NCTE Language Arts Podcast

In the Conversation Currents for the May 2016 issue of Language Arts, guest coeditor Iliana Reyes (research scientist at CINVESTAV, Mexico City, and associated faculty in Language, Reading, and Culture at the University of Arizona) talks with Nancy H. Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania) about the continua of biliteracy and how teachers have used it to better acknowledge student language as a resource.

In the Conversation Currents for the November 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robyn Seglem and Mark Conley talk with Marc Tucker about his views on English language arts instruction in an international comparative context.

In the Conversation Currents for the May 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robert J. Sternberg of Cornell University talks about ways to encourage creativity in the classroom, especially in an age of Common Core State Standards.

In the Conversation Currents for the March 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robert J. Sternberg of Cornell University talks about ways to encourage creativity in the classroom, especially in an age of Common Core State Standards.

In the Conversation Currents for the January 2015 issue of Language Arts, Troy Hicks and Franki Sibberson, two educators who actively integrate technology into their language arts teaching, as well as into their work in teacher professional development, discuss what happens when we think of writing workshop as a structure for supporting students as composers.

In the Conversation Currents for the May 2014 issue of Language Arts, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (UCLA) and Ofelia Garcia (The Graduate Center, CUNY) discuss translanguaging and new ways of thinking about the crossing of linguistic borders, and about exciting new ways to consider the language resources children bring to classrooms and other educational settings.

In the Conversation Currents for the January 2014 issue of Language Arts, John Barker, Chief Accountability Officer for Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) Office of Accountability, and Mark Conley, professor at the University of Memphis, discuss teacher performance assessments.

In a special bonus Conversation Currents podcast, Language Arts editors talk with Yvonne (Bonnie) and David Freeman, Professors Emeriti at the University of Texas Brownsville, recipients of NCTE's 2013 Outstanding Educators in the English Language Arts Award.

Catherine Compton-Lilly and Eve Gregory share their latest research involving family members, communities, and the uncovering of varied literacy practices sprinkled throughout homes, faith-based organizations, and community centers. They talk about the reciprocal nature of children's literacy learning and how what is learned at home comes into school, and what is learned in school also shows up for the children as they interact with family members at home.

JoBeth Allen, from the University of Georgia, and Valerie Kinloch, from The Ohio State University, talk about their thoughts and experiences working with families and communities.

Language Arts editors talk with chef Kevin Gillespie about his involvement with local farmers and communities in promoting quality ingredients in cooking, his participation in food activist organizations, and how these issues relate to families and schools.

Jill Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin Ryan discuss their work and the importance of including LGBT topics in elementary language arts classrooms, even when doing so is hard.

Jackie Marsh and Vivian Vasquez discuss how teachers can use kid-watching to discover individual children's patterns of development as they engage in reading, writing, critical literacies, and digital literacies in and out of school settings.

Sonia Nieto and K. C. Nat Turner, both from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, share their experiences with community-school collaborations and the transformative possibilities that occur when the relationships offer bi-directional opportunities for learning.

Language Arts editors talk with Danling Fu and Jane Hansen about writing, the thinking that needs to be made visible, the roles of evaluation in writing, and writing across disciplines.