Charge
To investigate and make recommendations to counteract racism and racial bias in teaching materials, methods, and programs for English and language arts; to develop guidelines for Teacher Quality for Educators who Teach Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students, with careful documentation from the research base for your recommendations, based upon the NCTE 2004 policy document concerning Teacher Quality; to recommend to the NCTE Executive Committee guidelines for or considerations related to professional development of inservice and preservice teachers regarding teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students, with the assistance of appropriate scholars and experts, as well as careful documentation from the research base for your recommendations; to create principles for assessment for linguistically and culturally diverse students, with the assistance of appropriate scholars and experts and careful documentation from the research base for your recommendations, based upon the 2004 NCTE framing statements on assessment; to participate in developing NCTE as the professional home for conversations about English Language Learners in English-dominant classrooms; and to identify the research base for your recommendations, and to recommend research on matters for which you can discern no research base.
2009 Annual Report
Current Members
CHAIR, Michael Guevara (2011)
(Alamo Heights High School, San Antonio, TX)
Janette Birkett (2010)
(Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, NJ)
Kelly Brock (2010)
(Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, NJ)
Sheila Carter-Tod (2011)
(Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
Jeff Duncan-Andrade (2011)
(San Francisco State University, CA)
Sharon Floyd (2011)
(Saginaw, MI)
Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens (2011)
(Arroyo Valley High School, San Bernardino, CA)
R. Vance Jenkins (2010)
(Greenville Technical Charter High School, SC)
Lisa Roy-Davis (2011)
(Collin College, Plano, TX)
Executive Committee Liaison, Kathleen Blake Yancey
(Florida State University, Tallahassee)
NCTE Administrative Liaison, Linda Walters
Past Members