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* 1. What is the name of your affiliate (please spell out)?

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* 2. What is your affiliate's acronym?

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* 3. Please list your affiliate's digital networks:

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* 4. What is your full name?

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* 5. What is your role in the affiliate? Please list your primary role first.

The following questions are about how your affiliate relates to its members.

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* 6. How do you connect your members to one another? (Check all that apply.)

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* 7. What tactics does your affiliate use to recruit / retain members?  Check all that apply.

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* 8. How do you find out what your affiliate's members need? (Check all that apply.)

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* 9. How do you attract and retain preservice and early career teachers to / in your affiliate? (Check all that apply.)

The following questions concern your affiliate's operations.

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* 10. Our affiliate has adopted the following policies required by the IRS for all 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that file 990 tax forms and recommended for other nonprofit organizations as well. Please check all that apply.

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* 11. List up to three of your affiliate's most outstanding accomplishments during the past year and why they were outstanding.

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* 12. Please describe one of these accomplishments in detail.

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* 13. If there is one operational area on which your affiliate could use advice or help, please describe that need below.

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* 14. If your affiliate has advice or a tool you would like other affiliates to know about, please share here.

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* 15. What is the most important issue in English language arts in your geographical area?

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* 16. Please describe how your affiliate is dealing with this most important English language arts issue in your geographical area.

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* 17. Do you connect with other affiliates or affiliate leaders in your region?

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* 18. If you do connect with other affiliates or their leaders in your region, check all the answers below that describe that connection.

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* 19. Please check all the reasons that your affiliate does not connect with other affiliates in your region or their leaders.

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* 20. Please check all the items that you are sending today via email to affsec@ncte.org or snail mail to NCTE Affiliate Office, 1111 W. Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801. Note in the comment box what items will be sent later and by what date.

The following questions concern your affiliate's relationship with your Regional Representative to the NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates (SCOA).

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* 21. Please check all the answers that apply concerning the monthly email newsletter sent to affiliate leaders by the NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates.

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* 22. Please describe what in the newsletter is most useful to you.

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* 23. Please describe what you don't see but would like to see in the newsletter.

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* 24. Has your affiliate submitted entries to the following affiliate awards?

  Never Occasionally Most Years Annually
Affiliate Excellence Award
Affiliate Newsletter Award
Affiliate Journal Award
Affiliate Website Award
Affiliate Multicultural Program Award
NCTE Fund Teachers for the Dream Affiliate Award
Kent D. Williamson Affiliate Membership Award (by submitting the affiliate membership list to NCTE each year)
NCTE Leadership Development Award
NCTE Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Award
NCTE High School Teachers of Excellence Award

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* 25. Does your affiliate know about the sessions the NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates sponsors each year at the NCTE Annual Convention? Does a representative of your affiliate attend these sessions?

  We don't know We don't attend We attend sometimes Yes, we attend
Two Concurrent Sessions noted as sponsored by the Standing Committee on Affiliates (SCOA)
Affiliate Representatives Meeting on Friday (just before the Board of Directors Meeting)
Affiliate Breakfast on Sunday

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* 26. In what ways can your NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates regional representative help you?

The following questions concern your relationship with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

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* 27. Does your affiliate know that it MUST send a representative to attend the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors and Other Members of the Council (usually Friday evening) at the NCTE Annual Convention once every three years or lose its affiliation?

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* 28. Does your affiliate know about the NCTE Cosponsored Speakers Program?

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* 29. Please explain why your affiliate uses the NCTE Cosponsored Speakers program or why not.

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* 30. Does your affiliate know about the Affiliate Leadership Meeting?

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* 31. Explain why your affiliate sends representatives to the Affiliate Leadership Meeting or why not.

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* 32. Please respond to how your affiliate participates in NCTE's Advocacy Day and Month activities.

  We won't participate We don't know about this We'd like more information on this We know about this We will participate
NCTE Advocacy Day

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* 33. What suggestions do you have for NCTE/affiliate projects?

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* 34. To serve your affiliate better, what should NCTE CONTINUE doing?

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* 35. To serve you better, what should NCTE BEGIN doing?

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* 36. To serve you better, what should NCTE STOP doing?

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* 37. I have shared this information with my affiliate.

Thank you for submitting your 2017 Affiliate Annual Report Survey! The data you've provided meets one of the constitutional requirements of affiliation with NCTE and it is very important to help us learn more about your affiliate as we plan future programming with you in mind.

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