The Too-Oft Quiet but Cherished: Membership—Part 1: Affiliates and Sections
…celebrate our membership at large. Affiliates: This term, as a verb and noun, according to the OED is an old one within the context of NCTE’s affiliates, dating to as…
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A World Where All People Are Safe And Valued
…31 years old “Social justice” is a term often used in our field, though what it refers to is, at times, amorphous. We in the Social Justice Commission, Genders and…
Teaching and Learning in Transitional Spaces
…the two-year college where I taught. Transitioning to a teaching environment where I was working with a wider range of students in terms of demographic diversity and academic preparation meant…
End of the Year Wrap-Up with NCTE
…the most searched for terms on the National Council of Teachers of English website, paired with resources that might come in handy in the new year and next semester. Convention…
Metacognitive Writing Assignments & Student-Athletes
…how many outs are there, where has the pitcher already thrown the ball? He thinks hard about the role of rhetorical terms like audience and purpose in baseball. Metacognition is…
The American Icon Paper
…go out of style. While many of our students know an icon as an image that appears on their phone or laptop, a broader definition of the term is the…
Reflections on Relational Methodologies for the Prison Classroom
…claim that short-term, individuated measurements cannot account for all that happens in a classroom has purchase across a broad range of educational research contexts. For me, the salience and urgency…
We Value Teaching Too Much to Keep Devaluing It
…have a recognizable term for it. We have lots of books about training new teachers, about assessing the teaching and learning that happens in our classes, about all kinds of…
Reading Outside Our Cultural Comfort Zones
…symbols mean in cultural terms. We explored how current and historical movements for racial justice are disrupting the symbolic assumption we saw in this story. As we put these ideas…
The Critical Story of the “Science of Reading” and Why Its Narrow Plotline Is Putting Our Children and Schools at Risk
…political agendas. As a former classroom teacher and reading specialist and current literacy professor, I’d like to interrogate four themes threading this narrative. #1. Hijacking Terminology Words have power. The…
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