Literary Theory’s Potential in Secondary ELA Classrooms
This post is by NCTE member Cody Miller. An English professor I had as an undergraduate gave the best justification …
Celebrating Poet Rita Dove
August 28 is the birthday of American poet Rita Dove, who reportedly told Black American Literature Forum,“There’s no reason to subscribe authors …
Poetry Is the Light: Children Need to Let Their Words Shine
This post was written by NCTE member Valerie Bolling. Amanda Gorman. In the short time since most of us …
Alleviating the Summer “Monkey Mind”
This post is written by NCTE student member Kristeen Cherney. That first week after classes were over, I had a …
The Right to Write Ourselves
Just as our students must have the right to read, broadly and with choice, they also must have the right …
Making Hybrids Work
This post is written by members Jason Snart and Joanna Paull, who published Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for …
A “Week 2” Perspective on NCTE Reads
This post was written by NCTE member Vikki Orepitan. For the second week of NCTE Reads, we focused on …
Letter to a Young English Teacher
An NCTE member recently brought this “Letter to a Young English Teacher” by David E. Kirkland to our attention and …
Mrs. Stuart Goes to Washington
This post is written by the 2017 NCTE Kent Williamson Policy Fellow Lauren Stuart. This will be the first of …
Build Your Stack: NCTE Children’s Book Award–Winning Titles for the African American Read-In
This post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused on helping teachers build their book knowledge and their classroom …