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The 2010 Conference:
How & Why We Create
was an
incredible success! On Saturday, March 6, 2010, one of our best conferences ever took place at Montclair State University.
The keynote speakers were:
Gordon Korman, author of Swindle; Pop; Schooled; Son of the Mob; Jake, Reinvented; No
More Dead Dogs; The 39 Clues #2; and many more!
Philip Beard, author of the haunting novel, Dear Zoe, a Borders Original Voices selection - **all attendees received a FREE copy
of this novel!
Robert Kaplow, author of Me and Orson Welles, now a major motion picture
Pat Corbitt, television and feature film writer, director, and producer, and author of D.S.E.V.
Thank you to everyone
who attended; the energy and excitement were contagious! We appreciate your feedback and will use it as we plan our conference
for 2011. Continue checking this page, Facebook, and Twitter for updates on upcoming events.
Thank you for your
support of NJCTE; we are all about our members and English/language arts education in New Jersey!
Celebrate the first annual
"National
Day on Writing"
with us!
Please post a piece of your writing to our national gallery by clicking on
the icon below. We look forward to reading your work!
On
Saturday, October 10, 2009, NJCTE held a mini-conference on writing in preparation for the National Day on Writing -- what
a great event! Thank you to all who attended!
Please
join us at our annual spring conference. Check this page often for information about the conference as it becomes available.
Click here for the NCTE page for the National Day on Writing.
Pictures above are from NJCTE's Celebration of the 1st Annual National
Day on Writing, Saturday, October 10, 2009, Montclair State University
Contribute
to the NJCTE Gallery of Writing
A Local Partner Gallery in the National Gallery
of Writing
Writers in New Jersey will join thousands of writers throughout the nation to display
their compositions in NJCTE Gallery, a Local Partner Gallery in the National Gallery of Writing. This New Jersey Council of
Teachers of English gallery will house the work of those who love to write! The National Gallery of Writing can be found at
http://www.galleryofwriting.org and is hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
We are urging all 2009 NJCTE
writing contest winners to submit to this gallery. NJCTE would like to showcase your work in this gallery.
The compositions will be unveiled with the opening of the Gallery on October 20, 2009, the National Day on Writing.
Gallery curator, Susan Reese, invites and encourages submissions to the NJCTE Gallery.
As a local partner gallery
in the National Gallery of Writing, NJCTE Gallery will join NCTE (http://www.ncte.org) in celebrating composition in all its forms and demonstrating how integral writing has become to daily life in the 21st
century.
All sorts of writers - students, teachers, parents, grandparents, service and industrial workers, managers,
business owners, legislators, retirees, and many more - and all forms of composition from kindergarten picture messages to
YouTube videos to short stories, emails, journal entries and more will be featured in the National Gallery of Writing (http://www.galleryofwriting.org).
Please go to http://www.galleryofwriting.org/submission_forms/login.php to submit your work to the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English Gallery of Writing.
NJCTE's
Spring Conference 2009 was a big success!
Our keynote speaker was Terry Trigg-Scales, Assistant Superintendent for K-12 Curriculum,
Montclair Public Schools. Her discussion, which was very well received, was entitled "Yes We Can-Empowering All
to Learn."
Our luncheon speaker and Muriel Becker Award Recipient was Ann Rinaldi, award winning historical fiction writer.
Click here for Ann Rinaldi's website.
Our guest author was Moustafa Bayoumi, Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College, and author
of How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America.
Click here for Moustafa Bayoumi's website.
We have started planning for our spring
conference 2010; check back for more information as it becomes available!
If you are interested in
being a part of the planning and organization committee for our spring conference or other events, please contact Dr. Patricia
Schall at pschall@njcte.org.
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