Upcoming Awards
June 14
NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT) [Deadline Extended]
Supports early childhood Educators of Color and educators who teach Children of Color, children who are emerging bi/multilinguals, and children from low-income households in studying about culturally relevant pedagogies and generating, implementing, documenting, evaluating, assessing, and disseminating classroom practices and process reflections from work done in preK to fifth-grade classrooms.
June 15
This award showcases NCTE members who have developed innovative approaches for integrating media analysis and composition into their instruction – especially programs that focus on new literacies, multi-media composition, and a broadened concept of literacy.
NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award
Established in 1997 by NCTE and SLATE–Support for the Learning and Teaching of English–this award is given to individuals, groups, or institutions that merit recognition for advancing the cause of intellectual freedom.
July 31
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) Award
The REALM Award publicly recognizes excellence in art and literary magazines produced by students with the support of their teachers.
Ongoing
Children’s Book Awards nominations are accepted until October 15 each year for the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction, the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction, and the Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels list.
Awards List
Achievement Awards in Writing (10th and 11th grade)
Affiliate – NCTE Intellectual Freedom (State, Regional, Provincial)
Affiliate Multicultural Program
Affiliate – NCTE Fund Teachers for the Dream
Affiliate – NCTE Leadership Development
Affiliate – Student Affiliate Excellence Award
Berry Research Award to Study Careers of English Majors
CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award
CCCC Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty
CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Awards
CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards
CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation
CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
CCCC The Luiz Antonio Marcuschi Travel Awards
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication
CCCC Outstanding Teaching Award
CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP)
CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
CEL Kent Williamson Exemplary Leader Award
CEL Innovative Leadership Award
CEL Teacher-Leader of Excellence Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
Edwin M. Hopkins – English Journal
Edwyna Wheadon Postgraduate Scholarship
ELATE Early Career Presenter Scholarship
ELATE Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant
ELATE Graduate Student Research Award
ELATE James Moffett Memorial Fund
ELATE National Technology Leadership Award
Excellence in Poetry for Children (living American poet)
George Orwell Award – Sponsored by the Public Language Award Committee
High School Teacher of Excellence (Affiliate Award)
Language Arts Distinguished Article Award
Linda Rief Voices from the Middle Award
LLA Reclaiming the Joy of Teaching Award
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Program
NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award (National)
NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award (Affiliate)
NCTE Leadership Award for People with Disabilities
NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advocacy & Leadership Award
NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT)
Orbis Pictus Award (nonfiction for children)
Outstanding Educator (elementary)
Paul and Kate Farmer – English Journal
Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee (REALM)
Promising Young Writers (8th grade)
Research Foundation Teacher Grant Program
Richard Ohmann Award – College English
Richard W. Halle Award (outstanding middle level educator)
The Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award (TYCA)