2025-26 Call for our BCTELA English Practice Journal Submissions!
Deadline April 1, 2026
Do you have great classroom ideas to share? Want to share your teaching practice? Tell us about the books you’ve been reading with your students! Have you done research or inquiry that can help us as educators? English Practice Journal, a publication of the BC Teachers of English Language Arts Provincial Specialist Association, is looking for your submissions. We especially encourage submissions from BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, and other voices that have been historically under-represented and marginalized.
English Practice is looking for articles about ELA Teaching, Learning and Research to support educators, scholars and schools in providing the best education through timely research, scholarship and pedagogical inquiry. ___________________________________________________________________________
Theme: Decolonizing Practices in Teaching and Learning
The editors of BCTELA’s English Practice Journal would like to make a call for submissions in response to this vital question: How are you decolonizing your teaching/learning practice?
As teachers continue to explore the important tenets of Truth and Reconciliation, a crucial area for consideration is the process of decolonizing, applied to teaching practices, school structures, and societal norms. The process of decolonizing asks us to imagine the ways that teaching and learning can happen free of the harms of colonial logics and beliefs, which often act oppressively towards Historically, Persistently, and/or Systemically Marginalized groups.
Your submission might also include your research, scholarship and practices of:
- Anti-colonial teaching and addressing colonial structures in education
- Practices of unsettling English education
- Research and teaching that decenters settler narratives
This issue of English Practice Journal asks educators to consider a central question: how are you responding to calls for decolonizing your practice as an educator? This question invites multiple responses, at the level of the classroom, the school and the community. We are interested in sharing stories, research, and scholarship on practices that educators have brought into their practice in the name of decolonizing. We are interested in successes, and we are interested in lessons learned.
You may consider these guiding questions as you prepare a submission for EPJ:
- What are you doing to decolonize your role in learning through your spaces, lessons, assessment practice, and pedagogy?
- How has decolonizing impacted your work at the lesson, unit and/or thematic level?
- What are some ways that you have incorporated decolonizing in your practices beyond curriculum and pedagogy?
- What are your favorite resources you have used in your decolonizing journey?
English Practice Journal has four sections to assist you in preparing and submitting your writing:
- Teaching Ideas (classroom lessons and strategies)
- Investigating our Practice (research and inquiry)
- Salon (literary & arts-based pieces)
- Check this Out (book, website, and resource reviews)
If you are interested in writing for EJP, and would like assistance as you write your piece, please contact the editors! If it is your first time writing for a journal, if you’d like some feedback on your idea and shaping it for journal submission, please reach out to us. We are here to help!
Please email single-spaced submissions as word documents. Please include author bio(s) in a cover letter and upload it as a supplementary document when submitting papers online. On the cover letter, authors must indicate if they prefer Committee Review (review in house by editorial team and board only) or Anonymized Peer Review (anonymized review by two or more external readers). To facilitate Anonymized Peer Review review, we request that you ensure that all author biographical details are deleted from the reviewers’ manuscript, and all identifying information is anonymized for reviews. There is no charge to authors for the processing or submission of articles. All submissions should conform to APA 7th referencing and style guidelines.
Submissions can be emailed to: englishpracticejournal@gmail.com
Deadline: April 1st, 2026. Anticipated publication: Fall 2026.
Editors: Sarah Cormier and Joaquin Muñoz
English Practice is the Journal of the BC Teachers of English Language Arts which also publishes the President’s Newsletter and the Student Writing Journal. English Practice and other periodicals are distributed to BCTELA members throughout British Columbia and exchanged with other provincial specialist associations of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. English Practice is a member of the NCTE Affiliate Information Exchange Agreement. English Practice is registered with the National Library of Canada under International Standard Serial Number ISSN 0315-2189.
2023 English Practice Journal!
Thank you to our BC Colleagues who were willing to share their thoughts, reflections and pedagogies with us!!
2023 BCTELA English Practice Journal -Download the journal using this link!
Announcing:
2022 English Practice Journal is now released!!!
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This beautiful publication is lovingly dedicated to our longtime BCTELA member, executive and friend Don Blazevich. Don was a teacher, mentor, friend, and member of our BCTELA family for over 10 years. He passed away peacefully surrounded by family in July 2022.
We hope you find the articles and teaching ideas helpful! Look soon for our call for submissions for next year’s edition!
English Practice 2021 Release!
We are so pleased and proud as punch to release our latest edition of the BCTELA English Practice Journal!!
Teachers from around the province shared their practice with us and now we are sharing it with you!
Click here to download this rich and beautiful collection of ideas, reflections & inspiration written by a teacher near you!
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BCTELA English Practice Digital Journal 2021
English Practice 2020
BCTELA’s award winning journal with contributions from educators willing to share their practices is now available.
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Past Issue Fall 2018: Enriching Community through Story: Strengthening Voice & Choice
Past Issue: Fall 2017
Empowering Learners: Renewing our Practice, Vol. 59 No.1, 2017
Past Issue: Fall 2016
Fall 2016 Story and the Landscapes of Learning , Vol. 58 No.1, 2016
Past Issue: Fall 2015
Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education Vol. 57 No. 1 2015
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