Congratulations to all the fabulous writers who submitted work to our student journal, Voices Visible! We would also like to thank all the dedicated teachers who nurtured the talents of these remarkable young people.
The Power of Formative Assessment
Submitted by Kelley Inden, BCTELA Executive Member Blogs at Messy Professional As you may have read in our previous post, we are running a book club this summer and fall as a lead-in to our provincial conference. We are excited to have Cris Tovani as our keynote speaker, and decided to use her latest book […]
Instructional ideas for working with social justice poetry text sets by Starleigh Grass
My favorite poems tend to be poems which have a social justice theme. Social justice poems engage me because by highlighting specific injustices they act as catalysts which help me imagine a more just and equitable world. The only thing better than a poem with a social justice theme is a text set of poems […]
Share your practice: present at the October conference
We are now accepting applications for the 2013 BCTELA October conference.
Teaching for Joy & Justice: Re-imagining English Language Arts by Pamela Richardson
Welcome to our Summer 2013 edition of English Practice, Teaching for Joy & Justice: Re-imagining English Language Arts. Here you will find articles inspired by BCTELA’s 2012 conference and its theme. Topics range from deepening students’ conversations about books, to the power and possibilities of graphic novels, to the questioning of rubrics as a form […]