Mom Knows Best: The One Piece of Teaching Advice to Remember
This blog post was written by NCTE member Ashlan Bishop. My mom was an elementary teacher, and she was an …
A Statewide Collaboration
This is a guest blog written by Valerie Taylor, NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst for Texas. In the spring of 2015, …
Shifting Assessment “Home” Part I: Inviting Students to Self-Evaluation
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE members Kathryn Mitchell Pierce and Chris …
“Manga and the Autistic Mind”
While comic books were once dismissed as junk, more teachers today recognize the value of graphic novels in the teaching …
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 …
Collaboration, Without the Eye-Rolling
There’s a growing body of research out there that shows collaborative time for professional learning is critical to school improvement. …
A Dozen Resources to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In anticipation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, engage with these classroom resources focused on Dr. King and texts he wrote. The …
Censorship Is Uncivil
“Censorship is uncivil,” notes David Moshman in a March 2015 interview in The Council Chronicle discussing NCTE Position Statement on …
Human Judgment and Writing
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing, written by a committee of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues …
Mental Health Themes and the ELA Classroom: A Guide for Your Summer Reading
This post was written by NCTE members Brooke Eisenbach and Susan Densmore-James. Recently, the US Surgeon General issued an …