History

GCTE Session History

2018 was the inaugural year of the GCTE "Future is Now" session. At the 2017 annual NCTE convention in St. Louis, Alan Brown called for the state affiliates of NCTE to continue the mission of supporting the next generation of teachers by expanding the "Future is Now" session to the state conventions. Later that day Nick Thompson had a conversation with Jennifer Dail, and the session was born. We hope that this session will be a perennial event at GCTE, and we are excited to see how the future English teachers are moving the profession forward.

NCTE Session History

Part of understanding the value of the "Future Is Now" session is to understand its history and growth. In 2010, the late Janice Suppa-Friedman, a member of NCTE’s Standing Committee on Affiliates, invited teacher educators, including Alan Brown and Patricia Waters, to invite students to participate in an NCTE Annual Convention session entitled "Aspiring and Early Career Teachers Share Their Ideas on How Teachers and Students Lead Literate Lives." Two universities participated in that session, which included twelve students and six roundtable presentations. An audience of approximately eleven people showed up to hear the students' presentations that day. Click here to read more about the history of the NCTE "Future is Now" session.