Upcoming Awards
August 31
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
Awards up to 20 outstanding writing programs each year.
September 1
ELATE Early Career Presenter Scholarship
Six scholarships to attend NCTE’s Annual Convention are granted each year by ELATE to teachers who are in their first to fifth year of full-time classroom teaching and who present in an approved session at the NCTE Annual Convention. The award—including complimentary Convention registration—is also available to emeritus ELATE mentors who will be presenting in an approved session. Learn more.
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award
This award honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field’s body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry. Learn more and apply.
CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards
These awards are intended to invest in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting: early career researchers; writing faculty/instructors who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research; and/or writing faculty/instructors who do not have support for research within their institutions. In addition to research funding (up to $10,000 per project), the Emergent Researcher Awards also provide research support. Learn more and apply.
CCCC Research Initiative grants
CCCC funds research proposals up to $10,000 each.
September 15
Intellectual Freedom Fellowship
The Intellectual Freedom Fellowship is designed to fund research, at any stage, on censorship in K–12 English language arts classrooms.
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 (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 Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication
CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP)
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
CEL Exemplary Leadership Award
Charlotte Huck Award (fiction for children)
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Grant
David H. Russell Research Award
Donald Graves Writing Award (grades K-6)
ELATE Cultural Diversity Grant
ELATE James Moffett Memorial Fund
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 Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Program
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
NCTE Intellectual Freedom (National)
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)