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. …
It’s All in the Details
This post is by guest author Candace Fleming who won the 2015 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for …
How Writing Is Shaping the Future of Literacy
This post is written by Deborah Brandt, emeritus member of NCTE, who will be the keynote speaker at the College Section/CCCC Luncheon at …
Get Ready for the National Day on Writing!
Americans write every day, every week, all year long, in many different forms and for many different purposes. To draw …
The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting
This post is written by member Bridget Fullerton. Though we know that our students are always-already writers, asking them to …
On Breaking Barriers to Embrace Our Humanity
The following guest post is by author Sandra Neil Wallace. Wallace will be a keynote speaker at the Middle Level Meet-Up at the 2016 NCTE Annual …
Count Your Words and Be #Wordtastic!
This post is written by member Emily Green. My daughter entered the fabulously fast-paced world of first grade this year. …
What Are You Doing on the National Day on Writing?
We’ve been celebrating #WhyIWrite on October 20 every year for seven years now. Last year National Day on Writing celebrations …
What Happened in Your State this September?
This past month, fifteen policy analysts published reports about what occurred in the following states: California, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, …
Not a Single Story
I often hear “affiliates” said as one word meaning one thing, but the beauty of NCTE’s affiliates is that no …