Dates of Interest Ahead

December 18, 2007	Program proposal deadline for the Whole Language Umbrella Literacies for All Summer Institute
December 31, 2007	Nomination deadline for the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
January 10, 2008	Session proposals for NJCTE's annual conference, "New Directions: Professionalism and the New Literacy" at Montclair State University are due.
January 10, 2008	deadline for submitting petitions to add candidates to the 2008 NCTE ballot
Mid-January, 2008	Postmark deadline for program proposals for the 2008 Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas
January 15, 2008	Nomination deadline for the Whole Language Umbrella elections
January 25, 2008	Entry deadline for the Promising Young Writers program
January 31, 2008	Entry deadline for the Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Training Scholarship Fund
January 31, 2008	Program proposal deadline for the CEE Cultural Diversity Grant
February 1, 2008	Nomination deadline for the Edwin A. Hoey Award
February 1, 2008	Nomination deadline for the CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
February 1, 2008	Entry deadline for the Achievement Awards in Writing program
February 3-4, 2008	African American Read-In
March 1, 2008	Application deadline for the Promising Researcher Award
March 1, 2008	Nomination deadline for the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English
March 7, 2008	Nomination deadline for the 2008 CCCC Elections
March 28, 2008	NJCTE's annual conference, "New Directions: Professionalism and the New Literacy" at Montclair State University. It's not just reading anymore!
April 2-5, 2008	2008 CCCC Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana