Highlights of Past Conferences
Fall 2022 (November 16, 2022) Conference (Washington D.C)
NAECTE Fall 2022 Final Program
Theme: Higher Education’s Role in Strengthening the Early Years: Collaborative Leadership and Community Building in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Teacher Education
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mariana Souto-Manning
Summer 2022 (June 13, 2022) Virtual Conference
NAECTE NAECTE Summer 2021 Final Program Website
Theme: Playfulness, Wonder, and Self-Care: Pathways to Preserving Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Teacher Education
Keynote: Presentation Title: Being open to Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Teacher Education by Dr. Jane Tingle Broderick
Fall 2021 (November 17, 2021) Virtual Conference
NAECTE Fall 2021 Final Program Website
Theme: Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Teacher Education
Keynote: “Where to from here? Reimagining early childhood in times of crisis” by Dr. Mathias Urban
Summer 2021 (June 14, 2021) Virtual Conference (Orlando, FL)
NAECTE NAECTE Summer 2021 Final Program and Website
Theme–Challenges and Changing Times:
Doing Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Teacher Education in the New Era
Fabienne Doucet, PhD, Program Officer at the William T. Grant Foundation / Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Urban Education in the department of Teaching and Learning at New York University
NAECTE Fall 2020 (November 4, 2020) Virtual (Anaheim, CA)
Fall 2020 Program Website
NAECTE Fall 2020 Final Program
Keynote: “We have to be carefully taught: Principles of anti-bias education with adults”
Louise Derman-Sparks, Faculty Emeritus, Pacific Oaks College Pasadena, California
NAECTE Summer 2020 Conference Virtual (New Orleans, LA)
Summer 2020 Program Website
NAECTE Summer Conference Program 2020
Keynote –”Children Thriving: An Integrated Approach”
Libbie Sonnier-Netto, PhD – Executive Director Louisiana Policy Institute For Children
NAECTE Fall 2019 Conference in Nashville TN
NAECTE Fall 2019 Program
Our Keynote: Walter Gilliam, PhD–Yale University Child Study Center
NAECTE Summer 2019 Conference
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NAECTE Fall 2018 Conference
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NAECTE Summer 2018 Conference
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NAECTE Fall 2017 Conference
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NAECTE Summer 2017 Conference
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NAECTE Fall 2016 Conference
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NAECTE Summer 2016 Conference
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NAECTE Fall 2015 Conference
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NAECTE Fall 2014 Conference
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NAECTE June 2014 Conference
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Fall Conference for 2013
“Quality Teacher Education Research: Listening to our work, learning from our work”
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, from 8:30 until 4:00, in Washington, D.C.
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NAECTE June 2013 CONFERENCE
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NAECTE Fall 2012 CONFERENCE
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NAECTE June 2011 CONFERENCE
NAECTE November 2010 CONFERENCE
Sharon Ritchie addressed NAECTE in November to help Early Childhood Teachers and Teacher Educators – “Focus Our Advocacy Efforts”. She asked us to consider: How do we benefit from collective knowledge and wisdom? How do we improve the school experiences of our most vulnerable children? What are foundational processes for young children? and… What if we really used research to guide our practice?
Sharon’s full Keynote PowerPoint presentation.
NAECTE JUNE 2009 CONFERENCE
Frances Rust spoke to NAECTE at its June 2009 meeting. She urged our group to action in addressing the challenges currently confronting early childhood teacher educators. June 15 2009 Conference Keynote by Frances O’Connel Rust
NAECTE NOVEMBER 2008 CONFERENCE
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Dallas, Texas
2008 Conference Lilian Katz Keynote Address
NAECTE NOVEMBER 2007 CONFERENCE
NAECTE 2007 Conference Keynote Address NAECTE 2007 Conference Program
The November 2007 conference in Chicago marked the 30th anniversary of NAECTE. The members in the photograph below have been conference attendees since the organization’s inception in 1977. For more information about the history of NAECTE, see our history page.
Photo taken by Rebekah Fassler
Front Row (left to right). Joan Isenberg,
Stephanie Feeney, Leah Adams, Doris Fromberg,
Helen Botnaresque, Doris Bergen, and Kathryn Castle.
Back Row (left to right). Mary Jensen, Blythe Hintz,
Patricia Vardin, James Hoot, and Anne Dorsey.
NAECTE CELEBRATES 30 YEARS