#MakersInTheMiddle: Imagining Possibility, Innovating Practice, Inspiring Change — The Middle Level Mosaic
2026 NCTE Annual Convention · 21 November 2026 · 16:15–17:30 · 118-A (100 Level)
#MakersInTheMiddle: Imagining Possibility, Innovating Practice, Inspiring Change — The Middle Level Mosaic was a session at 2026 NCTE Annual Convention on 21 November 2026 in Philadelphia, with 33 speakers on record.
Speakers
- Christina Wyman — Speaker MacKids
- Adrianna Cuevas — Speaker Macmillan Children's
- Ama Ofosua Lieb — Speaker Scholastic
- Sarah Mlynowski — Speaker Scholastic/PRH
- Vanee Smith-Matsalia — Speaker Curtis Middle School, SBCUSD
- Alex Corbitt — Chair Syracuse University
- Eva Goins — Speaker Northwest Independent School District/TCTELA
- Anna Osborn — Speaker University of MO-Columbia
- Andrea Rogers — Speaker Levine Querido
- Rebecca Morrison — Speaker Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan
- Kelly Yang — Speaker Scholastic
- Julian Randall — Speaker Macmillan Children's Books
- Victoria Chang — Speaker Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
- María Dolores Águila — Speaker Charlotte Huck Award Winner, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
- Andrea Beatriz Arango — Speaker Random House Children's Books
- Barbara Dee — Speaker Scholastic
- Karla Arenas Valenti — Speaker Penguin Random House
- Malcolm Mitchell — Speaker Scholastic
- Jayna Ashlock-Huston — Speaker Spokane Public Schools
- Michelle Yang-Kaczmarek — Speaker Dobbs Ferry School District
- Nic Stone — Speaker #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Random House Children's Books
- Gia Gordon — Speaker Macmillan
- Tanisca M Wilson — Speaker Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO)
- Daniel Nayeri — Speaker Levine Querdo
- Gordon Korman — Speaker Scholastic
- Shifa Saltagi Safadi — Speaker Penguin Random House
- Chrystal D. Giles — Speaker Random House Children’s Books
- Kate O'Shaughnessy — Speaker Random House Children's Books
- Rebecca E.F. Barone — Speaker Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
- Aisha Saeed — Speaker
- Nadine Takvorian — Speaker Levine Querido
- Kody Keplinger — Speaker Scholastic
- Kristie Smith — Speaker Kennesaw State University