The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recently awarded EHHS Professors (l - r) Kristy Pytash, Francisco Torres, and Amy Walker with the 2025 Language Arts Distinguished Article Award for their work titled, Responding to literature through Arts-based pedagogies: Exploring hope, empathy, imagination and liberation.
Handed out every fall, the award recognizes outstanding language arts articles that move forward the Elementary Section Steering Committee‘s mission of the pursuit for justice and equity, brings the sociocultural realities of children’s everyday lives into language arts instruction, and facilitates conversations of rich and authentic literacies.
The award is presented at the Elementary Get-Together during the NCTE Annual Convention. Winners receive a framed copy of the cover of the issue of Language Arts in which the article is published.