When Shift Happens: Teaching Adaptive, Reflective, and Confident Writers
The following post is from Matthew Kilian McCurrie, an Associate Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches undergraduate …
What Happened in Your State This May?
During May, six policy analysts published reports about what occurred in California, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. School …
Build Your Stack: Girls of the Crescent
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Setting Students Up for Being Interested, Lifelong Language Users
This post was written by NCTE member Deborah Dean, the author of the new Quick Resource Guide (QRG) “Teaching Grammar …
ReadWriteThink.org A-Z, Part 2
In Part 1, we took a look at RWT from A to C. In this post, we will cover D-H. …
Join #nctechat this Sunday to explore #WhyIWrite
The theme of this year’s National Day on Writing on October 20th is #WhyIWrite, which will also be the topic …
Literature and the African American Read-In
To be recognized as an official African American Read-In Host, it’s easy as I,2,3: Select books, poems, speeches (anything) authored …
Changing the Conversation on Assessment with Administrators
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Assessment This blog was written by Bobbie Kabuto, a member of the NCTE …
Writing Grows Out of Many Purposes
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing, written by a committee of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues …
Remembering Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She was also one of the …