities.
Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions.
FEATURED GUESTS
Kara B. Douma, EdD, is a supervisor of English language arts with over twenty years of experience in teaching, school administration, and instructional supervision across English language arts and special education. She serves as an executive board member of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English (NJCTE) and as a mentor in the Emerging Leaders Fellowship (ELF) program of the Conference on English Leadership (CEL). Her work centers on curriculum and instructional design, literacy leadership, and pedagogical strategy with a focus on cognition and learning.
Nicholas Emmanuele is an English teacher, department chair, adjunct lecturer, and director who serves as the chair for the Conference on English Leadership (CEL). His professional, teaching, and academic work has recently focused on assessment and feedback, student reader and disability identities, and creating sustainable organizational structures.
Dr. Sawsan Jaber, NBCT, is an award-winning global educator, author, and equity strategist with over two decades of experience. A finalist for Illinois State Teacher of the Year, she has earned honors including Cook County Teacher of the Year, IDEA Teacher of the Year, ISTE 20 to Watch, and multiple CEL awards.
Liz Lietz is county-wide ELA consultant for the Macomb Intermediate School District in Michigan. She currently serves as a CEL member-at-large and is a co-coordinator for CEL’s Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program.
Jenelle Williams is a literacy consultant at an intermediate school district supporting twenty-eight districts in Oakland County, Michigan. During her twenty-five years in education she has also served as a classroom teacher, International Baccalaureate MYP Coordinator, IB Educator and Examiner, adjunct professor, coeditor of the Michigan Reading Journal, and co-chair of Michigan’s Disciplinary Literacy Task Force.