Past Conferences
2011-2020
2019: Teaching Tomorrow's Voices
keynotes Cornelius Minor, Helen Thorpe, and Tanaya Winder
Conference photography by Aaron DeLay
2019 CLAS Conference presenter handouts on Dropbox
2019 Certificates of Attendance
2018: Connecting Communities Through the Classroom
keynotes Penny Kittle, Camille T. Dungy
Conference photography by Aaron DeLay
2018 CLAS Conference presenter handouts on Dropbox
2018 Certificates of Attendance
2017: Teaching in the Balance
keynotes Matt de la Peña, Toluwanimi Obiwole, Dave Stuart, Jr.
Conference photography by Rick Brennan
2016: For the Love of Teaching: Reclaiming the Classroom
keynotes Taylor Mali, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sarah Brown Wessling
2015: The Literacy of Social Justice: Equity, Empathy, and Engagement
keynotes Linda Christensen, Antero Garcia, Patricia McCormick
2014: A Cure for the Common Core: Reinventing Story
keynotes Chris Crutcher, Rebecca Rule, Ted Conover
2013: Create, Innovate, Celebrate: Teaching in the Age of the Common Core
keynotes Jeff Anderson, Stevi Quate, Malinda Lo
2012: Linking Literacies
keynotes Jim Blasingame, Sara Kajder, Mark Overmeyer
2011: Expanding Literacies: Developing Critical Minds for Critical Times
keynotes Ernest Morrell, Laura Resau, Jovan Mays
2001-2010
2010 (fall): Breakthroughs: Teaching in the Age of Discovery
keynotes Carol Jago, Teri Lesene, Gene Yang
2010 (spring): Capturing Imagination: Inspiring the Magic of Language
keynotes Penny Kittle, Georgia Heard, Esmerelda Santiago
Spring 2010 Conference Program
2009: Creating a Teaching Life with Passion Courage, and Conviction
keynotes Jeff Wilhelm, Sharon Draper, Sonia Nieto, Jimmy Santiago Baca
2008: Literacy NOW!
keynotes Ralph Fletcher, Nikki Giovanni, Leonard Pitts, Dan and Dawn Kirby, Gene Yang
2007: Visioning and Revisioning
keynotes Jeff Anderson, Nikki Grimes, Tim Hillmer, Richard Peck, Naomi Shihab Nye
2006: Territories Ahead
keynotes Edward Bloor, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Billy Collins, Louann Reid, Judith Irvin
2005: Today's Questions, Tomorrow's Answers
keynotes Barry Lane, Julie Anne Peters, Penny Kittle, Pam Houston
2004: Range of the Possible: Ideas and Practices to Shape the Future
keynotes Chris Crutcher, John Golden, Sara Holbrook, Randy Bomer
2003: Embracing the Magic: Discovering the Wonder in the Classroom
keynotes Janet Allen, Laurie Halse Anderson, Tod Marshall, Reggie Rivers, and Tom Romano
2002: Taking Stories to Heart
keynotes Carol Booth Olson, Bill Strong, Jim Burke, Kent Haruf, Lorri Hewett
2001: Weaving New Fabrics for Learning
keynotes Kylene Beers, Li-Young Lee, Keith Gilyard
1991-2000
2000: The Things We'll Carry
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1999: CLAS hosted the NCTE Annual Convention, Reimagining the Possibilities
1999: Imagine the Possibilities
keynotes Linda Rief, Robert Probst, Christopher Paul Curtis, Dan Kirby
1998: Steppin' Out
keynotes Maxine Greene, Charles Suhor, Sharon Draper, Caroline B. Cooney, Jack Collom
1997: Voices Shaping the Future
keynotes Rudolfo Anaya, Lorna Dee Cervantes
1996: Unlocking the Mystery of Language
keynotes John Berendt, Margaret Coel, Manuel Ramos, Jeff Golub, Warwick Downing, Alice Kawazoe
1995:
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1994: Southwest Regional Conference; Changing Together: Classrooms and Communities
keynotes James Davis, Richard Lederer, Miles Myers, Peter Stillman
1994: The Power of Story and Myth -- Celebrating, Sharing, Learning
keynotes Opalanga Pugh, Will Hobbs
1993: American Voices: Celebrating Diversity as Readers and Writers
keynotes Peter Elbow, Gary Soto, Vivian Davis, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Victor Villanueva
1992: Vision and Revision: Challenges for the 1990s
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1991: A Legacy of Language
keynotes Richard Lederer, Peter Stillman, Chris Crutcher, Helene Willis, John and Kay Bushman, June Berkley, Bruce Appleby
1981-1990
1990: Colorado hosted the NCTE Spring Conference
1989: The Many Modes of Communication
keynotes Bill McBride, Mark Medoff, Leonard Olguine
1988: [theme unknown]
keynotes Jill Scott, Ernest Boyer, Nat Hentoff, Vance Brand, Betty Miles
1987: Celebrate Teaching
keynotes Ken Macrorie, Ellen Johnston-Hale, Alex English, Paula Danziger
1986: Language & Life: One Story
keynotes Edward Albee, Robert Cormier, John Goodlad, Woody Paige, Lois Duncan, Ruth Vinz
1985: Language: A Thinking Experience
keynotes Carol Kuykendall, Judith Crist, Sue Ellen Bridgers
1984: A Time for Excellence
keynotes T.H. Bell, Neil Postman, Rex Brown, Robert Cormier
1983: [theme unknown]
keynotes Joyce Brothers, Dan Kirby, William Durr, John Stansfield
1982: [theme unknown]
keynotes Shelton Root, Diane Shugert, Muriel Bach
1981: [theme unknown]
keynotes Paul Brandwein, Muriel Bach, J. Evans Alloway, Toby Lurie, Clive Cussler, Al Grankowski
1971-1980
1980:
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1979: [theme unknown]
keynotes Jack Perkins, Marilyn VanDerbur, Elaine Barbour, Calvin Frasier, John Maxwell
1978:
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1977: The Basics and Beyond
keynotes James Grey, Robert Newton Peck, Charlotte Brooks, Claudia Cohl, George Walter, Robert Sund
1976:
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1975: The Challenge of the Future from the Ferment of the Past
keynotes Morris Massey, Elizabeth Wooten, Ernest J. Gaines
1974:
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1973:
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1972: Humanizing the Curriculum: Don't Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
keynotes Stephen Dunning, Charlotte Brooks
1971:
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1962-1970
1970: [theme unknown]
keynote Richard Eberhart
1969:
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1968:
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1967:
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1966:
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1965: [theme unknown]
keynote Charlton Laird
1964: [theme unknown]
keynote Arthur Kitzhaber
1963: Achieve the Liaison Between the High School and the College, the Junior High and the High School, and the Junior High and the Elementary Schools
keynote Jarvis E. Bush
1962:
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