July 2019 #NCTEchat: Questioning and Reimagining Our Teaching of the Canon
Join us this Sunday, July 21, at 8:00 p.m. ET for an #NCTEchat about questioning and reimagining the canon with …
Recognizing the Success of the Humanities Community: An Update from the National Humanities Alliance
This post was contributed by Beatrice Gurwitz, deputy director of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), of which NCTE is a member. This …
The Power of Journalism
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Ida B. Wells’s work as a journalist provided …
The Power of Story and Classroom Management in Affirming Sexual and Gender Diversity
From the NCTE LGBTQ Advisory Committee This blog post was written by Katherine Mason Cramer, a member of the NCTE …
Build Your Stack: Intersectional Voices, Realities, New Visions
This post was written by NCTE member Julia Torres. It is part of Build Your Stack,® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively on helping …
Who Gets to Decide?
This week I bumped into two different stories on the radio. Each was discussing the questions “Who gets to decide?” …
Summer Writing with Zines
Zines are small-circulation self-published works of original or appropriated texts and images. In 2018 some fans of zines declared July …
Key Aspects of Critical Literacy: An Excerpt
This is an excerpt from “Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing,” a Research and Policy column written …
From Convention to Classroom: Teachers Share What They’ve Learned
In this post, participants in the 2018 NCTE Annual Convention share what they brought back to their schools. …
Texts, Your Students, and the First Amendment
For many years, American schools have been pressured to restrict or deny students access to texts deemed objectionable by some …