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Leaning Toward Light: A Conversation with Tess Taylor
<p>This episode of NWP Radio features a conversation with Tess Taylor, an avid gardener, the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, and the editor of <em>Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them</em>.</p>
Leading a Make Cycle in CLMOOC
<p>A resource created to support the coaching of “Make Cycles” that were part of a professional learning offered by NWP called Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration.</p>
On "digiship"
<p>Chad Sansing explores the concept of “Digiship” in this classroom and supports his students in using everyday technologies and materials to rapidly prototype, share, and reiterate solutions to the problems and opportunities they see around them and in their own lives.</p>
Why Civic Engagement Matters in Schools
<p>A post leading to an online discussion among educators about the implications of supporting their students’ civic engagement into the classroom.</p>
Social justice through STEAM: Making pop-up books to connect students, content, and community
<p>The story of what happened when an ELA and Science teacher collaborate on making with their students.</p>
Teaching Blogging Not Blogs
<p>In preparing for a workshop, teacher blogger Bud Hunt put together a summary of everything that he had learned about blogging, or, as he calls it “connective writing.”</p>
Dis-Placed Collaboration: Online Study Group Takes "Hidden History" into the Classroom
<p>Reflections from a Bay Area Writing Project led six-month study group on ways to connect the history of Japanese American Incarceration into the curriculum with teachers from across the country.</p>
Be The Change in Northern Michigan and beyond
<p>Through songwriting, performance poetry, mask-making, and other activities, Top of the Mitt Writing Project teachers and students seized the power to make the world a better piece of ground through our Be The Change project.</p>
Transforming Gamers into Game Designers: Game Design as Connected Learning with Rural Youth in Challenging Times
<p>Guided by interests in video games, the Leatherstocking Writing Project engaged local youth in designing and producing video games as a way to support writing enrichment opportunities which were otherwise limited in their rural community.</p>
Student-Run Middle School Broadcast Media Program
<p>A story of how a before-school club was transformed into two class sections of broadcast media, giving 64 middle school students hands-on experience producing a daily news show. </p>
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.