Random Acts of Literacy: Celebrating the National Day on Writing (October 20, 2017)
This post is written by member Peg Grafwallner. As NCTE’s National Day on Writing approached, I wasn’t quite sure how …
Coming of Age as a Boy in America: Emerging Masculinity as Rhetoric
The following excerpt is adapted from NCTE member Leigh Ann Jones’s book From Boys to Men: Rhetorics of Emergent American Masculinity, which …
Just a Few of Us Together Can Make a Difference
AFCON (Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska) is one of those small groups Margaret Mead was talking about in her quote …
Literacy Assessment as Advocacy: Learning to Be Literate: More than a Single Story, Part I
This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. So …
Writing and Reading are Related
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing, written by the Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints …
Global Citizenship: COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Global Identity, and Literature
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Heerak Kim, a member of …
Build Your Stack: The Power of Names: Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors
This post was written by NCTE members Rosanne Kurstedt and Jenny Tuten. It’s part of Build Your Stack,® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively …
More from the Authors of Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom
An excerpt from this text appears in the September 2019 issue of The Council Chronicle. In Restorative Justice in the English …
English Teachers as Contemporary Shamans
I am always behind in my reading, so today, I finally picked up the Winter 2017 edition of The ALAN …
How Storytelling Is a Path to a More Diverse, Empathetic World
From NCTE’s Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Jess Terbrueggen, who is also a …