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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→

Locus Pocus!: Place-Based Poetry Prompts for Writing Outside

Have Students Set Their Own Writing Goals

For teachers, it's vital to guide students in setting their own writing goals, promoting independence and self-reliance. Strategies like vision boards, goal-setting journals, and one-on-one conferences foster engagement and higher achievement in writing. Supporting individual goals alongside teacher objectives creates a nurturing learning environment.

Literacies Before Technologies

By National Writing Project

In this book, Jill and Troy—alongside several other colleagues—share their classroom practices as they inquiry into the Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom.

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Strengthening Disciplinary Literacy

By Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

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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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