October 15 Is the Deadline for Submitting Resolutions for the 2011 NCTE Annual Convention
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Ask Them to Support Your Resolution
The 2011 NCTE Committee on Resolutions encourages NCTE members to propose a resolution for consideration during the Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
If you have concerns about issues that affect your teaching, or positions you would like to support, and you think NCTE should take a stand, you have an opportunity to be heard! You can initiate action to deal with these issues by proposing resolutions which may be voted on and passed at NCTE's Annual Convention. The Committee on Resolutions urges individual members and affiliate groups to begin preparing and submitting their resolutions now.
If passed at the Annual Business Meeting for the Board of Directors and Other Members of the Council (Friday, November 18), proposed resolutions become part of the Council's position/philosophy on questions related to the teaching of English. They are often publicized to
I’m writing on behalf of NCTE to ask you to correct the record. Your posting on the Big Education Ape Blog is entitled “Schools Matter: Resolution: NCTE will oppose common core standards and national tests (http://www.schoolsmatter.
This is simply not true, as you know. Yet it is this line that is being picked up and tweeted and talked about—misrepresenting NCTE policy.
I ask that you change the misleading title to state that this is a “proposed resolution” because that’s what it is. In addition, I ask you correct the second half of the title to reflect the truth. It is not true to say “NCTE will oppose common core standards and national tests.” Rather, to state the truth, your title should say something like “Proposed Resolution Calls on NCTE to Oppose Common Core Standards and National Tests.”
This standards resolution is PROPOSED and needs to be vetted, voted,& approved to be NCTE policy. See tiny.cc/lwz4v