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Inner Realms Journey
If you can imagine the place where role-playing games, meditation, and mindfulness meet for fun and learning, you might be close to Inner Realms Journey.
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Place-Conscious Education with the Nebraska Writing Project
Since the mid-1990s, the Nebraska Writing Project has been investigating place-conscious education and designing curricula and partnerships with place-conscious goals in mind. This seven-part audio series, created in 2020 out of their work with the National Parks Service partnership,…
Local Climate Change Impacts and Solutions
This lesson plan was developed by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
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Sharing Connected Learning from Pittsburgh
Resources that exemplify some of the best connected learning practices that have been developed in Pittsburgh.
Spoken Word: Youth Leading Change
This Spoken Word lesson plan was developed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
Literature, Identity, Agency: Civic Engagement in the Classroom
High school ELA teacher and NWP teacher leader Janelle Bence explores how civic engagement forms the essential “why” of her classroom practice, helping students consider their identities, values, and connections to communities big and small.
Digital Civics Toolkit: 5 Resource Modules for Educators
The Digital Civics Toolkit, built on research from the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, organizes resources for engaging youth in the civic potentials of digital life. The toolkit is organized into five distinct modules that each capture a key practice…
Creative Writing and World-Building in Minecraft: Education Edition
The 10 Minecraft: Education Edition lessons built were co-created with the help of interested educators and youth; each was imagined as a playful interpretation of a concept familiar in English Language Arts, and each asks players to write and build in different ways.
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The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity
Collected resources and reflections from a discussion group which convened interested educators to come together to “play” with a set of ideas related to the intersections of AI and humanity in a supportive community.
Humanity. What Does it Mean to be Human?
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
Economics of AI
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
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.