5 Easy Steps to Create a Successful Story This School Year
Dru Tomlin, director of middle level services for the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), is a great believer in …
Letter to a Young English Teacher
An NCTE member recently brought this “Letter to a Young English Teacher” by David E. Kirkland to our attention and …
Privileging Student Voice
In his article in the most recent English Leadership Quarterly, Gary Pankiewicz argues for “privileging voice in student writing development.” …
Families and Literacy Learning
Whether your summertime was leisurely, productive, or both, you’re probably joining the many children, families, and teachers making the mental …
Grounding Our Teaching in Research
The following excerpts come from an article entitled Grounding Our Teaching in Research: Implications from Research in the Teaching of English, 2009–12 …
The Role of Early Childhood Education and Racism
“Through our teaching of young children …we can affect the most change.” How appropriate today with unrest (again) in Ferguson, …
“Fostering Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction”
“Names are Powerful”. Jenna Fournel recently unpacked the article “Fostering Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction: Lessons from a Native Hawaiian Classroom” …
“A Professional Approach to Education”
Amidst all the hand-wringing about what’s going wrong with current approaches to education reform we don’t hear enough about what …
3 Connected Reading Practices
This text is excerpted from Connected Reading: Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital World by Kristen Hawley Turner and Troy …
“Names are Powerful”
If you’re heading back to school this month, and particularly if you teach elementary school, check out the article Fostering Culturally Relevant …