Important Announcements: 

 

Due to the impending inclement weather, the LAD January Meeting has been cancelled.

 

Springfield Teachers: The 80 paid memberships provided by Springfield Public Schools have been claimed. All Springfield teachers who still wish to join LAD should complete a membership form and submit it with the $15.00 membership fee.

 

  1. * LAD Fair 2009-2010 has been moved to Willard High School.

  2. * New scholarship: Students submitting a prose and poetry anthology (Category 37) are eligible to win the Kathy McQueen Award and Scholarship worth $1000.00.  The Kathy McQueen Award is one of three scholarships available from LAD; it joins the Joan Collins Award for Individual Poetry Anthology and the George Gleason Award for Individual Prose Anthology.


2010 LAD Fair

Willard High School
515 E. Jackson
Willard, MO

Grades 1-12

8:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.

April 24, 2010

Entries must be postmarked by March 5, 2010, or delivered in person on Friday, March 12, by 4:30.


Sponsored by the Southwest Missouri Language Arts Teachers, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English

The Language Arts Fair is open to LAD members only.


Please Join LAD

A $15 individual membership entitles a member's students to full participation in LAD Fair writing categories, the spelling bee, and the scholarship competition. 

Complete the 2010 Individual Membership Form to join.



LAD Executive Board

If your school submits 50 or more entries for the Language Arts Fair, please select a representative from your school to serve on the LAD Executive Board. The officers for LAD will be elected from the members serving on the executive board. LAD must have a full slate of officers in order to be considered in good standing with NCTE; to ensure the future of the Language Arts Department of Southwest Missouri and the Language Arts Fair every spring, please consider volunteering a few hours of your time for this worthwhile cause.


*Remember, if your school participates in career ladder, hours of service on the executive board could be counted.



Spelling Bee

Schools wishing to participate in the spelling bee should complete a school membership form. This membership enables all students in a school to participate in the Language Arts Fair Spelling Bee but does not enable students to compete in the writing categories.

Please familiarize yourself with the 2010 Spelling Bee Information Sheet and the 2010 Spelling Bee Rules and Regulations. 


Complete the 2010 Spelling Bee Entry Form to register your local winners for the 2008-2009 LAD Fair Spelling Bee.

Spelling Bee lists.