Of Choice and Challenge and Superheroes
Shana Karnes writes about choice and challenge in her blog on the WVCTE affiliate’s blog site. Shana refers to …
October is National Bullying Prevention Month
National Bullying Prevention Month was created by PACER in 2006 with a one-week event which has now evolved into a …
October 2017 #NCTEchat: The National Day on Writing
Join us tomorrow, Sunday, October 15, at 8 p.m. ET, on Twitter for an #NCTEchat all about the National Day …
Observing and Adjusting: An Update on “Discovering Digital Differentiation”
In this post, NCTE members Maria Secoy and Haley Sigler share an update to the work described in their article …
Observations on Teaching and Learning with English Language Learners
This post was written by NCTE member Haley Moehlis. An ESOL teacher and I co-teach a section of composition. …
Nurturing Literacy, Not Test-Taking
The following excerpt from Dawn Kirby’s post on the blog Writers Who Care is reprinted by permission. Literacy as …
Now More than Ever: Empathy Is Core to the Literacy Classroom
This post was written by Mary Knight and Christie McLean Kesler. “As our book, CoreEmpathy: Literacy Instruction with a Greater …
Note to the Teacher on the First Day of School
I have been a teacher for over 23 years. I have been a mom for almost 20 years. At …
Not a Single Story
I often hear “affiliates” said as one word meaning one thing, but the beauty of NCTE’s affiliates is that no …
No Homework…Beneficial?
This is a guest post written by Katie Cassavaugh. Homework as defined by Merriam-Webster means “preparatory reading or research (as …