Teaching New Genres: The PSA in ELA Class
This post was written by NCTE member Jessica S. Early, reprinted with permission from K-12 Talk. I was filled …
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929. Following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, he was ordained …
Q & A with NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick
This text is reprinted from the March 2016 Council Chronicle. NCTE’s new executive director Emily Kirkpatrick, formerly vice president of …
Translanguaging outside the Academy
This post was written by NCTE member Rachel Bloom-Pojar. Sometimes our students need to go outside of the contexts …
Can Close Reading Be Inspiring?
The following post is excerpted from an article by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp called Learning Cycles That …
Resolve to Strengthen Your Civically Engaged English Teaching with the NCTE Citizenship Campaign
The following post was written by members of the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship. “In a democracy, free and universal …
The Finite Game of the Science of Reading
This post was written by NCTE member Dorothy S. Suskind. What game are we playing? What rules are we …
“Can We Do This Every Day?” Why One School Has Joined the African American Read-In for Nearly Two Decades
By: Talika Mock-Green, NCTE member, child advocate, and former bookkeeper, parent facilitator, and event coordinator at Bells Elementary School in …
Writing and Human Judgment
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing, written by the Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints …
Crisis Teaching During COVID 19: Pivoting Before Perseverance
This post was written by NCTE member Oona Marie Abrams. Even as a mercurial adolescent, it was hard for …