What Follows Professional Learning? Staying Connected
After returning from a professional learning experience like the NCTE Annual Convention, attendees are often energized and reinvigorated. They want …
Teachers to Whom I Am Grateful
An important part of advocacy is to thank the stakeholders, policymakers, and staff with whom one meets, especially if they …
Nurturing Literacy, Not Test-Taking
The following excerpt from Dawn Kirby’s post on the blog Writers Who Care is reprinted by permission. Literacy as …
Moving from “Them” to “Us”
This month’s English Leadership Quarterly includes Christina Saidy’s article “Moving from Them to Us: Making New Arguments about Teaching and …
The Desire for Literacy 2: George
This is the second of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …
Award Winning and Other Titles from NCTE
If there’s one thing every teacher relies on, it’s probably books. Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, picture books—no matter what genre …
NCTE, Advocacy and You
I am here at the NCTE convention talking with our amazing members about advocacy. Here is some of the information …
Revision Makes My Students Thirsty
The following is from Noreen Moore’s piece at the blog Writers Who Care, reprinted here by permission: On a …
2015 Outstanding Middle Level Educator: Sandra Kowalczyk
The following interview was conducted and written by Amy Gutierrez Baker, an educator at West Jefferson Middle School in Colorado …
The Desire for Literacy 1: Chief
This is the first of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …