Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee

The Promising Young Writers Program’s purpose is to stimulate and recognize the writing talents of eighth-grade students and to emphasize the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students.

The 51ÁÔÆæ Promising Young Writers program makes use of an advisory committee and state coordinators. The committee’s charges are as follows:

To advise the 51ÁÔÆæ staff on the nature, policies, and procedures regarding the 51ÁÔÆæ Promising Young Writer Awards, including the following issues:

• To develop a specific plan for involving more public schools in the awards, especially those with large nonwhite populations.
• To prepare a written set of recommendations for the 51ÁÔÆæ Executive Committee regarding the following: revision of the structure of the award to mitigate the negative effects of competition on student identity and learning; consideration and development of diversified awards: that recognize development of English Language Learners in writing in their first language as well as English composition; that recognize remarkable improvement or growth in writing; that recognize multimodal composition (digital or non-digital); and that recognize remarkable risk-taking with the process of writing, instead of the exclusive focus on the final draft.
• To consider and make recommendations for ways that the work might interface with 51ÁÔÆæ’s .

If you would like to be considered for possible membership on this committee, please send the following information to 51ÁÔÆæCommittees@ncte.org.

• Name
• Member Number (If you are not currently a member, please provide your address).
• Email Address
• A brief biographical statement
• Resume/CV and any relevant experience