It’s Almost Independence Day! Or is it?
Many people celebrate the Fourth of July as the birthday of the United States, but the actual events on that …
Using Literature to Shatter Our Entrenched Views, Part II
Pulitzer-Prize–winning journalist Sonia Nazario was the keynote speaker at NCTE’s 2014 Annual Convention. What follows is her reflection three years …
Sneak Peek: July 2017 English Journal
This post is written by members Julie Gorlewski and David Gorlewski, editors of English Journal. The work of teaching illustrates …
June 2017 #NCTEchat: YA Lit – Complex Texts, Complex Lives
Join Jennifer Buehler @ProfBuehler and members of #NCTEreads tonight, Sunday, June 25 at 8 pm ET, for a conversation around “YA …
READ the Map!
This post is written by member Kelly Tumy. Young adult literature has earned a place in secondary classrooms, but are …
What Happened to Carlos?
This post is written by member Erin O’Neill Armendarez, NCTE’s Higher Education Policy Analyst for New Mexico. One semester years …
An LGBTQ + Identity Toolkit for Educators
We’re living in scary and challenging times as educators. Issues connected to LGBTQI+ people have been brought into a …
Listing the Difference
This post is written by member Donna Brown. As educators, we are constantly being asked to do more and perform …
Professing While Teaching
This post is written by member Matthew Boedy. As is usual in first-year composition, I assigned a research project to …
MLA 8: We Are Here, But Should We Have Come?
(American Attitudes toward the New Version of the Popular Documentation Style) This post is written by member Beth Gulley. I’m …