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CATE 2009:VOICES AT THE EPICENTER OF CHANGE

 
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February 20-22, 2009
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CATE 2009: VOICES AT THE EPICENTER OF CHANGE
Santa Clara Marriott

September 26-28, 2008
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Asilomar Conference

April 13, 2008
Contest winner
RECEPTION FOR CATE WRITING CONTEST WINNERS & NCTE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
CATE WRITING CONTEST WINNERS & NCTE ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING AWARDS
See list of Winners

March 7-8, 2009
CATE 2008 in Long Beach

February 2, 2008
MLK
MARTIN LUTHER KING WORKSHOP at Stanford University

December 1, 2007
CCCTE Board Meeting

November 15, 2007
CATE Creative Writing Contest entries due

September 28-30, 2007

Asilomar Conference

March 24, 2007
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THE STEINBECK WORKSHOP: Co-sponsored by the San Jose Area Writing Profect and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies of San Jose State University.
Event held at SJSU - Martin Luther King Library
 
 

Will Huddleston, Web Maestro-- Last updated 06/2/2009


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: Liz McAninch,  Mercy High School,  San Francisco.

Past President: Charleen Silva Delfino, San Jose Area Writing Project.

Vice-President:Susan Dillon , Central Catholic, Modesto

Treasurer: Lorraine Tracey , Retired, Sunnyvale

Secretary: Bev Kreps, Monterey High School, Monterrey

Membership Chair: Charley Schaefer, Mercy High School, San Francisco

Policy Chair: Kathleen Cecil, Mission High School, San Francisco


Board Members at August Meeting

Board Members at Large

Al Adams, Retired, San Jose

Brucine Doherty, Davidson Middle School, San Rafael

John Thomas, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill

Minutes of Previous Board Meetings (by date):

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.