National Council of teachers of English

Champaign-Urbana,, Illinois, 61801

Last updated on March 4, 2025
Grant awarded by
Library of Congress
Region
East
Organization Type
Non-profit Organization
Congressional District(s)
Fiscal Year Of First Grant
FY 2020 [10/01/19 - 09/30/20]
Contributing Organization(s)
National Council of Teachers of English
Organization description

Through collaboration and community, shared stories and shared experiences, NCTE supports teachers and their students in classrooms, on college campuses, and in online learning environments.

For more than 100 years, NCTE has worked with its members to offer journals, publications, and resources; to further the voice and expertise of educators as advocates for their students at the local and federal levels; and to share lesson ideas, research, and teaching strategies through its Annual Convention and other professional learning events.

 

Mission Statement (1990)

The Council promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society, through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language.

Project description
  • The copublished book Working with Primary Sources in the English Language Arts Classroom may be downloaded free of charge as a result of grant funding. This peer-reviewed collection of teaching ideas and assignments details ways in which ELA teachers have taught their students to examine Library sources critically.
  • NCTE and the Library also published a searchable database of more than 150 strategies for teaching with digitized primary sources from the Library collection. The strategies were written by NCTE members to articulate specific literacy merit for curriculum or classroom use, along with suggested themes, units, and state standards.

More than three dozen ELA teachers and leaders lent their expertise and time to this project. They were convened by NCTE through the Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources program.
TPS project focus
  • Curriculum
Content focus
  • Access
  • Cultural Studies
  • English Language Arts
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Gender Studies
  • Geography
  • History
  • Information Literacy
  • Journalism
  • Literacy
  • Math
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Civil Rights
  • World War II
Audience
  • Classroom teachers
  • Curriculum coordinators
  • Librarians/Media specialists
  • Researchers
  • Teacher candidates/Student teachers
  • University faculty
  • Writers
Level(s)
  • K-5
  • Pre-K - 2nd
  • 3 - 5
  • 6 - 8
  • 9 - 12
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
Population focus
  • African Americans
  • English language learners
  • Hispanic/Latinx
  • Jewish Americans
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Native American/Indigenous
  • Urban
  • Veterans
  • Women and girls
Organization Contact
Kelly E. Tumy
[email protected]
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