The 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
On July 26, 2020, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The ADA was signed into …
From Convention to Classroom: Teachers Share What They’ve Learned
In this post, participants in the 2018 NCTE Annual Convention share what they brought back to their schools. …
Advocacy through Relationship: Making the Story Personal
This is a guest blog by Becky Sipe, Chair of NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL). One of my strongest …
MLA 8: We Are Here, But Should We Have Come?
(American Attitudes toward the New Version of the Popular Documentation Style) This post is written by member Beth Gulley. I’m …
Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change: 2017 CCCC Annual Convention
This is the 2017 CCCC Call for Program Proposals by Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, the Program Chair for the 2017 Annual Convention …
Celebrating 100 Years of James Baldwin
This year, we will be celebrating 100 years of James Baldwin. Novelist, essayist, and social critic James Baldwin was born …
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver
The following post is excerpted from “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver,” an article by Rob Baker from the March …
Translanguaging outside the Academy
This post was written by NCTE member Rachel Bloom-Pojar. Sometimes our students need to go outside of the contexts …
Reading Outside Our Cultural Comfort Zones
This post was written by NCTE member Kathryn Fishman-Weaver. An article I saw in a well-respected newspaper referred to …
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 …