Documents and items you will need for affiliation process, including the application form, samples of affiliate constitutions, and additional forms and information to submit with the application form.
Rules of Affiliation
Why Affiliate with NCTE?
NCTE and its affiliates create a powerful partnership for the teaching of English language arts at a national and grassroots level. Some of the benefits include:
- Your affiliate will be able to connect to a national network of professionals working to improve the teaching of English language arts
- Representation on the NCTE Board of Directors meeting at the NCTE Annual Convention
- Your affiliate will gain representation by regional representatives to national committees (e.g. Standing Committees on Affiliates and SLATE Steering Committee
- Your affiliate will gain important information on affiliate activities and operations, and leadership through participation in biennial regional affiliate leadership meetings, through special NCTE Convention programming, through Council-Grams (an electronic newsletter for Council leaders), and through the NCTE website
- The use of Manage My Organization, an online program designed to enable NCTE affiliates and assemblies to manage their membership using the NCTE database
- Conference planning services through the Cosponsored Speaker Program
- One free exhibit kit per year containing NCTE books, publications, and informational documents to use at your conference
- Membership recruitment by sending an affiliate flier to all NCTE members, through the NCTE website links to affiliate membership information and the affiliate website (if there is one)
- Name and address lists and/or labels of NCTE members in the affiliate's area for use in conference promotion
- Information on a wide variety of projects and programs is available from the Affiliate/Assembly Lending Library and the ability to share ideas and information with other leaders through the affiliate discussion list
- Information on NCTE through the NCTE website and NCTE press releases and other announcements
Documents and items you will need for affiliation process, including the application form, samples of affiliate constitutions, and additional forms and information to submit with the application form.
Rules of Affiliation
Why form an NCTE Student Affiliate?
NCTE Student Affiliates provide the opportunity for preservice teachers to network and gain experience in professional learnin and leadership.