2004 Annual Report, NCTE/SLATE Steering Committee on Social and Political Concerns

During the past year, SLATE continued to support intellectual freedom in its fight against censorship.

Charles Suhor, NCTE/SLATE Field Representative, continues to respond with letters of support to members and letters of information to school systems involved in censorship issues. Unfortunately, Charles will no longer be our field representative for censorship. We will miss his decades of service to NCTE.

In the first online SLATE Newsletter,Editor Fred Barton continues to

report of current issues dealing with legislative agendas, classroom

practices, and issues dealing with censorship.

Starter Sheets, valuable reproducible resources for teachers about specific issues and classroom procedures, are currently being updated. Starter Sheets are now available online at www.ncte.org.

SLATE also honored groups and/or individuals nominated by the Affiliates who had advanced the cause of intellectual freedom with the NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award.

SLATE Regional Representatives met at the San Francisco Annual Convention to discuss publishing the SLATE Newsletter online, goals for the coming year, and SLATE¹s role in NCTE¹s advocacy efforts.

At NCTE in Indianapolis, SLATE will offer one session‹Intellectual Freedom Award Winners and their Stories.

Donald A. Mayfield, Chair