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We are the organization we are today because of the expertise, time, and energy of our members. What role will you play in moving NCTE forward?
Serve
- Achievement Awards in Writing Advisory Committee
- Committee on Affiliates
- Committee Against Censorship
- Build Your Stack® Committee
- NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children
- NCTE Children’s Poetry Awards Committee
- Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity
- Committee on Global Citizenship
- NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, + (LGBTQIA+) Advisory Committee
- Committee on Literacy Assessment
- Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children’s Literature Committee
- Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee
- Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee
- Public Language Award Committee
- Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English
- Committee on Research
- Achievement Awards in Writing Advisory Committee
- Committee on Affiliates
- Committee Against Censorship
- Build Your Stack® Committee
- NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children
- NCTE Children’s Poetry Awards Committee
- Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity
- Committee on Global Citizenship
- NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, + (LGBTQIA+) Advisory Committee
- Committee on Literacy Assessment
- Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children’s Literature Committee
- Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines Committee
- Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee
- Public Language Award Committee
- Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English
- Committee on Research
Public Language Award Committee
Charge
(Updated May 4, 2022)
The charge of the Public Language Award Committee is to:
- identify, address, and promote interest in and knowledge of language used in public spaces;
- promote discussion of public language use;
- provide awareness of public language education;
- uphold these charges in selecting the recipients of the annual George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language;
- uphold these charges in annually identifying multiple examples of glaringly deceptive language to be known as The Year in Doublespeak;
- uphold these charges by contributing new lesson plans and/or revisions to older contributions to ReadWriteThink, with annually updated positive and negative examples of public language use.
The Public Language Award Committee administered the Doublespeak Award from 1974 to 2020. While the award was sunsetted in 2022, you can view the archive page here.
Current Members
CHAIR: Valerie Taylor (2027)
(University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Antonio Byrd (2025)
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO)
Melissa Dupre (2027)
(Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge Island, WA)
Brooke Harris Garad (2025)
(Butler University, Indianapolis, IN)
Sarah Richard (2025)
(New York City Department of Education, New York, NY)
Dywanna Smith (2025)
(Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC)
Natasha Thornton (2025)
(Spelman College, Atlanta, GA)
Executive Committee Liaison, Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo
(University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
NCTE Staff, Sarah Miller