JEANETTE TOOMER
Secondary Section Representative at Large
Jane Addams High School, New York, NY
- Believe, Think and Achieve: Improving Literacy and Closing the Gap
- Non-fiction reading strategies
- The Purpose and Process for Writing
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SCOTT WARNOCK
Author, Teaching Writing Online: How and Why
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Using learning technologies to teach writing
- Online and hybrid writing courses
- Re-thinking your first-year writing curriculum
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KENT WILLIAMSON
Executive Director
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois
- New approaches to organizing, managing, and governing volunteer, nonprofit organizations for educators
- leadership development; membership growth
- public policy advocacy in the NCTE network
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KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY
Editor, CCC Journal
Florida State University, Tallahassee
- 21st century literacies
- Digital composing and the teaching of writing
- Portfolios: digital/print/both
- Reflection, reading, and writing
- New composing processes
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XIAOYE YOU
Rainbow Strand Planning Group
Author, Writing in the Devil's Tongue: A History of English Composition in China
Pennsylvania State University
- Teaching English in the global context
- World Englishes
- ESL writing/second language writing
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VERSHAWN ASHANTI YOUNG
Author, Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance
University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Code-Meshing and code switching and linguistic diversity
- African American literature
- African American English