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 …
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 …
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 …
Writing Personal Memoirs: An Opportunity for Differentiation in the Classroom
This post by NCTE member Jennifer Kirsch was published first in 2016. My 5th graders spend their first …
Honest Writing
This guest post from 2016 was written by author Ann Martin, who won the first NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding …
Teaching Students to “Re-See” Their Writing
This post by NCTE member Katherine Batchelor was first published in 2016. In the December 2015 Voices from the Middle, …
Trigger Warnings Threaten Our Students’ Learning
In his article in the September English Journal, Adam Wolfsdorf tells us that “When It Comes To High School English, …
Creating Community through Writing
As students return to the classroom, they need to feel that they own the space and the learning that …
Writing to Make Sense of Who We Are
This post was first published in 2015. The following post is excerpted from Gholnecsar E. Muhammad’s February 2015 article “Searching …
Becoming Strategic Writers—and Teachers of Strategic Writing
This post by member Deborah Dean was first published in 2017. “What do you do when you need to write …