About This Year’s Theme

As English Language Arts educators, literacy leaders, and researchers, we are preparing students for a world where literacy extends far beyond the printed page. Today's learners read across multiple media, communicate through diverse formats, collaborate across digital spaces, and create for authentic audiences.

The 2027 GCTE Annual Conference theme, Literacy Beyond the Page: Read. Write. Speak. Listen. Create. in a Multimodal World, invites us to explore what it means to teach literacy in ways that are both timeless and forward-thinking.

1. How are you helping students become thoughtful readers, confident writers, engaged listeners, effective speakers, and creative communicators?
   
   

2. How are you designing learning experiences that honor student voice, leverage multiple modes of communication, and prepare learners to thrive in an increasingly connected world?

Literacy today is more than consuming information—it is about making meaning, solving problems, creating, collaborating, and communicating across a variety of texts, technologies, and experiences.

Whether your work centers foundational literacy, disciplinary literacy, AI and emerging technologies, inquiry, student voice, culturally responsive teaching, media literacy, assessment, or creative expression, your ideas can help educators across Georgia imagine what is possible. Join us as we explore the future of literacy together—one that honors the enduring power of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and creating.

Call for Proposals

We live in a time of exciting change and creative momentum in English Language Arts. Technology, evolving standards, and new ways of connecting with students open up fresh approaches to teaching. We ask:

• How can we design instruction that honors the voices and experiences of our students?

• How can we use the new Georgia ELA standards to support stronger learning outcomes?

• How can we nurture a love for reading, writing, speaking, and listening in every classroom?

We invite proposals that highlight innovative, relevant, and practical approaches to teaching ELA. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, preservice teacher, professor, retired educator, or literacy leader, your voice matters.

We especially encourage sessions that are interactive, hands-on, and foster meaningful discussion.

Session proposals are double-masked, peer-reviewed, and evaluated based on the significance of the topic, creativity and innovation, and potential engagement and usefulness for session participants. We recommend viewing the Tips for GCTE Proposals video before submitting your proposal. This video is designed to support you in creating a strong proposal that is more likely to be accepted. You can also view this sample proposal to guide your submission.

Finally, we recommend you make a copy of your proposal submission for your records. We do not have the capacity to replicate them for you.