Minnesota Council of Teachers of English

Spring Conference 2010
50 Years of Continuity and Change

Friday ~ Leila Christenbury,
past NCTE President, Historian for NCTE's Centennial

Friday Lunch ~ Kao Kalia Yang
author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

Saturday breakfast ~ Julie Landsman
author of Basic Needs: A Year with Street Kids in a City School and
Growing Up White, A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism

Saturday lunch ~ Pete Hautman
YA author: How to Steal a Car, Godless, Sweetblood, Invisible, Rash

April 23-24 ~ Duluth Convention Center (DECC)

Celebrate MCTE's 50th Anniversary!

Registration form
and housing information

MEJ 2009

New: MEJ 2009

with articles by: Jennifer Budenski, Kathryn Campbell, Paul Carney, Bill Dyer, Connie Ehrfurth, Peder Engebretson, Benjamin Hamborg, Sandy Hayes,
Angie Iserman, Alison Konkol, Sherri Larson, Brian Lewis, Lynn Ludwig,
Karen Morrill-Bryan, Martin Warren

download entire journal (2 MB)
download individual articles

Award Opportunities

• Nominate a high school teacher of excellence to be recognized at the 2010 NCTE convention - Deadline: April 1

• Submit student entries in MCTE book trailer contest - Deadline April 1
Open to students grades 3 through College

• Enter 8th grade writing in NCTE Promising Young Writers program -
Entry form - Entry deadline February 10

• Enter 11th grade writing in NCTE Writing Achievement Award program - Entry form - Nomination deadline February 17

• Enter your school's literary magazine in NCTE PRESLM award program - Entry form - Entry deadline June 30

writing gallery

Now Open
the Minnesota Writing Quilt Gallery
of the NCTE National Gallery of Writing

Submit your writing,
your students' writing today!
more details
promotional video
share with your students this video of inspiring words from famous authors

Kylene Beers

Kelly Gallagher

A record 200 teachers attended the
2009 Fall Workshop with Kylene Beers

Highlights

MCTE Fall Workshop 2010
Kelly Gallagher, author of Readicide
Monday, October 24
Radisson Hotel & Convention Center,
Plymouth
Registration form available online after August 1

now available online:

MCTE Student Writing Journal
editor: Kathryn Campbell

cover 2008

Summer 2009

NCTE's web seminars
Details on upcoming webinars

Access these archived webinars at no charge (must register with credit card, but you will not be billed)
Teri Lesesne
When Kids Won't Read, What Can Teachers Do?
Frank Baker
Reading the Media: Helping Students (and Teachers) Become Media Literate by Teaching 21st Century Skills
Douglas Fisher
All Teachers Are Not Teachers of Reading, but. . .
Douglas Fisher & Carol Rothenberg
Finding the Right Word: Five Principles of Vocabulary Instruction for English Language Learners
Ernest Morrell
Powerful English: Innovative Practices in Diverse 21st Century Classrooms

MDE Language Arts Specialist
Charon Tierney

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