2008 Conference on English Leadership
Annual Conference
Sunday-Tuesday, November 23-25, 2008
San Antonio, TX
Theme: Leadership for Learning: Learning to Lead
 CEL is pleased to welcome you to the Conference on English Leadership of the National Council of Teachers of English in San Antonio, Texas this November! CEL is dedicated to providing professional development opportunities that allow for participants to engage in meaningful small-group discussions related toward language arts instruction and leadership issues. We have an exciting line up of speakers and workshop presenters in store for you.
~~Henry Kiernan, CEL Chair
2008 CEL Program Chair, Dr. Edie Weinthal, Montvale, NJ
Program Overview!!!
The Annual Convention will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and the Marriott River Center Hotel. Sessions will be held in both places. The CEL Annual Conference will be held at the Marriott River Center Hotel.
 Saturday, November 22, 2008
CEL High Tea
Speaker - George Hillocks Jr.
George Hillocks, Jr. is Professor Emeritus, departments of Education and English Language and Literature, The University of Chicago. He and his MAT students have taught writing in Chicago schools for over twenty-five years. In 1997 George won the NCTE David H. Russell award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for the book Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice. In 2004 he received NCTE’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2000-2004, George served as a mentor for NCTE's Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color program where he shared his time and wisdom with the participants having a direct impact on the direction and success of their career.
George is the author of several books including Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice, The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning, Narrative Writing: Learning a New Model for Teaching.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Luncheon
Speaker - Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. Long considered one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and abroad. Castillo’s books include the novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, for which she received the Before Columbia Foundation’s American Book Award in 1987. Sapogonia, is a complex and engaging novel and a literary triumph, according to the renowned Chicano novelist Rudolfo Anaya. Her more recent books include the novel So Far From God, which earned her both the Carl Sandburg Literary Award in Fiction of 1993 and the Mountains and Plains Bookseller Award of 1994, and a work of non-fiction, Massacre of the Dreamers: Reflections on Mexican-Indian Women in the United States 500 Years After the Conquest. In June 2006 Castillo relocated to her new home in New Mexico.
Purchase your ticket to the CEL Luncheon on Sunday, November 23 to hear Ana Castillo.
Program Overview!!!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Opening Session
Speaker - Kelly Gallagher
Kelly is a teacher with twenty one years of high school teaching experience behind him. He is currently a full-time teacher at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California.
He believes that "there is no greater pleasure than teaching someone something." Teaching is "artistic, it matters a great deal, and I can never get the job down perfectly." Kelly thinks that professional development should treat teachers as such - professionals. "I know in the classroom that good things happen when my students have meaningful discussions. I know as a teacher myself that my craft sharpens when I am given the opportunity to have meaningful discussions with my peers. And let's have a laugh or two while we are at it."
In Kelly's most recent book, Teaching Adolescent Writers, he shows how students can be taught to write effectively. Kelly shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to: understand the importance of teaching writing; motivate young writers; see the importance modeling plays in building young writers (modeling from both the teacher and from real-world text);
understand how providing choice elevates adolescent writing (and how to allow for choice within a rigorous curriculum); help students recognize the importance of purpose and audience; assess essays in ways that drive better writing performance.
Infused with humor and illuminating anecdotes, Kelly draws on his classroom experiences and work as co-director of a regional writing project to offer teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day and compelling reasons to do so.
 Sunday, November 23, 2008
Opening Session
Speaker - Victor Villanueva
Currently a professor at Washington State University, Villanueva, a Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican high school dropout, entered community college after the military. In 1986 he earned his Ph.D. in English (emphasis: Rhetoric and Composition Studies). from the University of Washington. Since receiving his Ph.D. he has worked as an Equal Opportunity Program Director, Writing Project Director, a Director of Composition, and Department Chair. He has chaired a national conference on writing and rhetoric (1998), has led the national organization (1999-2000), and was declared the Rhetorician of the Year (1999) by the Young Rhetoricians Conference.
Villanueva is the winner of two national awards for Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. He is the editor of Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader, with other books currently in process. He has written nearly 40 articles, one of the most recent, "On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism," appearing in Trends and Issues in Postsecondary English Studies (2000). He has delivered over 60 oral presentations, 35 of which have been keynote or featured addresses.
Don't miss Victor Villanueva or Kelly Gallagher at the CEL Opening Session!
 Monday, November 24, 2008
Breakfast
Speaker - Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. He wrote his first book, This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall when he was 12 years old for a coach who suddenly found himself teaching 7th grade English … he later took that episode and created a book out of it, as well, in the Sixth Grade Nickname Game, where Mr. Huge was based on that 7th grade teacher.
His first book found a home with Scholastic, who also published his next 20 or so books, including six more Bruno and Boots titles, and several award winning young adult titles, among them my personal favorite, Son of Interflux.
Gordon eventually made one of his homes in New York City, where he studied film and film writing. While in New York, he also met his future wife, and they eventually married -- they now have three children. He now lives on Long Island, outside of New York City, has approximately 55 books to his credit, and is currently contracted for several more, including the six volume On the Run adventure series, and new young adult and childrens' titles.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Lunch
Speaker - Paul Hammond
Paul D. Hammond is the Director of Digital Initiatives at the Rutgers University English Department. He has a Ph.D. in German Literature and a forthcoming book on Thomas Bernhard, A Private Life as Public Discourse, but he is primarily interested in developing participatory, collaborative curricula for new media research and teaching across the humanities disciplines, which includes designing next generation teaching and learning spaces. This year, with Richard Miller, he planned, and oversaw the construction of, the Rutgers Writers House, a center for creative expression that includes three “smart” seminar rooms and a state-of-the-art “Collaboratory,” an interactive, multimedia classroom. He is currently designing the next phase of the project, which will include 24-hour multimedia editing suites, screening rooms, and a broadcast and recording studio, to enable students and teachers to develop new media fluency and to distribute their multimedia compositions beyond the traditional boundaries of the academy.
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 Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Breakfast
Speaker - Lan Cao
Lan Cao, author of the 1997 novel, Monkey Bridge, is a Boyd Fellow and professor of law at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Cao joined the faculty in 2001 after teaching law at Brooklyn Law School for six years. Cao was born in Vietnam and experienced the Vietnam War as a civilian. She moved to the United States when she was 13 years old. Cao received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Mount Holyoke College in 1983 and her Juris Doctorate from Yale University Law School.
Cao is the author of Monkey Bridge and the co-author of Everything You Need to Know About Asian-American History.
Register to hear Lan Cao speak at the CEL Breakfast on Tuesday, November 25, 2008.
 Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Lunch
Speaker - Louann Reid
2008 CEL Exemplary Leader Award Winner!
Louann Reid currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English education and directs the program. Courses include adolescents' literature; theories of language, literacies and learning; theories of teaching literature; and methods of teaching reading, language arts, and composition.
She has been the editor of English Journal since 2003. She has published articles in numerous professional journals, including English Journal and English Education, and gives workshops nationally and internationally on teaching international literature to young adults, teachers as researchers, critical reading strategies, and visual literacy. Six textbooks for high school students, co-authored with Fran Claggett and Ruth Vinz, exemplify her theories: Learning the Landscape, Recasting the Text (1996) and four Daybooks of Critical Reading and Writing for grades 9-12 (1998). Reflective Activities: Helping Students Connect with Texts (1998), edited with Jeffrey Golub, gathers exemplary classroom practices around the unifying theme of the power of reflection in teaching and learning. Rationales for Teaching Young Adult Literature (1999), edited with Jamie Hayes Neufeld, incorporates her research interests in censorship, literacy, and adolescents' literature.
Register to hear Louann Reid speak at the CEL Lunch on Tuesday, November 25, 2008.
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