Your membership may be listed under a different email address than the one you are trying to use to register. Check and make sure that you are using the same email address for both. Please note that newly-registered members will not reflect the members-only pricing for up to 3 business days after their registration with NACTA. (If you continue to receive the incorrect rate, please reach out to support@nactateachers.org.

If you are a student registering for the NACTA Conference and would like the discounted student rate, please email a letter from your dean or department chair on university letterhead stating that you are a student to support@nactateachers.org.

Yes, you must pay the full registration fee even if you can only attend part of the day.

We ask that you pre-register for sessions to allow presenters to have an accurate headcount for their sessions. Many presenters tailor their sessions for the amount of registered attendees. It also ensures that they will have sufficient materials.

Yes, you can switch sessions after you have registered. To modify your registration, please click the "Already Registered?" button at the bottom of any conference website page to log in. You will need to enter your email address and password you set up during registration to modify your registration. If you do not remember your registration password, please click here.

Your registration fee, less a $100 US administrative fee, will be refunded when the NACTA Office receives written notification before April 30, 2023. Substitutions can be made. No refunds will be made after May 1, 2023.

Once you've completed your registration, you can click the "Invoice" button on the final page. If you completed your registration previously, you can click the button below. You may also click "Modify Registration" at the bottom of this page and click the "Invoice" button on the final page. You can also request one directly from the NACTA office by emailing support@nactateachers.org.

We have a list of recommended hotels near the conference area. Click here for more details. 

NACTA will provide wifi throughout the conference space.

Your agenda only shows sessions you're registered for, so if something's missing you may not have selected it when you registered. You can add it by modifying your registration here. If it still doesn't appear reach out to us via email at support@nactateachers.org.

Mountain Daylight Time US (UTC-06:00).

All conference activities will take place at the Las Cruces Convention Center, located at 680 E University Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88001.

The Las Cruces Convention Center has a detailed policy page, which can be found here. 

Lunch will be provided for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Dinner will be provided on Wednesday and Friday. Breakfast will not be included.

No. The guest fee only covers the cost of meals and attendance at the Keynote and Blue Ribbon sessions. If your guest wishes to attend other sessions, they must pay the full registration rate.

Laptop computers will be available if needed. Please bring your presentation on a USB drive. If possible, please bring your own laptop as a back up. NACTA will not provide any laptop to projector converters. We will provide each room with a projector, which work with VGA and HDMI cables. Flip charts and markers are available by request only. Please bring any additional items you will need for your presentation with you.

If you are using a Mac Book, please make sure you bring a converter with HDMI capabilities.

We have set up a special FAQ page for our poster & oral authors, linked here. If you can't find the answer to your questions there, reach out to us at support@nactateachers.org

For each NACTA Oral Presentation Session, a moderator is selected who will oversee the session and provide assistance as appropriate. Oral presentation slots are no less than 1 hour long and within that time frame parallel sessions are scheduled. Each of these sessions contains 4 or more consecutive presentations. The presentations will be grouped thematically as best as possible.

The layout of each session will be:
00:00 opening by the session moderator
00:00 presentation #1, 10 min talk + 5 minutes Q&A
00:15 presentation #2, 10 min talk + 5 minutes Q&A
00:30 presentation #3, 10 min talk + 5 minutes Q&A
00:45 presentation #4, 10 min talk + 5 minutes Q&A
...
Then wrap up and closure by the session moderator

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the 4+ presenters PRIOR to the session and explain the process for the session. If you are an oral moderator and you do not know who your presenters are, please contact support@nactateachers.org. 
• Verify that all presentations are properly loaded on the session room laptop.
• Open the session by welcoming the speakers and the audience and notify participants of the closest exit in case of an emergency.
• Remind participants to turn their cell phones off as a professional courtesy.
• Introduce each speaker by name, institution, and title of the presentation.
• Guide the discussion and Q&A after the presentation. Please prepare the abstracts of the presentations in your session in advance so that you are prepared.
• Remind participants about session evaluations that will be coming via email.
• Keep each presentation and the session as a whole on time by making sure the presentations start exactly on 00:00, 00:15, 00:30 and 00:45 so that the meeting participants who want to switch rooms in between presentations will not miss the beginning of the next lecture.

Important: If a presentation is canceled (no-show), please:

• Do not move forward with the next speaker but postpone the session for 15 minutes.
• Do not change the order of presentations.
• Do not allow presenters to ‘combine’ two or more presentations into one longer presentation. Meeting participants who want to switch rooms in between presentations will count on the presentations as listed in the program!

Close the session by thanking the speakers and the audience for their presence and contributions.