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Results for “Building a More Perfect Union”
Creating Spaces of Refuge, Learning, and Leadership for Students
Writing Boston's Future engaged the local community with the Museum as a site for public education. Partners share how they designed a youth-centered approach alongside a reparative, liberatory justice framework.
Supporting Place-Based Student Inquiry in Tulsa, Oklahoma
This project shed light on the tragic and often overlooked history of the Tulsa Race Massacre by engaging hundreds of students in studying this period and then creating artifacts and displays to showcase what they uncovered.
Voices in Our Classrooms and Communities
This project engaged local teachers and students in the creation of educational resources highlighting Flint’s history through a partnership with a local museum.
Studying and Teaching Our Complicated Histories
Teachers from the Redwood Writing Project participated in a year-long study group where they discussed scholarship, texts, and resources focused on untold local histories of Humboldt County and California. The project culminated in a rich set of classroom units based on topics of interest to…
Teachers Writing for Civic Engagement
Based on an interest in better supporting youth writing for civic engagement, teachers of the Chicago Area Writing Project brought a focus on empowering teachers to create and share their own writing to make a social impact within and beyond their classrooms.
Teaching Democracy Across the Curriculum
Educators from the Boise State Writing Project studied together and created units of study across the curriculum that give students opportunities to be citizen historians.
"They Carried Us:" Exploring our Literacy Roots and Routes with Joy and Genius
Teachers from the Philadelphia Writing Project and educators at the African American Museum in Philadelphia developed and hosted a series of events focused on the hidden histories of African American women in Philadelphia from 1700 to the present. They created a series of public discussion…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.