Build Your Stack: Memoir and Reading Choice
This blog post was written by NCTE member Carolyn Ford. It is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively …
“Connecting People to Their Natural Love of Stories”
In the upper Northwest, above the borders of Idaho and Montana, lies the Alberta English Language Arts Council whose mission reads, …
Writing “For Every One”
This post was written by NCTE member Jason D. DeHart. In 1999, I was an uncertain teenager who was doing …
Hard Topics Can Lead to Good Kids’ Books
This text is excerpted from the article by Adrienne Samuels Gibbs in The Council Chronicle (March 2016.) Difficult topics are …
A Statewide Collaboration
This is a guest blog written by Valerie Taylor, NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst for Texas. In the spring of 2015, …
A Conference Framework to Champion Self-Advocacy
This post was written by members Marissa E. King and Karen Sheriff LeVan. Classrooms and especially student writing conferences should …
Earth Day 2024
Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attended the inaugural events across …
Have You Checked Out the Stellar Speaker Lineup for the 2020 NCTE Virtual Convention?
At NCTE’s first-ever Virtual Annual Convention you’ll have the opportunity to hear from inspiring speakers who care about literacy as much …
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 …
Our US Poet Laureate and Hispanic Heritage
The following post was written by NCTE member and College Section Chair R. Joseph Rodriguez. In the United States, from September …