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 …
The Learning Continues Well After the Convention!
This post was written by NCTE member Kasey Short. This year will be my fifth year in a row attending …
Build Your Stack: A Glimpse into the Literature of Iran
This post was written by NCTE member Michelle Bianco and is part of Build Your Stack,® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively on helping …
Three Days and Two Hands Full of Intellectual Freedom Sessions
The NCTE Annual Convention begins tomorrow and the Faces of Advocacy program includes sessions on intellectual freedom and challenges to …
Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry
This text is excerpted from The Council Chronicle (March 2016), in which Kathy G. Short summarized thoughts from her 2015 …
Celebrate International Dot Day!
The only real guideline for Dot Day is that folks read The Dot and then express themselves in any way …
The Practical Book Writing Instructors Are Dying For: Hands-on, Ready-to-Use Classroom Activities
This blog post was written by NCTE members and authors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad. As writing teachers, …
Shifting Assessment “Home” Part I: Inviting Students to Self-Evaluation
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE members Kathryn Mitchell Pierce and Chris …
Build Your Stack®: Embracing Every Hue: Racial Literacy & Radical Love Via Poetry
This blog post was written by NCTE member Darius Phelps, member of the Build Your Stack® Committee. This post is …
Student Literary Magazines Take Students from Writers to Authors
This post was written by NCTE member Lee Ann van der Kwast. This was my fourth year as the …