The Conference on English Leadership (CEL) is a collaborative, dynamic, discussion-based forum for English language arts leaders to explore current and emerging issues. CEL welcomes the involvement of all persons who wish to work with others to seek solutions to problems and to share their special insights with others. Leaders of English programs in a variety of settings--rural or urban, small districts or large, public or private, traditional or experimental--will find a vibrant forum for exploring contrasting and controversial ideas within CEL. CEL Brochure CEL History
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! - The CEL Conference is right around the corner! Take a look at our exciting line-up! Have you registered yet? It's not too late. REGISTER NOW!!! The registration deadline is Friday, October 23, 2009. Select Workshop 17 (W.17) for the CEL Conference.
Since 1970, CEL has assisted language arts leaders in sharing mutual problems and insights, exchanging resources, seeking the advice of successful leaders, and investigating issues of greatest concern to leaders.
National Day on Writing
Writing is a daily practice for millions of Americans. But few notice how integral writing has become to daily life in the 21st century. Read more about this event scheduled for October 20, 2009.
Start a Local Gallery---Become a Local Partner
Local partners can be any group, including a family, a few good friends, a club or church group, a class, a school, a workplace group, or an entire city who wants to see their work collected together inside the National Gallery.
National Day on Writing updates are now available on Twitter!
Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates about the National Day on Writing and the National Gallery of Writing. http://www.twitter.com/dayonwriting
Conference on English Leadership Journal
Take a moment to read the lastest English Leadership Quarterly. If you're a member of CEL, you'll be able to access the entire journal. If you're not a member of CEL, you'll be able to view the abstract. Join CEL and view the entire journal online! Subscribe to ELQ!
NCTE Web Seminar Series
NCTE is excited to announce the 2009 Web Seminar Series. Whether you're participating on your own or planning professional development for an early-release day, you'll find these sessions informative, interactive, and a great value especially since everyone in your school can participate through one connection. . . at one low fee.
+ Genocide From the InsideTracy Kidder asks how a traumatized African becomes an American.
Don’t know if you have any use for this in INBOX or elsewhere, but there’s a story in Slate.com today on upcoming Convention speaker Kidder’s latest book, Strength in What Remains.
http://www.slate.com/id/2225905/
Library Trucks Bear Literary Ads The Kansas City Star June 26, 2009 http://www.kansascity.com/news/neighborhood/leawood/story/1282628.html
Avoiding the Summer Brain Drain
Baltimore Sun July 1, 2009 http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/parenting/bal-summerlearning-0701,0,948921.story
Three young women are the first graduates of the Neighborhood Academy to finish college
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 9, 2009 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09129/968946-53.stm
Colleges scan Facebook during admissions eCampus News May 12, 2009http://www.ecampusnews.com/news/top-news/?i=58714;_hbguid=1f5a836a-1f5d-4c12-b6c9-3ff5994f5ef2
This year, 'senioritis' may have dire consequences
USA Today - May 7, 2009 http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-05-06-senioritis-college_N.htm
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education January 7 - 10, 2010
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa / Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel
Honolulu Hawaii, USA - Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 14, 2009. http://www.hiceducation.org/
Teacher Training Goes in Virtual Directions
(Education Week) March 26, 2009 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/03/26/26virtual.h28.html?tkn=UYRF1gTO71on1ol8c%2FAsHSzs9Bw8Ira0QG43
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Best Minds Sought for Central Office, Startups
(Education Week) February 2, 2009 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/02/04/20centraloffice_ep.h28.html?tmp=1698492405.
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Business Leaders Support Higher Goals for Students
A group of Maryland business leaders announced a partnership with the Baltimore school system yesterday to encourage students to take harder high school classes.
The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education is trying to double the number of high school students statewide who complete the requirements of a federal college scholarship program for low-income families. Baltimore Sun (12/10/08)http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/k12/bal-md.roundtable10dec09,0,1317904.story .
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Gates Revamps Its Strategy for Giving to Education
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students. Education Week News November 11, 2008 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/11/11/13gates.h28.html
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States Press Ahead on "21st-Century Skills," Leaders in business and academia increasingly argue that in a highly globalized, technology-driven age, young people need to know how to innovate, solve problems, and work with people from other cultures as much as they need to know algebra and U.S. history. Many educators refer to those and a host of other competencies—such as being literate in finance, civics, media, and technology—as “21st-century skills,” for their importance to students’ future success Education Week, October 13, 2008,
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/10/15/08skills.h28.html