These resources focus on collaborations build around teacher-research and include a lot of how-to style directions and resources for planning and implementing a teacher-research group.
Teacher-to-teacher professional learning is a hallmark of the National Writing Project. This set of resources can help supply the tool box of new NWP teacher-leaders with frameworks, and models and tools for creating side-by-side learning opportunities when designing professional development for other teachers.
While the hallmark of NWP is teacher-to-teacher learning, that kind of professional learning experiences often leads teachers to approach the teaching of writing from a more collaborative perspective. These resources for classroom teachers provide stories, models, and tools to help us enter into a collaborative relationship with the young writers we teach.
How can we make schools feel more welcoming to families, especially families who might not traditionally have felt welcomed there? Resources in this set are for teachers and writing project leaders who want to encourage family-school collaborations.