NWP Social Practices: Go Public with Our Practice

The Go Public with Practice Pathway is based on the National Writing Project’s social practices framework. This framework expands our thinking about going public and how teachers lead within and beyond the classroom as they make their teaching practice public through writing, teaching, and curriculum design.

During the summer institute, Writing Project fellows make their teaching practices public through the form of teaching demonstration lessons. As part of a supportive community, teachers examine their practice, reflecting on why certain strategies are effective and how they can improve their curriculum. After the summer institute, teacher-consultants continue in this process by writing articles, leading workshops, cross-visiting, doing observational rounds, demonstrating their teaching, and publishing curriculum.

Local Writing Project site directors and teacher-leaders are faced with the challenge of seeding and supporting opportunities for teachers to go public with their teaching practice. This collection is a curated set of experiences and resources that can help to develop programmatic opportunities for teachers to take their practice public at your Writing Project site. Resources include practical guidance, tools and protocols to use or modify, as well as stories of how local Writing Project sites have approached creating opportunities for teachers to go public with their practice.