page_title: Dale Allender
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Dale Allender / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dale Allender speakig at the Reading is Fundamental Annual Gala
context_page_description: Dale Allender is an American educator. He is Assistant Professor in the Teaching Credentials Department of California State University, Sacramento's College of Education; Director of the National Council of Teachers of English-West located at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, and the former Executive Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and the Bay Area Teachers Center based at Lick-Wilmerding High School and San Francisco State University. Allender is known for his work on Expanding the Canon, a television series on teaching multicultural literature produced in collaboration with Thirteen/WNET and AnnenbergCPB.
context_section_description: The Center for Civic Engagement is the umbrella office for all of the public purpose programs of Lick-Wilmerding High School. Allender was appointed Interim Executive Director in July 2010.
  The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a professional development organization for English Language Arts educators at all levels, is one of the oldest non-profit institutions in the United States. While serving as Associate Executive Director of NCTE for five years Allender served as Interim Executive Director for the Council. In 2003 he launched NCTE West at the University of California Berkeley.
  As a high-school teacher, Allender taught English by incorporating issues of social justice taught to him by educators who were formerly members of the Black Panther Party and The Young Lords (the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. This precipitated death threats that garnered national attention because educators and the public wanted to know what he was teaching. After earning a reputation for being progressive and successfully addressing contentious issues in education, Allender was hired by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
  In 2004 Allender moderated a conversation between parents and teachers on the use of Mark Twain in the classroom in the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois school district. The dialogue included the Illinois State University English department, the Mayor's office, the NACCP, and school superintendent's office. Since NCTE is opposed to the censorship of literature, the teachers involved felt that Allender would support their stance on the use of Mark Twain in the classroom. But, at the same time, since Allender is African American parents felt that he would support the book's removal for its use of "the n-word". Allender was asked to help the parents and teachers work through the impasse by leading them through the process of doing an ethnographic study of their experiences.
  In 2006 NCTE West was the gathering place for the first ever 21st century Literacies Impact Conference sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, Apple Inc., and The Partnerships for 21st century Schools, E-Luminate Group. Allender's work with the Partnership for 21st century Skills on the English Language Arts Literacy Map was the inspiration for the conference which brought together the leading education content area groups: NCTE , NCTM , NCSS , and NSTA . Working with students from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, Allender produced a video documenting this conference.
  The Bay Area Teachers Center (BATC) is a single-subject teacher credential program created as a partnership between San Francisco State University and Lick-Wilmerding High School. Allender was appointed Executive Director of BATC in 2007. Under Allender's leadership, BATC expanded partnerships with the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley and Teach Tomorrow Oakland, a project of the Mayor's office and the Oakland United School District. Allender also revamped the BATC curriculum to incorporate online courses using NCTE "Pathways for 21st Century Literacy" and "Pathways for Adolescent Literacy" in the Instructional Technology and content area courses.
caption: Allender at Reading is Fundamental gala
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