Pride Month Reads from NCTE’s English Journal
In celebration of Pride Month this June, we’ve gathered articles published in NCTE’s award-winning journal of ideas English Journal in the past …
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 …
PRESSING FORWARD TO DISMANTLE THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE
This post is written by NCTE member Jamal Cooks. I am a married, African American professor of education with two …
President Barack Obama, a Poet?
Americans made history in 2008 by electing Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black U.S. president. In addition to his …
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers
How well do we prepare new teachers for the profession? This has long been a concern of NCTE. In 1968, …
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 …
Practicing Kindness
This post is written by member Holly Johnson. This is part of an ongoing monthly series from the NCTE Standing Committee on …
Practices That Support Listening
This post presents an excerpt from Katie Alford’s July 2020 English Journal article, “Explicitly Teaching Listening in the ELA Curriculum: …
Powerful Stories
The following post is excerpted from an article by Phil Johnson published in The Council Chronicle (November 2014.) Speaking to …
POST TRUTH? POST TRUST? Why Students Really Need a Civics Education
This post is written by member Susan Ellenberg. The emphasis on core academics has seen a steady increase over the …