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They included this statement from InLand's editor:
InLand, for over two decades, exemplified what NCTE affiliates can do best: collaborate, convey, and create an inclusivity between English Language Arts teachers and leaders in local and regional school settings, K-College. A collaboration between the Idaho Council of Teachers of English (ICTE) and Inland Northwest Council of Teachers of English (INCTE), the journal served thousands of educators throughout Idaho and eastern Washington, offering curriculum, explaining and encouraging research about reading and writing, and, perhaps most importantly, providing a venue for secondary teachers (as well as their students) to contribute to the ongoing discussion of issues that affect instruction in deep and abiding ways.
InLand, in many of its themed issues, published articles on integrating Young Adult (YA) literature into the curriculum to motivate reluctant readers and to supplement the literature curriculum. We felt it was long overdue to focus an entire issue on the topic, to insert our region (home to Chris Crutcher, Terry David, Terry Trueman, and others, and setting to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian) into the vibrant national conversation about YA.