Field Notes: Turning the Pages of a New Book
Long ago I realized the big things in literacy – big ideas, initiatives, concepts that move our country and world …
A Book NCTE Is Proud to Defend
Sherman Alexie announced on Twitter last week, “I am the proud author of the most banned/challenged book of 2014.” He …
Mrs. Stuart Goes to Washington: Teacher Preparation, Global Education and CA Senators
This post is written by the 2017 NCTE Kent Williamson Policy Fellow Lauren Stuart. This is part of a weekly …
Build Your Stack: Memoir and Reading Choice
This blog post was written by NCTE member Carolyn Ford. It is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively …
ReadWriteThink.org, Part 4
In Part 3, we took a look at ReadWriteThink.org from I to M. In this post, we will cover N-R. …
Why Banning Books Doesn’t Work
This post originally appeared on Sept. 20, 2017. Complaints about the use of various technological tools in classrooms are …
Stories of Survival and Overcoming the Odds
This post is written by NCTE member Jason D. DeHart. As a teacher who has taught K-12 and university students …
Challenging AP Literature
Today a radio commentator remarked, “We live in the age of fear when it comes to our children. We’re afraid …
Use of ReadWriteThink Tools and Apps in 2016
As 2016 winds down, I took the opportunity to dig into the analytics to see what users on ReadWriteThink.org used …
Oral Storytelling as Memoir
This post was written by NCTE members Amy Miller and Meghan Jones. Teaching memoir in the high school classroom has …