Upcoming Awards
April 30: Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award
This award is to supports early career teachers of color as they build accomplished teaching careers in literacy education.
May 1: NCTE Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing
This award recognizes teachers in grades K-6 who, through the teaching of writing, demonstrate an understanding of student improvement in writing.
May 1: Outstanding Middle Level Educator Award
An award for exceptional 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.
May 1: CCCC Outstanding Book Award
Presented annually for work in the field of composition and rhetoric.
May 1: ELATE James N. Britton Award
To encourage English Language Arts teacher development, consistent with the major goal of ELATE, by promoting classroom-based research in which teachers at any educational level raise questions about teaching and learning in their own teaching/learning settings.
May 20: ELATE Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant
This grant offers up to two $500 awards for first-time NCTE Conference presenters who are members of groups historically underrepresented in NCTE and ELATE.
May 30: NCTE and Penguin Random House Teacher Awards
The National Teacher Award for Lifelong Readers honors a teacher who inspires their students to read all genres of writing; the Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry will honor Ms. Angelou’s legacy by recognizing a teacher who inspires their students to love poetry.
Awards List
Achievement Awards in Writing (11th grade)
Affiliate – NCTE Intellectual Freedom (State, Regional, Provincial)
Affiliate Multicultural Program
Affiliate – NCTE Fund Teachers for the Dream
Affiliate – NCTE Leadership Development
Affiliate – Student Affiliate Excellence Award
CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication
CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP)
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
David H. Russell Research Award
Donald Graves Writing Award (grades K-6)
Doublespeak Award – Sponsored by the Public Language Award Committee
ELATE Cultural Diversity Grant
ELATE James Moffett Memorial Fund
Excellence in Poetry for Children (living American poet)
George Orwell Award – Sponsored by the Public Language Award Committee
High School Teacher of Excellence (Affiliate Award)
Language Arts Distinguished Article Award
Linda Rief Voices from the Middle Award
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Intellectual Freedom (National)
Orbis Pictus Award (nonfiction for children)
Outstanding Educator (elementary)
Paul and Kate Farmer – English Journal
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee (REALM)
Promising Young Writers (8th grade)
Research Foundation Teacher Grant Program
Richard Ohmann Award – College English
Richard W. Halle Award (outstanding middle level educator)
The Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award (TYCA)