In the Conversation Currents for the November 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robyn Seglem and Mark Conley talk with Marc Tucker about his views on English language arts instruction in an international comparative context.

In the Conversation Currents for the May 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robert J. Sternberg of Cornell University talks about ways to encourage creativity in the classroom, especially in an age of Common Core State Standards.

In the Conversation Currents for the March 2015 issue of Language Arts, Robert J. Sternberg of Cornell University talks about ways to encourage creativity in the classroom, especially in an age of Common Core State Standards.

In the Conversation Currents for the January 2015 issue of Language Arts, Troy Hicks and Franki Sibberson, two educators who actively integrate technology into their language arts teaching, as well as into their work in teacher professional development, discuss what happens when we think of writing workshop as a structure for supporting students as composers.

In the Conversation Currents for the November 2014 issue of Language Arts, the LA editors talk with Sir Ken Robinson about the arts, creativity, passion, and innovation in education.

In the Conversation Currents for the September 2014 issue of Language Arts, Nadjwa Norton (City College, CUNY) and Heather Oesterreich (New Mexico State University) discuss how they got started with children as co-researcher methodologies and the challenges and tensions in this work.

In the Conversation Currents for the May 2014 issue of Language Arts, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (UCLA) and Ofelia Garcia (The Graduate Center, CUNY) discuss translanguaging and new ways of thinking about the crossing of linguistic borders, and about exciting new ways to consider the language resources children bring to classrooms and other educational settings.

In the Conversation Currents for the January 2014 issue of Language Arts, John Barker, Chief Accountability Officer for Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) Office of Accountability, and Mark Conley, professor at the University of Memphis, discuss teacher performance assessments.

In a special bonus Conversation Currents podcast, Language Arts editors talk with Yvonne (Bonnie) and David Freeman, Professors Emeriti at the University of Texas Brownsville, recipients of NCTE's 2013 Outstanding Educators in the English Language Arts Award.

In the Conversation Currents for the November 2013 issue of Language Arts, three author/educators--Kate Pullinger, Amanda Havard, and Melanie Hundley--discuss the emerging field of transmedia literature for children and adolescents and the role of these texts in English language arts classrooms.