#Twitter in October
In the past, those who organized to advocate would communicate by calling each other on landline phones or by plastering …
April 2020 #NCTEChat: The Joy of Reading
Join us next Sunday, April 19, at 8:00 p.m. ET for an #NCTEchat focusing on the joy of reading in …
An Opportunity to Expand Perspectives
Last year Jennifer Watson, an AP Literature and Composition teacher at Octorara High School in Atglen, PA hosted her first African …
Who Can Speak Freely on Your Campus?
The campus speech wars will continue in 2018 according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN America, in a recent interview …
Dignity and Education of Immigrant, Undocumented, and Unaccompanied Youth
What’s happening in your local jurisdiction to support teachers, administrators, and local education agencies in the education of immigrant, undocumented, …
Hard Topics Can Lead to Good Kids’ Books
This text is excerpted from the article by Adrienne Samuels Gibbs in The Council Chronicle (March 2016.) Difficult topics are …
Texts Most Frequently Taught in US Secondary Classrooms Are Nearly Identical to List from Decades Ago
Nationwide survey of 4,000 English teachers funded by the National Council of Teachers of English finds that most secondary school …
A Writing Professor Throws a Spark
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats Last week I …
Celebrating The National Day on Writing® with Texts from NCTE!
The National Day on Writing® celebrates writing—and the many places, reasons, and ways we write each day—as an essential component …
Annie Moore, New Year, New Country
Annie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Ireland, became the first person to enter Ellis Island on New Year’s Day, 1892. …