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Be The Change in Northern Michigan and beyond
<p>Through songwriting, performance poetry, mask-making, and other activities, Top of the Mitt Writing Project teachers and students seized the power to make the world a better piece of ground through our Be The Change project.</p>
Transforming Gamers into Game Designers: Game Design as Connected Learning with Rural Youth in Challenging Times
<p>Guided by interests in video games, the Leatherstocking Writing Project engaged local youth in designing and producing video games as a way to support writing enrichment opportunities which were otherwise limited in their rural community.</p>
Student-Run Middle School Broadcast Media Program
<p>A story of how a before-school club was transformed into two class sections of broadcast media, giving 64 middle school students hands-on experience producing a daily news show. </p>
Fostering Community to Support Individuality: an Interdistrict Collaboration
<p>We Too Are Connecticut was a cross-school collaboration uniting over 6 schools and 400 high school writers through the creation of radio plays, blogs, digital maps, and Tedx talks.</p>
Writing on the Roof: Students embrace art as inspiration for thinking and writing
<p>“Art. Story and Social Justice” was a four day workshop offered by the Hudson Valley Writing Project This workshop for teachers from preschool to college explored ways educators can draw on art to build community.</p>
Evolution of Empowered Teen Voices at OneCity Stories
<p>This post explores what happens when teens from St. Louis neighborhoods come together with cameras, microphones, and laptops through the OneCity Stories project in St. Louis.</p>
Document and Share Process-Based Teaching and Learning
<p>A group of elementary teachers from Bastrop, Texas embarked on a year-long journey of deep professional development to bring Connected Learning to their Writing Workshop classrooms.</p>
Project Make it Happen
<p>Project Make it Happen brought together FlexTech High School-Novi and The Village Workshop, a community makerspace in Northville, Michigan, to engage students in projects that nurtured their love for design and making.</p>
OneCity Stories: Connected Learning, Empowered Writers
<p>This post is about what was learned from the first year of the OneCity Stories: A St. Louis based writing program.</p>
Restoring Racecars, Restoring Relevance
<p>When public charter Bitney Prep High School rented several unused auto repair garages as classrooms, a unique partnership sprang up between our students and James Long, the classic race car restorer who shared the property. </p>
Making A Future: Harnessing innovation to change the lives of rural students
<p>At Bath County Middle School in Kentucky, students and teachers work together to make space for genius hour and maker activities in the school building and curriculum.</p>
Revisiting Local History to Understand Why Black Lives Matter
<p>Teachers from two schools in Portland – Tubman Middle School and Jefferson High School – worked together to rework their curriculum to support students in connecting to their place and its history.</p>
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.