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Buckeyes in Boston: NCTE 2013
The OCTELA Newsletter, member of The NCTE Information Exchange, is a publication of the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts (OCTELA), founded in 1957 as the English Association of Ohio (EAO). OCTELA is the only statewide affiliate of the National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) representing teachers of English language arts, prekindergarten through college.
Winter 2014 Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
Ohio Voices
In this issue:
NCTE Daily
Reflections
Membership
and Award Information
Page reference:
NCTE Reflections
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OCTELA Honors
10
Spring Conference Information
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Membership Information
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“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”—Author Unknown A Note from the Editor: This edition of Ohio Voices is devoted to sharing the NCTE 2013 experience with our professional community. Members of OCTELA’s Executive Board have offered their daily experiences via journal entries—complete with individually chosen fonts and scripts—which are sometimes filled with so much excitement that they forgo “complete” sentences, instead rushing forward with ideas. Each entry strives to highlight great sessions and times.
Karla Hieatt, Editor
2013 NCTE Affiliate Journal Award:
Honorable Mention Recipient
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I don't often have the opportunity to go to the national NCTE conference, so when my husband and
I decided to invest our funds into the 2013 conference in Boston, I was super excited! This year I
am President-Elect of OCTELA and the OCTELA conference at the Doubletree Worthington in
Columbus, Ohio, is coming up on February 28 through March 1 of 2014. (Please note this date and
location....I would love to see you there!) This would be a "working" conference for me. My goal:
to reach as many Ohio presenters as possible and encourage them to bring their excellent
presentations back home to Ohio teachers at the upcoming OCTELA conference. So the journey
begins....
Wednesday: November 20, 2013
5:20 PM
Hop on the Delta direct flight to
Boston. Realize that I am one of
MANY teachers on this flight. The
conversations are beginning with,
"So, are you heading to NCTE?"
"What do you teach?" and
sometimes end with, "I'll look for
you at ________." (Fill in with any
of the numerous meeting venues,
sessions.)
My excitement builds as the city of Boston comes into view
from my plane window. It sparkles like a flat amber and silver colored Christmas tree. So pretty
and sooo big!
8:00 PM
Checked into our hotel across the street from the Sheraton and the Prudential convention center. I
have highlighted my program, looked over the map, (it doesn't really help me...I am a "landmark"
thinker...), downloaded the NCTE conference planning app, have my contact cards, and planned my
outfit. I have my plan of attack for the morning. I am getting in early by most standards and will
have plenty of time to acclimate to the set up and get my bearings.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Wednesday—Debbie Thomas [email protected]
@thodeb
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Boston Bound! (Passing over NYC)
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NCTE Daily Reflection: Thursday—Debbie Thomas [email protected]
@thodeb
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Thursday
November 21, 2013
Here!! It is really early in "convention" time. Exhibitors are still
setting up behind the huge curtains that keep all but the elite
out, the NCTE booths are starting to be manned as an air of quiet,
calm expectancy is sensed. I didn't think it would seem so peaceful.
I connected with the group from The Ohio State University / UK
Royal Shakespeare Company. Thank you, Jacqui O'Halon and
Brian Edmiston. Looking forward to this presentation at our
OCTELA conference!
12:00 - NCTE begins!
The doors open to registration. I am number six through the door.
Not spending much time in line, just getting my NCTE bag and
then on to continue exploration.
Meet Kimberly Parker, the General Chair of NCTE, Boston at the
shoe shine kiosk in the Prudential Center. What an amazing
person! In addition to teaching at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin
School in Massachusetts, she is the main convention officer. She
also has a really cool pair of boots.
4:00-6:00
Elementary Section Get-Together
Heidi Weber, from Loveland, Ohio, is the winner of the Donald H. Graves Award!
David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman are the winners of the Outstanding Educator Award for their
work with ELL students—work and awareness that began long before most of us were aware of the
issue. Inspiring!
Jarrett J. Krosoczka - speaker
Author of Good Night, Monkey Boy, The Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked, Punk
Farm, and the Lunch Lady series was simply a wonderful speaker. He was raised by his grandparents
and remembered the teachers who recognized his gifts and found a place for him to shine working on
the school newspaper. Success wasn't instant, but it is well-earned. Terrific presentation!
Greetings from Boston and NCTE.
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6:00-6:30 PM
Welcoming Reception
Great food and a chance to mingle and meet other educators.
6:30-8:00 PM
The intended speaker, Tony Danza, was injured (three bro-
ken ribs and hospitalized!), but NCTE didn't drop the ball.
We were all delighted to hear Judy Blume speak with her
long-time friend and editor, Beverly Horowitz, in a very
causal, personal interview. It was amazing. Period. "She is
Judy Blume, she is honest." (My rephrasing of her son's
quote.)
8:30 PM
Dinner at Towne's on Boylston Street. Great
food and company! Thanks for joining us,
Karla and Eric.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Thursday, continued—Debbie Thomas [email protected]
@thodeb
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Judy Blume, Literary Rockstar.
Great food, great company.
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Friday: November 22, 2013
8:00 - 9:15 AM—General Session The First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community performed. What talented young adults.
9:15-10:45 A Sessions
I visited Making Argument Matter: Teaching Argumentative Writing as Academic and Artistic Engagement.
Ohio educators were: Amy Bradley, Kim Leddy, and Andrea Vescelius.
Also connected with the Allison Wynhoff Olsen, from The Ohio State University following the session on
Integrating Common Core Standards.
B Sessions
During this session I dropped in the following:
Roundtables - Belinda Zimmerman, Kent State University.
Digital Composing in the Classroom: Putting Multimodal Composition into Practice - Kevin Cordi - Ohio
Dominican University, Columbus.
Old School Classics Meet New School Methods: Upgrading How We Teach Eighth Graders - Lauren
Parriott, Susan Foltz, and Sherri Federici, Findlay City Schools, Findlay, Ohio.
We Don't Teach Curriculum, We Teach Students - Tamara Butler, David Bwire, Emiy Nemeth, Ashley
Patterson, Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University, Columbus.
12:00 PM Exhibit Hall Opens! - Think: Running of the Bulls or Black Friday (but more polite), Hear: The Rocky theme
song, Reaction: - Straight to the Scholastic booth to get the cool teacher tote bag, then sign up for the M.R.
Robinson Thanksgiving Dinner for educators. Then off to the other various vendors giving away great stuff!
Note: I teach fourth grade, and I was determined that this year I would not bring back every free thing
available....I tried...
C Sessions Literacy Workshop in the Digital Age - Franki Sibberson, Dublin City Schools, Ohio.
Information, Inquiry, and Artistry: The Many Facets of Nonfiction - Mary Rycik, James Rycik, Joan
Knickerbocer, Ashland University, Ohio.
Friday Luncheon time - I grabbed a granola and a coffee and went back to the Exhibition Hall and
sessions. The exhibits are huge and numerous. I spent the greater part of this time looking around, seeing
authors, and generally enjoying a chance to see new things and meet new people.
Early Dinner -5:30 at the Atlantic Fish Company with Stephenie Eriksson. Thanks for splitting the dessert!
8:00-10:00 PM One last session - The Swapping Ground: An Evening of Storytelling - Kevin Cordi - Ohio Dominican
University and Judith Black - storyteller, Marblehead, Massachusetts.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Friday—Debbie Thomas [email protected]
@thodeb
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Saturday:
November 23, 2013
A river of English teachers flowed through the Sheraton and the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. As the
Friday morning coffee queue curled around a corner and into Dunkin Donuts, I celebrated with a teacher who
received her National Board results, grabbed a chocolate éclair, and joined a new friend from Indiana for an
early morning session.
Session I: #TeachersSpeakUp I wrote beside Penny Kittle! Okay, so I squeezed into a spot a few seats away, but I
learned from her in a brief but powerful writing workshop. I went to this session to hear
from Penny, but I left with a sense of purpose, a piece of writing started in my
notebook, and writing workshop strategies to use with my student writers. Before the
roundtable with Penny, Steven Zemelman from the Illinois Writing Project and
TeachersSpeakUp.com delivered a brief keynote about advocating from the classroom
and about his work organizing the TEDx WellsStreetED event “Teacher Voice Beyond
the Classroom.” Whether we blog or write letters to the editor or to our policy-makers,
this session reminded me of the power of the stories we tell from our classrooms.
Session II: #FightTheFormulaic I was in a room with Katie Wood Ray! She was not a presenter, but as we worked with mentor texts and talked
about teaching students to craft arguments, the discussion moved to the conflict we face between creating
writers and preparing students to write for the PARCC assessment. Katie echoed our fears, but she reminded
us to “Focus on the writer rather than the product. Focus on the process of becoming a writer rather than
polishing the piece.” This is at the heart of getting our students to take the risks that lead to better writing.
Katie also reminded us to “Teach students to write with passion and conviction. Fight the formulaic.” This
became my mantra.
Secondary Luncheon #StarStruck I ate lunch with Jim Burke! As I chatted with colleagues and scribbled notes –
book recommendations and ideas for the classroom— I realized Jim Burke
was seated at my table. I have to admit, I was a bit star struck and thankful to
attend the NCTE Convention where we have the opportunity to learn from
rock star English teachers whose work shapes classroom practice across the
nation. During the awards presentation, I was recognized as one of sixteen
NCTE High School Teachers of Excellence. Thank you OCTELA for
nominating me. It was an honor to represent our organization.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Saturday—Stephenie Eriksson [email protected]
@StephKEriksson
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No, Stephenie. Thank you!!!
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The Secondary Section Luncheon featured keynote speaker Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. As he spoke about the power of storytelling and how his book grew out of the need
to tell his horrific story of being a child soldier during Sierra Leone’s civil war, I was struck by his sense of
humor and his resilience. How does one survive and thrive after such an experience? If you have not read his
memoir, it is a must read. Beah captures the nightmare of civil war and the terror of losing home, family, and
identity in the same manner that Weisel's Night portrays the horror of the Holocaust. His language is moving
and gut-wrenching, yet he avoids sentimentality. As he closed his presentation, Ishmael Beah read from his
new novel Radiance of Tomorrow, which will be published in January.
Session IV: #Stalker I didn’t get a chance to speak with Jim Burke at lunch, so I followed him to the next session, “Teaching to the
Future: Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s World” where he presented with Alan Sitomer, Michael Smith,
and Jeffery Wilhelm. Smith and Wilhelm’s segment of the presentation was the most intriguing. Their new
book Reading Unbound: Why Kids Should Read What They Want – And Why We Should Let Them presents
their research on the importance of pleasure and enjoyment in reading. During their presentation, they cited the
finding that reading for pleasure is more important to a child’s development than the influence of their parents.
In the Common Core era, we cannot forget the power of choice reading. I’m anxious to read the book when it
is available in January.
Session V: #Looting I packed an extra suitcase to get my loot home.
NCTE Convention exhibit hall is a highlight. Free
posters, new tools for the classroom, free signed
books, and Judy Blume sightings! My students
were in heaven on Monday as I spread the
advanced reader copies across my tables and they
browsed new books.
The passion for teaching and learning is palpable at the NCTE National Convention. Any legislator or citizen,
convinced that our schools are failing, should walk with teachers at the NCTE Convention and listen to the
passionate conversations and the innovative ways teachers from across the nation meet the needs of students. I
left Boston looking forward to my next opportunity to learn from amazing teachers at OCTELA’s Spring
Conference. I hope to see you there.
More Great Resources from the NCTE National Convention:
Follow the Nerdy Book Club – Terri Lessesne, Donalyn Miller, Colby Sharp and others.
http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
A Jackpot of Online Tools from Wamogo English Dept. Connecticut:
A link to the presentation with samples of student work http://goo.gl/EEDsOF
A link to a list of online tools, aligned with CCSS http://goo.gl/lukq4x
Register to receive books for your classroom library with ARCS Float On: http://www.reachareader.org/arcsfloaton.php
NCTE Daily Reflection: Saturday—Stephenie Eriksson [email protected]
@StephKEriksson
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Sunday: November 24, 2013 6:45 a.m. I’m awake early as usual – I can never seem to break that internal body clock! It’s the last day in Boston, so there is a lot running through my mind, going back to sleep was never a possibility. I should be happy it’s not my 5:00 AM wake up time for school! 7:30 a.m. I finally gave in and got out of bed. I checked the meal ticket exchange booth earlier during the conference, but no luck, I missed out on buying a ticket for the affiliate breakfast. I wanted to go to touch base with the other OCTELA members to see how their conference experiences were; I’ll have to remember to buy that ticket next year when I’m registering for the conference. The conference is so big, I only ran into one person from OCTELA during my time in Boston! It was the day of my second presentation, and to be honest, I was feeling a bit on the nervous side, even when I first woke up. I had a presentation on Friday with the group of teachers, professors and actors that work with the partnership between the Royal Shakespeare Company and OSU, and I didn’t have any butterflies or anything for that one. This presentation is from my dissertation work, so it’s more “mine” so to speak, so that could be it. I had to meet up with the other people on the panel around 11, so I had some time to get ready, have breakfast, pack my suitcase and practice my presentation a few more times. I intended to go to a morning session, but my nerves got the best of me and I decided I needed to run through a few more times instead. 8:30 a.m. After getting ready for the day, I decided to go across Copley Square to grab a breakfast sandwich and a cup of coffee – it was so cold and windy it made me wish I stayed at the conference hotel connected to the convention center. Next year I want to remember to register early for a hotel, especially since the conference is in Washington, D.C. so it may be another cold-weather conference. When I returned to my hotel room I ate breakfast and packed my suitcase so it could be left with the concierge while I was at the convention center. I had time to go to over my presentation a few times as well, which made me feel a little less nervous about the session.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Sunday—Allison Volz [email protected]
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A beautiful day in Boston!
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10:15 a.m. I walked down to the convention center, even though I was a little bit early for my 11:00 meeting. The room we were presenting it was in the Sheraton and not the convention center, so I wanted to make sure I was early enough to find the room. It turned out that leaving early was the right decision; our room was on the third floor and back in a corner, so it was a little bit difficult to find. I was the first to arrive to the room, which was a bit small, but I prefer that for presenting because it feels more like a conversation and less like teaching to me. 11:00 a.m. My co-presenters, Dr. Patricia Enciso from The Ohio State University and Dr. Denise Davila from The University of Georgia arrived to the presentation room. Dr. Enciso put together our session, “Multicultural Literature for a Common Future: Choices, Questions, and Methods”. Denise and I both studied with Dr. Enciso when we were doctoral students at OSU, so it was nice to be working together again. Everyone put her PowerPoint files on Denise’s computer and we checked the projector to make sure everything was in order. Attendees to our session also started to filter in. I wasn’t sure how many people to expect since many people leave on Sunday, but we ended up with 11 or 12 people at our session. 11:30 a.m. It was time for the session to begin. I was the second presenter and during the 20 minutes or so that Dr. Enciso was doing her presentation about a framework for thinking about teaching multicultural literature, I became more and more nervous and could barely pay attention to what she was talking about. The fact that I know this material inside and out didn’t seem to matter. Finally it was my turn, and once I started and got into the presentation – talking about my school, my students and the work we did together reading Night Fires, my nerves started to disappear. The twenty minutes flew by and before I knew it, it was Denise’s turn to present about using Our Beautiful Lady in classrooms. The attendees asked a lot of questions, which always makes you feel good about your presentation! 1:00 p.m. I went to lunch with Dr. Enciso, where we ran into Dr. Brian Edmiston from OSU and his colleague from the Educational Arts Team in New Jersey, Carmine Tabone. It quickly became a working lunch as we discussed picture books Carmine could use with a new family literacy project he is working on, and also how the Shakespeare program at OSU has been developing. 2:30 p.m. Time to get to the airport! Dr. Enciso and I returned to our hotel to get our bags and get a cab to share. It was a great ending to a wonderful conference and I’m already looking forward to next year in Washington, D.C.
NCTE Daily Reflection: Sunday, continued—Allison Volz [email protected]
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NCTE Affiliate Excellence Award
The NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates presented the 2013 NCTE Affiliate Excellence Awards on November 24 in Boston at the annual convention. This award, established in 1996, recognizes NCTE affiliates that meet high standards of performance for affiliate programming to promote improvement in the teaching of the English language arts. Claire Lamonica, Chair of the Standing Committee on Affiliates, chaired the review. OCTELA was recognized for its sixth year.
OCTELA Receives Highest Honors at NCTE
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NCTE Affiliate Roundtable Breakfast (left to right): Front row: Karla Hieatt, Millie Davis, and Sarah Ressler Wright. Back row: Colleen Ruggieri, Debbie Thomas, Stephenie Eriksson, Margaret Sacco, and Karen Carney.
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Honors (continued)
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NCTE / SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award—Dr. Margaret Sacco Longtime OCTELA member Dr. Margaret Sacco was named one of four state, regional, and provincial Award winners of the 2013 NCTE/SLATE Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Awards. These awards are sponsored by the NCTE/SLATE (Support for the Learning and Teaching of English) Steering Committee on Social and Political Concerns. Nominated by OCTELA, Sacco was recognized for her efforts toward advancing the cause of intellectual freedom.
NCTE Affiliate Leadership Development Award—Sarah Swenson In an effort to nurture the development of new leaders within state/regional/provincial affiliates and NCTE, Sarah Swenson was recognized as a recipient of the NCTE Affiliate Leadership Development Award. As an early career teacher who has demonstrated a capacity for professional leadership as well as a willingness to join and participate in the affiliate during the upcoming academic year, Swenson was recognized at NCTE’s annual convention.
2013 Affiliate Multicultural Program Award The Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts was named one of two winners of the NCTE 2013 Affiliate Multicultural Program Award, sponsored by the NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates (SCOA). The review committee was impressed by the affiliate’s efforts to celebrate and encourage diversity among English teachers. OCTELA was honored at the Affiliate Breakfast on Saturday, November 24, during the NCTE Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
Other Affiliate Recognitions: Affiliate Journal (OJELA)—Honorable Mention Affiliate Newsletter (Ohio Voices)—Honorable Mention Membership Recruitment / Growth—Award Winner
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Featured Speakers
Candy Dawson Boyd—Dr. Boyd specializes in increasing and maintaining improvement in reading performance
in urban schools. As founder of Common Literacy Culture, she is committed to improving the teaching of reading and
writing for all urban children. Dr. Boyd continues to work successfully with schools in crisis across the nation and has lectured nationwide as both an award-winning author of children’s literature and a K–12 reading expert emphasizing effective reading instruction in urban schools, small-group reading, re-creating school literacy cultures, multicultural
literature, and cultural and language diversity issues in reading education.
Chris Crutcher—Prior to his work as an author, Chris Crutcher taught school and acted as director of an
Oakland alternative school for nearly a decade. That academic history coupled with 25 years as a child and family therapist specializing in abuse and neglect and 30 years as a Spokane Child Protection Team leader has infused his
literary work with realism and emotional heft. His signature blend of tragedy and comedy has made him a favorite with teen and adult readers. He is also one of the most frequently banned authors in North America -- a fact he considers
an accomplishment, rather than a drawback.
Susan Groenke—Dr. Susan Groenke’s current research interests center on adolescent engagement with
reading/writing, and connections (and disconnections) between high school writing instruction and "college-ready"
writing. Susan is also editor of the NCTE journal, English Leadership Quarterly, and co-author (with Lisa Scherff) of the NCTE book, Teaching YAL through Differentiated Instruction. She also serves on the ALAN Executive Board and was
recently named Director of the Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the University of Tennessee.
Tom Romano—Tom Romano illustrates the power of multigenre papers to push students beyond the “safety
zone” of narrative and exposition into a place where fact meets imagination, and research meets creativity. The author of numerous books including Crafting Authentic Voice; Blending Genre, Altering Style; Zigzag; and Writing with Passion, Tom is a faculty member at Miami University where he teaches writing and language arts methods in the Department of
Teacher Education. He is also an instructor at the University of New Hampshire Summer Literacy Institute.
Greg Tang—Greg Tang’s dream is to make math understandable and enjoyable for all children and adults,
regardless of their ability, education or economic circumstance. Author of the children’s books The Best of Times and The Grapes of Math, Greg uses literacy devices to reach young learners. Recently, Greg has created an online, supplemental math program for Scholastic. Today, he is working hard to create a free (but priceless!) online math site
called GregTangMath.com that will make his strategies, concepts and teaching materials accessible to students and
teachers everywhere.
Tammy Worcester Tang—Tammy Worcester Tang has over twenty-five years of educational experience. She
began her career in the classroom, teaching nearly every grade from kindergarten through middle school. Tammy is
extremely innovative and resourceful and specializes in finding unique and creative ways to use traditional computer tools in the classroom. Her website “Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers” is a popular online resource for teachers
around the world. Tammy is also the author of nearly a dozen best-selling technology resource books.
OHIO COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
2014 Spring Language Arts Conference: February 28-March 1
ELA: Root of STEM and CORE!
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OHIO COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
2014 Spring Language Arts Conference: February 28-March 1
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In our next issue:
OCTELA Conference overview LGBTQ and the ELA classroom
Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
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Karla Hieatt, Editor
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