• Full tuition scholarships for teachers are available for the Breman Museum’s Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust, June 12-16, 2017.  This is the 26th year of our highly-respected Institute, the only one in Georgia offering a week-long foundation for teaching this significant subject, including the most popular Holocaust fiction and non-fiction in an appropriate historical context. 
• The Summer Writers Workshop hosted by the English department at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will be held on Saturday, May 20, from 8am-4pm. Interested high school students will gain experience with screenwriting, poetry, and fiction writing while working with professionals in the field. Students can also submit their own creative work--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and films--in the conference contest! Conference registration is only $20.
  
• Plenty of professional development opportunities for teachers are available with the Cherokee Rose Writing Project, the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, and other GA NWP-affiliated sites.
• Enroll in an advanced degree program (including online options).
• Check out the Library of Congress Searchable Database of Primary Source Documents, organized by state standards, grades, and subject areas.
• State Testing Resources: Check out sample ELA items in the assessment guides (EOG and EOC) and study/resource guides (EOG and EOC). Students can log on to Experience Online to see sample questions representing the evidence-based reading and writing section of the test.   

• Check out the latest on Georgia's ESSA application, now scheduled to be submitted in Sep 2017: 
• State Advisory Committee ESSA Presentation
• Advisory Group Common Themes
• GaDOE ESSA Stakeholder Feedback Report

• Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education is a non-partisan advocacy group with a long history of support for public education in Georgia. Check out their Top Ten Issues for 2017.

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Since 1923, the Georgia Council of Teachers of English has been Georgia's professional home for English Language Arts teachers from pre-K to university levels. GCTE is the Georgia affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Membership is open to teachers, administrators, college faculty, education majors, and others interested in the teaching of English Language Arts. Join us.