ABOUT WVCTE

Dear English Teachers of West Virginia,

We are passionate teachers who are committed to providing our students with the highest quality instruction and most valuable learning experience we can offer. We believe English teachers throughout our state have a story to tell, expertise to share, and the ability to change and shape the lives of our students. We believe that when teachers are connected, have a voice, and are plugged in, students benefit. 

WVCTE provides teachers a network for meaningful professional learning, so our classrooms become places where learning matters and endures.

 Please join us in uniting West Virginia educators. Let’s inspire greatness together.


WVCTE Executive Committee

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WVCTE Best Practices Blog

Karla Hilliard

This year, I’m giving my students a clean slate.

It is so tempting to center ourselves in our work as teachers. It makes sense why this might happen. As an old friend of mine says, “We make the work, we do the work, we grade the work.” We stay in our own classrooms, or now, as COVID may have it, behind our own screens, as our students rotate in and out, traversing a broader educational landscape and navigating the complexities of their lives beyond school. I’m sometimes guilty of thinking...

Books pictured include Stamped from the Beginning by Kendi, Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance by Senier, Story Matters and Project-Based Writing by Prather, Pointless by Zerwin, Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain by Hammond, Assign Writing/Teaching Writers by Smith & Swain, The Book of the Dead by Rukeyser, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Foster, and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Bloom
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Pushing Forward through the Year of Fear

As we know, 2020 has been the Year of Fear. Let’s move beyond the fear to knowledge, and beyond the knowledge to wisdom. Join me in setting goals for the summer that will impact yourself, your students and your society.

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An Elegy for a School Year in Three Parts

An elegy moves from grief to praise of the idealized dead to solace. This elegy for 2019-2020 reminds us that school is about teaching younger humans to be better humans, and in the process, becoming better humans ourselves. Here’s a call to look for what can lead you forward.

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Quarantine Engagement: Check!

Toni M. Poling I’m a list person.  I love lists.  Each morning, whether I’m working at school or at home during quarantine, I sit down and make a list of goals to accomplish that day.  Read more…