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C3WP: Formative Assessment
This resource from NWP's College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) features two strategies that teachers can use to assess students' source-based arguments. The "Using Sources Tool" focuses on the quality of students' claims and how well they use evidence to support them. The…
Formative Assessment as a Compass: Looking at Student Work as an Intentional Part of Ongoing Professional Development
This e-book is a practical resource for teachers as they think about formative assessment in relation to writing instruction. Led by questions posed by the authors and links within the text, a study group, individual teacher or professional development program facilitator can use this guide…
Writing As a Mode of Thinking
What’s missing in writing instruction that focuses on organization, vocabulary and sentence structure? What is the role of thinking in writing, and how can we make thinking visible in writing? This article, which could provide a useful focus for a study group or other professional…
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.