What Swim Classes Taught Me About Teaching
This post was written by NCTE member Shelby M. Boehm. I started taking swim classes this summer. I’ve spent …
Members Share Stories of Their Meaningful Involvement in Affiliates, Part 3
This post comes courtesy of the “Affiliate Voices” column by Lori Goodson in the September 2019 issue of Voices from …
The Missing Piece to Our Nation’s History: African American History Is American History
The National Coalition Against Censorship’s Student Advocates for Speech program was created in 2022 to provide participants with virtual advocacy …
Building Confianza
This post was written by Trisha Collopy, a Minneapolis-based writer and editor. When I spoke to Steven Alvarez in …
#WritingIs . . . Using the NCTE Professional Knowledge about the Teaching of Writing Statements in the Classroom
This post by NCTE member Lara Searcy first appeared 1/13/18. With 4 days left to the National Day on …
Books Matter Because Your Reading Life Matters
This post was written by NCTE Ambassador Lindsay Schneider. Books fill the space in my classroom—physically and metaphorically. When students, …
Announcing the 2019 NCTE Children’s Book Awards
Books have the power to transform lives, and the Charlotte Huck, Orbis Pictus, and Excellence in Poetry for Children awards …
Living in an Online, Immediate, Political, and Very Visual World
Here we are in 2017 with smart phones, computers, comic books, and so much more. A great deal of our …
Collaboration Is Key
Possibilities unfold when we work closely with colleges. This point was driven home by editors Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe …
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 …