Director of NCTE-West, Dale Allender 

Dale Allender spent five years teaching in middle schools and high schools in Milwaukee and Iowa City and a year as an adjunct professor at Grinnell College in Iowa before coming to NCTE.

He is helping NCTE in its advocacy efforts on behalf of teachers, and is promoting and helping to answer the needs of urban teachers. He contributes his expertise to NCTE's Classroom Notes Plus, a practical publication of teaching ideas for the secondary level, and to The Council Chronicle, NCTE's membership newspaper.

Other topics he is addressing are reading at the secondary level, multicultural education, and professional development for teachers.

Allender often speaks on topics related to secondary English language arts instruction, such as literature instruction, multicultural literature instruction, critical literacy, reading at the secondary level, and media literacy.

Visit the NCTE-West Web area at http://www.ncte.org/about/over/west.