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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">NCTE’s College Section Steering Committee (CSSC), invites you to submit a proposal to NCTE’s 2021 conference scheduled for next fall in Louisville, Kentucky
from November 18-21.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="margin:0px">The conference theme is</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span style="margin:0px"><i>Equity, Justice, and Antiracist Teaching</i></span><span style="margin:0px"><i>. </i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">Informing
that theme is a passage from a June Jordan poem that concludes with this: "We are the ones we have been waiting for."</span><span style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Indeed
we, and I hope you, are. </span></span></i></span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">While 2019's conference in Baltimore was 85 percent K12 faculty (no numbers yet for 2020's virtual conference), the NCTE conference provides many learning
opportunities for those of us in higher ed. Along with helping us understand the experiences of students before they arrive in our classrooms, there is great work being done at the K12 level by anti-racist teachers and scholars which many of us might like
to emulate and otherwise learn from.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Conference Call asks us to consider the following:</span></p>
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<li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do you cocreate equitable literacy learning experiences with students, families, and communities
that center their lives, identities, and stories?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">What novels, essays, poetry, stories, songs, performances, digital texts, and racial justice
movements make up your literacy teaching, research, and engagements? How are they framed within an equity lens?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do you commit to equity in light of possible challenges from school leaders, school boards,
and families? What does this commitment involve and require?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">What does justice mean in your literacy teaching, research, and engagements?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do you cocreate literacy curricula and research that focus on justice? What texts do you
use? What lessons do you teach? What scholarship do you turn to?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do you involve students and families in your teaching and research? How do you recognize
and honor their understandings of justice, even if they conflict with your own?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do you know if your teaching and research are antiracist? What do you need to do, learn,
and study to become an antiracist educator engaging in antiracist literacy work?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">How are students and families being affirmed within antiracist learning contexts?</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#26282a" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">What texts, stories, digital tools, and other experiences make up your teaching, research, and
community-engaged antiracist work? Do they reproduce racism or center antiracism?</span></font></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">Please read the whole of the CFP:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://convention.ncte.org/2021-convention/call-for-proposals/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">http://convention.ncte.org/2021-convention/call-for-proposals/</a></span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">CFP deadline is January 13, 2021.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">The proposal system requires a NCTE member number, so if you aren’t a member, please join or collaborate with someone who is. You may also request coaching
though the application process to improve the chances of proposal acceptance. If you have any questions, please get in touch.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">Additionally, the CSSC sponsors an event on Saturday afternoon for
which lunch has been (and I expect, will be) provided. While it was a virtual event in 2020, the session on developing community writing programs was both well attended (70 in the Zoom session) and pretty cool. </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">The CSSC chair and potentially other members participate in the review
process when it comes to college level proposals so if you have any questions, please reach out to CSSC Chair Bradley Bleck at <a href="mailto:bradley.bleck@sfcc.spokane.edu" target="_blank">bradley.bleck@sfcc.spokane.edu</a>.</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">For the CSSC,</span></p>
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