George Takei was named honorary chair of #BannedBooksWeek! Who saw his keynote speech at our Annual Convention in Baltimore? As a longtime member of the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social Coalition, NCTE supports the right to read during Banned Books Week and every day. Get involved: bannedbooksweek.org

English Education is accepting submissions for the special issue “Legacies of African American Pedagogical Excellence and Future-Making in Teacher Education.” Read the manuscript guidelines and submit here: https://ncte.org/resources/journals/english-education/write-for-us/ #NCTE #EnglishEducation

In the presence of a legend: Join Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University, at the #NCTE Annual Convention in Denver, November 20–23! Register now for the best prices: https://convention.ncte.org/registration/ #NCTE25

In celebration of #HispanicHeritageMonth this September 15 to October 15, we’ve curated a selection of #NCTE books authored or edited by Hispanic authors: https://ncte.org/blog/2025/09/hispanic-heritage-2/

The Preview for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention is now available online: https://convention.ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025_Convention_Preview_web_F2.pdf The schedule is also hitting mailboxes soon. We can’t wait for you to see the incredible lineup of speakers and events for #NCTE25!

#NCTE is looking for the next editor(s) of Language Arts, the professional journal focusing on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching, primarily in grades preK–8. Applications from editor teams are strongly encouraged! Learn more and apply: https://ncte.org/2025-editor-searches/

Registration is now open for the second annual CCCC Fall Virtual Institute! Join your peers to consider how we might do more to foster reciprocity with the public through public writing, collaboration, service, and instruction: https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/cfp-2025-cccc-fall-virtual-institute/#About

Get together with bestselling young adult author Jason Reynolds at #NCTE25 in Denver! He and Grammy-winning audiobook producer Dan Zitt will discuss their collaboration on Soundtrack, Reynolds’s new audio-only book. Admission is included with your registration! https://convention.ncte.org/

Do you conduct research in the children's literature field? Submit a proposal to the 2026 CLA Research Conference! Proposals due on September 29 tinyurl.com/bdhvsfjb @ncte.org @nctecla.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit

PRESS RELEASE: #NCTE named Sarah M. Stitzlein’s Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens as winner of the 2025 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honest and Clarity in Public Language. https://ncte.org/blog/2025/09/orwell-award-stitzlein/

Don’t miss Robin Wall Kimmerer at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention in Denver! The writer and scientist is closing #NCTE25 on Sunday, November 23—register now to be there for her keynote speech! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

The 2025 National African American Read-In was a smash success – with more than 123,000 students and participants reading 8,860+ books! See how communities nationwide came together to celebrate African American texts and authors: https://ncte.org/blog/2025/08/aari-25-report-card/ #AARI25

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction winner Percival Everett (James, Erasure, The Trees) is coming to the NCTE Annual Convention in Denver. Don’t miss your chance to hear him speak and get your book signed at #NCTE25 in November! Register now: https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

⏰ Deadline approaching! Middle and high school teachers, it takes just two minutes to enter here to win a classroom set of @supriyakelkar.bsky.social's award-winning book: ncte.org/back-to-scho...

Calling ELA department chairs, supervisors, & literacy leaders! The Conference on English Leadership hosts virtual social hours to connect, troubleshoot, & share ideas through relaxed, casual discussions. Register today & pop in on 9/9/25! Free to all @ncte.org members. ncte.org/groups/cel/v...

ICYMI: The luncheon speakers for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention have been announced! These sessions will bring educators together with top authors and thinkers, and are available as an add-on for #NCTE25 attendees. Register now for early-bird pricing! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

Thanks, @bluskyz.bsky.social and @ncte.org, for asking me to contribute to #ClassroomCorridors. Here's a direct link to the resource: drive.google.com/file/d/1CdVC...

NCTE’s Elementary Section is hosting Katie Wood Ray and @stellavillalba.bsky.social for a discussion on their reimagined edition of Wondrous Words. All new and practicing teachers and teacher educators are welcome. Register here: ncte.org/behind-the-b...

Save money on your way to Denver for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention! NCTE has negotiated flight discounts with Delta, plus the lowest available room rates. Rooms sell out quickly, check out our website for details. https://convention.ncte.org/hotel-travel/

Did you miss our Educators’ Night session at the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival? Watch the recording with ELA teacher Tiana Silvas for classroom strategies and ideas for applying #NCTE’s Students’ Right to Write Position Statement. https://www.youtube.com/live/11DdLOeEWow #LKBF25

Poet and novelist Mahogany L. Browne (Chlorine Sky, Black Girl Magic, and Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice) is our special guest for the ELATE Luncheon at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention in Denver, happening November 20–23! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

Join #NCTE for a conversation centered on our recent study, "The State of Literature Use in the US Secondary English Classroom.” Researcher Ricki Ginsberg and NCTE President Dr. Tonya B. Perry will highlight crucial findings. Register by 9/10: https://ncte.org/state-of-lit/

The prompt is now available for the 2026 Achievement Awards in Writing! #NCTE invites secondary educators to distribute the prompt to students in 10th and 11th grades. View the prompt and sign up to be reminded when the application opens: https://ncte.org/awards/achievement-awards-in-writing/

Celebrate the winners of the NCTE Children's Book and Poetry Awards—Dan SaSuWeh Jones, @antwaneady.bsky.social, and Charles R. Smith Jr.—at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention. Available as part of your #NCTE25 registration for an additional $45. Save your spot! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

Through membership in the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), NCTE nationally recognizes 12 additional preservice programs from nine universities. Congratulations to each program! Learn more: https://ncte.org/groups/elate/ncte-caep-institutions/

Middle grades educators: Connect with colleagues and experience Newbery Medal-winning author @kaaauthor.bsky.social and debut novelist @tonyweaverjr.bsky.social live at the NCTE Annual Convention! Sign up for this luncheon now as part of your #NCTE25 registration: convention.ncte.org/registration/ 🛫

In this new post on our partner @uabookbans.bsky.social’s blog, the manager of the #IntellectualFreedom Center at #NCTE explains why teachers require more support in curating texts: uniteagainstbookbans.org/new-teacher-...

Middle Level educators: The prompt is now available for the 2026 Promising Young Writers Award! NCTE invites you and your colleagues to distribute the prompt, titled “Good Trouble,” to students in eighth grade. Learn more: ncte.org/awards/promi...

@biblioracle.bsky.social is a national thought leader on writing pedagogy. Don’t miss your chance to catch him at the College Section Luncheon at the #NCTE25 Annual Convention! This opportunity is available as part of your registration for an additional $75. convention.ncte.org/registration/ 🛫

Join us on 8/28 for a webinar where Secondary Section Steering Committee member Dan Stockwell will discuss critical literacy pedagogy and share strategies on how to implement it in the secondary ELA classroom. Register: ncte.org/teaching-ela...

Scholarships are available for 2025 #NCTE Annual Convention attendees and presenters through two distinct programs. All members are eligible to apply by Tuesday, September 2. Learn more: ncte.org/annual-conve... #NCTE25

Self-nominations are now open for two spots in #NCTE’s Elementary Teacher Cohort! Support, connect and help shape our #ClassroomCorridors publication. Apply by Aug. 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET: ncte.org/elementary-c... #ElementaryEducation #TeacherLeadership #ClassroomVoices

Classic texts like Romeo & Juliet and The Great Gatsby still dominate public school curriculum. While a large majority of English teachers (90%) say teaching diverse texts is a goal, their ability to do so is influenced by autonomy over text selections and censorship. @ncte.org #UniteAgainstBookBans

Join novelist @fineangeline.bsky.social and educators from across the US at the Secondary Section Luncheon, happening at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention! This opportunity is available as part of #NCTE25 registration. Sign up now! convention.ncte.org/registration/ 🛫 #AngelineBoulley

“Wondrous Words is still a loud book, filled with the voices of writers young and old, experienced and inexperienced.” — Katie Wood Ray Katie and @stellavillalba.bsky.social's much-anticipated, reimagined Wondrous Words is finally here! Get your copy: my.ncte.org/s/product-de... #BookBirthday

“Such joy in these classrooms. Such joy in this book! Run, don’t walk, to grab a copy!” —Stephanie Harvey, educator and bestselling coauthor of Strategies That Work The long-awaited Text and Tech by @kristinziemke.bsky.social is out NOW! Get a copy: my.ncte.org/s/product-de... #NCTE #BookBirthday

Registration for #CEL25 is now open! Whether it’s your first conference or your tenth, we hope you’ll join us in Denver in the days immediately following #NCTE25 to help chart the course for literacy leadership in our schools. bit.ly/CELConference

The new issue of #ClassroomCorridors is here and packed with ideas to help elementary educators build respectful, strong classroom communities from day one. Access back-to-school-themed podcasts, booklists, and more: classroomcorridors.org/issue/issue-...

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

“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

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...

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

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

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/