National Council of Teachers of English

Just booked lodging 🎉 Denver, here I come!!! If you are a literacy leader, also register for NCTE_CEL, the Conference on English Leadership that follows immediately after featuring sessions, strategies and supports geared towards leadership roles. It's awesome!! 🌟 @naemmanuele.bsky.social

Honoured to have a short piece about belonging in mathematics in the current Classroom Corridors resource from @ncte.org #MTBoS

The Call for Proposals is open for #TYCA26! Presentations should address issues that are relevant to English studies professionals who support diverse college students in their first 2 college years.

Submit by Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. ET: ncte.org/groups/tyca/...

#TYCA #NCTE

Shakespeare, Other Classics Still Dominate High School English Despite efforts to diversify curricula, teachers still regularly assign many of the same classic works, a new survey finds.

“Teachers know that diversifying the text that they put in front of students leads to the development of a lot of different literacy skills,” said Rex Ovalle, chair of NCTE’s Secondary Section. Read more from @edweek.org [paywalled]: www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
#DiverseBooks #NCTE

Graphic shows the 'Top 10 Censored Books Listed By Teachers" from The State of Teacher Use in US Secondary English Classrooms' reported by NCTE, featuring book covers including 'The Bluest Eye', 'The Hate U Give', works by Sherman Alexie, and 'Gender Queer' among others, with National Council of Teachers of English and PEN America logos at the bottom.

Look familiar? These are the most censored books named by English teachers in a study funded by @ncte.org.

The study found that although most teachers value teaching diverse texts, they are often stopped from doing so.

Read more at: ncte.org/wp-content/u...

Enter #NCTE & @leeandlow.bsky.social's back-to-school giveaway for 48 copies of Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame by Supriya Kelkar. 100 NCTE members will win a classroom set. Apply by 9/7: ncte.org/back-to-scho...

Exclusive | The Most-Taught Books in American Classrooms Have Barely Changed in 30 Years “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Great Gatsby” and other classics still dominate school reading lists.

A @wsj.com piece about NCTE’s new survey of teachers highlights how efforts to update reading lists often get stopped short due not to resistance, but to red tape and limited resources.

🔗Read more: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
#BookBans #NCTE

Of Mice and Men is the 5th most popular text in US English classes. See the rest of the Top 10 list: ncte.org/literature-u...

Teachers reported that Macbeth remains a staple in US secondary English classrooms, as it has for more than 60 years.

Many of the top texts used in secondary schools today have been among the most commonly taught for decades. The Great Gatsby was also one of the most popular texts in 1989.

THREAD: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is the most-taught text in US secondary classrooms. See The State of Literature Use in US Secondary English Classrooms, sponsored by NCTE, for the Top 10 list and more from a survey of 4K teachers. ncte.org/literature-u...

Several ELATE grants and awards for travel, research, and publications are open! Apply today for a chance to be recognized for your work in the classroom and on campus. All awards will be presented at #NCTE25 in Denver in November.

Learn more and apply: ncte.org/awards/elate...

The 2025 REALM Awards deadline is right around the corner! Celebrate student voices by submitting your school’s literary magazine or signing up to review. Let’s uplift young writers together. tinyurl.com/4bh8h3ff

Texts Most Frequently Taught in US Secondary Classrooms Are Nearly Identical to List from Decades Ago Nationwide survey of 4,000 English teachers funded by the National Council of Teachers of English finds that most secondary school …

PRESS RELEASE: A nationwide survey of 4,000 #English teachers that was funded by #NCTE finds that most secondary school English teachers value teaching diverse texts, but censorship and curricular limits can hinder their use. Learn more: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...

Get ready to connect at 5,280 feet above sea level at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention in Denver from November 20-23. Registration. Is. Open. 🛫
convention.ncte.org/registration/

In the latest Member Perspective post on the Literacy & #NCTE blog, Talking Points coeditor Dr. Ted Kesler shares about his key to connection in the classroom.

Read the full post: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...

Join us virtually at #LKBF25 for an #NCTE -sponsored Educators’ Night session with longtime ELA teacher Tiana Silvas to discuss building community and shaping authentic spaces for writing in the classroom.

Watch the session live on August 6 at 7 p.m. ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Dd...

YouTube video by Madness Entertainment Group The Tuesday Morning Brew Ep 180 w/Jason DeHart

The wonderful Laurie Calcaterra featured me on The Tuesday Morning Brew today. We chat about my book from @ncte.org, & shout out @yesthatkristian.bsky.social, @tsfogg.bsky.social, @davechisholmcomics.com, @chriskemple.bsky.social, and @andrewaydin.bsky.social

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#NCTE is looking for new editors to lead three of our prestigious journals. These opportunities are open to current members—teachers and teacher teams are encouraged to apply!

Details and application: ncte.org/2025-editor-...

#EditorJobs #LiteracyLeadership

Representing K–12 teachers and leaders in the core subject areas, NCTE, @nctm.org, @socialstudies.org, and NSTA call on the administration to release nearly $7 billion in allocated federal educational funds and reaffirm its commitment to supporting our nation’s communities: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) invites nominations for the Lavender Rhetorics Award, honoring queer interventions in composition/rhetoric. Nominate by Aug 1. Details: tinyurl.com/yc7menft

The #TYCA26 Call for Proposals is open! Presentations should address issues that are relevant to English studies professionals who support diverse college students in their first two college years.

Submit by Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. ET: ncte.org/groups/tyca/...

#TYCA #NCTE #CommunityCollege #HigherEd

Last call to enter your school or college’s literary magazine in the 2025 REALM Awards! Deadline is July 31—don’t miss your chance to celebrate and uplift exceptional student writing from middle school through postsecondary. Submit now: ncte.org/realm-awards

#REALMAwards #StudentWriting #NCTE

Cynthia Ryman, a member of NCTE’s Committee on Global Citizenship, curated this list of books that provide opportunities to dialogue about different experiences and encourage ethical action in confronting injustice.

Click the link to read more: ncte.org/blog/2025/06...

The first July INBOX newsletter is here! Summer bookshop picks, professional learning events, awards, and upcoming conferences—catch it all now.

Subscribe at ncte.org/resources/in... #INBOX #NCTE

Join our Community Conversations: Back to School edition where Melissa Guerrette & Katie Keier will share planning tools, community strategies, and fresh ideas to start elementary educators’ year strong.

Register: ncte.org/classroom-co... #BackToSchool

The new issue of Classroom Corridors offers tips to fight burnout, embrace self-care, & reignite your teaching passion. Explore fellow elementary educators’ routines, reads, and podcasts on joy & community.

Read more: classroomcorridors.org/issue/issue-...

#SelfCare #ClassroomCorridors

NCTE partnership will harness the power of comics to teach immigrants’ contributions Comics and graphic novels attract a variety of readers due to their content and approachability, but are especially useful for reluctant readers, one expert says.

Teachers selected to create comic-based lesson plans on immigrant stories via an NCTE & Carnegie partnership, K12 Dive reports.

“This exploration with comics draws us closer to what we have in common,” says Emily Kirkpatrick.

More: www.k12dive.com/news/ncte-pa...

#TeachingWithComics

Heading to #ALAAC25 this Sunday? NCTE’s Emily Kirkpatrick is on a panel discussing the power of reading and how publishers, librarians, educators & students unite to combat censorship & book bans. Discover tactics for defending the freedom to read.

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Speakers for the 2025 ELATE Summer Conference have been announced! Calling all teacher educators, classroom teachers & preservice teachers!

Register now 👇
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#ELATE2025