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Going the Distance
In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/17775/9781682539439" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World</em></a>. This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19…
Positioning Writers as Decision Makers
This short chapter from <em>When Teaching Writing Gets Tough: Challenges and Possibilities in Secondary Writing Instruction</em> offers three suggestions for changing your writing instruction to support student writers as independent decision makers.
Chief Red Cloud and James Cook: An Agate Friendship
This video - designed as a three-part interview accompanied by writing prompts - focuses on the friendship and cultural sharing between Chief Red Cloud and homesteader James Cook of Agate Ranch.
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NWP Social Practices: Learn
For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.
Wrestle Together with Ethical Implications of Teacher Inquiry
What does it mean to study the students you are teaching? What ethical dilemmas arise, and how can we navigate these spaces in trustworthy, ethical ways?
Share Findings
How can teachers’ study of their own classrooms create an impact beyond their own classroom or school? These resources encourage publication of teacher-research in order to converse with and impact the profession.
Use Findings to Transform Practice
For practicing teacher-researchers, these resources help readers think about how to move from studying their practice to making changes in their practice, and in their schools, based on their findings.
Start a Reading Group
Useful for teams interested in planning teacher inquiry programs, this set of resources includes resources for hosting book groups, protocols useful in book group discussions, and some readings about other successful study/book groups.
Learn About Inquiry Programming
The resources here provide a great starting place for learning and thinking about teacher research as well as a few stories of teacher research collaborations.
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NWP Social Practices: Lead
Summer institutes provide an important opportunity for teachers to develop leadership skills. Through study of research and the act of going public with one’s practice, teachers develop a confidence in their expertise which they then apply in various ways throughout the rest of their…
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.