Associate Professor Joanne Marciano has been elected vice chair of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Executive Committee. She will serve as chair of ELATE from 2026-2028.
ELATE is the professional home for teacher educators and educational researchers who focus on English language arts (ELA) education, especially as they advocate for student-centered and culturally sustaining learning.
“I’m thrilled to take on this role, and to give back to NCTE and ELATE,” said Marciano, part of the Department of Teacher Education. She will serve as vice chair from 2025-2026, then as the leader of ELATE from 2026-2028.
“I look forward to collaborating with colleagues to amplify the voices of youth, teachers, and teacher educators across the ELATE platform as we work together to enact critical English language arts education necessary to build more just social futures.”
The ELATE committee is robust, offering its own awards, sub-groups (or “commissions”) focusing on specific topics in research and practice, and mentoring support for graduate students and scholars in the early and middle parts of their careers.
Marciano became a member of NCTE while working as an English teacher at a New York City public high school more than 20 years ago. She was elected to the ELATE Executive Committee in 2022, serving as chair of the committee’s online mentoring program and the Emig Award selection committee, and as a member of the selection committees for the editorial team for English Education and CITE English journals.
As part of her role, Marciano will lead MSU in hosting the ELATE Summer Conference on campus in July 2027, bringing together teacher educators, teachers, students and additional members of literacy communities across local, state, national and global contexts in examining a variety of topics relevant to the work of English language arts teacher education.