Description: Director of Special Programs Subject File of Sandra E. Gibbs (Director of Minority Group Affairs and Special Projects 1975-83 and Director of Special Programs 1984-97) contains reports, correspondence, promotional publications, photographs, program proposals, and membership lists relating to annual conventions, preconvention workshops, NCTE conferences, special institutes, and seminars as well as correspondence with the Black Caucus and Hispanic Caucus and committees and task forces including the Committee on English in Community based Learning Programs (1984-86), Committee on English for Exceptional Children (1979), Language and Learning Across the Curriculum (1984-92), Minority Affairs Advisory Committee (1983-94), National Certification and Assessment/English Language Arts Teachers (1988-91), Taskforce on Racism and Bias in Teaching English (1983-89), Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification (1979-92), and the Achievement Awards Advisory Committee (1984). The Director of Special Programs file also contains editorial files related to the editing and distribution of the monograph Tapping the Potential: English and Language Arts for the Black Learner (1985).