What the Canon Means Now
This post was written by NCTE member Jason D. DeHart. Asking to matter does not seem like so much. In …
The Act of Seeing
From the NCTE Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Caroline Santinelli, a member of the …
Shifting the Elementary Classroom Linguistic Landscape through Picturebooks
This post was written by NCTE member Angie Zapata. The role of picturebooks remains a critical art form for growing …
Do You Plan to Write this Month?
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) happens every November — an exciting writing event where the challenge is to draft an entire …
Reading Outside Our Cultural Comfort Zones
This post was written by NCTE member Kathryn Fishman-Weaver. An article I saw in a well-respected newspaper referred to …
The Critical Story of the “Science of Reading” and Why Its Narrow Plotline Is Putting Our Children and Schools at Risk
This post was written by NCTE member Dorothy C. Suskind. There is a critical story behind “the science of reading,” …
Small Steps for Self-Care in Troubling Times
These tips were shared by NCTE member Yvonne El Ashmawi in 2017 in The Council Chronicle (December 2017.) This year …
A Writing Teacher Finds Her Voice
This post by NCTE member Nancy Sommers was first shared in 2015. In the September 2015 Teaching English in the Two-Year …
Placing Assessment on the November Ballot
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE member Chris Hass, a member …
I Am Every Good Thing: An Antiracist Counternarrative
This post was written by NCTE member Lorena Germán. Our Racialized Imaginations In The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas talks …