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Deep Expertise Spanning Generations

Teach Write Now is a set of resources about writing and the teaching of writing from the National Writing Project (NWP), curated by educators in all disciplines. The knowledge collected here spans generations of teachers working across the country and in all communities—rural, urban, and suburban—and at all grade levels, from pre-K through college and university. Learn more→

Positioning Writers as Decision Makers

This short chapter from When Teaching Writing Gets Tough: Challenges and Possibilities in Secondary Writing Instruction offers three suggestions for changing your writing instruction to support student writers as independent decision makers.

Going the Distance

By National Writing Project

In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World. This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic has a lot to teach us about creating a healthy, resilient teaching profession able to face future crises.

Starting Small: Growing Literacy-Based Climate Pedagogy by Enhancing Existing Curricula

This chapter supports elementary teachers who want to develop literacy-based climate pedagogy by enhancing existing curriculum—for example, by adding interactive read-alouds of literature or multimodal texts, topical word work, or mentor texts for writing.

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Why I Write

The urge to write can be a mysterious calling. There are so many different ways to understand not only the why of writing, but what one gets out of it. As part of the ongoing celebration of the National Day on Writing every October 20, the National Writing Project has collected the thoughts of NWP Writers Council members from all walks of life—scientists, reporters, poets, teachers—to discover why they write.

Poetry-powered Prompts for Writing Outside

Kid Writing

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Write Now Teacher Studio

Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing

Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.

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