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Professional Learning Teacher as Writer

NWP Social Practices: Write

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Write to Think and Reflect
By National Writing Project
For Writing Project site leaders thinking about developing a new pathway to site leadership, this collection examines the social practices connected to writing that have become key to the NWP experience.
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Write With Others
By National Writing Project
For Writing Project site leaders thinking about developing a new pathway to site leadership, this collection examines the social practices connected to writing that have become key to the NWP experience.
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Write for an Audience
By National Writing Project
For Writing Project site leaders thinking about developing a new pathway to site leadership, this collection examines the social practices connected to writing that have become key to the NWP experience.
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 For Writing Project site leaders thinking about developing a new pathway to site leadership, this collection examines the social practices connected to writing that have become key to the NWP experience.

Writing plays a unique role in our experience as teacher-leaders. It is through writing that we deepen our understanding of ourselves as teachers, our students as writers, and the ways that writing can deepen and enrich human experience. Engaging in writing helps us develop more meaningful pedagogical practices at the same time that it gives us a voice in public conversations. In sum, it helps us expand our role as educational leaders.

NWP summer institutes foster deep understandings of the ways that we use writing for multiple purposes: as discovery, reflection, thinking, learning, self-expression, and inquiry. Moreover, there are certain writing practices present in most NWP summer institutes—writing groups, peer response, and publication (or sharing) in some form. This collection focuses on articles that will help teams as they plan and organize the writing experiences of teachers in new pathways to leadership.

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Write With Others
By National Writing Project
Many Writing Project educators move from a vision of writing as a solitary act to a more communal vision of writing. These resources will support new NWP leaders to bring writers together, whether in an occasional situation, like a writing marathon, or in ongoing writing groups; face-to-face or online. Resources include guides and tools, as well as descriptions and stories useful in thinking about how and why to write together.
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Write for an Audience
By National Writing Project
Want to support teacher-writers to share their work widely? Want to look beyond print publication or professional writing retreats? These resources will help site leaders to think about how to support teachers writing for publication, and to understand the digital landscape for writing and publishing.
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NWP Social Practices: Learn
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