Two Read-In Snapshots
This week featured dozens of African American Read-Ins across the country. Below NCTE members Michelle Rankin and Jennifer Watson give you …
The Gospel According to Literacy
The following excerpt is from Rhea Estelle Lathan’s Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955–1967, the latest …
Activating Learning: Teaching for Metacognition
The following post is by Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk, Assistant Professor of English specializing in Composition Studies at Elon University. Much like global …
Promoting Global Citizenship in Daily Teaching
This post is the first in a series on “Action in Second Language Writing,” which will run up to the …
Fighting for Intellectual Freedom in the Field Two
At the 2015 Annual Convention, Katie Wright was one of two individuals, nominated by an affiliate and honored for her …
It’s NCTE Proposal Time! 6 Tips to Help You Join the Scrum.
Scrum: a way of starting play again in which players from each team come together and try to get control …
Help Protect Students’ Freedom of Speech and Press
NCTE has supported student journalism through a long-standing relationships with the Journalism Education Association, the Assembly for Advisers of Student …
If You Find Yourself with Time on Your Hands—WRITE!
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing note, Writing grows out of many different purposes [including] developing social networks; engaging …
Screenwriting as an ELA Exercise
Our November 2015 English Journal offers the article “Lights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
The Singular “They” — When Pronouns Get Personal
Here’s a grammar grappler: Each student should keep ____ eyes on ____ own paper. his her his or her his/her …