Dale Allender

Dale Allender (May 23, 1966-Present) is a prominent American educator; Director of the National Council of Teachers of English-West Coast located at the university of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education; and Executive Director of the Bay Area Teachers Center based at Lick-Wilmerding High School and San Francisco State University. Allender is well-known for his work on Expanding the Canon, an award-winning television series on teaching multicultural literature produced in collaboration with Thirteen WNET and AnnenbergCPB.

Biography

Career

Allender began his career as a high school English teacher. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, Australia, he teaches coursework in multicultural literature, urban education, linguistics for educators, and new literacies. In addition to teaching at UC Berkeley, Allender has taught and lectured at a number of other colleges and universities, including New York University, Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles, and Medgar Evers College.

Allender served as Associate Executive Director of National Council of Teachers of English for five years. During that time, he launched NCTE West. In 2004 NCTE West hosted the NCTE Research Foundation’s Cultivating New Voices Spring Retreat. This event included a historic panel featuring Ishmael Reed, Nikolas Kinellos, and Haki Madhubuti. In 2006 NCTE West was the gathering place for the first ever 21st Century Literacy Impact Conference.

Allender was appointed Executive Director of the Bay Area Teachers Center in 2008. The BATC is a single-subject credential program in partnership with San Francisco State University designed for the professional development of new teachers.

Dale is a founding member of the Cable in the Classroom Educational Advisory Board and serves on several other boards for a variety of organizations including Media Rights, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Art21, and Scenarios USA. He has acted in an advisory capacity with many other institutions including The Independent Film Channel/Film School project, the Anti Defamation League’s Echoes and Reflections, and A World of Difference Online. In addition, Allender served as lead advisor or advisory board member for seven Annenberg/CPB professional development television series for English language arts educators.

Marriage and children

Dale currently lives in Oakland, California with his daughter Arya and his son Daniel.

Published works

Allender’s publications include a forward for Included in English Studies: Learning Climates that Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity; Trends and Issues in Secondary English published by NCTE and Literary Guerillas; Canon Keepers; and Empire Institutions: A Black Teacher’s Narrative in Ishmael Reed’s Konch Magazine.

Standing on the Border: Issues of Identity and Border Crossing in Young Adult Literature, The Alan Review
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter00/niday.html

The Multicultural Library: An Essay. Multicultural Perspectives
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=K12pnT76hMZQBSFRfnBcctYyH24r3hTMlGCs7Ghh82JfVGHTh7sy!-8432242!-1402025386?docId=95783594

The Responses of African American Men to Dominant Norms of Masculinity within the United States
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q31766ww15429480/

Allender, D. (2001) Literary Guerillas, Canon Keepers, and Empire Institutions: A Black Teacher’s Narrative. Ishmael Reed’s Konch Magazine
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/konch.html

Award

Allender’s awards include the Media award from National Association for Multicultural Education and the Education award from the US International Film and Video Festival for the eight-part professional development television series The Expanding Canon. Allender also received a National Endowment for the Humanities award for the study of American Indian literature and the Echoes and Reflections Scholars Jerusalem Summer Institute fellowship.