Summer Reflection: Thinking about Assessments K-8
We’ve talked before about the need to reclaim assessment, and reading through the hundreds of responses we’ve gotten for the …
February 14 is Frederick Douglass Day
We typically think of February 14 as Valentine’s Day, but there’s another reason to love the day—Frederick Douglass celebrated his …
Global Citizenship: Understanding the Value of Ethnic Subcultures
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Heerak Kim, a member of …
Media Literacy in Today’s Milieu of Mass and Social Media
From the Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) This post was written by NCTE and ACE members J. Patrick …
Grading Practices That Grow Writers
This is a guest post by Arina Bokas. Two years ago, I started to question my grading practices and what …
Women’s Equality Day is August 26th
Women’s Equality Day is August 26th. This year, it commemorates the 2020 centennial of the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth …
#Twitter in October
In the past, those who organized to advocate would communicate by calling each other on landline phones or by plastering …
NCTE Statement on the Doublespeak Award and Anti-Censorship Efforts
NCTE remains deeply committed to supporting excellent public language and is also in an important period of reflecting and considering …
Say YA to Reading
We hope you’ll join us this Sunday, September 20th at 8 PM ET for #nctechat on Twitter. Our topic will …
“Read for the fun of it!”
During the third full week of October, teens will be reading for the fun of it, as hundreds of libraries, …