Preparing Your Classroom Space
- NCTE’s Build Your Stack® — building book knowledge and classroom libraries
- Your back to school checklist: getting your school year off to a strong start
- *Free* Educators’ Guides (3) for the Classroom Design Book
Caring for Yourself
“This series has been a reminder to me that I need my people to stay inspired, creative, and focused. Grateful for this community in a new way this year.” — Sarah Franco
- From the Council Chronicle, A Q&A with Alexandria Peary, “What does Mindfulness offer Teachers?”
- From Yvonne El Ashwami: “Small Steps for Self-Care in Troubling Times”
- NCTE Career Center
Engaging Your Students
- Learn about NCTE’s Student Writing Awards
“To this day, I am beholden to the teacher and school that allowed so many of us to find and define our writing voices—voices that would eventually take many of us far.” — Jocelyn Chadwick, NCTE Past President
- NCTE Blog: Student As Classroom Community Builders
- From the Council Chronicle: Student Writing Contests Encourage Civic Engagement
Teaching in Challenging Times
“…no one has been as responsive as you have, and for that I am deeply grateful. Thanks for putting the weight of a national organization behind this problem. This is what advocacy looks like.” — Secondary teacher in New Hampshire
- NCTE’s Intellectual Freedom Center
- Professional Liability Insurance
- Book Rationales Database
- From English Journal: “Lots of Ways to Be Brave: A Teacher’s Guide to Facing Censorship”
- Teaching English in the Two-Year College: “Trauma-Informed Writing Pedagogy: Ways to Support Student Writers Affected by Trauma and Traumatic Stress”
- A Conversation with Laura Pappano
- The Union of Civics and ELA and the Civics Guide
Additional resources to help with the back-to-school transition
Be in community with your ELA colleagues
- Teaching English in the Two-Year College: “How to Create and Communicate Weekly Check-Ins to Promote Community and Belonging”
- Register for the 2024 NCTE Annual Convention
Plan lessons with trusted, peer-reviewed materials
- Browse ReadWriteThink
Take a moment for inspiration
- Watch comedian and author Trevor Noah thank the ELA community.
- Visit the NCTE Video Library to explore the broad selection of recorded online learning.