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"A More Complicated Human Being": Inventing Teacher-Writers
How might teachers pursue and support personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices in the midst of the many demands associated with teaching? How might writing groups sustain their work together - in person or online? This final chapter from The Teacher-Writer: Creating Writing…
I Teach, (I Feel), I Write: Professional Writing with Emotion
"If feeling emotion is part of working in schools, how does emotion fit into writing about that work?" This essay considers the reality of teachers' emotional involvement with their work and how to deal with emotion in professional writing. A useful reading for writing groups and their…
Diving with Whales: Five Reasons for Practitioners to Write for Publication
The author offers five compelling reasons for teachers to write for publication, including the opportunity to understand our teaching practice and to inform the public. This brief article would work well as a resource for educators who are beginning to explore writing about their work. The…
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.