Why Students Should Protest and Teachers Should Teach
This is a guest post written by Christian Czaniecki. Yesterday, I watched on the news as students from Blair High School …
Black Women’s Lives as Inquiry Artifacts: Pedagogical Approaches to #SayHerName
This is an excerpt from “#Say[ing]HerName as Critical Demand: English Education in the Age of Erasure,” by Tamara T. Butler, …
Guidelines for Addressing Censorship in 2018 and Beyond
This blog was written by Antero Garcia, chair of the working committee that produced the new “Guidelines for Dealing with …
Making Change with LGBTQ Literature
There’s a great article in the March Council Chronicle, “Teachers as Change Agents: Piloting an LGBTQ Book Club for Middle-Grade …
Getting Started? Getting Going!
This blog is by member and 2016 NCTE Distinguished Service Award winner Anna J. Small Roseboro, NBCT. …
#Twitter in October
In the past, those who organized to advocate would communicate by calling each other on landline phones or by plastering …
Removing Shame and Embarrassment from Grammar Instruction
By: Patty McGee, NCTE member and literacy consultant, author, and educator “Grammar police.” “Edit or regret it.” “I am silently …
Field Notes: Turning the Pages of a New Book
Long ago I realized the big things in literacy – big ideas, initiatives, concepts that move our country and world …
January 2020 #NCTEChat: Literacy in a Digital Age
Join us this Sunday, January 19, at 8:00 p.m. ET for an #NCTEchat focusing on our latest position statement, NCTE’s …
Celebrating World Poetry Day
As a classroom teacher, at this time of year I always looked forward to April and to teaching poetry during …