December 2018 #NCTEchat: Spirited Inquiry
“How would learning and teaching be different if schools were designed to celebrate and foster inquiry? If teachers were encouraged …
The Ways of a Challenge
A book challenge is personal. A teacher hears someone telling them that their values—the values that led to their use …
A Year to Remember
The most popular Intellectual Freedom Center blogs for 2018 each scored a place in the top 100 NCTE blogs for …
Lights! Camera! Action! Using Film as a Tool in the Classroom
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held during this week in 1929. To celebrate this milestone, here are some resources for …
Celebrate the Birthdays of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling!
It’s a double birthday! J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, in Bristol, England. From the stories that Rowling tells …
Translanguaging outside the Academy
This post was written by NCTE member Rachel Bloom-Pojar. Sometimes our students need to go outside of the contexts …
There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times
The following post was created by members of NCTE’s Standing Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. …
Reclaiming the Experience of Poetry
This post was written by NCTE member Kyle Vaughn, author of Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises (NCTE, 2018). Poetry …
A Tribute to Lillian Bridwell-Bowles (1947-2024)
This post was written by Doug Hesse, a past President of NCTE and former CCCC Chair. When Lillian Bridwell-Bowles …
Teaching Black Children Cultural Identity Through Magic, Folklore, and Myth
This post was written by guest author Ryan Douglass. This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on …