If Not the Five-Paragraph Essay, Then What? A Response to Kim Zarins’s Anti-FPE FPE
This post was written by NCTE member David Slomp. Twenty grade-six students mull around the newly installed benches. Excited. …
Metacognitive Writing Assignments & Student-Athletes
This post was written by NCTE member J. Michael Rifenburg. I recently returned from Kansas City, where the Annual Convention …
Advocating for What Students Know: Creating Culturally Responsive Assessment Practices for Linguistic Equity
This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. …
Members Share Stories of Their Meaningful Involvement in Affiliates, Part 2
This post comes courtesy of the “Affiliate Voices” column by Lori Goodson in the September 2019 issue of Voices from …
Looking Forward to the 2018 NCTE Annual Convention!
I am so looking forward to joining thousands of other educators, administrators, curriculum coordinators, teacher educators, and education professionals in …
What Do Standardized Assessments Measure?
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of …
Field Notes: Join Us in the Summer Sandbox
While we are always filled with energy for serving our community, this summer has an unusually swift pace. We are …
Recognizing International Women’s Day
In 1977, when the women who would establish the National Women’s History Alliance began planning a women’s history week, they …
An Argument for the Dark Side of Literature for Young People
“It’s a natural human urge to protect our kids from everything that could hurt them—and it’s an urge we seem …
Movies of Censored Books, with a Little Advice
While students on the coasts can expect another six weeks or so of school—kind of like our six weeks of …