Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)
ELA Teacher & Department Chair in Erie, PA | Chair, Conference on English Leadership | President, LitAGE | Adjunct Lecturer, Gannon University | PhD Student, disability and reader identities, University at Buffalo | 🏳️🌈 | he/him/his
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- English teachers: It’s acceptable to lean into contemporary parlance and define mood in a text as the “vibe,” right?
- My co-teacher spent his planning period today making 22 good calls home today. We started semester 2 (new students) last Tuesday. I dint know what I’d do without him.
- Conversations with peers have reminded me that I need to review processes (budget timelines after they submit requests, how to navigate our Google folders, etc.). I’m familiar because I use these all the time, but my colleagues aren’t in the weeds with these processes. #LiteracyLeadership
- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)This week on the podcast: Writing teacher Nashwa Elkoshairi shares how adding freewriting to her ELA units made a BIG difference in the quality of her students' writing. www.cultofpedagogy.com/inquiry-base...
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- I’ve gone back to traditional grades (where everything averages & categories are weighted) now that we’ve stared a new semester with new classes. I’m not too happy about it, but students are already more attentive to work. It’s early, we’ll see. My gradeless ( #ungrading ) project may be at an end…
- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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- I’m listening to @badnerds.bsky.social‘s second-watch episode on #Babylon5 ‘s “Passing Through Gethsemane.” These discussions of justice and revenge are so relevant to this moment. Watch the B5 episode of you haven’t in a while. Would I stay in the garden? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- Although working on resources & common assessments can bolster an English department’s practices, I find that giving space for ELA teachers to do literature, composition, and literacy work together builds teacher & team efficacy: let’s journal, analyze poems, & talk about books! #LiteracyLeadership
- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Join us this Wednesday (1/21/26) at 7pm ET to debrief on #NCET25 and #CEL25. We invite anyone who views themselves as classroom, school, district, community, or state-level leaders in ELA/literacy. Must be an NCTE member. An hour of casual reflections! #NCET26 #CEL26 ncte.org/reflect-rela...
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- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)Pretty much every article I read about "integrating" AI into the writing classroom brings me back to the conclusion I work through here: We should teach writing, not document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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- On Friday, our 5th grade department chair and 6-12 ELA department chairs met. We’re finally working to establish priority standards K-12 (6500-student district) to provide resources & eventually gather student samples across grade levels as references for teachers & students. #LiteracyLeadership
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- Our final writing task in ELA10 this semester is a character encounter: students pick 2 characters from 2 books they’ve read (as a class or independently) and write them into a story: on a vacation, a quest, a date, in the afterlife… We’re writing #FanFiction. And it’s awesome so far! #FanFic
- Calling all ELA & literacy leaders! Join the Conference on English Leadership’s Reflect & Relaunch social hour on Wednesday, January 21 @ 7pm ET! All current @ncte.org members are invited to reflect on #NCTE25 & #CEL25 and look forward to new leadership lessons. ncte.org/reflect-rela...
- This week in tenth grade ELA, we will be finishing reading She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition by Qui Nguyen. We’ve got some music cues and props and the students are really into it! #SheKillsMonsters
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- I listened to @rickriordan.bsky.social talk on how the inferiority (1st person POV) in the books had to be translated for the series, which allowed other perspectives. This is a great discussion when teaching the role of point of view in ELA classes.
- I read how the Duffers pitched #StrangerThings with each of the 3 age groups of characters in different genres (teens=horror, kids=Spielberg, etc) & how the show is coming-of-age: the genre dictated S5. Killing off characters isn’t the genre. Good lesson for ELA teachers when teaching genre.
- Reposted by Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.” My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.” Welp. I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
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- High school ELA teachers: Do you prefer your class to be called “English” or “English Language Arts”? What are the connotations of each for you? What is gained or lost in either label? #NCTEchat #NCTE #ITeachEnglish #literacies
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- Does your school provide helpful professional learning on supporting students with disabilities/IEPs in regular education settings? #inclusion #SpecialEducation
