Have You Checked Out the Stellar Speaker Lineup for the 2020 NCTE Virtual Convention?
At NCTE’s first-ever Virtual Annual Convention you’ll have the opportunity to hear from inspiring speakers who care about literacy as much …
The Critical Story of the “Science of Reading” and Why Its Narrow Plotline Is Putting Our Children and Schools at Risk
This post was written by NCTE member Dorothy C. Suskind. There is a critical story behind “the science of reading,” …
Teaching LGBTQ History and Activism with Like a Love Story
From the NCTE LGBTQ Advisory Committee This post was written by NCTE members shea martin and Cody Miller, members …
Small Steps for Self-Care in Troubling Times
These tips were shared by NCTE member Yvonne El Ashmawi in 2017 in The Council Chronicle (December 2017.) This year …
A Writing Teacher Finds Her Voice
This post by NCTE member Nancy Sommers was first shared in 2015. In the September 2015 Teaching English in the Two-Year …
Learning to Dance Made Me A Better Writing Teacher
This post by member Lori Ayotte was first published in 2017. Teaching high school sophomores how to use an …
Placing Assessment on the November Ballot
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE member Chris Hass, a member …
I Am Every Good Thing: An Antiracist Counternarrative
This post was written by NCTE member Lorena Germán. Our Racialized Imaginations In The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas talks …
Black Women’s Lives as Inquiry Artifacts: Pedagogical Approaches to #SayHerName
This is an excerpt from “#Say[ing]HerName as Critical Demand: English Education in the Age of Erasure,” by Tamara T. Butler, …
Advocating for Challenging Texts and the Arts
This is an excerpt from “Fostering, Activating, and Curating: Approaching Books about Social Injustices with the Arts,” by Kathryn F. Whitmore, James …