Classroom Library Grants
Classroom Library Grants are intended to support “new to the profession” NEHS Chapter Advisors. The Advisor must be in the first five years of teaching. Applicants may or may not be recent college graduates; the Classroom Library Grant is intended to help new teachers, whether in their first years out of college or in the first years of a second career, to build a classroom library for their students. Five grants of up to $400 each are available. The window for application runs from June 3 - 17, 2019. Grants are awarded by July 22, 2019.
Membership
NEHS is open to high school students and select faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability in such areas as literary analysis, media studies, composition, linguistic study, and creative writing, and who meet the requirements of membership.
NEHS Members Inducted
2017-2018
Membership Increase
2017-2018
Chapters
Each chapter plans and directs a program of activities in order to develop the community of people who are interested in English. Participation in chapter activities is one of the most valuable benefits of NEHS membership; the kinds of appropriate activities are limited only by the members' imaginations.
The Common Reader
The process of selecting a Common Reader for the NEHS network challenges the Advisory Council members each year. As announced, the 2019-2020 Common Reader will be A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza; the Advisory Council members gathered in St. Louis a few weeks ago spent considerable time reviewing numerous books and the data from the Common Reader survey distributed several months ago before making a decision. We also considered the results of the scholarship scores we had just used to determine the recipients of this year’s Merit scholarships. Applicants for the Merit Scholarships are to select this text as the basis of their application submissions, which will be due January 21, 2020.
Scholarships/Awards
Annually, NEHS offers $65,000 in a variety of scholarships valued at up to $5,000 for active NEHS members planning on enrolling full time in two-year and four-year colleges.
$1,500 Scholarship
Brain & Behavioral Sciences major at Purdue Univeristy
Nimisha Prasad
Oswego East High School, IL
$4,000 Scholarship
English major at The University of Maryland
Madeline Arbutus
Catholic High School of Baltimore, MD
$2,000 Scholarship
Computer Science major at
Brown University
George Rusu
West Covina High School, CA
$3,000 Scholarship
English major at
Salisbury University
Kyla Taylor
Stephen Decatur High School, MD