CofC Avery Center Director Elected to Serve as NCTE Trustee

Tamara Butler, director of the Avery Research Center for African American Research and Culture, was recently elected to serve as the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation Trustee. She will take office at the NCTE annual conference in November and will serve for three years.

Guided by its elected leaders, the NCTE is the largest and oldest national organization of pre-K through graduate school literacy educators. Its leaders are responsible for everything from the evaluation and selection of which sessions go on the annual convention program to decisions about how member dollars should be spent.

The NCTE Research Foundation aims to “improve the quality of instruction in English at all educational levels” through research programs and projects that support, publish and share current scholarship.

Trustees of the Research Foundation are elected by NCTE members and are responsible for managing the foundation’s programs and resources in ways that promote more equitable educational environments for students and teachers. They are committed to developing a more diverse membership and leadership and to equity methodologies (in research and pedagogy) in support of teachers, students and families marginalized due to race, ethnicity, language, social class, sexual orientation, faith and other sociocultural biases.