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MCELA Conference 2026

  • 20 Mar 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, Maine
  • 159

Registration

  • This ticket covers food & drink for the full day for our guest authors. Use your promo code as the registration code for this complimentary conference ticket. Can't remember the code? Email us at maine.ela@gmail.com
  • This registration is for guest authors attending the afternoon author panel only (and helps reduce our food/drink costs for authors arriving after lunch). Use your author promo code as the registration code. Can't remember the code? Email us at maine.ela@gmail.com
  • You must be registered on Wild Apricot as an MCELA member to get this discount. Not registered yet? Register as a member here: https://maine.wildapricot.org/Membership-benefits (scroll down to the "Join Us" button)
  • Register for the conference (all day Fri, 3/20) and our Pre-Conference Event, Poetry Night (evening on Thurs, 3/19), on one ticket. You must be registered on Wild Apricot as an MCELA member to get this discount. Not registered yet? Register as a member here: https://maine.wildapricot.org/Membership-benefits (scroll down to the "Join Us" button)
  • Register for the conference (all day Fri, 3/20) and our Pre-Conference Event, Poetry Night (evening on Thurs, 3/19), on one ticket. Your non-member registration will include MCELA membership from the date of registration until September 13, 2026.
  • Your non-member registration will include MCELA membership from the date of registration until September 13, 2026.
  • Use your presenter promo code as the registration code for this discounted ticket. Can't remember the code? Email us at maine.ela@gmail.com
  • Use your presenter promo code as the registration code for registration ticket. Please note: this ticket is for registering as a presenter who is only attending to present and will not partake in conference offerings or conference food/drinks. Can't remember the code? Email us at maine.ela@gmail.com
  • This discounted ticket is for our future teachers. Educators already in the work force should purchase the member or non-member ticket.

Registration is closed

This year’s conference will be held in Bangor, Maine, at the Cross Insurance Center on Friday, March 20, 2026, with a special Pre-Conference Poetry Night on Thursday evening, March 19th, at the Penobscot Theatre Company in downtown Bangor.

Detailed information about the conference and our pre-conference event, Poetry Night @ Penobscot Theatre Company, can be found on our website. Click here.

Keynote Speaker: Sawsan Jaber

Dr. Sawsan Jaber, NBCT, is an award-winning global educator, presenter, equity strategist, curriculum designer, community activist, and keynote speaker with over 20 years of experience. She has held a variety of leadership positions both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Jaber is currently a high school English Department Chair, District Equity Leader, and teacher at a High School in Illinois. She founded Education Unfiltered Consulting and works with schools nationally and internationally. She completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on inclusion and belonging of students from marginalized communities, particularly Arab American students in historically homogenous communities.

  • High School English Teacher & Department Chair 
  • 2024 English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award Recipient
  • 2023 Cook County Co-Regional Teacher of the Year
  • 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year Finalist
  • 2023 CEL Teacher Leader of Excellence Award Recipient 
  • 2023 ISTE 20 to Watch Award Recipient 
  • 2022 IDEA Teacher of the Year 
  • Co-Author of Pedagogies of Voice 
  • NCTE Arab Caucus Chair
  • NCTE Committee Against Racism & Bias in Teaching of English Member 
  • NCTE Secondary Section Nominating Committee Chair
  • ISTE Community Leader
  • Book Love Foundation Advisory Board Member
  • Pulitzer Fellow 




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