Talking Points

Next Editors Selected

NCTE and Literacies and Languages for All (LLA) welcome Ted Kesler and Marcela Ossa Parra as incoming editors of Talking Points. The current editors’ term will conclude with the May 2025 issue, and they have finished reading submissions. The incoming editors have begun reading submissions and will publish their first issue in October 2025. We appreciate your interest in publishing your work in Talking Points.

Ted is a former New York City public elementary school teacher, and in 1996–1997 his third-grade class was featured in a yearlong series of nine articles in the New York Times (“Class 3-223: Mr. Kesler’s Struggle”). Currently, Ted is a professor in and serves as chairperson of the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department in the School of Education at Queens College, CUNY. His research interests include multimodality, reader response, children’s literature, and reading and writing pedagogies. He is the author of The Reader Response Notebook (NCTE, 2018). He brings his classroom-based teaching sensibilities to all his work in teacher preparation and development and to his research and publications in curriculum and teaching. You can find out more at www.tedsclassroom.com.

Marcela is a bilingual teacher educator and researcher interested in designing empowering and transformative literacy instruction for historically minoritized students. Her research on translanguaging pedagogies has contributed to the acceptance of more holistic and dynamic approaches to bilingualism in New York City’s public schools. She has worked closely with the New York City Department of Education’s Division of Multilingual Learners on designing culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy practices focused on building relevant knowledge as a means for developing language and literacy skills.