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	OSBA Oregon Spirit Book Award
	Excellence awards
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	Leadership Development Award

OCTE congratulates Oregon's own Joanne Yatvin, President of the National Council of Teachers of English, 2007,
NCTE Past President, 2008

Yatvin

Joanne Yatvin, OCTE Executive Board,
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School
of Education, Portland State Univeristy

About OCTE

Conferences Click for most current details

Fabulous, fun, practical, and affordable OCTE Spring Conference in Seaside this April 16 and 17
Plan now to attend!

best western

Best Western Ocean View Resort has special rates for the conference. (More information here.)

seaside high

Seaside High School

1901 North Holladay Drive

Inada

Friday, Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Lawson Inada will share original work accompanied by live music.

Then Saturday morning he will join us as we share poems at the Blueberrry Pancake Feed.

Dandoy

Following Breakout Sessions on Saturday, Bob Dandoy, popular NCTE presenter, will keynote:

“Monday Morning Usefulness: Practical Activities and Strategies for Teaching Literacy.”

All this for only $60!

Pre-registration here

Hear what is happening in English instruction in classrooms throughout Oregon. Renew your energy and gather practical ideas.

- Archive, Fall Conference Lake Oswego, 2009
- Archive, Older Conferences

Contact OCTE, Officers and Executive Board

Calendar

Includes upcoming conference dates, executive board meetings, and Oregon English Journal manuscript deadlines.

Oregon Writing Festival - (more details here)

26th Annual, May 1, 2010 - Speakers will be author Roland Smith and Oregon Poet Laureate, Lawson Inada

Roland Smith

Lawson Indada

Lawson Inada

OCTE Publications - New Chalkboard posted, Fall, 2009

The OCTE newsletter, Chalkboard, won "honorable mention" in NCTE's newsletter competition for 2007-2008

The Oregon English Journal, Spring and Fall 2008 issues on "Ecological Literacy: Tending the Untended Garden," were selected for national distribution by NCTE. These are the 20th and 21st OEJ issues so selected.

Membership

Awards and Programs:

Awards San Antonio
NCTE National Convention, San Antonio, 2008. Awards received:
OCTE 2008 Affiliate Excellence Award,
Affiliate Newsletter Honorable Mention award for Chalkboard, and on right
Dorothy Courtox from St. Anthony Elementary, Tigard, Oregon, recipient of the NCTE Leadership Development Award. Congratulations Dorothy!

Excellence Awards - OCTE, for teachers at any level, nomination due date May 15, 2010

NCTE High School Teacher of Excellence Award - Oregon winner 2008 was Tim Gillespie

Grant Opportunities

Oregon Spirit Book Award

(click above link for more information)

2008 Winners announced at the Fall Conference:

rain stomper listening crickets tugging string

The Rain Stomper by Addie Boswell (Children's),
Listening for Crickets by David Gifaldi (Juvenile),
A Tugging String by David Greenburg (Young Adult).

Honor Books:

Tadpole Rex by Kurt Cyrus (Children's),
The Good Girl by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann (Young Adult).

Web Resources - links

click here to access the Oregon Encyclopedia web site, supported in part by OCTE.

OCTE - P.O. Box 9126, Portland, Oregon 97207-9126

This site was last revised on November 9, 2009
Please inform Karen Johnson (kjohnson1 @ ttsd.k12.or.us) with suggestions, comments, and corrections.