Field Notes: Reflections from Banned Books Week
Recently, NCTE President Valerie Kinloch and ALA President Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada wrote a joint op-ed around the dangers of banning …
NCTE Creates Book Rationale Database with Penguin Random House Education Grant
NCTE’s Intellectual Freedom Center website will soon have a new feature: an active database of book rationales. While NCTE has …
Our Podcast Story
This post was written by NCTE members Matthew Kruger-Ross and Pauline Schmidt. Our podcast story is quite unique—it started …
(NaNoWriMo) 30-Day Challenge: Building Stronger Writers
This blog post was written by NCTE member Lee Ann van der Kwast. When the weather gets cool and the …
One Story, One Book Banning: Persepolis
Recently, my book club read and discussed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution. …
Build Your Stack: Books on Educational Freedom That Keep Me Coming Back
This post was written by NCTE member Nathaniel Madden and is part of Build Your Stack,® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively on helping …
Foregrounding Potential, Not Disorder, in Neurodiverse Students
This post is by NCTE member, Peter Smagorinsky. As a teacher, I have always hoped to cultivate my students’ potential …
Open Call for Resolutions
When school lets out, we often find the headspace to step out of the day-to-day and consider the bigger picture …
Literacy Leadership
There’s an interesting relationship between advocacy and leadership: effective leaders are advocates for the issues shared by their colleagues. You …
#NCTEchat: Black Girls’ Literacies
There is a fantastic #nctechat coming up this Sunday at 8pm on “Black Girls’ Literacies.” It is inspired by the …