NCTE is collaborating with researchers at the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education (CLE) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on a new project to amplify the voices and expertise of high school English teachers to illuminate how they make pedagogical decisions about texts and literacy instruction in their classrooms.
NCTE members who teach in grades 9-12 are invited to apply now to participate in the research study and teacher community.
English teachers are inundated with information and resources from a range of sources that aim to influence their practice, yet they are often not consulted about how they make choices to meet the needs of their students. Led by CLE Associate Director Dr. Jodene Morrell and Dr. Nicole Mirra, professor and faculty director of the UCLA Teacher Education Program, the insights gleaned from the NCTE 100 Teachers Study will offer a direct window into the daily lives and complex work of secondary teachers that can inform policymakers and teacher educators.
Participants will join an intellectual learning community of English educators from across the country. They will utilize a mix of qualitative diaries and monthly virtual cohort meetings to excavate the conditions and constraints that shape their choice of literature, their unit and lesson planning, and their perspectives on the purpose of English education.
The 100 Teachers Study was envisioned by NCTE Past President Dr. Ernest Morrell, who served as Director of the NCTE James R. Squire Office of Policy Research in English Language Arts, which is housed at CLE. Morrell believed that policy conversations must include the professional knowledge and experiences of teachers. NCTE is commissioning the study in honor of Morrell’s vision and with support from his wife Jodene Morrell and Mirra, his Critical English Education coeditor.