Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It

This resource introduces the work of Elizabeth Birr Moje and prepares viewers for watching the recording of her keynote to NWP’s Reading Initiative Conference. The keynote introduces the basic concept of disciplinary literacy with a focus on secondary level classrooms.

In 2023, the National Writing Project copublished When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom. In this collection of compelling narratives, high-school and college teachers show us how they have taken on issues such as faculty and student relationships; struggles over personal identity in the classroom; the joys and complexities of working with emergent bilinguals, developing writers, and first-year college students; and the forever question of how to engage students.