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Why do teachers so often attribute their personal and professional "transformation" to their writing project experiences? Researcher Anne Whitney considers how participants' writing time and writing group experience impacts their identity as writers, learners, and instructional leaders.…
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A Thousand Writers Writing: Seeking Change through the Radical Practice of Writing as a Way of Being

By Robert Yagelski
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"…
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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.

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