International Literacy Day 2020
Each year, International Literacy Day is celebrated across the world on September 8th. This date was recognized by UNESCO in …
A Passion That Never Dies
This post is written by member Chawanna Bethany Chambers. I’m nearly ten years removed from the freshly minted, aspiring teacher that …
Poetry and Research in the Teaching of English
During National Poetry Month, we will be posting poems that originally ran in one of the ten journals published by …
Being Challenged by Challenging Texts
What are your students reading? What texts form the basis of your students’ study in your classroom? Are you selecting …
Sneak Peek at the March English Journal — The Essence of Improvement: Leadership in Language Arts Instruction
David Gorlewski and Julie Gorlewski are the editors of English Journal. To lead people is to walk beside them. As …
Thinking and teaching “beyond the screen”: Looking at the role of multimedia in English classrooms in 2016
The following post was written by Antero Garcia, president and co-founder of the SLAM assembly. I want to invite you …
Build Your Stack®: Doodling as Deep Thinking: Texts to Explore Sketchnoting with Students
This blog post was written by NCTE member Jen Vincent, chair of the Build Your Stack® Committee. This post is …
We Need To Invest In Teachers
The following post was written by NCTE staff member Kelly Searsmith. Read her bio here. At two and a half …
“They Yearned to Tell Their Stories”
The following post is an excerpt from Homer to Hip-Hop: Teaching Writing through Painting, Performance, and Poetry, a wonderful article by …
Keeping a Record of the Reading Life
This post is written by member Molly Sutton Kiefer. When I was young, I’d ask my father, a literature and …