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When Students Take a Critical Lens to Traditional Literature: Protest and Student Voice
With the goal of engaging her students “in using their voices to become positive agents of change in their community,” high school teacher Kathleen Hicks Rowley revamped her ELA curriculum in order to address issues of equity and access. In the process of their class reading of Lord of the…
Subversive Acts of Revision: Writing and Justice
Bruce explains how revision can be taught as a tool to critique unjust texts. She writes, "We must ...speak back to those who would take our power from us and continue a legacy of damage to our students." Reading this piece could spark powerful conversations about teaching for social justice…
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.
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.