Today is Drop Everything And Read Day!
April 12 is known as D.E.A.R Day! D.E.A.R. stands for “Drop Everything and Read,” a national month-long celebration of reading …
Poetry Bracket Tournament
Now that it’s March, it’s the perfect time to host a Poetry Bracket Tournament! The idea is to create a …
Grounding Our Teaching in Research
The following excerpts come from an article entitled Grounding Our Teaching in Research: Implications from Research in the Teaching of English, 2009–12 …
Media Literacy Week 2021
October 25–29, 2021, is Annual Media Literacy Week in the United States. The mission of this week is to highlight …
Seniors’ Memories Inspire Students
This post is written by member Elizabeth Arnstein. As a teacher of American literature, I read a lot of student …
The Magic Bullet
This post is written by member Christopher Margolin. Prior to the first bell on the first day of my teaching …
The Ripple Effect of Award Lists
The following post was written by Stacey Ross, a 2nd-grade teacher in Austin, Texas, and Franki Sibberson who teaches 3rd grade in …
July #NCTEchat: Everyday Advocacy
Cathy Fleischer (@CathyFleischer1), Eastern Michigan University Antero Garcia (@anterobot), Stanford University, CA July 15, 2018 – 8 p.m. EST This …
Is Speech Free at Your University?
As noted by theFire.org, Public universities are bound by the First Amendment. Their policies and practices must protect, and never …
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline in and out of the English Classroom
This post was written by NCTE member, Nicole Mirra. I remember casting my vote last November to approve the NCTE …