CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

The New Jersey English Journal, a publication of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, will be under new editorship beginning in the 2007-2008 school year. Although our format will reflect a new editorial board, the mission of the journal will remain the same: to provide New Jersey teachers of English with a forum for open discussion of ideas relating to the content and teaching of English language arts and to support the development and growth of new and experienced New Jersey teaching professionals.

The theme for our next edition is "What Does Life-long Learning Really Mean?" When English teachers become educators, it is certainly with the goal of remaining "life-long learners." However, as veteran or new English teachers, every school year we are burdened with multiple preparations, a myriad of new books to read for curriculum purposes, and hundreds of other issues that tax our energies and our enthusiasm. How, then, do we sustain our desire to remain life-long learners?

For this issue, we invite you to submit manuscripts that provide your perspective and experiences on this important topic. What conscious decisions have you made regarding your own professional development? How have you modeled life-long learning for students? What authentic staff development programs have given you new information for professional growth? What lessons have you taught that help students become invested in their own learning, thus becoming life-long learners? These questions are meant to give you ideas on the wide range of possibilities within this theme. Please feel free to submit any manuscript that addresses these ideas from your own, unique perspective.

*We will also print articles, poems, short stories, and descriptions of "best practices" as space allows. 

The New Jersey English Journal reserves the right to edit manuscripts, which will not be returned. Submission deadline for the 2008 edition will be on May 1, 2008.

Submission Guidelines:

--Please send one clear, hard copy of each manuscript, typed, numbered, and double-spaced throughout (including quotations, endnotes, and works cited) to the editor (address below). At the same time, send the manuscript as an attached word document to: eweinthal@hotmail.com.

--Use in-text documentation, following the current edition of MLA Handbook.

--List your name, address, school affiliation, telephone number, and email address on the title page only, not on the manuscript. Also include a brief bio.

Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged by email.

Send submissions to:

Dr. Edie Weinthal

Editor, NJ English Journal

Pascack Valley Regional HS District

200 Piermont Road

Hillsdale, NJ 07642

The New Jersey English Journal is mailed to current members each year.

2007 Contributors

Edwin Romond	Claudia Pinzon	Edie Weinthal	Glenn G. Coats
Margaret A. Dukes	Walter H. Johnson	Chelsea Cook	Joseph S. Pizzo
Lois Marie Harrod	G.I. Martin	Marcia Holtzman	Rebecca Foerg-Spittel
Rose Filoramo	John Lapsley	Jessica Riegel	Cristina Luzarraga
Sarah Queller	Wendy Lin

Excerpts from the 2007 New Jersey English Journal

WINTER NIGHT by Edwin Romond	FOUR YEARS LATER by Margaret Dukes
Snow streaming from December skies like baby powder grenades exploding white on winter soil. Afterwards, ivory icing mirrors moonlight.	I think of you who always see the possibilities, the forsythia, just around the bend, where I see only bare branches.   As I enter your room, you welcome me, ever graceful: you adjust the blinds letting in enough sunlight yet shading the glare.   I still see the scene: on your table, crystals of insight a vase of kindness, full of flowers faithful as spring.