Build Your Stack: Ensuring Black Girls Access to Science Fiction
This Build Your Stack post was written by NCTE member Stephanie Toliver. The September 2019 Council Chronicle includes Toliver’s interview with …
Unexpected Rewards: Teacher Corps Empowers and Invigorates
NCTE has long promoted intellectual freedom and defended against attempts to remove books from schools. In the face of unprecedented …
Shifting Assessment “Home” Part I: Inviting Students to Self-Evaluation
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE members Kathryn Mitchell Pierce and Chris …
Taking Language Arts into the Classroom
Whether you are an elementary language arts teacher or a literature professor, NCTE has a peer-reviewed journal for you, with …
Today Starts Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week 2019 will be held September 22–28. The theme of this year’s event is “Censorship Leaves Us in …
Libraries Can Be LGBTQ-Affirming Spaces on School Campuses
This blog was written by NCTE member Vanessa Perez, a member of the NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Advisory …
Texts and Resources About September 11th
There was recently a post on Twitter by Holli Hartman @holli_85 asking for poetry examples that could be used around the …
Conventions and the Relationship between Writers and Readers
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing, written by a committee of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues …
Literacy Assessment Principles and Practices: Avenues for Helping Literacy Learners
This blog was written by NCTE members Scott Filkins, Becky McCraw, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, members of NCTE’s Standing Committee …
#NCTEchat: Teaching Controversial Works of Literature
Hosted by: Jim Brooks, @TeachGoodThings Join us for a lively conversation about the challenging texts we choose to use in the classroom. …