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Serve
- Achievement Awards in Writing Advisory Committee
- Standing Committee on Affiliates
- Standing Committee Against Censorship
- Build Your Stack® Committee
- NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children
- NCTE Children’s Poetry Awards Committee
- Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity
- Standing Committee on Global Citizenship
- NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, + (LGBTQIA+) Advisory Committee
- Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment
- Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children’s Literature Committee
- Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee
- Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee
- Public Language Awards Committee
- Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English
- Standing Committee on Research
- Achievement Awards in Writing Advisory Committee
- Standing Committee on Affiliates
- Standing Committee Against Censorship
- Build Your Stack® Committee
- NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children
- NCTE Children’s Poetry Awards Committee
- Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity
- Standing Committee on Global Citizenship
- NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, + (LGBTQIA+) Advisory Committee
- Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment
- Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children’s Literature Committee
- Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee
- Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee
- Public Language Awards Committee
- Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English
- Standing Committee on Research
Achievement Awards in Writing Advisory Committee
Charge
The NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing program makes use of an advisory committee and state coordinators.
Advisory Committee: To advise staff on the nature, policies, and procedures regarding the NCTE Achievement Awards In Writing, including the following issues: development of a specific plan for involving more public schools in the awards, especially those with large nonwhite populations; revision of the structure of the award to mitigate the negative effects of competition on student identity and learning; consideration and development of diversified awards: that recognize remarkable improvement or growth in writing; that recognize multimodal composition (digital or non-digital); and that recognize remarkable risk-taking with the process of writing, instead of the exclusive focus on the final draft; and consideration of revising the Achievement Awards procedure, to eliminate the test-like, single-draft, timed essay as part of the award criteria, since recent developments in high-stakes assessment already privilege those who write quickly; and to consider and make recommendations for ways that the work might interface with NCTE’s National Day on Writing.
State Coordinators: To advise the NCTE staff liaison on any changes that should be made in the Achievement Awards program; review judging procedures; recommend judges; recommend ways of publicizing the program; investigate ways of aiding the winners; and give suggestions for the impromptu theme topic.
Achievement Awards in Writing Program
Current Members
CHAIR: Jennifer Curl (2025)
(Tucker High School, GA)
Parsa Choudhury (2024)
(Columbia College Chicago, Illinois)
Kristy Girardeau (2024)
(Douglasville, GA)
Rebecca Leigh (2024)
(Oakland University, Rochester, MI)
April Simmons (2024)
(Dorchester School District, Summerville, SC)
Beatrice Newman (2025)
(The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX)
Executive Committee Liaison, Tonya Perry
(Miles College, AL)
NCTE Staff, Ashley Sisk