Assisting University Students with Personal Advocacy
This is a guest blog by Lisa Hazlett, NCTE’s Higher Education Policy Analyst from South Dakota. While university advocacy receiving …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don’t always get the same protection. …
Teaching ELA Students Active Citizenship
Advocacy has many benefits, including educational ones. In his 2005 English Journal article “Walking the Talk: Creating Engaged Citizens in …
Teaching Climate Change in English Language Arts
This is a guest blog written by Richard Beach, NCTE’s Higher Education Policy Analyst for Minnesota. Due to years of …
An Advocacy Adventure
This guest post is from James Davis, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst from Iowa. The mid-November email invitation from Lu Ann …
How do you get your students to be civically-minded?
March is NCTE’s official Literacy Education Advocacy Month! Literacy Education Advocacy Day in Washington DC kicked off the month long …
Coming Full Circle
This is a guest blog by Michael Moore, NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst for Georgia. It’s funny how some things come …
Standardizing College Readiness
The following post is the first in a new series by Jonna Perrillo, NCTE’s Historian. What is college readiness? This …
Advocacy Month Week 3: Sharing Your Stance with Others
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, NCTE member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Join us this Sunday for #nctechat: Everyday Advocacy
Does the state of education policy today overwhelm you? Does the thought of contacting your congressman or senator intimidate you? …