Celebrating Podcasts!
International Podcast Day™ is September 30th and is an international celebration of the power of podcasts. The first celebration took place …
Get Ready for the International Day of Peace
The United Nations has declared September 21 as the International Day of Peace. In a message commemorating the Day in …
NCTE Professional Books from Latinx Authors and Voices!
In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, we’re sharing books and resources from NCTE written by leading Latinx authors and voices! …
Constitution Day Is Observed This Week in the U.S.
Since it became a national observance in 2004, Constitution Day has commemorated the date of the 1787 signing of the …
September 11, 20 Years Later
To mark the anniversary of the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 and the memory …
September 1 Kicks Off Library Card Sign-Up Month!
The month of September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, a national campaign to emphasize the importance of library cards to …
Remembering Mike Rose
This post was written by NCTE member and past CCCC Chair Linda Adler-Kassner. Scholar, teacher, researcher. Even more often, mentor. Inspiration. …
Celebrating Poet Rita Dove
August 28 is the birthday of American poet Rita Dove, who reportedly told Black American Literature Forum,“There’s no reason to subscribe authors …
Music, Literacy, and History
On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Festival opened in Bethel, New York on Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm. It drew …
August 9 is Book Lovers Day!
It seems as though there is a holiday or day of remembrance for almost everything, and I find “Book Lovers …