The Elementary Section Steering Committee (ESSC) is responsible for the governance of NCTE's Elementary Section membership. The ESSC members are elected each year to a four-year term. The Chair and Assistant Chair are elected from within the ESSC and also represent the interests of the elementary section membership by serving on the NCTE Executive Committee. Read more about the ESSC in the Section Annual Report.
Chair (2010-2012)
Frank Chiki
Hawthorne Elementary
Albuquerque, NM
Assistant Chair (2008-11)
Jeff Williams
Solon City Schools
Solon, OH
Elementary Rep-at-Large (2009-11)
Carmen TisdaleCarver-Lyon Elementary
Columbia, SC
Andrea Garcia (2008-12)
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
Nora Gonzalez (2010-14)
Ft. Sam Houston Elementary
San Antonio, TX
Latosha Rowley (2010-14)
IPS Center for Inquiry #2
Indianapolis, IN
Elisa Waingort (2010-14)
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Sandra Wilde (2009-13)
Hunter College
New York, NY
Language Arts Editors
Peggy Albers
Amy Seely Flint
Caitlin McMunn Dooley
Teri Holbrook
Laura May
Georgia State University, Decatur
NCTE Administrative Liaison
Debbie Zagorski
The Elementary Section Steering Committee of NCTE is committed to the pursuit of justice and equality. We believe that in an open democratic society we cannot argue for democracy and humanity unless we create for our children a more just and caring world. To this end we are dedicated to the support and development of emancipatory pedagogies that counter official policies and mandates that narrow the possibilities for the teaching of the language arts in public schools. We believe that it is essential that we resist any attempt that is made to separate school based language arts programs from the socio-cultural realities of children’s everyday lives. Our task is to support the work of teachers as they work closely with their students and their families to build classrooms where everyone has an opportunity to participate in the conversation with a renewed consciousness of worth and possibility of their own language use and the literacies that they share. ---ESSC, Spring 2000