If You Find Yourself with Time on Your Hands—WRITE!
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing note, Writing grows out of many different purposes [including] developing social networks; engaging …
Honoring Jupiter Hammon, the First Published African American Poet
Jupiter Hammon, the first African American to publish poetry in the United States, was born in Lloyd Harbor, New York, …
Refresh, Recharge, Renew: Summertime as Growth for Teachers
The following post was written by Shawna Coppola (@ShawnaCoppola) and Lisa Fink (@fink_girl), hosts of this Sunday’s #nctechat, which will explore …
Celebrating The National Day on Writing® with Texts from NCTE!
The National Day on Writing® celebrates writing—and the many places, reasons, and ways we write each day—as an essential component …
The Magic of One-Pagers
This blog post was written by NCTE member Jill Yamasawa Fletcher. “I hate reading in school,” sighed one of …
Small Steps for Self-Care in Troubling Times
These tips were shared by NCTE member Yvonne El Ashmawi in 2017 in The Council Chronicle (December 2017.) This year …
What Going Back to the Classroom Taught Me about Global Citizenship
By: Jillian M. Kneeland, member, NCTE’s Committee on Global Citizenship “Global citizenship goes way deeper than that. It goes into …
STEM and Writing
This post was written by NCTE member Joan Lange, reprinted with permission from the Association of Independent School Librarians (AISL.) …
Learning from Successful Challenges against Book Bans in 2022
This post was written by NCTE member Cody Miller. Earlier in the year, I wrote that the battle over book …
What’s a Book For? Some Things to Consider when Planning for Conversations
This post is written by NCTE member, Richard Meyer, who will be participating in a symposium at the Whole Language …