Field Notes: A Summer Filled with Members
This summer NCTE, its groups, and its affiliates held six different meetings in six different locations with hundreds of NCTE …
Teachers Are Page Turners
This past weekend, I witnessed more than 100 teachers in Dublin, Ohio, enmeshed in professional learning—by choice, on a Saturday. …
It’s NCTE Election Season. Why Should You Care?
What are the benefits of NCTE membership? Resource-rich journals Well-curated social sites Position statements that take a stand on issues …
Field Notes: Writing for Hope and Change
It’s an incredible feeling to witness tens of thousands of people all talking simultaneously about something you consider deeply important. …
Field Notes: Celebrating the National Day on Writing
Ten years ago a group of passionate NCTE leaders came up with the idea that writing deserved a national day …
Welcome Back to School and Fall Preview
Over the last several weeks, NCTE members have headed back to class across the country. By September 4, most of …
Open Call for Resolutions
When school lets out, we often find the headspace to step out of the day-to-day and consider the bigger picture …
Field Notes: A Love Letter to Teachers
Teachers are page turners. Like the most finely crafted books, from the minute we begin our time with them, they …
Time to Lift Our Collective Voices
A week ago, on Friday afternoon of NCTE’s newly created Advocacy and Literacy Summit, author Sharon Draper asked all who …
Members Taking Our Message to Capitol Hill . . . and Beyond!
Back in February, the Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee (a subcommittee of the 2018 NCTE Executive Committee) gathered to consider which …