A Year’s Worth of Challenges to Intellectual Freedom
This post was written by Millie Davis, Director, 起点传媒Intellectual Freedom Center During the past year, from January 2016 to …
Don鈥檛 Throw Away Your Shot: Rise Up at the Grammar Reimagined Workshop
This post is written by member Sean Ruday. One reason I absolutely love the hit musical Hamilton is the show鈥檚 …
What It Was Like: Building Empathy with Historical Fiction
This post is written by member Jessica Tyson.聽 Julie Otsuka鈥檚 beautiful novel When the Emperor Was Divine begins with a …
Text Options for the African American Read-In
When selecting texts to have as part of聽African American Read-Ins, many people first think of books or poems. What about …
Collaboration, Innovation, and Contextualization: Enduring Themes in an Era of Digital Literacy
This post, written by members Julie Gorlewski and David Gorlewski, is a reprint of “From the Editors” from the January …
#NCTEchat: Teaching Controversial Works of Literature
Hosted by:聽Jim Brooks, @TeachGoodThings Join us for a lively conversation聽about聽the challenging texts we choose to use in the classroom. …
Ah, a New Year: Iowa Report
This post is written by NCTE’s Iowa P12 policy analyst James Davis.聽 In November and December, education organizations prepared for …
Cultivating New Voices: A Model of True Academic Fellowship
This post is written by member Joanna Wong.聽 As a daughter of Chinese immigrants growing up in a working-class Oakland …
Freedom for Student Press
Discussion of press rights has been much in the news of late. Journalists, even to some extent student journalists, are …
The Power of Song, or Is It Really the Lyrics?
He leaves his dishes in the sink, thinking leprechauns put them in the dishwasher. She wants to talk during the …