Why affiliate with NCTE?

• 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 Web Site
  
  
• 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 Web site links to affiliate membership information and the affiliate Web site (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 Web site and NCTE press releases and other announcements

For information on the application process, sample constitutions, and other important affiliation documents: http://www.ncte.org/groups/affiliates/120040.htm