The Power of Song, or Is It Really the Lyrics?
He leaves his dishes in the sink, thinking leprechauns put them in the dishwasher. She wants to talk during the …
The Power of Our Inquiry
The following text by Timothy O’Keefe is an excerpt from Looking Closely & Listening Carefully: Learning Literacy through Inquiry by …
The Power of Memoir: Unleashing Students’ Experiences
This post was written by NCTE member Deborah Dean. It was my second year teaching, and I thought writing …
The Power of Just Shutting Up
This post is written by NCTE member Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, the 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. Last fall, I spent two …
The Power of Journalism
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Ida B. Wells’s work as a journalist provided …
The Power of Assessing Our Positionality
This blog post was written by NCTE member Dr. Marlee Bunch. Recently, I collaborated with Smith College instructors to …
The Post, The First Amendment, and The Student Press
I went to see The Post the other day, and I confess that I cried when the Supreme Court ruled …
THE Place to Say YA to Reading: “Viva La Reading Revolution!”
Maybe you’ve come off Banned Books Week thinking about introducing more young adult literature into your classroom or maybe you’re …
The Peritextual Literacy Framework as a Teaching and Critical Thinking Tool
This post was written by Shelbie Witte, Don Latham, and Melissa Gross, editors of Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis (ALA …
The Pen Is Mighty Indeed
Why else would people take writing so seriously? Some think writing so powerful that their children will turn into sorcerers …