Congratulations to Jamesville-DeWitt High School junior Iden Bright who was selected for a 2024 Achievement Award in Writing, given by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Bright took a unique look at identity in the piece “101 Points of Iden-tity.”
The NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to encourage high school students to write and to recognize some of the best student writers in the nation.
Only students who are juniors may participate. Schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, US territories, Canada, and American schools abroad are eligible to nominate students for the writing program.
This year, schools nominated 633 students. From the United States, students were nominated from 44 states, as well as Guam and Washington, D.C. Internationally, teachers nominated students from Canada, Greece, Jordan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. Two to three independent judges evaluated each submission on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development, and style.
Congrats Iden!
For more information about the NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing, including past winners, see http://www.ncte.org/awards/achievement-awards-in-writing/.