NCTEAR

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, Sarah Michaels, Django Paris, Stephanie Power-Carter, 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