Has NCLB Affected Your Teaching?

Today more than ever we need to speak up to
policymakers and members of our communities and tell them our personal stories
of good teaching and learning! Please take a few minutes to write a letter
to the editor of your local newspaper and share your story of how NCLB has
affected your work as a literacy educator.

• Write your own story and feel free to use information from
  these NCTE resources:
  
• results from an April 2006 survey
  on how NCLB has affected NCTE members' teaching
• the NCTE Legislative Platform
• talking points on Teacher Quality, Assessment, Narrowing of Curriculum, and
  Professional Development
  
• See our Tips for Writing Letters to the Editor
  
• Print or open in a new window these instructions for using Congress.org to submit your
  letter, then click on the logo below to go to
  Congress.org
  
  
  
• Take a moment to complete our September 2006 survey about how NCLB has affected
  your teaching and your students' learning.
  
• Did you send a letter to the editor of your local
  newspaper? Please forward a copy of your letter to slate@ncte.orgslate@ncte.organd
  complete this short report form.
  
• If your letter does run in the newspaper, please send us a
  clipping: SLATE Responses, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096;
  fax: 217-278-3760