Benefits of Membership

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Become an OCTE member and connect with the National Council of Teachers of English—the world's largest subject-matter educational association with more than 77,000 members in the United States and other countries.

For over 100 years, OCTE has offered quality professional development programs for teachers of English and Language Arts, and we remain a vital force for advocacy and professional development. Members receive our NCTE award-winning Oregon English Journal and our quarterly newsletter, Chalkboard. In addition to our newsletter and journal which you’ll receive in the mail, we hope you will use this Web site to see what we are offering. And join us on Facebook and Twitter, too!

Your OCTE membership

• creates access to NCTE-regional and national conferences, committees, programs
  
• reduces registration fee at OCTE in-service conferences
  
• creates access to three NCTE student writing and publishing competitions:
  
• • Recognizing Excellence in Arts and Literary Magazines (REALM)
  • Achievement Awards in Writing (scholarships for 11th grade students)
  • Promising Young Writers Program (recognition for 8th grade students)
• underwrites various literacy institutes
  
• co-sponsors the statewide Oregon Writing Festival with the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University
  
• provides a free subscription to Chalkboard, the OCTE newsletter
  
• provides a free subscription to the Oregon English Journal
  
• sponsors the Oregon Literature Series, the six-volume anthology from OSU Press
  
• funds the Oregon Excellence Awards in Teaching English Language Arts, the only statewide recognition program for our subject area
  
• funds research grants to English language arts classroom teachers
  
• funds the statewide "Teachers and Students as Writers" competition and anthology
  
• co-sponsors the Oregon Encyclopedia, an online resource for all things Oregon