June Is Black Music Month!
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter declared that June would be Black Music Month. The goal was that this would be …
Get Ready for the Read-In
In that strange way that new years tend to begin, this one is off to a running start already which …
Student-Generated Questions, Part 1: Making Space for Student Voices, Perspectives, and Identities
This post was written by NCTE member Chris Hass, past member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. A …
The Desire for Literacy 3: Lee Ann
This is the third of eight excerpts we will be offering from Lauren Rosenberg’s The Desire for Literacy: Writing in …
March is Women’s History Month
On March 1, 1987, Congress passed a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month. The theme for this year is “Valiant …
Native Education and the Pursuit of Happiness
The following post is the third in a series by Jonna Perrillo, NCTE’s Historian. “Indian people need to be doers, rather …
Poetry Lesson: Visualizing and Thinking about Persona
This is an excerpt from 360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing (Chapter 2), by Eileen …
Preparing Students to Be Creators of Knowledge
“How do you prepare students to be inhabitants of a scientist’s world, a historian’s world, or a legislator’s world? How …
More Than the Right to Read
This post was written by NCTE historian Jonna Perrillo. This is an excerpt from a piece that appeared in Education …
Preview of English Journal: Black Textual Expressivities, Guest Edited by David Kirkland
The following post is by Julie Gorlewski and David Gorlewski, NCTE members and editors of English Journal. Finding love in …