An extensive article written by Kate Pavao, detailing the 2010 ALAN Workshop and 2010 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award Ceremony, is now available on Publisher Weekly’s website.  You can view the article by clicking here.

As the 2010 workshop in Orlando comes to a close, ALAN is proud to announce the next workshop will be held in Chicago, IL in November 2011.  ALAN President, Wendy Glenn, is collecting breakout session proposals for our Chicago program through January 10, 2011.

To learn more about the call for breakout session proposals, follow this link to the workshop page.

The 2010 ALAN Workshop, as part of the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference Program, has once again reached capacity.  Registration for the two-day workshop has closed.

For more information about this year’s workshop, consider following the links below.

ALAN 2010: Orlando Information Page

ALAN 2010 Workshop Program

Funded by NCTE’s ALAN Foundation Research Grant, Dr. Kelly Byrne Bull of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland is conducting a national survey of English Language Arts teachers regarding the supports and obstacles they experience when adding young adult literature into their classrooms.

This online survey takes no longer than 30 minutes to complete and will add to our understandings of what ideas, strategies, and/or policies have helped or hindered teachers as they work to incorporate YA literature into their teaching.

Please participate by clicking the link below (and do feel free to forward this onto your colleagues, too): http://www.surveymonkey.com/alangrant-yaliterature

Each teacher who completes the survey will be entered into a drawing for one of four $25 gift cards to Borders Bookstore.  The results of this nationwide survey will be written and submitted to The ALAN Review.

Should you have any questions, please contact Kelly Byrne Bull at kbull [at] ndm [dot] edu.

The results of the Fall 2010 Elections are as follows:

C.J. Bott, President-elect
Erica Berg, Board Member
Paul Hankins, Board Member
James Bucky Carter, Board Member

ALAN would like to thank  Pam Cole and the elections committee  (Angela Beumer Johnson, Jennifer Buehler, Jennifer Walsh, Walter Mayes, and Ann Reddy Damon) for the excellent work on this election!