OCTE Membership

Become an OCTE member and connect with the National Council of Teachers of English—the world's largest subject-matter educational association with more than 77,000 members in the United States and other countries.

For more than 60 years, OCTE has offered quality professional development programs for teachers of English and language arts. 

Your OCTE membership

• creates access to NCTE-regional and national conferences, committees, programs
• reduces registration fee at OCTE in-service conferences
• creates access to three NCTE student writing and publishing competitions:
  • PRESLM (Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines)
  • NCTE Achievement Awards (scholarships for 11th grade Oregon students)
  • NCTE Promising Young Writers (recognition for 8th grade Oregon students)
• underwrites various literacy institutes
• co-sponsors the statewide Oregon Writing Festival with the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University
• provides a free subscription to Chalkboard—the OCTE newsletter
• provides a free subscription to the Oregon English Journal
• sponsors the Oregon Literature Series—the six-volume anthology from OSU Press
• funds the Oregon Excellence Awards in Teaching English Language Arts, the only statewide recognition program for our subject area
• funds research grants to English language arts classroom teachers
• funds the statewide "Teachers and Students as Writers" competition and anthology

Obtain an application for membership in OCTE:

For membership information, contact

Daphne Wood
OCTE Vice President
Ainsworth Elementary School
Portland, OR
daphnedwood@comcast.net
Chair, Membership Committee