How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NCTE Annual Convention
…social aspects of the Convention. I don’t drink, so I don’t really fit in with the after-hours hotel bar crowd, and I don’t usually last long at social mixer events….
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Storytelling and Family Literacy
This blog post was written by NCTE member Aspen Mock. Oral tradition and storytelling were just a normal part of spending my summers at my grandparents’ home. My grandfather…
The Stories My Students Need to Hear
…from http://mc-14193-39844713.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/resource/grade-2-listening-learning-domain-11-anthology-immigration National Center for Educational Statistics. (2016). Table 203.50: Enrollment and percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and region. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_203.50.asp Cooperative…
Empowering Teachers through Professional Learning and Assessment
…experience. (ASP Findings 1 and 2; Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing Standard 2) Teachers are seen as co-constructors of knowledge, not as passive recipients of knowledge, i.e.,…
Build Your Stack: Diversity Is More Than Race
…that they are not alone . . . that there is someone, somewhere who understands their life in some aspect and has written a book about it. When we look…
Standardizing College Readiness
…complex idea that speaks both to disciplinary mastery and intellectual maturity. As a result, it is important that we ask what larger beliefs about disciplinary knowledge and what aspects of…
Grammar and Reading
…on the living arrangements of an important family member. This was an important aspect relating to the tensions central to the book. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale…
“Rewarding” and “Amazing”: Children’s Book Awards Committee Members Relish Their Work as Ambassadors of Children’s Literature
…rewarding aspects to being on the Orbis Pictus Award Committee has been the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the other committee members. Over the course of the year, through…
Peek Inside July Language Arts
…and Kootenai Tribe (2005) is most likely categorized as “Salish Indians—Folklore.” In fact, both are religious stories explaining some aspect of how the world was created. In contrast, Peter Spier’s…
Embracing Every Hue: Brotherhood beyond Borders
…I was never taught how to truly dive into the work of poetry, specifically the emotional aspect of the work that has now defined many aspects of my pedagogy, in…
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