Discussing Topics in Secondary English through Building and Annotating Playlists
This blog post was written by NCTE member and Secondary Section Steering Committee member Vaughn W. M. Watson. In …
Music in Our Schools Month is in March
March is Music in Our Schools Month, the time of year when educators display the benefits school music brings to …
Elementary Teachers Share Expertise and Inspiration with New Monthly Digital Resource from NCTE
Classroom Corridors features teacher-created content in a variety of formats and an online community to foster connection and support continuous …
Field Notes: Literacy Learning and Title II
We all begin our careers with foundational knowledge and quickly see how essential it is to keep growing and learning. …
Banned Books—Complex Like the Students We Teach
Right now school boards around the country are thinking about restricting texts that contain passages that some see as violent, …
Teaching for Responsibility and Independence
Join Terry Thompson @TerryTreads this Sunday for a conversation around “Teaching for Responsibility and Independence.” Terry is an author, teacher, …
Pairing Texts for Deepening Reading Comprehension
This post is written by member Kim Essenburg. “I was disappointed because when the librarian talked in class about this …
A “Week 2” Perspective on NCTE Reads
This post was written by NCTE member Vikki Orepitan. For the second week of NCTE Reads, we focused on …
“It’s a Check-Up!”
This post is written by Peg Grafwallner. Of course it’s not unusual to hear groans when the teacher mentions a …
On Being 90
The first thing to know about being 90 is that none of us who have lived to be 90 ever …