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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→

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

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

By Katie McKay

The Choice and Voice team, made up of six elementary teachers from rural Bastrop, Texas and a Teacher Consultant with the Heart of Texas Writing Project, embarked on a year-long journey of deep professional development to create responsive curriculum that grows authentic, enthusiastic, and motivated writers in our rural Title I Kindergarten-3rd grade classrooms.

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Reading Together at NWP Sites and Beyond

Strengthening Disciplinary Literacy

By Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

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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