Central California Council of Teachers of English

About Central:

• CENTRAL is a regional council of CATE, the California Association of Teachers of English.
• CENTRAL represents members of CATE living or teaching in the following counties: Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin, Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Merced, and San Benito.
• CENTRAL co-sponsors the fall ASILOMAR conference with its sister organization, the Curriculum Study Commission.
• CENTRAL sponsors regional workshops, such as the Steinbeck Conference.
• CENTRAL organizes writing contests and gives teaching and service awards.
• CENTRAL debates policy issues, and represents the views of English/ Language Arts teachers to the legislature and the public.

Constitution

Board Job Descriptions

Board Reimbursement Form (PDF)

Central Board Officers

President: Susan Dillon,  Central Catholic High School,  Modesto

Past President: Liz McAninch, Mercy High School, San Francisco

Board Members at August Meeting

Board Members at Large

Awarding Excellence

• Central awards a handful of promising new teachers with a scholarship to attend the Fall Asilomar Conference annually.
  
  
• Central nominates teachers and those who promote the teaching of English to receive CATE awards at the annual CATE convention in February.
  
  
• Central honors promising young writers who are winners of the annual CATE and NCTE writing contests with an awards celebration every Spring.

IN MEMORY OF KATHLEEN CECIL
1948 - 2010
The first Kathleen Cecil Scholarship, funded by CCCTE in memory of our colleague, was awarded to Genny Garcia. She used the fund to attend CATE 2011.