We Shouldn’t Always Feel Comfortable: Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters
This blog, written by Christina Torres is reprinted from the October 15, 2017, Education Week Teacher, and published with permission from …
Raising Voices: Creating a Storytelling Club
This post is written by member Kevin D. Cordi. The school day ends. Essays on The Canterbury Tales are finished. …
Tasking Time and Taking Time
This post is written by member Oona Marie Abrams, editor of English Leadership Quarterly. It’s 3:00 p.m. on the last …
Field Notes: Pardon Our Dust
If you happen across NCTE’s website in the next few days, you’re likely to find yourself in the middle of …
Writing is Embedded
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing, written by a committee of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues …
Keeping a Record of the Reading Life
This post is written by member Molly Sutton Kiefer. When I was young, I’d ask my father, a literature and …
National Day on Writing: A Seed of Extravagant Potential
This post is written by member Caroline Brewer. I was thinking a National Day on Writing project would be a …
A Book Ban Like No Other
A few weeks ago a newspaper editor from the Panhandle of Florida contacted the Intellectual Freedom Center with a challenge. …
Why We Write
This post is written by members Amy Miller and Meghan Jones. “Writing can be my best friend.” “Writing to me …
Teaching Composition Using Transcripts
This post is written by members Kate Artz, Danah Hashem, and Anne Mooney. One of the biggest challenges of teaching …