Student Athletes and Writing Transfer
This post by NCTE member Michael Rifenburg first appeared 3/9/17. With 6 days left to the National Day …
Ideas for the Last Day of Class
For some of us, the end of the school year coincides with Memorial Day. Folks are already making plans for …
Writing Personal Memoirs: An Opportunity for Differentiation in the Classroom
This post by NCTE member Jennifer Kirsch was published first in 2016. My 5th graders spend their first …
Honest Writing
This guest post from 2016 was written by author Ann Martin, who won the first NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding …
Teaching Students to “Re-See” Their Writing
This post by NCTE member Katherine Batchelor was first published in 2016. In the December 2015 Voices from the Middle, …
Creating Community through Writing
As students return to the classroom, they need to feel that they own the space and the learning that …
Writing to Make Sense of Who We Are
This post was first published in 2015. The following post is excerpted from Gholnecsar E. Muhammad’s February 2015 article “Searching …
Becoming Strategic Writers—and Teachers of Strategic Writing
This post by member Deborah Dean was first published in 2017. “What do you do when you need to write …
Words of Inspiration for New Teachers
During our August #NCTEchat, we asked teachers to share one thing that they wish they had known during their first …
Sustaining a Long-Term African American Read-In
This post was written by Gloria Kirkland-Holmes and NCTE member Tiffany A. Flowers. “It is important for all of …