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Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick shares a new way for members to engage and connect. Learn about the NCTE Village, share your story, and consider applying to be a Lead Ambassador! Also, check out last week’s Field Notes about an important change we made to acknowledge the varied gender identities of our membership.
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"Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking – your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it’s not you alone, it’s you in partnership.” – Marilyn Nelson
2017 NCTE National Poetry Award Winner
The way Nelson describes writing poetry mirrors the way so many of you think about teaching it. You celebrate the writers who continue to build the tradition like Juan Felipe Herrera and Jacqueline Woodson, and you invite your students to contribute their own voices to its future.
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Looking for some fresh inspiration for National Poetry Month? Every week we’re featuring poems from NCTE journals, written by our members and their students. Below you’ll find links to a book (featuring a free chapter) and a lesson plan for every level on teaching poetry.
Elementary
- Book: Poetry of Place: Helping Students Write Their Worlds by Terry Hermsen
- Resource: “Taking a Sound Hike”
Middle
- Book: Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom by Jaime Wood
- Resource: “Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora’s Poem “Echoes’”
Secondary
- Book: Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom by John S. O'Connor
- Resource: “The ABCs of Poetry”
College
- Book: Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry by Joseph Powell and Mark Halperin
- Resource: “Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer’s Style through Imitation”
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Congratulations to Danielle Tefft!
Danielle is the 2017 NCTE Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship recipient. The Wheadon Scholarship will help Danielle to pursue an M.S. in Reading at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, qualifying her to become a reading specialist. "I chose this path because my ultimate goal is to help students who struggle with reading and help all students find a love for a subject they think is not so lovable."
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Katherine and Randy Bomer are the 2017 recipients of the NCTE Outstanding Elementary Educator in the English Language Arts Award.
David Harrison has been selected as the winner in the Children's Nonfiction category of the Society of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award competition for books published in 2016, for Now You See Them, Now You Don't.
Ernest Morrell, NCTE past president, was instrumental in the creation of a new AP course on the African diaspora through the African Diaspora Consortium.
Voices from the Middle got a shout out as a resource in the U.S. Department of Education March 30 Teachers’ Edition.
Special thanks to all our members who wrote blog posts over the last few weeks. You can review an archive of those posts here.
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CCCC Outstanding Book Award Deadline: May 1
Presented annually for work in the field of composition and rhetoric, the CCCC Outstanding Book Award gives two awards—one for a single-authored or multi-authored work and one for an edited collection of scholarly work. A work eligible for the 2018 award will have been published in calendar year 2016 or 2017. Visit the award guidelines for further details.
NCTE Affiliate Awards Deadline: May 1
There are many awards available to affiliates, covering everything from intellectual freedom to journals to membership.
NCTE Outstanding Middle Level Educator in the English Language Arts Award Deadline: May 1
For this award, we are seeking English language arts teachers of grades 6–8 who have demonstrated excellence in teaching English language arts and inspired a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning in their students.
This award will be presented to an individual, team, or department that has implemented and refined exemplary media literacy practices in their school.
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PROFESSIONAL GROWTH & RESOURCES
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"The story is not a pond, it is a river. You will never step into the same water twice."
Check out this wonderful interview with a much-loved author. A great one to listen to with your students!
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NCTE Web Seminars
Take an hour to immerse yourself in thoughtful learning around relevant issues and approaches. These Web seminars are FREE to NCTE members:
View the archive of the April chat "The Art and Joy of Poetry" Hosted by: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, @amylvpoemfarm
Source: eSchoolNews
Día is an annual celebration (April 30th) and daily commitment that honors author and poet Pat Mora’s highest priorities: books, children/adolecents and families, inclusion, and world languages. More information here.
Chicago, Illinois, June 26–June 28, 2017 Roosevelt University
Early bird rate $175.00 for both days (rate ends April 21).
Roosevelt University is offering dorm rooms for $65 a night.
This year’s conference is themed “Engaging Citizens, Building Community” and its mission is to explore the relationships among media literacy education, civic participation, and community-building within our contemporary culture.
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NCTE Advocacy Day
April 27, Washington, DC
Join NCTE for a full day of discussion about education policy and visits to legislative offices on Capitol Hill. We'll be hosting a webinar about advocacy Sunday, April 24 at 8pm ET. More details soon!
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Election Ballots Have Been Sent
Elections will close at 11:59 p.m. Central Time, Thursday, June 1.
The NCTE, NCTE Section, CEE, and TYCA ballots have been sent. Please take a moment to vote for the future leaders of the Council, the Conference on English Education, and the Two-Year College English Association. The ballots have been emailed to the current address on file; if you do not see the message, check your Spam or Junk Mail folder. If we did not have an email address on file, the ballots were sent by postal mail. If you are a current member and you have not received your ballot by April 15, please send a message to NCTE with your name, current mailing address, and email address.
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Which section of this newsletter do you find most useful?
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The themed section at the top.
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Professional Growth & Resources
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