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NWP Teacher-Consultant Badge Framework: A Product Of The Building New Pathways To Leadership Initiative
 
As part of the Building New Pathways to Leadership Initiative, a team of NWP teacher-leaders surfaced and refined the social practices that underlie NWP teacher leadership development programs. These social practices form the framework for NWP’s Teacher-Consultant Badge.
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NWP Teacher-Consultant Badge: Public Criteria
 
The National Writing Project’s Teacher-Consultant badge indicates that the recipient has completed an invitational leadership program at a local writing project site and has become a teacher leader/member of that site and of the national network.
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The Writer Badge: Guidance Criteria
 
The National Writing Project awards Writer Badges to educators who have organized, led and/or taken part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as writer. The guidance criteria for earning the Teacher-Writer Badge are detailed on this page.
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NWP Writer Badge: Public Criteria
 
The National Writing Project awards Writer Badges to educators who have had a substantial engagement with writing in their Writing Project community such as organizing, leading and/or taking part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as writer.
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NWP Practitioner Badge: Guidance Criteria
 
The National Writing Project awards badges to educators who have organized, led and/or taken part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as practitioner. The guidance criteria for earning the Practitioner Badge are detailed on this page.
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NWP Practitioner Badge: Public Criteria
 
The National Writing Project’s Practitioner Badge indicates that the recipient has shared their teaching practice as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as a teacher-leader with expertise in teaching and learning at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.
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NWP Teacher-Researcher Badge: Guidance Criteria
 
The National Writing Project’s Teacher-Researcher Badge indicates that the recipient has completed teacher research as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as a teacher-leader with expertise in this topic at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.
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NWP Teacher-Researcher Badge: Public Criteria
 
The National Writing Project’s Teacher-Researcher Badge indicates that the recipient has completed teacher research as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as a teacher-leader with expertise in this topic at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.
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NWP Teacher-Leader Badge: Guidance Criteria
 
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NWP Teacher-Leader Badge: Public Criteria
 
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NWP Collaborator Badge: Guidance Criteria
 
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NWP Collaborator Badge: Public Criteria
 
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The National Writing Project’s Collaborator Badge indicates that the recipient has completed work as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as an teacher-leader with experience in collaboration at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.

Through its local Writing Project sites and national programs, the NWP awards badges, or micro-credentials, to recognize educators’ various skills and accomplishments connected to Writing Project work. Most badges can be awarded by local Writing Project sites, but others are connected to national programs and are awarded by staff and national leaders.

In this collection, we identify the currently available badges that NWP and Writing Project sites can award and provide two types of criteria: guidance criteria and public criteria. Guidance criteria provide more detail and explanation to guide leaders in awarding the badge. Look for the guidance criteria when deciding whether to award a badge. Public criteria, which are briefer, are short explanations summarizing a badge for external individuals. These are the explanations that are visible when someone outside the network seeks information on a badge. When an external viewer clicks on a badge, it will call up the public criteria.

The Teacher-Consultant Badge

Central to the NWP model is the Teacher-Consultant Badge. This badge signifies that the individual is a member of a local Writing Project site and has joined that project through a program or programs shaped by the Six Social Practices of the NWP model. Typically, the program in question is the Invitational Leadership Institute or Summer Institute, but other models are also possible. Writing Project sites can build this badge into their ongoing leadership programs, but they may also choose to award the Teacher-Consultant Badge to their existing TCs, as far back as they wish.

Additional Badges: C3WP, Writing Assessment, and badges in classrooms

Additional badges are associated with specific NWP programs such as C3WP or are in development for recognizing leaders who have been active with NWP’s Writing Assessment work. C3WP badges were first made available in May 2020. Writing Assessment Badges were first awarded in Summer 2020. All available badges will be issued through the NWP Dashboard.

But badging doesn’t begin and end with NWP professional development. Once Writing Project sites begin to award badges, teachers are likely to wonder how badging might play out in their classrooms or programs. Check out this companion collection where NWP leaders reflect on taking the badge idea into their classrooms.

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NWP Teacher-Consultant Badge: Public Criteria
The National Writing Project’s Teacher-Consultant badge indicates that the recipient has completed an invitational leadership program at a local writing project site and has become a teacher leader/member of that site and of the national network.
Read more
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The Writer Badge: Guidance Criteria
The National Writing Project awards Writer Badges to educators who have organized, led and/or taken part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as writer. The guidance criteria for earning the Teacher-Writer Badge are detailed on this page.
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NWP Writer Badge: Public Criteria
The National Writing Project awards Writer Badges to educators who have had a substantial engagement with writing in their Writing Project community such as organizing, leading and/or taking part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as writer.
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