Moving from “Them” to “Us”
This month’s English Leadership Quarterly includes Christina Saidy’s article “Moving from Them to Us: Making New Arguments about Teaching and …
Revision Makes My Students Thirsty
The following is from Noreen Moore’s piece at the blog Writers Who Care, reprinted here by permission: On a …
2015 Outstanding Middle Level Educator: Sandra Kowalczyk
The following interview was conducted and written by Amy Gutierrez Baker, an educator at West Jefferson Middle School in Colorado …
Championing Choice in a School that Doesn’t
In a recent comment on our blog, a teacher asked how he can foster a love of reading when his …
Innovations in Assessment Chat
A few weeks ago, NCTE held an online conversation about innovations in assessment. On the video, you can hear the …
The Importance of Narrative: Stories That Stay With Us
The following post by Shana Karnes is reprinted with permission from the Three Teachers Talk blog. I was reading a …
News Literacy Lessons
This text is adapted from a blog from the News and Information Literacy Professional Learning Community on the Literacy in …
Template for teaching news literacy skills
Reprinted by permission from the Literacy in Learning Exchange. The National Community and News Literacy Roundtables Project, launched in …
“Manga and the Autistic Mind”
While comic books were once dismissed as junk, more teachers today recognize the value of graphic novels in the teaching …
The Match That Starts the Fire
The following is by Alexandra Cavallo, who teaches English at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, NJ. It is …