June #NCTEchat: Reading Challenging Texts
“When students learn about and from challenging texts, they learn to read the word and the world.” —James S. Chisholm …
Celebrating Shakespeare with NCTE
On April 23 in 1564, William Shakespeare was born. It’s been said that Shakespeare’s complete works consist of 884,647 words …
Remembering Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She was also one of the …
bell hooks and Visual Politics in the Classroom
By: Darius Phelps, member, NCTE’s Committee on Global Citizenship As researchers and practitioners, we hold a sacred responsibility to inspire …
Field Notes: Introducing the 2017-18 Lead Ambassadors
Across my twenty years of working in literacy, there has been a common factor activating significant progress: NCTE members. Content …
Connecting Is as Easy as ABC
“We as individuals and as an organization are inventors of the future.” NCTE Past President Ernest Morrell spoke these words …
Fewer Texts for Deeper Understanding
by Lorna Collier In their new book, Beyond “Teaching to the Test”: Rethinking Accountability and Assessment for English Language Learners, …
A Book for the Ages
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you …
Out of Many, One
At the invitation of NCTE’s P12 policy analyst from Virginia, Chantal Winstead, I attended the Teach to Lead Summit in …
An Introduction to Research in the Teaching of English
This post is by members Ellen Cushman and Mary Juzwik, editors of Research in the Teaching of English. The best …