Thanks to every educator who joined NCTE and @nctm.org in Charlotte this week to break down silos at #LitMath26! We deeply appreciate you taking the time to learn and be in community with us—and we hope to see you in November in Philly for #NCTE26, the 2026 NCTE Annual Convention!

Also aTHIS one! “ Great teachers aren’t the hero of the story. They help students become the hero of their own story!” #BrookeRocks #ElemMathChat #MTBoS

Melynee Naegele@mnmmath.bsky.social · 9h ago

Loved seeing @lbrookepowers.bsky.social & @heidisabnani.bsky.social #LitMath26. ❤️Brooke’s Hollywood vs the Classroom “The goal isn’t to turn the volume all the way down. It’s to turn the thinking all the way up.” “Joy is not the reward for learning. Joy fuels learning.” #ElemMathChat #MTBoS

Antwan Eady, author of the 2025 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award winner The Last Stand, spoke with NCTE Program Chair @kristinziemke.bsky.social at #LitMath26 about how grief drives his writing process: "Hopefully that brings beauty back into our world, when other people read it and receive it." @nctm.org

Back by popular demand for the 2026 NCTE-@nctm.org Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, the #BuildYourStack Reading Room Workshops provide space for #LitMath26 attendees to comfortably engage with texts. Teachers can even take their favorite books home to their students!

Captain Barrington Irving opened #LitMath26 with powerful education stories. "Planting seeds of inspiration of a dream—it starts with storytelling...with showing what exists in the world...with even yourself becoming an explorer, so that way you can introduce some of these stories to children."

The latest issue of Classroom Corridors centers student voice through "Dear Teacher" letters, book recommendations, downloadable "Shelf Talker" resources, and more. Explore authentic elementary student perspectives to inspire your teaching. https://bit.ly/45jU3Fr

Dr. Angie Zapata has won the 2026 Richard A. Meade Award for her book, Deepening Student Engagement with Diverse Picturebooks! The award from ELATE recognizes published research-based work promoting ELA teacher development at any educational level and in any scope and setting. https://bit.ly/4h89mIe

Last week, members of NCTE's teacher cohorts that are creating classroom resources for ELA and comics viewed historical artifacts at @librarycongress.bsky.social. Then they presented at @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social about teaching with @carnegie.org’s #GreatImmigrants, Great Americans comic series.

Middle level educators: The 2027 Promising Young Writers award prompt is now available to share with your 8th-grade students! This year's prompt invokes a quote from author Robin Wall Kimmerer to invite students to consider the concept of being and becoming a good ancestor: https://bit.ly/44KrKQ5

Flashback to #LitMath25! Hundreds of educators gathered in Chicago last summer to reinvigorate their teaching across subjects. Will you be there when we do it all again next month in Charlotte? Register for #LitMath26 to be in the room when the fresh ideas start flowing! www.nctm.org/ncte-nctm2026/

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 10mo ago

Mark your calendar now for the third annual Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, hosted by #NCTE and @nctm.org! #LitMath26 is happening in Charlotte, NC, August 3-5. Sign up to receive more information as it becomes available: https://ncte.org/2026-ncte-nctm-joint-conference/

Join the last webinar in our summer series! https://bit.ly/4vhcllk Led by ACE Chair Johnny Allred, assistant professor of English education at BYU, attendees will remix an upcoming activity, lesson or unit they plan to teach and begin designing a multimodal component using a shared design template.

Deadline extended: Register now for free #LitMath26 workshop books! https://bit.ly/4f1dE ✏️ Ann Marie Corgill, Katie Wood Ray, and @stellavillalba.bsky.social lead activities on engaging young writers 📕 @kristinziemke.bsky.social and Franki Sibberson explore strategies for growing young readers

Discover ways to bring nonfiction to life in your elementary classroom. This issue of Classroom Corridors has practical strategies for vocabulary instruction, literary nonfiction, nature journaling, engaging read-alouds, and fostering curiosity through inquiry-based learning: https://bit.ly/4bdL3EV

Join us virtually at #LKBF26 for an NCTE-sponsored Educators’ Night session! @stellavillalba.bsky.social invites us all to step into Nepantla—the sacred, liminal space where a child's languages, literacies, and cultural wealth and school world meet. Watch live on July 28: https://bit.ly/4vqBSs9

Just registered for National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in my town of Philly! So proud that my wife and I are presenting together! @ncte.org

We're cleaning out the NCTE warehouse! Save 15%-40% on some of our favorite t-shirt designs from over the years—including “Proud to Be Intertextual,” “Plot Twist Predictor,” and “Stop! Grammar Time." Buy more to save more! Plus, free shipping over $30. https://bit.ly/3SAVBI0

Antwan Eady will be a keynote speaker and participate in a book signing at the NCTE-@nctm.org Joint Conference! He is the award-winning author of picturebooks Nigel and the Moon, The Last Stand, and The Gathering Table. Don’t miss out! https://bit.ly/3PakQz6 #LitMath26 #InterdisciplinaryEducation

NCTE is a promotional partner of the free 2026 Smithsonian National Education Summit, convening educators & museum leaders around the theme: Together We Thrive: Towards a More Perfect Union. Amanda Gorman will keynote. https://bit.ly/4vqlecf 📅 July 14–16 📍 Washington, DC or virtual #SmithsonianEdu

If you haven't yet booked a hotel room for the #NCTE-@nctm.org Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, know that Monday is the last day for guaranteed availability at the #LitMath26 room rate! Visit Charlotte the first week of August: https://www.nctm.org/ncte-nctm2026/plan/#Hotel

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Fandom Transformation Projects invite youth to create multimedia artifacts to move pop culture communities toward justice. Learn from @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social about using these projects in your own teaching context. Register for our Monday webinar: https://bit.ly/4vgAGYc

Presenting with my colleague Ashley Kelly (PEBC) at the #LitMath26 NCTE-NCTM Joint Conference, August 3-5 in Charlotte! Our session is "Bridging Mathematics and Literacy: Using Thinking Strategies to Strengthen Instructional Cohesion & Build Community." nctm.org/ncte-nctm2026

Registration for the 2026 Conference on English Leadership Annual Convention is NOW OPEN! This professional development experience for literacy leaders directly follows #NCTE26 in Philadelphia in November. See all you'll learn in the just-released #CEL26 Convention Program: https://bit.ly/4vSAwYe

Calling all K–5 literacy educators: Go back to school with ideas, strategies, and inspiration for the year ahead! Join us in Charlotte next month for #LitMath26, the third annual NCTE-@nctm.org Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics. https://bit.ly/3PakQz6

Based on my initial skim, this is good stuff. One thing I appreciate is that it avoids pitting media education and “literary” approaches against each other. Better still, it understands that books *are* media & can be studied as such. Anything attempting to transcend that binary is a win, IMO.

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · last mo.

The new NCTE Position Statement on Media Education identifies four content strands that should be a central part of ELA curriculum and instruction: 👂 Interpreting 🎙️ Composing 🧠 Evaluating 📺 Analyzing Read the statement and access instructional resources: https://bit.ly/4eIeVua #MediaLiteracy

Announcing The Next Draft, an #America250 student writing contest from NCTE, @humanitiesall.bsky.social, and The Teagle Foundation: https://bit.ly/4xR75Hr Students in grades 9–12 may submit a written literary reflection or a multimodal creation. Winners will receive up to $1,000!

The @nytimes.com technology reporter @natashanyt.bsky.social is headed to Philly for #NCTE26 to talk about tech in the classroom and her new book, Coding Kids. Don’t miss this conversation at the College Section Luncheon! Early-bird registration rates are now available: https://bit.ly/4bilTUK

Register for #LitMath26 by July 15 and attend one of two new workshops for free! Elementary reading and writing educators will learn directly from NCTE authors AND receive copies of their books. Join us in Charlotte! https://bit.ly/4f1dEzD @stellavillalba.bsky.social @kristinziemke.bsky.social

"Leaders of NCTE's College Section have been working diligently this year to provide fresh, dedicated Annual Convention programming." —College Section Steering Committee Chair Jonathan Bush Present at our new #NCTE26 event, College Conversations! Submit a proposal by Monday: https://bit.ly/4tWPaM9

The new NCTE Position Statement on Media Education identifies four content strands that should be a central part of ELA curriculum and instruction: 👂 Interpreting 🎙️ Composing 🧠 Evaluating 📺 Analyzing Read the statement and access instructional resources: https://bit.ly/4eIeVua #MediaLiteracy

Secondary colleagues! As chair of NCTE’s Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazine Awards (REALM), the deadline to submit lit mags is July 31st! Open to middle & secondary schools, and colleges & universities, in the US, US territories, Canada, & American schools abroad.

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 2mo ago

NCTE’s REALM Awards showcase exceptional student writing, art, and publishing from middle school through college. Nominate your school’s magazine by July 31! https://bit.ly/3MaCzp3 Pictured below: 2025 #REALM Award recipients Earthshine and Miambiance #SchoolLiteraryMagazines #StudentWritingAwards