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Convention Program Sessions for Committees
Any committee may propose a convention session or workshop in accordance with the instructions on the Annual Convention program proposal form that is sent to NCTE members in late November or early December. Committee proposals, however, compete with proposals from individual members, and there is no guarantee of acceptance. Many criteria are involved in program selection by the Convention Planning Committee, the Program Chair, and the Executive Committee.
Since NCTE has a large number of committees and a finite number of program slots, special consideration cannot be given to committee-sponsored proposals. On the other hand, proposals from committees are in no sense disqualified. The Convention Planning Committee (composed, in part, of the members of the Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and College Section Committees) evaluates proposals from committees according to the same criteria used to evaluate proposals submitted by individual members.
A committee scheduled to terminate at a given convention, however, is guaranteed a presentation slot (a concurrent session, not a workshop). The purpose of this program slot is to permit a terminating committee to inform conventiongoers of the results of its work and to credit hard-working committee members. The opportunity for a terminating committee to request a convention session is offered in a late spring memo from the office of the designated Associate Executive Director.
A committee that has been granted a one- or two-year extension beyond its three-year term does not receive a guaranteed slot until its actual year of termination.
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