Celebrate Teachers – This Week and Year Round!
This week brings is Teacher Appreciation Week! Since 1984, the National PTA has designated time each May for communities nationwide …
Family Literacy Matters
This blog post was written by NCTE members Tiffany Flowers and Dorian Harrison. Families offer so much to young children …
Teaching Makes Me Rich
This post was written by teacher education student Lindsey Bispala. “Are you prepared to be poor for your entire life?” …
Build Your Stack®: Picturebooks that Build Compassionate, Caring Conversations
This blog post was written by NCTE member Nawal Qarooni. It is part of Build Your Stack®, an NCTE initiative focused …
Remembering James Baldwin on His Birthday
James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. Baldwin wrote many novels but he was also a poet …
Finding the Magic of Shakespeare in an Online Classroom
This post was written by NCTE member David Rickert. The magic of teaching Shakespeare resides in the four walls of …
NCTE Summer Sandbox Explores Speculative Annotation
This blog post was written by NCTE member Remi Kalir. “I want my students to move beyond passive reading …
Open Call for Resolutions
When school lets out, we often find the headspace to step out of the day-to-day and consider the bigger picture …
Reading Outside Our Cultural Comfort Zones
This post was written by NCTE member Kathryn Fishman-Weaver. An article I saw in a well-respected newspaper referred to …
My Journey to Becoming an English Teacher
This post was written by NCTE member Kristen Bruck, a member of the current cohort of participants in the Emerging …