As the holidays begin, another conference season comes to a close. For the past week, Sara and I have been in Philadelphia at the National Writing Project‘s “Digital Is…” pre-conference, the NWP Annual Meeting, and the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. As it is each year, we enjoy spending time with colleagues [...]

The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century. Examining Writing in a Time of Change: [...]

Today’s NCTE Inbox had an official list of blog posts about the convention, as well as Traci Gardner’s commentary about whether and how teachers should blog (for the record, she thinks that they should, although some districts do not). I find this thread of conversation an interesting complement to a few others floating around today, [...]

The questions that we have collectively explored the past two days leave me with many thoughts, which I will get to in a moment. First, I need to synthesize this weekend with the other working retreat that I recently attended — the CEE Leadership and Policy Summit in Chicago. Having had two weeks to reflect [...]

Panel: Vision for CEE in….5 Years? This panel is a prelude to a brainstorming/visioning activity that we are going to be involved in next. Don Zancanella, University of New Mexico In five years, CEE should and will be further along in the process of using technology to support English Educators; right now our work is [...]

Of the many great things happening at the CEE Summit, I have had many opportunities to talk to other English Educators and find out about their online lives. As we prepare for the second panel discussion to start, I am sitting with Carl Young, editor of the CITE Journal and blogger of the SITE blog [...]

The morning session began with some intros and overview stuff, then we got into a more formal presentation called ”Reflections on the Future of English Education.” Here are some notes from those presenters and there will likely be more at the CEE blog: The Role of CEE within NCTE – Kent Williamson, Executive Director of NCTE [...]

It has been a long day of travel from East Lansing to Chicago and now a bit further north to Lake Forest, where the CEE Leadership and Policy Summit begins in just a few minutes. Just a few quick thoughts on last night’s Teachers Teaching Teachers and what I will be doing for the next [...]