The Results of the 2008 Elections Are In!

NCTE Elementary Section member Yvonne Siu-Runyan has been elected Vice President of NCTE. Siu-Runyan, professor emerita, the University of Northern Colorado, is a former classroom teacher (grades K-12), district reading specialist, and language arts coordinator. She is also a former chair of the NCTE Elementary Section Steering Committee (1998-2000).  Siu-Runyan will take office during the NCTE Annual Convention in San Antonio in November, will become president-elect in 2009, and will assume the presidency of the Council during the 2010 Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida.

See below for the results from the 2008 NCTE elections.

NCTE ELECTIONS

Vice President
Yvonne Siu-Runyan, professor emerita, University of Northern Colorado

Secondary Representative-at-Large
Jennifer Ochoa, Alfred E. Smith CTE High School, Bronx, New York

Trustee of the Research Foundation
Stephanie Power Carter, Indiana University, Bloomington

NCTE Nominating Committee
*Shirley K. Rose, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Dawn Abt-Perkins, Lake Forest College, Illinois
Yetta M. Goodman, professor emerita, University of Arizona, Tucson
Pam Jewett, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Linda Rief, Oyster River Middle School, Durham, New Hampshire

* Under Council practice, the member of each nominating committee receiving the largest number of votes is named chair.

**A 2005 NCTE Constitutional Amendment provided for the NCTE Executive Committee to appoint two additional members to the NCTE Nominating Committee each year (names to come).