[CBW_Exec] CBW EXEC BOARD April 3, 9 a.m. in New Orleans

[Susan Bernstein]

Greetings, everyone, from windy New York City.

I write with a gentle reminder about our Executive Board Meeting on
Thursday April 3 @ 9  a.m. at CCCC in New Orleans.  Let's meet outside
of the CBW workshop room at 9 and then find a nook or cranny close by
conducive to serious and fruitful business.

And now, the following items for your consideration:

1) Please RSVP for the meeting!!!!

2) Please send agenda items to Kathleen and me ASAP.

3) Please note that Barbara Gleason and Sarah Kirk are on hiatus this
year, but are planning to join us for the 2009 meeting in San
Francisco,  Congratulations to Sarah and her spouse Shannon Gramse on
the birth of their daughter Frances Scout Gramse in January!

4) Please, please note the following CFP for BWe.  I've already sent
it to the CBW list.  Would you also circulate it to other lists that
you are on?  Also-- PLEASE consider writing a review yourself.

5) Anything I'm leaving out or forgetting?  Let me know!

Safe travels and warm wishes,

Susan

CFP for Basic Writing Electronic Journal
Last year CBW co-chair Kathleen Baca and I attended a dynamite session on Mina
Shaunessy's legacy at CUNY, now featured in the current issue of the
Journal of Basic Writing.  I believe it was Mary Soliday who reminded
us that Mina Shaughnessy used to assign her colleagues to
attend CCCC sessions related to Basic Writing so that they could
review together important trends in the field.

Kathleen and I agreed that we wanted to implement this approach for CCCC 2008.
So we'd like to propose that conference attendees write a review  of
at least one Basic Writing-related session.  We plan to publish these
reviews in a forthcoming issue of BWe.

Reviews should be 500-700 words long and should be sent to Susan Naomi
Bernstein at sbernstein at lagcc.cuny.edu by June 15, 2008.

To find a session of interest to you, please complete the following steps:

--Read through the sessions in this brochure and/or the CCCC program.

--Find a session that you would like to attend. We'd like to request
that you not review your
own presentations (wonderful as those will be!)-- but to choose
something that is perhaps new to you or outside of your area.  This
way we'll be able to cover a good cross section of the interesting
work that our colleagues are doing across the country. The session you
attend should be BW-focused or should focus on a related category,
such as urban education, innovative pedagogy, education for social
justice, ESL learners, learners who are differently abled, and so on.

-- Please send submissions by June 15, 2008 to Susan Naomi Bernstein
at  sbernstein at lagcc.cuny.edu .

--Please feel free to email me in advance if you have questions or
concerns or would like to suggest a session to attend.