NCTE Winners

2007

Addie Abrams, Aubrey Staford, Nicholas Sakover, Paul Wood & Sara Cantor

All 5 of our NCTE Achievement Award in Writing nominees have won this prestigious recognition. We have had 3 out of 4 win in the past, but never the entire group. This year, all of the nominees were from the School of International Studies. Obviously, all of our efforts with writing, both in the classroom and through writing workshops, have paid off. Every year since we began entering our students, 18 years ago, at least one has won this recognition. Our Writing Academy is living up to its name. 

“The Achievement Awards in Writing are conferred by the National Council of Teachers of English in recognition of excellence in writing by high school juniors. Winners demonstrate writing ability in two forms: first, in a sample of their best writing, in any form or genre, drafted and revised over time; and second, in an impromptu essay on a subject set by the Achievement Awards Advisory Committee and responded to by all candidates for the award in that year. While the first sample is written under conditions chosen by candidates and their teachers, the  impromptu essay is written during a supervised, seventy-five-minute period.

A total of 606 students were selected as outstanding writers in the 2006 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing. The recipients were chosen from 2,080 students nominated in their junior year by their teachers, from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Virgin Islands, and American Schools Abroad.  The number of nominees from each school is based on the school’s total enrollment in grades ten through twelve:  one nominee per 500 students. The number of winners from each state is determined by doubling the number of the state’s representatives in Congress.

Like the state coordinators and the teachers of both secondary and college English, who serve as judges, we believe that these students have demonstrated not only superior ability but also notable versatility in writing. We urge that others also recognize and commend these student writers and the teachers who helped to elicit such excellence.”

-- from the NCTE web site

Revised 11/16/06