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The application window for NCTE's Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award closes in just over one month.

Apply to be part of the 2026-27 ECEOC cohort and get mentor support as you build an accomplished teaching career in literacy education. https://bit.ly/2Uv8mUl
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award
Practicing pre-K to university-level literacy educators of color who are in the first five years of a paid teaching career are welcome to apply.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
ket.bsky.social
i like & respect erin & s baum but this is horseshit analysis from the self-proclaimed "leader in the trans rights movement." the only leadership in her bio is running NCTE into the fucking ground while crowing about working for NLRB. the workers she screwed are leaders. i have no idea what she is.
Rachel See In 2022, Rachel concluded her fifth year of service as the Board President of the National Center for Transgender Equality, with six years of total service on NCTE's Board. Under her leadership, NCTE's diverse Board took an active role in enabling NCTE to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. Rachel speaks frequently on LGBT issues, and has conducted transgender inclusion and competency training at numerous federal agencies and other organizations. She has provided pro bono legal advice to many trans and nonbinary people regarding identity documents and other legal issues, and in 2014, she was named one of the "Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40" by the National LGBT Bar Association. = OUT Q SIGN ME UP As has been widely reported, a majority of the staff at NCTE has left the organization in recent weeks. Earlier this year, the organization employed 23 people a record size in the organization's 16 years. Since that point, many of us have been fired or pressured out of the organization, and many more were offered a voluntary buyout. This includes almost all of the Policy Department, the entire Communications Department, the entire Outreach and Education department, and the few staff hired to begin the complex and sensitive process of conducting the 2020 US Transgender Survey -- an invaluable resource for researchers, reporters, advocates, and lawmakers across the country that is now in doubt. Today, NCTE employs seven people, three of which are within the executive department. Those of us now on the outside of the organization know these issues began long before this year. Over the last decade, it's been abundantly clear that members of the executive team hold an inconsistent and irreconcilable view of how to make the organization itself a strong social justice movement -- including recognition of a union and steps needed to ensure NCTE itself is an equitable place for people of color, people with disabilities, and other marginalized members of the transgender community. Since 2012, the organization has watched at least 35 employees begin and end employment, 21 of whom are people of color. Fourteen of those employees expressed strong complaints of racism within the organization, including by expressing those feelings to NCTE's board of directors. At least four people of color were told to sign nondisclosure agreements; no white former staff member of NCTE has reported doing the same. These issues were brought before executive numerous times over the years in formal and informal settings. While plans and proposals were put forward by executive, they rarely yielded results and never amounted to the real change many of us feel the organization…
February 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Read K-12 Dive for insights from Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Chair of NCTE’s Elementary Section, and @cati-fu.bsky.social, coeditor of the new NCTE book Critical English Education: Enduring Voices, New Perspectives. https://www.k12dive.com/news/what-supports-do-advanced-english-learners-need/810719/
What supports do advanced English learners need?
Researchers suggest English language arts teachers can use an array of strategies to help these learners hone skills to express complex ideas.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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❤️📚👇"Consider celebrating #AARI26 with the titles below—all are winners of NCTE’s 2026 Children’s Book and Poetry Awards. You can peruse these titles and more at our 2026 African American Read-In list on Bookshop dot org":

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Celebrate the 2026 African American Read-In with Award-Winning Children’s Books
Get resources and books for celebrating the 2026 National African American Read-In with NCTE and teachers, their students, and your local community.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The 2026 African American Read-In starts in less than two weeks! Are you ready?

NCTE's #AARI26 Toolkit has resources to help you plan your February events, including booklists, promotional materials, a new printable poster, and more: https://ncte.org/get-involved/african-american-read-in-toolkit/
Promotional banner for the African American Read-In 2026, featuring a stylized stack of books and silhouettes of people reading, with the NCTE logo at the bottom.
January 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Read the newly updated version of our position statement The Students’ Right to Write: https://ncte.org/statement/the-students-right-to-write/

It lists NCTE's beliefs regarding writing and the rights of student writers of all ages and includes recommendations for educators to support them.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Are you an EPP submitting your Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) report to the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) this spring?

NCTE has curated resources to help. Reports are due March 15: https://ncte.org/groups/elate/ncte-caep-connection/
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January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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10th- and 11th-grade teachers: Just 5 weeks left to nominate the best work of your talented student writers for NCTE's annual Achievement Awards in Writing!

Read the prompt, access the application, and share this opportunity with your students: https://ncte.org/awards/achievement-awards-in-writing/
Logo for the 2026 Achievement Awards in Writing by NCTE, featuring a pencil design with colorful circles, and text stating the deadline as February 15, 2026.
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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NCTE members, don't miss our first online events of 2026! https://ncte.org/events/

💬 Introducing the Great Immigrants, Great Americans Comic Series

🏫 Orwell Award at 50: A Conversation on Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era with Sarah Stitzlein

☕ Elementary Section Office Hour: Cozy Connections
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January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
heykellyjensen.bsky.social
So NCTE's gotten money from Google for English language teachers to create a framework for "responsible classroom AI use."

How the hell can you be objective when you're taking cash from one of the businesses seeking to shove AI everywhere?

Gross. Irresponsible.

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NCTE Brings Teacher Expertise to Forefront in Development of AI Framework for English Language Arts Instruction
ELA classroom teachers will lead the creation of a scalable framework for responsible AI use within the discipline through a new initiative led by NCTE.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
Don’t get me started on NCTE’s pitch to teach responsible AI use. Politely, that shit can fuck off into the sun
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Dec 11
This is maddening.

1. First, we hear from a man who "continues to explore the newest technologies in his sixth-grade science and math classroom, constantly learning and adapting new ways to mix technology with hands-on learning."

He's a "veteran teacher," so no excuses, all you old dogs!
Avoiding Tech Fatigue in the Classroom: ‘It’s All About Balance’ | NEA
Too often, educators are asked to integrate technology into the classroom without support, training or boundaries.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Resources created through the new ELA AI Framework Cohorts initiative will define and guide implementation of updated approaches to core English language arts strategies and skills. Learn more and apply for a cohort: https://ncte.org/ela-ai-framework-cohorts/

#AIinEducation #TeachingWithAI #EdTech
Promotional graphic for NCTE's ELA AI Framework Cohorts, highlighting the creation of a scalable framework for responsible classroom AI use, supported by Google.org. The background features abstract blue and green digital motifs.
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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NCTE's @anterobot.bsky.social and Emily Kirkpatrick presented Ernest Morrell, legendary scholar and director of the @notredame.bsky.social Center for Literacy Education, with the 2025 James R. Squire Award.

Morrell's book Critical English Education: Enduring Voices, New Perspectives is out Jan. 27.
Ernest Morrell holds his James R. Squire Award in the hospital while flanked by Emily Kirkpatrick and Antero Garcia. All three are facing the camera and smiling.
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
badpacifist.bsky.social
For CCCC friends: with NCTE's matching funds, every $375 funds a travel grant for a contingent faculty member to get to the conference. Help if you can!

Also, if you're contingent faculty, apply! And if you're connected to contingent faculty, share with them.
Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty - Conference on College Composition and Communication
Application Deadline: December 31 Purpose: The CCCC Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty, established in 2012, is intended to support awards in the amount of $750 each for contingent faculty at two-...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
jessenathaniel.bsky.social
Here’s the part that I’ll half-agree with: the traditional school essay has limitations we take for granted. Speaking & listening are extremely valuable skills that I *do* think should have a larger role in many schools. None of that precludes books…and shouldn’t these all be cross-curricular goals?
NCTE’s section on why we need to move past traditional education: “ncte.org Members of our discipline have long recognized how print literacies work in tandem with multiple modes of expression (Multimodal Literacies Issue Management Team, 2005). Students should examine how digital media and popular culture are completely intermingled with language, literature, and writing. The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education. Speaking and listening are increasingly valued as forms of expression that are vital to personal and professional success, and with the rise of digital media technologies, they now occur in both synchronous and asynchronous formats. The ability to represent one's ideas using images and multimedia is now a valued competency in a wide variety of professional careers in the knowledge economy. It behooves our profession, as stewards of the communication arts, to confront and challenge the tacit and implicit ways in which print media is valorized above the full range of literacy competencies students should master. Research evidence amply shows the need to move beyond the exclusive focus on traditional reading and writing competencies. For example, secondary school students lack critical reading comprehension skills that require them to distinguish between journalism and sponsored content, and they routinely ignore the source of a message when judging its scuracy (Breakstone et al., 2019).”
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
jessenathaniel.bsky.social
Moving along, this section makes some ideological claims that we’re supposed to accept by fiat. Even if one doesn’t find this section entirely objectionable, reasonable people could quibble with any one of these points for compelling reasons … and again… NONE OF THESE ARE REASONS TO DECENTER BOOKS
NCTE’s statement of the role of the teacher in ELA education: “ncte.org Because English teachers have a professional responsibility to prepare students for work, life, and citizenship, media education must be an essential component of the professional identity of teachers. We believe that ELA educators are creative individuals who are familiar with the power of digital media authorship in their own lives. They are • active participants in contemporary culture and in their local communities, and they recognize how continually evolving media texts and platforms shape how stories and information are created, shared, and circulated (Weninger, 2018); • professionals who take steps to actively understand, teach about, and compensate for media landscapes that are specifically designed to amplify narratives where some voices and points of view are emphasized and others are trivialized, demeaned, or ignored (Garcia et al., 2015); • supportive of lifelong learners' ability to understand, question, and analyze the many spaces of media and communication that are part of everyday life (Morrell et al., 2015).”
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
jessenathaniel.bsky.social
Let’s start with the first section after the overview: isn’t this just an argument for writing 1984? I mean I know it’s front of mind for me because I just watched 2+2=5 over the Thanksgiving break, but … hey! I have an idea for a multimodal unit!
NCTE’s statement of context for “media education”: ncte.org Context: Why Now? Today's students live in highly mediated worlds where information, entertainment, and persuasion are delivered to them through the many screens of daily life. If it could ever be said that language is the carrier of all meaning, this is certainly no longer the case, as multimodality represents "the normal state of human communication" (Kress, 2010, p. 1). We no longer live in a print-dominant, text-only world. We experience this reality daily in the GIFs and selfies we share with one another, the memes and videos we circulate through our social media feeds, the news broadcasts we watch on demand, the podcasts we binge, and the films, TV series, and live events we stream through the ever-growing list of digital platforms. Yet all these modalities involve some element of written language. Young people encounter many types of media texts and use many different literacy practices throughout a given day. Everyone in our society now needs the ability to assess the widely varying quality of the information, entertainment, and persuasion that surrounds them, to evaluate the veracity and validity of claims, and to debunk misinformation when necessary. The broadening of the communication landscape opens greater opportunities for student voice and agency as they move from users and consumers to participators and creators. Through media tion, students begin to deepen olitical consciousness as they how power relationships structure the”
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
jessenathaniel.bsky.social
This statement is full of contradictions and incoherent in its best moments. For example, take the excerpt from the overview below: how does any of that support an argument for recentering books?

And it gets worse from here … so I’ll read this so you don’t have to… 🧵
NCTE’s three core themes of ELA education: “• Exploring Representation and Power through Critical Reading, Listening, and Viewing. Educators value the use of teaching and learning practices that help to identify and disrupt the inequalities of contemporary life, including structural racism, sexism, consumerism, and economic injustice. Critical pedagogies help learners see themselves as empowered change agents, able to imagine and build a better, more just world. • Empowering Voice with Writing, Speaking, and Self-Expression. All learners need to be able to express themselves using writing, speaking, and visual representation using varied modes, genres, and platforms of communication. These competencies are essential to work, life, and citizenship, impacting who has access to conversations, who can speak, and who is heard. • Increasing Relevance by Critically Examining Digital Media and Popular Culture. Media education includes attention to teaching and learning practices that increase the relevance of school to society. Inquiry pedagogies can help all learners understand the strengths and limitations of different media forms through an kamination of the texts and literacy pra of everyday life, including informative, Privacy - Terms
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of NCTE’s George Orwell Award, NCTE invites you to the first webinar in a special series where you can hear directly from winners of this prestigious award.

This event is free for NCTE members who register here: https://ncte.org/orwell-lander/
Event flyer for "The George Orwell Award at 50: A Conversation on Making Americans with Jessica Lander" set for December 10, 7:00-8:00 PM ET. Includes logos of the George Orwell Award and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and a photo of Jessica Lander, author of "Making Americans."
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Congratulations to THE PINE CONE'S SECRET for making NCTE's 2026 Notable Poetry Books List! 🎉 See the full list here: ncte.org/awards/excel...
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
tiffanyrlarson.bsky.social
Powerhouse group supporting intellectual freedom!!! Representing #ALA, @penamerica.bsky.social, @ncacensorship.bsky.social, @authorsabb.bsky.social, and NCTE’s standing Committee Against Censorship.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
publisherswkly.bsky.social
NCTE’s annual convention delivers a respite from stressful times with connection, fresh insights, and learning opportunities.
NCTE 2025: An Educator’s Field of Dreams
NCTE’s annual convention delivers a respite from stressful times with connection, fresh insights, and learning opportunities.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
badpacifist.bsky.social
It's NCTE's National Day on Writing. Every year, we reflect on why we write.

#WhyIWrite: So that the running dialogue in my head isn't the only one I'm having.
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It's NCTE’s National Day on Writing! Each October 20, we consider the myriad forms writing can take and why we choose to write.

Visit https://ncte.org/national-day-writing/ for writing resources for you and your students—and tell us why and how you write, using #WhyIWrite on social media!
October 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM