Teachers Sharing and Caring, Part I
On December 25, I published a post, Teachers Who Keep On Giving, because teachers advocating for students includes giving of …
It’s NCTE Proposal Time! 6 Tips to Help You Join the Scrum.
Scrum: a way of starting play again in which players from each team come together and try to get control …
New Year’s Day Resolutions
This year NCTE will be focusing on advocacy so we can learn together how to advocate in our classroom, our …
Help Protect Students’ Freedom of Speech and Press
NCTE has supported student journalism through a long-standing relationships with the Journalism Education Association, the Assembly for Advisers of Student …
Teachers Who Keep on Giving
According to the report Hunger in Our Schools 2015, issued by No Kid Hungry/Share Our Strength, three out of four …
Literacy Advocates Heartened by LEARN Act’s Inclusion in ESSA
On December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The language from the Literacy Education …
ESSA Passes, Our Work Begins
This week Congress voted to pass, and President Obama signed, the most far-reaching federal education bill in almost fifteen years. …
Out of Many, One
At the invitation of NCTE’s P12 policy analyst from Virginia, Chantal Winstead, I attended the Teach to Lead Summit in …
Teachers to Whom I Am Grateful
An important part of advocacy is to thank the stakeholders, policymakers, and staff with whom one meets, especially if they …
NCTE, Advocacy and You
I am here at the NCTE convention talking with our amazing members about advocacy. Here is some of the information …