Advocating for Change in the Classroom: School Boards
School boards are pivotal in shaping the education of almost 50 million public school students nationwide. School boards are responsible …
Advocating for Challenging Texts and the Arts
This is an excerpt from “Fostering, Activating, and Curating: Approaching Books about Social Injustices with the Arts,” by Kathryn F. Whitmore, James …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don’t always get the same protection. …
Advocacy through Relationship: Making the Story Personal
This is a guest blog by Becky Sipe, Chair of NCTE’s Conference on English Leadership (CEL). One of my strongest …
Advocacy Month Week 4: Moving from Idea to Action Plan
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, NCTE member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Advocacy Month Week 3: Sharing Your Stance with Others
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, NCTE member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Advocacy Month Week 2: A More Sustained Approach to Making Change
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, NCTE member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Advocacy Month Week 1: What do you wish others understood about literacy?
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, NCTE member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry
This text is excerpted from The Council Chronicle (March 2016), in which Kathy G. Short summarized thoughts from her 2015 …
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 …