ESSA Provides Opportunity for More NBCTs in North Carolina
This post is written by NCTE member Justin Parmenter. Since the inception of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards …
Professional and Personal Learning Networks
You may have heard the abbreviations PLN, PLC and PLE used in teaching conversations, and they may have even been …
The Top Ten Professional Learning Opportunities from NCTE in 2015
What are some of the benefits of Online Professional Learning? You can recharge your teaching, learn new techniques and strategies, …
Insights from edTPA Implementation
Like any significant change to a major system, edTPA (a new performance-based assessment for licensing teachers) presents challenges and tensions …
Q & A with Les Perelman
Renowned scholar Les Perelman has dedicated his career to the support of powerful and authentic writing instruction. He has been an …
Kick-Starting Innovation
Nothing like time learning with your colleagues—something respondents on surveys rate as one of the most preferred forms of professional …
“I Will Plant Companionship”
These thoughts about classroom community from Katie Greene and Karen Conn Mitchum, excerpted from English Journal, seem particularly relevant right …
Professional Learning Worth Having
Every educator has at least one professional development horror story, and those make it hard to imagine advocating FOR more …
The Value of Connection
The following blog post grew out of comments NCTE member Michael Rifenburg shared during the online conversation you can view below. The …