ICYMI: After an extended Thanksgiving break, I'm back at the ol’ blog today with a poetic & photographic retrospective of #NCTE2025 - with 3 “Frost-y” poems and a surprising award!
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December's packed with episodes on everything from street art in elementary classrooms to why great teachers don't automatically make for great coaches.
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Had a fantastic time at #NCTE2025 with
friends, creators, educators, and many of my collaborators -
AND, a big surprise!
#childrensbooks #literacy #education #kidlit w/ @ebyrbooks.bsky.social @pbjamboree.bsky.social @ncte.org
So honored to have Nic Stone talk to teachers about language, her books, and fighting censorship.
Thanks to the Committee Against Censorship for all their work this conference.
We’re heading home inspired. And ready to work #NCTE2025
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Percival Everett signing a book and Michale standing in front of him
Man with tote bag in front of his face
Three panelists two women and one man
Skillz had the best time nerding out in his community of English language arts / literacy educators and professionals! Also he got to meet Percival Everett!!!
Congrats to Dr. Ann Amicucci, Michael Ferguson, and Celeste Delbar for presenting at #NCTE2025
#NCTE2025! What a joy to celebrate, learn, and share with thousands of book-lovers. We lift each other up! 📚💖 #booksky #kidlit @ncte.org @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social @patricianewman.bsky.social @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social
Selfie. Two women with glasses, smiling at the camera, the one on the left has brown hairs, the right, blonde, both appear white. One is wearing a lanyard, one a knit scarf.
Presenting at #NCTE2025 this morning with @uabookbans.bsky.social—Betsy Gomez—members of @ncte.org’s Cmtte Against Censorship, authors from Impacts of Censorship Vol 2, and Jim Burke.
Teaching and Talking in Troubled Times.
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blue background, national council of teachers of english 2025, two book covers left to right titled the chicago manual of style, the odyssey homer, get 30% off and free domestic shipping
white background, two book covers left to right titled writing fiction by janet burroway, the business of being a writer by jane friedman
blue background, top left book cover titled a river runs through it by norman maclean, tope right book cover titled what editors do by peter ginna, bottom center book cover titled information now second edition
Even though #NCTE2025 is coming to an end, there’s still time to browse our virtual exhibit! Get 30% off & free domestic shipping on books with promo code EX58122: cmos.style/NCTE .
@ncte.org I loved the presentation on the use of documentary film in the classroom on Saturday. It should have been a much longer presentation! @bctela.bsky.social #ncte2025
I Paid for Inflight Wifi but the Inflight Wifi Sucks: a tale of interstate woe by Mike Jung #NCTE2025
QR Code for Lots of Ways to be Brave: A teachers guide to facing censorship. English Journal, 113, 3. https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ej2024113322?utm_source=National+Council+of+Teachers+of+English&utm_campaign=f0850db2e7-8.10.24.AugAcquisition1.MIY_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-36c7e49a4d-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
At #NCTE2025 in a fabulous session: "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Advocate Boldly for the Right to Read." Shout out for one of the articles I'm most proud to have out in the world.
So many teacher educators doing so much good to prepare future teachers to meet the challenges of this moment.
Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
@teachersdisruptcensorship on insta… new and trying to grow #ncte2025
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme: "Poetry Friday: Gearing up for #NCTE2025 with…Robert Frost?" kennn.com/4ipITN #ChildrensPoetry #Poetry4kids
@mattforrestvw.bsky.social
#NCTE2025 is where book signings are more than just a meet-and-greet; they are moments that matter for writers and teachers.
#TCTELA VP Douglas Frank had a chance to experience just that in this moment with author Scott Snyder.
Past meets present with this joyful moment of #TCTELA Past President Valerie Taylor running into President @eva-goins.bsky.social, President-Elect @markeshatisby.bsky.social, and VP of Membership and Affiliates @dougfrank.bsky.social. #NCTE2025
Look at so many amazing people doing the work of advocating against censorship.
#NCTE2025
"I have a master's degree. I've taught for two decades. I am expected to take a bullet for a child. Surely I can make an appropriate decision about what a child should know and think about and read in my class more appropriately than just about anyone else" (985). Participants have been • Called names, like "groomer and pedophile" (788), "criminal and pornographer" (595). Surveilled through "monthly calls and emails of parents" (953), "students taking pictures of their classroom libraries" (384), and "anonymous complaints (...) presumably from people whose children aren't even in [their) class" (232). "Effectively muzzled" (1779), "placed under investigation" (105), "reprimanded" (2980), issued "warnings and lower evaluations" (773), "threatened with dismissal" or "felony charges" (64), "non-renewed" (574), and "quietly fired" (1205).
“I have a master's degree. I've taught for two decades. I am expected to take a bullet for a child. Surely I can make an appropriate decision about what a child should know and think about and read in my class more appropriately than just about anyone else" (985).
Also at #NCTE2025
A picture of a slide : FINDINGS Altering Text Content Removing or redacting a portion of a text Stopping a text in the middle of instruction Literally defacing the text (e.g. drawing clothes on a character) Employing Manipulation and Uncertainty Providing false reasons for text removals Not reading the censored texts Not providing any justification for a text removal Ambiguity Quietly or secretly removing a text Using misleading language (e.g. "protecting teachers")
This morning’s #NCTE2025: Ran from a showing of The Librarians with @maggietokudahall.bsky.social to hear from @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Fellow, Ricki Ginsberg, asks colleagues talk about the data from 4000+ surveys of ELA teachers how they experience censorship.
Attention all #NCTE2025 attendees! The exhibit hall is open today from 10 AM to 6:30 PM, so come visit us at Booth 725 while you can!
And if you can't join us in person, click the link in our bio to head over to our virtual booth! @ncte.org
We manifested working with Meghan Valerio for two years and it finally happened! #NCTE2025 @acmanno.bsky.social @amandadey.bsky.social @jessdibeneditto.bsky.social
Come see @tracintodd discuss and sign the gorgeous poetry collection This Is Not a Small Voice at #NCTE2025!
Attend the all-star panel This Is Not a Small Dream on Friday, 11/21 at 12:30 in Room 605, Colorado Convention Center, and join the book signing at 2:15 on Friday at Booth 504!
Friday 11:00 - Mile High Ballroom 4E/4F Session: 1960 Teaching for Engagements Boosting Student Motivation, Interest, and Agency with Reading and Writing Chairs: Towanda Harris, Christopher Lehman Roundtable Leaders: Lois Barker, Georgina Castilleja, JoEllen McCarthy, Islah Tauheed, Kristine Paulson, Jody Langan, Abby Gillis, Nita Creekmore, Roberto Germán, Vanee Smith-Matsalia, Cris Tovani, Zainab Jabak, Ellin Keene, Molly Love, Carla España, Luz Yadira Herrera, Janet N. Y. Zarchen, Markesha Tisby, Troy Hicks, Cindy Gerwin, Xochitl Bentley
Roundtable Topics 1 Interactive Writing and Everyday Language 2 Leveraging our Read Alouds To Strengthen Literacy and Word Play 3 Boosting Student Motivation and Agency Through Student-Led Small Groups 4 Empowering Growth: Peer-to-Peer Feedback Strategies to Enhance Engagement in Reading and Writing 5 Reading with Purpose, Writing with Passion 6 Tapping Into Students' Desire to Read, Write, and Discuss 7 Who is Responsible for Student Engagement: Helping Students Develop Ownership for their Engagement. 8 Supporting Teachers with Ways to Leverage Culturally Relevant Text Sets to Enrich Mandated Curricula Using Literacy Autobiographies to Enhance Instruction 10 Motivating Transfer: Integrating Reading and Writing in Phonics 11 Al in Education: Problems, Potentials, and Possible Futures 12 Cultivating the Qualities of a Changemaker through Passion Projects
If you’re at #NCTE2025, come hang out with us today at 11! 🎉
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TODAY'S THE DAY, #NCTE25!
Give tweens + teens the space to read, reflect, and act with BIG ISSUE NONFICTION
9:30, Room 601
🤔 Relevance to students
🤔 How do we invite Ss to a seat at the table?
🤔 Build student voice + agency
🤔 Small-group practice
#NCTE2025 @jlstremer.bsky.social @ncte.org
🌟 TODAY'S THE DAY #NCTE25!
REIMAGINING YOUR LITERACY INSTRUCTION with NONFICTION
12:30 PM, Room 612
💡 comprehension + engagement
💡 background knowledge
💡 collaboration w/librarians
💡 ➕ hands-on DEMOS to help you engage your students with NF
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#NCTE2025 @eastwestlit.bsky.social
Poetry Friday: Gearing up for #NCTE2025 with…Robert Frost?
By the time you read this, I'll likely be flying overhead - on my way to Denver, CO for this weekend's National Council of Teachers of English annual convention! I'm going to be super-busy, too, if this graphic is any indication. I'll be…
I’m at #NCTE2025 and it feels like home! Come see me at 3:15 in Room 710/12
