NCTEAR

NCTEAR is calling for nominations for the position of Associate Chair.

Please consider serving NCTEAR in the position of Associate Chair. The elected person will serve in the position for one year as an apprentice to the Chair for 2014-15 and then assumes the role as Chair for 2015-16, planning and executing the Midwinter conference in 2016.

NCTEAR and Elmhurst College are pleased to announce that childcare is available at the upcoming 2014 Mid-Winter Conference.

For children ages 6 months - 12 years old, childcare is provided on the Elmhurst College campus (in Dinkmeyer Hall) for only $8.00/hour. This service is available from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday.

The official hotel of NCTEAR is the Hilton, located just minutes from the Elmhurst College campus, with rates that include shuttle transportation to/from the conference and hot breakfast each morning.

This year’s conference opening begins Friday, January, 10th at 5:30 pm at Elmhurst College’s Frick Center with Young Chicago Authors’, “Louder Than a Bomb!”

To learn more about the Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, click here!

We are pleased to welcome David Bloome, Shirley Brice-Heath, Judith Green, Django Paris, and Jerri Willet as featured speakers in the Pre-Conference Institute!

We invite proposals for the 2014 NCTE Assembly for Research Mid-Winter Conference, to be held at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois from January 10 - 12, 2014.

We welcome proposals for individual papers, symposia, work-in-progress roundtables, and alternative format sessions. A description of each type of session can be found in the attachment. Proposals may address any aspect of language and literacy education, including studies of language/literacy processes, practices, curriculum, instruction, policies, and teacher education. We welcome proposals representing a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We invite proposals that focus on empirical research as well as conceptual/theoretical work.

Proposal Submission Deadline November 2, 2013 11:59 pm CST