Media Literacy Week
This piece was originally posted by Caryl Crowell, Past WLU President. We live in a multimodal world, surrounded by written language …
It’s the 4th Annual Media Literacy Week in the United States
November 5 – November 9, 2018 is Annual Media Literacy Week in the United States, this year celebrating it’s fourth …
We Can Do Better: Rethinking Native Stories in Classrooms
This is an excerpt from Debbie Reese’s article “Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children’s Books about Indigenous Peoples” in the July …
The Magic of One-Pagers
This blog post was written by NCTE member Jill Yamasawa Fletcher. “I hate reading in school,” sighed one of …
Fifty Years of Film Ratings
November 1 is the 50th anniversary of the voluntary MPAA film rating system which haunts us today when we try to …
Thinking About What We Write
We spent the month of October focusing on #WhyIWrite. What if we now reflect on what we write? Here are …
Discussing Topics in Secondary English through Building and Annotating Playlists
This blog post was written by NCTE member and Secondary Section Steering Committee member Vaughn W. M. Watson. In …
Getting Serious about Classroom Assessment
This blog was written by Elisa Wainsgort and the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. “I used to . . …
The Results are In!
America’s favorite novel ever has been named: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. More than four million votes were cast …
Incorporating LGBTQ+ Students and Texts in Your Classroom
GLSEN just came out with its 10th National School Climate Survey measuring the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and …