Media Literacy in Today’s Milieu of Mass and Social Media
From the Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) This post was written by NCTE and ACE members J. Patrick …
Methods, Non-methods?
This post is written by James Davis, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst from Iowa. At the 2015 NCTE Annual Convention in …
Language, Limits, and Literacy: Student Learning and Student Lives
The following excerpt is from an essay by Kim Irvine, another of the wonderful submissions to the NCTE Arts of …
Support Literacy Learners This Summer and All Year Long
Research tells us that children and teens who don’t read and write outside of school, especially during long breaks such …
Maintaining Professional Wellness with NCTE
This post was written by NCTE member Claudia Marschall. NCTE membership may seem like a luxury, but I consider …
Using a Global Lens to Teach the Poetry of War
This post was written by NCTE member Gabrielle Plastrik. As a person who loves poetry and believes that there …
Adults Just Don’t Think Like Kids
The problem is that adults just don’t think like kids. Kids often don’t notice what adults see as objectionable in …
A Book Is a Precious Thing
Writing in this blog about how precious books are is, as they say, preaching to the choir. We are the …
Taking Voices from the Middle into the Classroom
Whether you are an elementary language arts teacher or a literature professor, NCTE has a peer-reviewed journal for you, with …
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 …