Join NJCTE at NJEA, NCTE and CEL Conventions

Are you planning to attend the NJEA Convention in Atlantic City? Share your experiences with us using #NJCTE18 and tag us @NJCTENews.

NJCTE is sponsoring two presentations at NJEA this year:

  • Joe Pizzo will present “Get a Grant the Write Way” on Thursday, November 8, 3:15-4:45 PM, in room 413.
  • Audrey Fisch and Susan Chenelle will present “Teaching Inequality to Encourage Students to Speak About Justice” on Friday, November 9, 9:45-11:15 AM, in room 402.

NJCTE board member Katie Nieves will also present two sessions: “Giving Into the Hyperdocs Hype” on Friday, November 9, 10:00-10:50 AM, in the Teacher to Teacher Learning Area, and “Google Tools to Help Struggling Learners” on Friday, November 9, 1:30-3:00 PM in room 317.

And NJCTE board members Pat Schall and Susan Reese will be onsite to meet with NJCTE members and prospective members. Come see us!
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NJCTE Fall Conference – This Saturday!

There is still time to register! Sign up now for 3 PD hours, a bento boxed lunch prepared by Wegman’s, and a whirlwind of SPARKs.

Here again are the details.  

WHEN:    October 28, 2017  from 8:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.

WHERE:  Chapin School, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ

WHAT:     You’ll see SPARKs and hear “make it and take it” classroom                    suggestions about writing.  “Warming Up to Writing” will start the day with Dana Maloney.

This conference will give inside tips on writing — for the journal; for e-Focus, the NJCTE Newsletter of Excellence; for our newly established NJCTE blog, and for helping students to enter our NJCTE Writing Contest.

You will hear from Kate Baker, Tina Monteleone, Christina Regua, and Joseph Pizzo. Patricia Schall will discuss intellectual freedom.  And more!

Liz deBeer, editor of the New Jersey English Journal, one of seven journals named a Journal of Excellence by NCTE, will recognize contributing writers and award certificates for the editorial staff and for the journal contributors. Journals will be on sale.

Register at NJCTE.com/fallconferences. The price for non-members is $20. The price for members is $10.

Posted by Audrey Fisch, blog editor for NJCTE

New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, the New Jersey state affiliate of NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English

NJCTE Fall Conference – This Saturday!