#NCTE18: Friday Recap
Our first full day at the 2018 Annual Convention, we kicked into high gear! Today was packed with everything from …
Write a Letter!
December 7 is Letter Writing Day! Take a few minutes, and send someone a hand written letter. Then, invite your …
On Building Walls, On What They Cost
This post was written by member Erin O’Neill Armendarez. Amid threats of a government shutdown and gridlock over the DACA …
Build Your Stack: Girl Power! Sharing the Power, Courage, and Voice of Girls
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Join the 2016 Global Read Aloud
The 2016 Global Read Aloud kicks off October 3rd. NCTE member Pernille Ripp created the project in 2010 with a …
STEM and Writing
This post was written by NCTE member Joan Lange, reprinted with permission from the Association of Independent School Librarians (AISL.) …
“NCTE as a Teaching Conversation”
This Teacher Appreciation Week (As if that should only happen one week a year!) has me thinking about an article …
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut
November 11 is the birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, a writer who was also a veteran. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, …
Say That To My Face: On Teaching and Learning Diverse Literature for Empowerment and Transformation (Or, On Feeling Itchy)
This post is excerpted from a Voices from the Middle article by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. The more books there are, …
Sarah Stitzlein Honored With NCTE’s 2025 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
On the George Orwell Award’s 50th anniversary, Stitzlein calls for explicitly teaching honesty The National Council of Teachers of English …