2016 51ÁÔÆæ Poetry Month
Each year the month of April is set aside as 51ÁÔÆæ Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world! …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don’t always get the same protection. …
Standing Up for Bullied Students
Bullying is a problem many of our students face even as the best teachers struggle to eliminate it and create …
Advocacy Month Week 2: A More Sustained Approach to Making Change
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, 51ÁÔÆæ member Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy – …
Choosing Texts = Advocacy for Student Learning
How do you choose the texts your students will read? An English Education article discusses the results of a survey on …
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers
How well do we prepare new teachers for the profession? This has long been a concern of 51ÁÔÆæ. In 1968, …
The Best Reading Style for Tomorrow’s Voters
In the October 2005 Talking Points, Angela S. Raines offers some thoughts on how the teaching of reading can prepare …
What Students Can Learn from the African American Read-In
The following post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ member Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers. “People do not just ‘happen’ in history. They come …
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
The following excerpt is from Rhea Estelle Lathan’s Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955–1967, the latest volume …
Supporting TAs in Multilingual Classrooms
The following post is by Norah Fahim, who is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. In …