If Not the Five-Paragraph Essay, Then What? A Response to Kim Zarins’s Anti-FPE FPE
This post was written by NCTE member David Slomp. Twenty grade-six students mull around the newly installed benches. Excited. …
End of the Year Wrap-Up with NCTE
It’s hard to believe that 2017 is almost over! The end of the year often involves year-end lists – and …
A Weeklong Unit to Explore Poetry Forms
This post was written by NCTE member Jessica Covert, reprinted with permission from Edutopia. Teaching poetry is daunting for high …
#WhatStoryAreYouTelling: Engaging Youth Media in the Classroom
This post was written by NCTE member Keisha L. Green, a member of the NCTE Secondary Section Steering Committee. …
Thoughts on “Literacy that Matters” and the 26th WLU Literacies for All Summer Institute
This post is written by NCTE member, Richard Meyer, who participated in a symposium at the Whole Language Institute (WLU) …
Taking Risks to Develop Community Partnerships and Multimodal Maker Pedagogy
By: NCTE member Brent Saccucci in Alberta, Canada This fall, our English department engaged students in a multi-grade project in …
Transforming the World: Using Books to Open Dialogue
By: Cynthia Ryman, member, NCTE’s Committee on Global Citizenship Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by …
Our Students Are Ready—Are You?
This is an excerpt from Lorena Germán’s article in the March 2020 Voices from the Middle. Read the full article. …
Celebrate the Birthday of Marjane Satrapi
November 22 is the birthday of the Iranian-French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, born in Rasht, Iran (1969). She wrote the graphic …
Ungrading to Build Equity and Trust in Our Classrooms
This post was written by NCTE member Anthony Lince. Many educators around the US are having meaningful conversations about …