NCTE Web Seminars

Plan now to join NCTE in these Web Seminars!
These virtual events are a convenient and meaningful form of professional development. Browse this page for upcoming web seminar topics, schedule, descriptions, and more!
Missed a past Web Seminar?
Buy the CD today! On Demand Web seminars provide the recorded version of the virtual event and include all audio, video, chat discussion, and actions within the presentation.
Better Than Ever: The New ReadWriteThink.org
With a fresh look and many exciting new features, the redesigned ReadWriteThink.org offers a wider audience more opportunities to find just the literacy resources they need and to share their thoughts and experiences with other community members. You will find the familiar lessons, student interactives, calendar activities, and more. Check out the new areas for Professional Development, Community Stories and Parent & Afterschool Resources.
Grammar
Use these grammar resources for ways to teach grammar within the context of your students’ reading, writing, and speaking so they retain what they learn and apply it later on in their own writing and speech.
Poetry
Celebrate Poetry Month with these NCTE resources on poetry.
Adolescent Literacy
Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief
This NCTE Policy Research Brief offers updates on research with implications for policy decisions that affect teaching and learning in the area of adolescent literacy.
NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform
Read how this document delineates the problems of adolescent literacy and outlines reforms NCTE has identified as necessary to address them. 
Additional Adolescent Literacy Resources
National Gallery of Writing
There's no time like the present to submit to the Gallery and to be thinking about how you'll celebrate the 2010 National Day on Writing.
The National Gallery of Writing houses all kinds of writing from all walks of life and highlights the remarkable variety of writing we engage in everyday.
English Language Learners
English language instruction continues to be a hot topic in the news--from achievement gaps to funding and professional development for teachers. These resources focus on supporting students' cultural language and identity as they work to learn a second language.
Technology Toolkit 2.0
The companion webpage for the Technology Toolkit columns in Voices from the Middle with additional resources, tips, tools, and discussion.