What Teachers Can Learn from Web Designers
Teachers who want to engage students may be able to learn from successful websites. The Internet is rife with digital …
Language, Limits, and Literacy: Student Learning and Student Lives
The following excerpt is from an essay by Kim Irvine, another of the wonderful submissions to the NCTE Arts of …
Genius Hour: Critical Inquiry and Differentiation
In the August English Leadership Quarterly, teacher Elaine Simos explores the Genius Hour. The following excerpts from her article answer …
Kick-Starting Innovation
Nothing like time learning with your colleagues—something respondents on surveys rate as one of the most preferred forms of professional …
Teaching Is a Skill in an Art Form
As I recently watched three dancers, one from New York, one from Richmond, and one from Washington, DC, dance seamlessly …
The Power of Our Inquiry
The following text by Timothy O’Keefe is an excerpt from Looking Closely & Listening Carefully: Learning Literacy through Inquiry by …
Will Poetry Be Done Tomorrow?
I was recently talking about Kwame Alexander’s Newbery-winning book The Crossover with my eighth graders. My students were really into …
Can Close Reading Be Inspiring?
The following post is excerpted from an article by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp called Learning Cycles That …
What Is the Role of Poetry in Literacy Learning?
The following post was written by Mary Lee Hahn and Janet Wong who will host an #NCTEchat this Sunday April 19 …
The True Meaning of Teaching
Council Historian Paul Thomas writes a letter to his students, particularly pertinent at this end-of- semester grading time. He explains …