CEL Annual Convention Program

Convention Program
Schedule Updates Will Be Made Below As Needed
Printable PDF to come in November
Sunday, November 22
2:00-2:25 p.m.
CEL Welcome: Nicholas Emmanuele
Welcome from Chief Adam Waterbear
Room 201-C
2:35-3:35 p.m.
Beyond the Spreadsheet: Cultivating Integrated Literacy Leadership through Collaborative Data Cycles
Presenters: Ashley Ghiraldi, Kristen Schaefer
Room 201-C
Bridging Literacy, English Language Arts and Building Teacher Efficacy with Equity Oriented Quad Text Sets
Presenters: Lisa Ali-Turner, Jill Flynn, Jennifer Fox, William Lewis
Room 202-A
Seeing Learning: Visual Literacy and Multimodal Compositions at the Intersection of Literacy and English Leadership
Presenters: Elsie Lindy Olan, Kia Jane Richmond
Room 202-B
Skills and Stories: Using Secondary Texts as a Vehicle for Foundational Skills
Presenters: Jessica Bivans, Shera Goldstein, Megan Langman, Christy Lee, Maria Rebstock
Room 203-A
Stories of Resistance and Adaptive Leadership from the Hip Hop as Humanities Summer Institute for Literacy and ELA Teachers
Presenters: Michele DeVirgilio, H. Bernard Hall
Room 203-B
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Both/And Leadership: Leading at the Intersection of Literacy Mandates and English Teacher Identity
Presenters: Jason Haffner, Jenelle Williams
Room 201-C
Beyond the Page: Using AI and EdTech Tools to Make Texts Accessible
Presenter: Joseph Rogers
Room 202-A
Every Word Tells a Story: How Morphology Bridges Foundational and Disciplinary Literacy across the Grades
Presenters: Kayla Crawford, Garrett Ivey
Room 202-B
Keeping the Thinking with Students: Culturally Responsive Moves That Drive Rigorous Literacy Learning
Presenter: Jillian Roche
Room 203-A
Where Literacy Meets Literature: Leading Teachers across Instructional Identitites
Presenter: Katie Monsour
Room 203-B
4:55-5:55 p.m.
Pattern, Pulse, and Poetry: Reclaiming Scansion as a Foundational Literacy Practice
Presenters: Matthew Helmers, Adam Schachner
Room 201-C
From Permission to Possibility: Using the FIXIT Game to Lead Equitable Literacy
Presenters: Malcolm Andrews, Kelly Thelen
Room 202-A
Fuel for the Journey: Supporting Teachers in Literacy and English
Presenter: Kaitlin Stamm
Room 202-B
Bridging Literacy in the Age of AI: Authentic Voice through Narrative Practices
Presenter: Jennifer Kittle
Room 203-A
Leading at the Intersection: Strengthening Secondary Teachers’ Identities through Focused Adolescent Literacy PD
Presenter: Lauren Spenceley
Room 203-B
7:00 p.m.
Facilitated Dinners
(offsite)
Monday, November 23
8:00-8:20 a.m.
CEL Welcome, Sponsor & Award Announcements, Coffee & Light Breakfast (included)
Room 201-C
8:20-9:35 a.m.
Keynote: Tricia Ebarvia
Room 201-C
9:40-10:40 a.m.
Expansive Literacies: Rethinking What Counts as Literacy in the ELA Classroom
Presenters: Cathline Tanis, Emily Meixner
Room 201-C
Agency by Design: Building 6–12 ELA Curriculum That Elevates Teacher Expertise and Student Voice
Presenters: Coley Conter, Kimmy McGuire Tabb
Room 202-A
Beyond the Screener: Humanizing Data to Bridge Literacy Learning in an MTSS Framework
Presenters: Oona Marie Abrams, Melissa Bryan, Jennifer Doney
Room 202-B
Calling In, Not Calling Out: Inviting Content Teachers into the Literacy Leadership Circle
±Ê°ù±ð²õ±ð²Ô³Ù±ð°ù:ÌýNaomi Watkins
Room 203-A
Literacy without Borders: How Special Educators Bridge Foundational and Disciplinary Literacy in Secondary Schools
±Ê°ù±ð²õ±ð²Ô³Ù±ð°ù:ÌýMelissa Garcia
Room 203-B
10:50-11:50 a.m.
Leaders as Literacy Designers: High-Impact, High-Interest Approaches for Older Striving Readers
Presenters: Emily Russin, Samantha Krzyzanowski, Shira Engel
Room 201-C
Future Forward: Designing and Implementing an “AI Scope and Sequenceâ€
Presenter: Matthew Margini
Room 202-A
Still in the Classroom, Still at the Table: A Teacher Leader Writing Culturally Relevant, Sustaining, and Historically Responsive ELA Curriculum
Presenter: Kevin Cataldo
Room 202-B
Coherence through Collaboration: A Learning Model for Continuous Literacy Improvement
Presenters: Chae D’Ann Ray, Julie Schik
Room 203-A
Beyond the App: Coaching Teachers to Cultivate Student Agency and Voice
Presenter: Debbie Tannenbaum
Room 203-B
12:00-12:55 p.m.
Lunch (included)
Room 201-C
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Move from Admiring the Problem to Making the Change: Using a Network Structure to Support Disciplinary Literacy Implementation
±Ê°ù±ð²õ±ð²Ô³Ù±ð°ù:ÌýElizabeth Lietz
Room 202-A
Bridging Preservice and Secondary Classrooms: A Collaborative Model for Feedback, Error Analysis, and Targeted Writing Instruction
Presenters: Jeanette Capritti, Jennifer Cline, Petrina Plunkett
Room 202-B
Give Me Literacy or Give Me Death: An English Language Arts Revolution
Presenters: Elizabeth Gannon, Jennifer Wicht
Room 203-A
When the Text Speaks to Every Reader: Curriculum Leadership at the Intersection of Literacy and ELA
Presenter: Stephanie Owens
Room 203-B
2:10-2:20 p.m.
2027 CEL Convention Theme Reveal
2:20-3:20 p.m.
Keynote: Jenelle Williams
3:30-5:30 p.m.
ELQ & ELF Awards, EC Members, Social Hour
6:30 p.m.
ELF Dinner
Monday, November 24
8:30 a.m.
Welcome, Daily Preview
Room 201-C
8:35-9:35 a.m.
Collaborative Workshop: Barriers between Literacy and English
Room 201-C
9:35-9:45 a.m.
Break
9:45-10:45 a.m.
Collaborative Workshop: Bridges between Literacy and English
Room 201-C
10:45-10:50 a.m.
Closing Remarks
Room 201-C