How Students Helped to Discover the Relevancy of Poetry in the 21st Century
This post is written by member Christopher Margolin. Teachers tend to teach poetry because they feel it has supposed to …
Field Notes: NCTE’s New Vision Statement
“As the nation’s oldest organization of pre-K through graduate school literacy educators, NCTE has a rich history of deriving expertise …
The End of School Movie
Out here in Central Illinois, many schools will be ending their 2017-18 terms in two weeks. There will be final …
A Weeklong Unit to Explore Poetry Forms
This post was written by NCTE member Jessica Covert, reprinted with permission from Edutopia. Teaching poetry is daunting for high …
AAPI and the NCTE Video Library
Held during the month of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI Heritage Month) is an annual celebration …
Teachers Are Page Turners
This past weekend, I witnessed more than 100 teachers in Dublin, Ohio, enmeshed in professional learning—by choice, on a Saturday. …
Exploring Identity through Poetic Inquiry: The Legacy of R.A. Villanueva’s Reliquaria
From NCTE’s Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Darius Phelps, who is also a …
Community Members to the Rescue
The quietest dream team in any censorship challenge is usually made up of those community members who support teachers and …
Our School Librarian and Me
This post is written by Joanne Yatvin, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst for Oregon. At the elementary school where I was …
Promoting Global Citizenship in Daily Teaching
This post is the first in a series on “Action in Second Language Writing,” which will run up to the …