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Promoting Access, Power, Agency, Affiliation, and Impact
Good teaching is informed by a vision of what progress and success should look like; and so is a solid organization. That’s why we’re excited to share a new vision statement created by the NCTE Executive Committee!
Check out this week’s Field Notes for more background on how the statement came to be.
“This vision will serve as a compass for all the work we do over the next five years. It outlines the strong aims—access, power, agency, affiliation, and impact—that undergird the work of the Council and provides a universal message within which all our various constituencies can find guidance.”
- Emily Kirkpatrick
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Member News
Congratulationsto this year’s 2017 NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award Recipients! They’ll gather in Atlanta in a few weeks to kick off a two-year program that includes mentoring, networking, and opportunities to share their research and work at our Annual Convention in 2018.
Shout-out to Toby Emert and R. Joseph Rodriguez who have been chosen as the next editors of English Journal. Their first issue will appear in September 2018.
Many of our members wrote great pieces for the Literacy & NCTE blog over the last two weeks. One post you might enjoy is Promoting the Pleasure of Reading: Why It Matters to Kids and to Country by Jeffrey Wilhelm. He explores five forms of pleasure reading: play, work, inner work, intellectual, and social. The blog draws from his book Reading Unbound, co-authored with member Michael W. Smith, which won the 2016 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English.
Rachel McMinn shares her story in the NCTE Village:
"I have done my best to be myself in the classroom. That is what works best, because I am not trying to be someone I am not or trying to win favor with my students. Being genuine, realistic, and open with my students has won their trust and their trust allows me to be a better educator."
Professional Learning
Over the last 12 months, issues connected to LGBTQI+ people have been brought into a heightened focus in the news, but many teachers find themselves ill-equipped and ill-prepared to fold these issues into conversations within our schools and classrooms. In this blog post sj Miller shares tools and strategies he helped create to support teachers in this important work.
NCTE Reads Update
There are so many wonderful conversations taking place in our Facebook group! Get a glimpse into the discussion through Cherylann Schmidt, Franki Sibberson, and Tara Smith’s blog posts!
We’ve been lucky to participate in these Facebook Live events with YA authors Deborah Heiligman and E. Lockhart.
Join us for #NCTEchat this Sunday, June 25, at 8 pm ET to discuss “YA Lit—Complex Texts, Complex Lives.”