Build Your Stack: It Takes a Village: Books That Remind Us Who We Are and Who We Are Becoming
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,™ a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Teaching for the Dream of Diversity in Arkansas
This blog is written by Dr. Kay J. Walter, active member of the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English and …
The Pen Is Mighty Indeed
Why else would people take writing so seriously? Some think writing so powerful that their children will turn into sorcerers …
Digital Storytelling and the Digital Divide
This post was written by NCTE members Tisha Lewis Ellison and Marva Solomon, and is adapted from their article “Counter-Storytelling vs. …
Celebrate Teachers – This Week and Year Round!
This week brings is Teacher Appreciation Week! Since 1984, the National PTA has designated time each May for communities nationwide …
Celebrating Mister Rogers!
Fred Rogers, better known as “Mister Rogers,” began developing his ideas for children’s programming in the 1950s. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood …
The Magic of One-Pagers
This blog post was written by NCTE member Jill Yamasawa Fletcher. “I hate reading in school,” sighed one of …
April 7 is the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of William Wordsworth!
“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” ~ William Wordsworth On April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was …
2019 Notable Poetry Books
“Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief—everything that is human.” —F. Sionil José Each year, the Excellence in Poetry for Children Award committee …
“Cultivating Puzzlement”
A lot of lip service is being paid to teaching literacy in all subject areas in school. But when we …