Reflections on Collaboration and Assessment
The following piece is adapted from a longer reflection by Darren Cambridge on the theme of Collaboration and Capacity Building for …
Movies of Censored Books, with a Little Advice
While students on the coasts can expect another six weeks or so of school—kind of like our six weeks of …
Award Winning and Other Titles from NCTE
If there’s one thing every teacher relies on, it’s probably books. Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, picture books—no matter what genre …
Using NCTE Award-Winning Publications in Your Classroom
A number of teachers, authors, and researchers were presented with awards last week during NCTE’s Annual Convention. Here, we will …
Learning: The Fine Art of Drowning
This post is written by member Tom O’Connor. Education was not my forte. Given that I am a teacher, that …
Teaching ELA Students Active Citizenship
Advocacy has many benefits, including educational ones. In his 2005 English Journal article “Walking the Talk: Creating Engaged Citizens in …
Build Your Stack: Books for Advanced High School Students That Will Create a Classroom of Deep Thinking
This blog post was written by NCTE member KáLyn Banks Coghill. It’s part of Build Your Stack,® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively …
A Multimodal Win
This post was written by NCTE member Cheryl Hogue Smith. In a recent article for TETYC, I described my attempts …
August #nctechat: The Power of the PLN
The following post was written by JoEllen McCarthy, one of the co-hosts of this month’s #nctechat on Twitter this Sunday, …
The Top Ten Professional Learning Opportunities from NCTE in 2015
What are some of the benefits of Online Professional Learning? You can recharge your teaching, learn new techniques and strategies, …