Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
The everyday experience of writing in people’s lives has expanded dramatically. In February 2016, NCTE sunsetted the The Beliefs about …
Mrs. Stuart Goes to Washington: Policy Brief, Assessment and Back to School
This post is written by the 2017 NCTE Kent Williamson Policy Fellow Lauren Stuart. This is part of a weekly …
The Ten Journals of NCTE
As a teacher, I often spend the summer getting caught up on things I set aside during the school year. …
Can Poetry Help Us To Shape a More Just World?
This is the fourth installment of the NCTE Citizenship Campaign, a blog series sponsored by the NCTE Standing Committee on …
A Collaborative Effort
This post is written by NCTE member, Lauren Petri. I have not spoken for almost ten entire minutes in my …
Literacy and Culture: Are We Rising?
The words in this blog belong to NCTE member Jeff Wilhelm. I spent today in Berlin and then took the …
Methods, Non-methods?
This post is written by James Davis, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst from Iowa. At the 2015 NCTE Annual Convention in …
Why Journalism Matters #1 Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Thesis vs. Lede
This is the second in a weekly series by NCTE member Alana Rome. How to teach essay writing: it’s one …
Recognizing the Importance of Scholastic Journalism
This blog post is by NCTE member Alana Rome. It is the first in a weekly series. Most successful and …
National Poetry Month: Writing Poetry
Help students recognize the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing poetry, and you’ll also enable the students to …