Engaging Empathy: Creating Connections by Exploring Art, Literature, History, and Social Justice Issues
Julie Griggs and Heather Hooks, the 2020 NCTE Media Literacy Award winners, were honored at a virtual ceremony in October …
Teaching as a First-Time Reader
This post by NCTE member Peter Wayne Moe is reprinted from Teaching English in the Two-Year College (May 2021). …
Build Your Stack: On Windows, Mirrors, and Telescopes
This Build Your Stack post was written by NCTE member Stephanie Toliver. The September 2021 Council Chronicle includes Toliver’s essay “On …
Greeting Your Students in the Morning
This is an excerpt from Chapter 7, “The CoreEmpathy Classroom,” from CoreEmpathy: Literacy Instruction with a Greater Purpose (NCTE, 2021), by …
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 …
Place Matters
This post is an excerpt from NCTE member Lauren Esposito’s article “Where to Begin? Using Place-Based Writing to Connect Students …
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 …
Critical Conversations in Secondary Classrooms
This post was written by NCTE members Amy Vetter, Melissa Schieble, and Kahdeidra Monét Martin. What Are Critical Conversations? …