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CATE 2012 Award Winners

2012 Distinguished Service Award Winner:

Carleen Hemric

See the full award write-up for Carleen Hemric's Distinguished Service Award

Awards for Classroom Excellence 2012:

• Lisa Ledri-Aguilar, College Classroom Excellence Award
• Mark Olsen, Secondary Classroom Excellence Award
• Dan Reynolds, Secondary Classroom Excellence Award
• Megan Day, Elementary Classroom Excellence Award
• Kelly Baker, Middle School Classroom Excellence Award
• Laura Behrens, Middle School Classroom Excellence Award

See school and council information for all Classroom Excellence award winners

Award of Merit 2012

Rachel Bernstein and Jennifer Reid
Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Evenings for Educators"

Current and previous Award of Merit winners

The Virginia Reid Scholarship Award 2012

America Vasquez

See school and scholarship information for the 2012 Virginia Reid Award

Asilomar 61

Save September 28-30, 2012; it is the Asilomar 61 Conference in lovely Pacific Grove, CA.

This unique conference provides the opportunity for teachers to remain with the same teachers in a small group to explore a single topic together in depth throughout the weekend in five sessions. There are also opportunities to come together in general sessions. At the Friday evening general session author Nick Flynn will start the conference with a thought-provoking and energizing address. A reception Saturday afternoon will provide a chance to meet with teachers from throughout the state to share commonalities and to learn from areas of differences. On Saturday evening attendees can select from Around the Hearth Sessions. The weekend will close with an address by Dr. Leila Christenbury, past president of NCTE. She is the author of ten books focusing on English teaching and learning.

Why Literature? What Literature? How?

We ask ourselves this year's Curriculum Study Commission questions every day. Whether we
set out to explore The Illiad, A House on Mango Street, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" or
online-novels.blogspot.com, we navigate district and state mandates that might challenge our preferences and passions. Within our classrooms we try to find the focus between diverse student needs and state common core standards. We measure the force of new technologies on students' habits of mind. When the literary scholar, Northrup Frye asked Why Literature? A half century ago, he answered that literature educates the imagination, where we live every day of our lives, in all our private and public decisions. In what ways is Frye's assumption true? Who has the answer to What Literture? And who has the best answers to How? In what ways, old and new, will we meet our students' wants and needs?

This year we offer two new ways to continue the conversations around these questions online and in person. The Asilomar tradition expands online through Twitter as we invite attendees to follow us @Asilomar61 where we consider answers to literature's why's and what's and how's, while the Let's Talk forums (also new this year) invite informal conversations around shared interests held in various settings between sessions throughout the conference.

Around the Hearth

From 7:15-8:30 PM participants will have the opportunity to attend one of three discussions:

Memoir as History – Jim Burke will lead the discussion based on memoirs commonly read in high and middle schools.

Why Literature? – Christy Bruns discusses her book, Why Literature?

Technology Around the Chapel – Classroom practitioners and technology experts present 21st Century approaches to classroom learning.

From 8:45-10:00 PM participants will have three more choices for discussion.

Technology and the English Classroom – Jim McCarthy hosts a panel discussion on the use of technology in English classrooms with panelists Jim Burke, Leila Christenbury, Jacob Ruth, Michael Holmes, and others.

Technology Around the Chapel – A repeat of the earlier session

Open Mic Reading – Gary Thomas will be the moderator for those wanting to share their writing.

Asilomar will give participants an opportunity to meet new teachers and renew old acquaintances. Appreciate the unique Asilomar Conference experience of delving into important topics over time, but also experience new ways of using 21st century approaches to teaching and learning. This sixty-first conference will leave teachers informed and refreshed as it has done for the past 60 years.

For more information and a copy of the list of sessions and a copy of the registration form go to:

http://issuu.com/asilomar.conference/docs/asilomar_61

For more information contact Charleen Silva Delfino at .

About CATE

CATE (California Association of Teachers of English) is a non-profit organization promoting communication, collaboration, and educational knowledge among all responsible for teaching English and the language arts. All California English teachers are encouraged to join.

Welcome to CATEweb, the official website of the California Association of Teachers of English. It is our hope that this website can serve as a resource for English teachers throughout the state who are looking for more information about our organization, searching for good teaching ideas, hunting for analysis of a particular educational bill or policy, or just hoping to find friends and colleagues who share similar interests.

Please e-mail us with any suggestions you have to make this site more useful to the K-college English teacher. The CATE Board of Directors, composed of 35 people throughout the state, welcomes your questions and advice. Please use this directory to reach us.

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