2017 NCTE Annual Convention Updates
This week the Convention Preview started hitting everyone’s mailboxes, and it has been so exciting to watch the enthusiasm grow …
Field Notes: Introducing the 2017-18 Lead Ambassadors
Across my twenty years of working in literacy, there has been a common factor activating significant progress: NCTE members. Content …
Field Notes: Highlights from the 2017 Affiliate Leadership Meeting
These are exciting times for NCTE, and in turn for our affiliates. This weekend I had the energizing experience of …
Field Notes: On the Road with NCTE
English and language arts teachers are always learning. The notion that they take the summer “off” is perhaps one of …
Field Notes: NCTE’s New Vision Statement
“As the nation’s oldest organization of pre-K through graduate school literacy educators, NCTE has a rich history of deriving expertise …
Field Notes: Celebrating CEE
Enriched. Inspired. Motivated. These are words that come to mind when I seek to describe my incredible experience at the …
NCTE’s Statement on the President’s Proposed Budget for FY18
This spring NCTE’s elected leaders developed a set of federal budget recommendations that align with our organizational values and priorities. …
Field Notes: Turning the Pages of a New Book
Long ago I realized the big things in literacy – big ideas, initiatives, concepts that move our country and world …
Field Notes: In Appreciation of All You Do to Affect the Quality of Your Students’ Days
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make …
Field Notes: 2017 Annual Convention
Every year at this time we begin the exciting journey toward NCTE’s Annual Convention by sending program notifications to all …