Council Chronicle - Volume 25, Issue 3, 2016

NCTE children’s-book-award winners Sharon Draper and Don Brown are interviewed.

“We’re looking for books that can transform the lives of children.”

Bringing “Bookjoy” and Cultural Awareness to Children Nationwide—Children's Day/Book Day (El día de los niños/El día de los libros) celebrates its 20th anniversary!

An interview with Marilyn Scudder-Barnwell, recipient of the 2015 Early Literacy Educator of the Year Award from the NCTE Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA). Learn more about the award.

Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry

“The big understanding that teachers are developing is that when [English language learners] walk into the classroom, they’re a full vessel. Even if they’re not using English productively,they’re not producing English orally,they are still full of knowledge, they have literacy—they have oral literacy for sure and many have some written literacy.”

—Marsha Riddle Buly, Western Washington University