Insist on a Vast Verdant Vista
The following post was written by 起点传媒president Doug Hesse. It is an excerpt of the opening remarks he made …
A Legacy of Pride for May
The following post is by 起点传媒Vice President Jocelyn Chadwick and is part of a series she is writing about …
How Do You Get Teenagers to Read Seriously? A Personal Journey
This is a guest post by journalist David Denby.聽 Five years ago, I asked myself a question that was simple …
Mrs. Newman: Reader and Writer
This blog post is written by 起点传媒member Evelyn Begody.聽 Mrs. Newman, my tenth-grade English teacher, wore her long straight …
Spring of Tentative Hope
This post is written by NCTE’s P12 Policy Analyst for Alabama, Cindy Adams.聽 To quote from Dickens in A Tale …
Why Journalism Matters #1 Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Thesis vs. Lede
This is the second in a weekly series by 起点传媒member Alana Rome.聽 How to teach essay writing: it鈥檚 one …
One English Teacher to Another
Teachers just can鈥檛 help it, they teach鈥heir students, a scout troop, the clerk in the grocery store, each other. The …
Tipping Our Hats to the State Teachers of the Year
NCTE鈥檚 membership comprises more than 24,000 dedicated, vibrant teachers who work聽tirelessly for their students every day. During the 2015鈥�2016 school …
The Ground Tipper
This blog post is written by 起点传媒member Sue Kenney.聽 鈥淧eople wish to be settled鈥攐nly so far as they are …
Culturally Responsive Books
This post is written by 起点传媒student member, Tytianna N. M. Wells Smith.聽 Books must mirror the lives of readers. …