Here's a new piece on the importance of writing about literature from NCTE President-Elect Carol Jago: Crash! The Currency Crisis in American Culture. There's also a good post about Jago's report on the NCTE Inbox Blog.
In New Mexico
- New Mexico Council of Teachers of English
- New Mexico State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- NM Language Arts Content Standards and Benchmarks
- Public Ed. Dept. Professional Licensure Unit
- Teach New Mexico (includes information on 3-tiered licensure and dossiers)
- Teaching Jobs in New Mexico
- Univ. of New Mexico Dept. of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
- Univ. of New Mexico Secondary Education Program
Beyond New Mexico
Writing Project Sites
Research
- 21st Century Literacies: What are they and why are they important?
- The Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School
- Guidelines for Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well
- The Effect of Grammar Instruction on Student Writing
- What Research Says about Writing
- What We Know About Adolescent Literacy
- The National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement
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