Established in 1979; awarded to authors of the best articles in English Journal. In 1993, the NCTE Executive Committee changed the name of the English Journal Writing Awards to the Paul and Kate Farmer Writing Awards. In 1999, the NCTE Executive Committee changed the name to the The Paul and Kate Farmer Award for Outstanding Articles by High School and Junior High/Middle School Teachers.  Paul Farmer was President of NCTE in 1951, and he and his wife, Kate, established this award. In 2006, a request by the Secondary Section Steering Committee to change the name to the Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award was approved by the NCTE Executive Committee. The award is presented at the November NCTE Annual Convention.
 
 
2006

Lori Cohen and Leyna Peery, "Unveiling Students' Perceptions about women in Islam: January 2006

Jeff Anderson, "Zooming In and Zooming Out: Putting Grammar in Context into Context" May 2006

2006 Honorable Mentions:

Melissa McClain, "Rediscovering the Artist, Reinvigorating the Self, Reinventing the Teacher" November 2005

Deb Teitelbaum, "Why is the Sky Blue? using Children's Questions to Motivate Research" March 2006

Jessica Whitney, “Five Easy Pieces: Steps toward Integrating AAVE into the Classroom.”

2004
 
Lisa Garrigues, Ridgewood, NJ, "Porch Talk: Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God", September 2003
 
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, Hoover High School, San Diego, CA, "Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School", January 2004
 
2004 Honorable Mention:
 
Sharon Bishop, Henderson, NE, "The Power of Place" July 2004
 
Kimberly Price, Roswell, GA, "Teaching as Learning in a Yup'ik Eskimo Village", November 2003

2003
 
Joseph M. Flanagan and Thomas M. McCann, Community High School, West Chicago, IL, "A Tempest Project: Shakespeare and Critical Conflicts", September 2002
 
Jennifer D. Morrison, La Plata, MD, "Using Student-Film to Create a Culturally Relevant Community," September 2002
 
2003 Honorable Mention
 
Christie "CJ" Bott, Solon, OH, "Zines-The Ultimate Creative Writing Project, November 2002
 
Benjamin B. Dziedzic, Philadelphia, PA, "When Mulitgenre Meets Multimedia: Reading Films to Understand Books," November 2002

2002
  
Lorraine Cella, Westwood Junior-Senior High School, Washington Township, New Jersey, “Reading the Complex World: Students Approach the Scarlet Letter from Multiple, Perspectives”, July 2002

Don Pederson, Florin High School, Sacramento, “Question and Answer: Reading Nonfiction to Develop the Persuasive Essay”, March 2002

2001

Lynda Hamblin, ”Voices in the Junior High School Classroom: Lost and Found", September 2000

2000

Joseph M. Shosh, Freedom High School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, “Much Ado about Negotiation,” July 2000
 
2000 Honorable mention:
 
Colleen A. Ruggieri, Boardman High School, Boardman, Ohio, “The Value of Voice: Promoting Peace through Teaching and Writing,” May 2000
 
Pamela Fracareta and Deborah J. Phillips, Burrillville Middle School, Harrisville, Rhode Island, “Working with a Writer’s Notebook,” July 2000

Nancy G. Patterson, Portland Middle School, Portland, Michigan, “Making Connections: Hypertext and Research in a Middle School Classroom,” September 1999

1999
 
Beth O. Steffen, Beloit Memorial High School, Wisconsin, “Bad Bays, Bad Girls, Watcha Gonna Do! Teenage Outlaws Create Curriculum,” November 1998
 
1999 Honorable mention:
 
Denise L. Croker, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, Tennessee, “Putting It on the Table: A Mini-Course on Gender Differences,” January 1999

1981
 
Carmen W. Holsberry, Newton High School, Sandy Hook, Connecticut, "Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Pynchon:  Modernism and Postmodernism in Secondary School," January 1981
 
Rev. Joseph D. Ayd, Scranton Preparatory School, Pennsylvania, "H.L., Where Are You? A Celebration of Henry Mencken on the Centennial of His Birth," September 1980

Jane Christensen, Everitt Junior High School, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, "Burning and Burnout," April 1981
 
1981 Honorable mention:
 
Susan Ohanian, W. Kenneth Doyle Middle School, Troy, New York, "Reading for What," January 1981
 
1982
 
Kay Jacob, Valley View School District, Illinois, "Brave New English Curriculum," January 1982

Christy Hammer, Mickle Junior High School, Lincoln, Nebraska, "Practical Piaget in the Classroom," November 1981
 
1982 Honorable mention:
 
Richard Calisch, Elk Grove High School, Illinois, "Dante and Oedipus Go to Atlanta, Georgia," November 1981

Susan Mansfield Skean, Fords, New Jersey, "The Pamphlet:  A Successful Writing Project," February 1982
 
1983
 
Jayne R. Smith, Thomas Jefferson High School, Port Author, Texas, "Innocent Abroad: The English Teacher in England," March 1983

Andrea Fishman, Wilson Middle School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, "Moving Up from High School to Middle School," April 1983
 
1983 Honorable mention:
 
Susan Tally, Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe Springs, California, and Kathleen Naylor, Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, California, "Living in the Mailbox, and Other Strategies for Student Writers," December 1982
 
Nancy Goodwin, Clinton High School, Oklahoma, "Dancing on the Stage in Your Head," February 1983;

Lida Askew, Westchester Junior High School, Houston, Texas, "The Gothic Route to Reading and Writing," March 1983
 
Barbara Hull, Princess Anne Junior High School, Virginia Beach, Virginia, "For Love of a Bat," September 1982
 
1984
 
Marion S. MacLean, Annandale High School, Virginia, "Voices Within: The Audience Speaks," November 1983
 
Susan Ohanian, Learning Magazine, "Question of the Day," November 1983
 
1984 Honorable mention:
 
Alden S. Blodget, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, New York, "My Teacher/My Self," November 1983
 
Ruth Michaud, Mt. Vernon High School, Iowa, "Them As Can Should Do," February 1984
 
Ruth Vinz, Boise High School, Idaho, "1984: Intricate Corridors within a Barren World," October 1983
 
Margaret W. Withey, Canton High School, Connecticut, "The Computer and Writing," November 1983

Michael Moore, Highland Middle School, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, "Writing to Learn, Writing to Teach," September 1983
 
1985

Joseph I. Tsujimoto, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, "Re-Visioning the Whole," September 1984

Lynn Vanderburg, "St. Ignatius School District, Montana, "Teaching Poetry on the Reservation," February 1985
 
1985 Honorable mention:
 
Rafael C. Castillo, John Marshall High School, San Antonio, Texas, "Recommended: Gabriel Garcia Marquez," October 1984
 
Willis Bliss Endres, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, "Teaching Vietnam: Reflections beyond the Immediate," December 1984
 
Robert Olivier, North Attleboro High School, Massachusetts, "A Letter to James Baldwin," October 1984
 
Rosemary C. Serfilippi, Guilford High School, Connecticut, "Masculine and Feminine Come Together," March 1985

Daniel Dyer, Harmon Middle School, Aurora, Ohio, "Teacher Excellence: A Contemporary Oxymoron?" February 1985
 
Joel Goldstein and Harriet Novick, Winthrop Junior High School, Brooklyn, New York, "The YA Option: A Thematic Approach to YA Literature," November 1984
 
1986

Henry Maloney, Seaholm High School, Birmingham, Michigan, "You Write What You Read," September 1985
 
Lin McKay, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia, "Gaining Control through Commentary," March 1986
 
Nancie Atwell, Boothbay Region Schools, Maine, "Everyone Sits at a Big Desk: Discovering Topics for Writing," September 1985
 
1986 Honorable mention:

Bill Brown, Nichols School, Buffalo, New York, "The Censoring of `The Lottery,'" February 1986
 
John Forsyth, Cut Bank High School, Montana, "Images of Love: From Lawyer to English Teacher," April 1986
 
Ann Lavine, Illinois State University, "Virginia Woolf's ‘The Legacy,'" February 1986

Leslie Patterson, Conroe High School, Texas, "Becoming a Teacher/Researcher: Another Avenue to Excellence," November 1985
 
1986 Honorable mention:
 
Marylin J. Nelson, Kalispell Junior High School, Montana, "Sound Collages in Poetry," April 1986
 
Joel S. Turvey, Cedar Park Intermediate School, Beaverton, Oregon, "Investigate a Culture: Map, Research, Present, and Write," January 1986
 
1987
 
Marue E. Walizer, Wilton High School, Connecticut, "Adolescent Experience as Shakespearean Drama," February 1987
 
Mike Cool, James Madison Junior High School, Appleton, Wisconsin, "Classroom Bond," April 1987
 
1987 Honorable mention:

Linda Williams Post, Temple High School, Texas, "Frankly, My Dear," January 1987
 
Linda Green Horton, Jefferson Junior High School, Columbia, Missouri, "A Whole Language Unit for Ninth Graders," December 1986
 
1988
 
Susan D. Reed, DeAnza High School, Richmond, California, "Logs: Keeping an Open Mind," February 1988
 
Marian Galbraith-Jones, Cutler Junior High School, Mystic, Connecticut, "The Famous Authors Convention," October 1987
 
1988 Honorable mention:
 
Margie Krest, Thornton High School, Colorado, "Time on My Hands: Handling the Paper Load," December 1987
 
Jane Carlson, Boulder High School, Colorado, Readers Responding to ‘Rappaccini's Daughter,'" January 1988
 
Mary Jo Schaars, Stevens Point Area Senior High School, Wisconsin, "Teaching My Antonia, with Guidance from Rosenblatt," January 1988;

Mary Mercer Krogness, Shaker Heights Middle School, Ohio, "Fooling with Language," February 1988
 
Joseph Lazarskil, Oswego Middle School, New York, "Memo to Student Teachers," September 1987
 
Judith B. Rosenfeld, St. Paul's School, Brooklandville, Maryland, "An Elizabethan Interlude: A Course for Middle Schoolers," December 1987
 
1989
 
Jeff Golub, Shorecrest High School, Seattle, Washington, and Louann Reid, Douglas County High School, Castle Rock, Colorado, "Activities for an `Interactive Classroom,'" April 1989
 
Martha Dudley, Roosevelt Junior High School, Selma, California, "The Writing Workshop: Structuring for Success," January 1989
 
1989 Honorable mention:
 
Peter Smagorinsky, Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, Illinois, "Small Groups: A New Dimension in Learning," February 1989

Marie Dionisio, Louis M. Klein Middle School, Harrison, New York, "Filling Empty Pockets: Remedial Readers Make Meaning," January 1989
 
1990
 
Margaret Anne Zeller Carlson, Contoocook Valley High School, Peterborough, New Hampshire, "Guidelines for a Gender-Balanced Curriculum in English, Grades 7–12," October 1989

Julie Welch Wentworth, Opelika Middle School, Alabama, "’A Whole Lot' of Learning Going On in an Urban Environment," January 1990
 
1990 Honorable mention:
 
Belinda Shade McGuire, Herndon High School, Virginia, "Where Does the Teacher Intervene with Underachieving Writers?" February 1990
 
Judy Wenzel, Milan, Michigan, "Going to Jail:  Finding Hospitable Space," April 1990

Sandra L. Robertson, Santa Barbara Junior High School, California, "Text Rendering: Beginning Literary Response," January 1990
 
Elaine Ryan, Northwest Junior High School, Coralville, Iowa, "Operation Name Search," January 1990
 
1991
 
Linda M. Christensen, Jefferson High School, Portland, Oregon, "Poetry: Reinventing the Past, Rehearsing the Future," April 1991
 
Alan Olds, Arvada West High School, Colorado, "Thinking Eastern:  Preparing Students to Read Chinese Literature," December 1990
 
Joanne S. Gillespie, Green Acres School, Rockville, Maryland, "Reliving the Depression: Integrating English and Social Studies," October 1990
 
1991 Honorable mention:
 
Joan Kernan Cone, El Cerrito High School, Richmond, California, "Literature, Geography, and the Untracked English Class," December 1990
 
Norma A. Greco, The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Re-creating the Literary Text: Practice and Theory," November 1990

Marie Dionisio, Louis M. Klein Middle School, Harrison, New York, "Responding to Literary Elements through Mini-lessons and Dialogue Journals," January 1991
 
Elizabeth G. Mascia, Glenelg Country School, Maryland, "Cyrano de Bergerac: Bringing Classics to Young Adolescents," January 1991
 
1992
 
Jay M. Gillen, Harbor City Learning Center, Baltimore, Maryland, "A Lesson from Macbeth," March 1992
 
James Lockhart, North Kirkwood Middle School, Kirkwood, Missouri, "’We Real Cool': Dialect in the Middle-School Classroom," December 1991
 
1992 Honorable mention:
 
Ellen M. Anderson, Andrew High School, Tinley Park, Illinois, and Fred L. Hamel, Bremerton High School, Washington, "Teaching Argument as a Criteria-Driven Process," November 1991
 
Ronald Barron, Richfield Senior High School, Minnesota, "What I Wish I Had Known about Peer-Response Groups but Didn't," September 1991
 
Brian W. Ford, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts, "Essays of the Act of the Mind:  Authentic Voices in Student Writing," December 1991
 
Ralph Maltese, Abington Senior High School, Pennsylvania, "Three Philosophical Pillars That Support Collaborative Learning," September 1991
 
David Burk, Ross Middle School, Hamilton, Ohio, "Teaching the Terrain of Poetry," March 1992
 
Mary Mercer Krogness, Shaker Heights Middle School, Ohio, "A Question of Values," October 1991
 
Mary Moebius, Verona Area Middle School, Wisconsin, "What Do You Believe? Persuasive Speeches in Eighth Grade," November 1991
 
1993
 
Laura Hutchison, Central High School, Brooksville, Florida, "Homelessness and Reader-Response: Writing with a Social Consciousness," February 1993

Leslie Oster, Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Teaneck, New Jersey, "Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Unit," April 1993
 
1993 Honorable mention:
 
Carolyn P. Henly, Webster Groves High School, Missouri, "Reader-Response Theory as an Antidote to Controversy: Teaching The Bluest Eye, March 1993
 
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Beaver Dam Middle School, Wisconsin, "Literary Theorists, Hear My Cry!" November 1992
 
Elizabeth Egan Close, A.U. Farnsworth Middle School, Guilderland, New York, "Literature Discussion: A Classroom Environment for Thinking and Sharing," September 1992
 
1994
 
Carole A. Williams, Mehlville School District, St. Louis, Missouri, "Social Action Begins at School: The Research Paper Revisited," November 1993
 
Ann Warner, Romney Junior High School, Romney, West Virginia, "If the Shoe No Longer Fits, Wear It Anyway?" September 1993
 
1994 Honorable mention:

Mary B. Nicolini, Penn High School, Mishawaka, Indiana, "Stories Can Save Us: A Defense of Narrative Writing," February 1994
 
Bonnie M. Davis, Clayton High School, Missouri, "A Cultural Safari: Dispelling Myths and Creating Connections," February 1994
 
1995

Tim Gillespie, Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Oregon, "Why Literature Matters," December 1994
 
Shelly D. Smede, Clair E. Gale Junior High School, Idaho Falls, Idaho, "Flyfishing, Portfolios, and Authentic Writing," February 1995
 
1995 Honorable mention:
 
Mary Dilg, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois, "The Opening of the American Mind: Challenges in the Cross-Cultural Teaching of Literature," March 1995
 
Laurie Hoff, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri, "From Omnipotent Teacher-in-Charge to Co-Conspirator in the Classroom: Developing Lifelong Readers and Writers," October 1994
 
Wannetta Hartman, New Vienna Elementary School, New Vienna, Ohio, "A Teacher-Researcher's Reflection," October 1994
 
1996
 
Lisa Schade, Mattawan Middle School, Mattawan, Michigan, “Demystifying the Text: Literary Criticism in the High School Classroom,” March 1996
 
Harry R. Noden, Hudson Middle School, Hudson, Ohio, “A Journey through Cyberspace: Reading and Writing in a Virtual School,” October 1995
 
1996 Honorable mention:
 
Evelyn McLean Brady, “How to Survive Urban Violence with Hope,” September 1995
 
1997
 
Mark Larson, Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois, "Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage to Resistant and Reluctant Learners," November 1996
 
Maura Stetson, The Menlo School, Atherton, California, "Freedom of Voice," October 1996
 
1997 Honorable mention:
 
John A. Lanacone, Indian Hills High School, Oakland, New Jersey, "Passion and Craft in Writing: Finding a Balance," October 1996
 
Marion McAdoo Goldwasser, Mount Airy Senior High School, Mount Airy, North Carolina, "Censorship: It Happened to Me in Southwest Virginia—It Could Happen to You," February 1997

Michele Keating, Russell Middle School, Colorado Springs, Colorado, "Exploring Charles M. Russell and Others through Biography," December 1996
 
1998
 
Mary A. Dilg, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois, “Why I am a Multiculturalist: The Power of Stories Told and Untold,” October 1997
 
Joan Ruddiman, West Windsor Plainsboro Middle School, Plainsboro, New Jersey, “World War II: A Research/Presentation Project for Eighth Graders,” September 1997
 
1998 Honorable mention:
 
Nancy Gorrell, Morristown High School, Morristown, New Jersey, “Teaching the Holocaust: Light from the Yellow Star Leads the Way,” December 1997
 
Simon Chiu, St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, San Francisco, California, “Reorienting the English Classroom,” December 1997
 
Elfie Israel, “What Contemporary authors Can Teach Us,” December 1997