We facilitate deep connections & professional learning for ELA teachers.

Iowa Council of Teachers of English
We facilitate deep connections & professional learning for ELA teachers.

Iowa Council of Teachers of English
We facilitate deep connections & professional learning for ELA teachers.

Iowa Council of Teachers of English
Nikki Smith and her favorite high school teacher, Cory Mitchell

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Nikki Smith, ICTE President
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Tracy Tensen

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thoughts and prayers

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Ninth-graders in action in Danae Dieken's classroom.

Five Paragraph Death Punch, Revisited

Danae Dieken, Teacher Writer
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Bubbles Up: A Path Forward

Nikki Smith, Teacher Writer
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The poet's children equate bedtime with books.

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Nikki Smith, Teacher Writer
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Darkened School

Outside the Darkened School

Rex Muston, Teacher Writer
April 17, 2023
I Struggle

I Struggle

Erika Bass, Teacher-Writer
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Safe Classrooms, Unsafe Schools

Safe Classrooms, Unsafe Schools

Abby Heggen
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November Morning

November Supplication

Rex Muston, Teacher Writer
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