What Your Transgender Student Wants You to Know
This post is by guest author and student James van Kuilenburg. No single transgender experience exists. Our community is diverse, comprising …
October is National Bullying Prevention Month
National Bullying Prevention Month is a nationwide campaign founded in 2006 by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. The campaign is …
Why Escher Hurts
Here is Rahul Malayappan’s essay entry in the 2016 Atlantic & College Board Writing Prize Contest. Rahul was a finalist …
Research of a Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case: Loving vs. Virginia
The following guest post is by author Patricia Hruby Powell. Powell will be one of our featured speakers at the Middle …
Why I Write
This is a guest post by author Cara Long. I keep trying to make this article profound, but I don’t …
The Night Before the National Day on Writing
Thanks to Lisa Fink for this blog. It’s the night before the National Day on Writing and maybe you’re still …
If Not the Five-Paragraph Essay, Then What? A Response to Kim Zarins’s Anti-FPE FPE
This post was written by NCTE member David Slomp. Twenty grade-six students mull around the newly installed benches. Excited. …
It’s All in the Details
This post is by guest author Candace Fleming who won the 2015 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for …
How Writing Is Shaping the Future of Literacy
This post is written by Deborah Brandt, emeritus member of NCTE, who will be the keynote speaker at the College Section/CCCC Luncheon at …
Get Ready for the National Day on Writing!
Americans write every day, every week, all year long, in many different forms and for many different purposes. To draw …