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Integrating Writing Project Practices into a Mandated Program
This brief article describes how the San Diego Area Writing Project (SDAWP) created professional development around a mandated writing curriculum. While the idea of a mandated writing curriculum runs counter to NWP principles, the need to support teachers required to use certain materials…
A Thousand Writers Writing: Seeking Change through the Radical Practice of Writing as a Way of Being
Have you ever found yourself having to justify teachers’ writing as a key, non-negotiable component of your site’s professional development? If so, this article can help ground you in the importance and value of the act of writing. Yagelski proposes a pedagogy of "writing as a way of being"…
Teach What You Love—Chapter 5 from When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom
In 2023, the National Writing Project copublished <em>When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom</em>. In this collection of compelling narratives, high-school and college teachers show us how they have taken on issues such as faculty and student…
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.