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Creating Generative Dialogue One Civil Conversation at a Time

By Molly Robbins

Molly Robbins of the Denver Writing Project offers students a road map to have hard conversations with people with whom they fundamentally disagree. After working on civil conversations and participating in the 3D Digital Democratic Dialogue Project, some of her students of color were empowered to speak at a professional development day for teachers, creating a powerful experience that shifted the conversation toward creating a more generative space where students feel included in their education.

The Writer’s Memo

A writer’s memo helps to shift the responsibility for the writer’s growth from the teacher to the writer themself, promoting self-reliance, independence, and autonomy.

Today’s Reasons Why We Need Students to Write for Authentic Audiences

By Katie McKay

Why students’ voices, interests, stories, and experiences should reach real readers and some ways to support this.

Beyond Storytime: When teachers, authors, and illustrators meet

The Write Time

NWP Radio, in partnership with the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield and Penguin Random House Books, launched a special series in 2020 called “The Write Time” where writing teachers from across the NWP Network interview young-adult and children’s authors about their books, their composing processes, and writers’ craft.

NWP Radio

NWP Radio is a podcast of the National Writing Project that typically airs twice each month. It features a wide array of guests discussing education-related topics like teaching writing, Connected Learning, Writing Project site development, out-of-school education, science and writing, maker ed, and more.

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STEAM-powered prompts for Writing Outside

This collection is meant to support place-based writing outside anytime of year. Originally developed for Write Out (writeout.nwp.org).

Reading Together at NWP Sites and Beyond

How do we keep our reading lists fresh and responsive to the interests and needs of the community of educators. This collection contains strategies and reflections from NWP leaders about selecting reading for the Invitational Leadership Institute, study groups, and personal journeys.

Getting Started with Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary literacy is about the particular focus on reading and writing in a discipline or content area, the unique texts and strategies that constitute a discipline. This collection contains a small set of resources to start to explore disciplinary literacy.

Building Critical Civic Empathy Across Time and Space: Fostering Digital Democratic Dialogue with the NWP 3D Project

By Nicole Mirra

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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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