Authentic Assessment: Where to Start
This text is excerpted from Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom by Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha, available …
July #nctechat: Exploring the NCTE Beliefs About the Teaching of Writing
The following post was written by Mitch Nobis and Michelle Haseltine, facilitators of this Sunday’s #nctechat on Twitter. The …
An Invitation: Are You Walking the Talk in Your Content?
The following post is reprinted with permission from NCTE member Amy Rasmussen. It comes from her April 21, 2015 post …
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver
The following post is excerpted from “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver,” an article by Rob Baker from the March …
Will Poetry Be Done Tomorrow?
I was recently talking about Kwame Alexander’s Newbery-winning book The Crossover with my eighth graders. My students were really into …
Teaching Kids to Write About What They Know!
The following blog by Dolores S. Perez is reprinted from the NCLE Literacy in Learning Exchange, where it was originally …
“I know you are reading this . . . “
The following post is an excerpt from Jaime R. Wood’s Council Chronicle commentary “I know you are reading this . …
Digital-Literacy and Composition
This post was submitted by Mabel Khawaja, an NCTE Higher Education Policy Analyst who teaches literature and composition courses at …
Disciplinary Literacy
Do you collaborate with colleagues in different disciplines when developing curriculum? Do you have conversations with your peers about how …