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"They Carried Us:" Exploring our Literacy Roots and Routes with Joy and Genius
Teachers from the Philadelphia Writing Project and educators at the African American Museum in Philadelphia developed and hosted a series of events focused on the hidden histories of African American women in Philadelphia from 1700 to the present. They created a series of public discussion…
The Marginal Syllabus: (re)Marking on Equity in Education
Joe Dillon and Remi Kalir played key roles in organizing and facilitating the <a href="http://marginalsyllab.us/">Marginal Syllabus</a>, an openly networked experiment in educator professional learning that leverages web annotation, social reading practices, and author partnerships to…
Thinking Critically Through Authentic Audience and Inter-Campus Blogging
Kyra Mello writes about the ways that she introduction blogs into her classroom practice in support of students' critical thinking, engagement and public writing. Please note that original media shared is no longer available.
Making Connections: Fostering Shared Writing Spaces
The Making Connections project was designed and facilitated by the Western Massachusetts Writing Project to provide teachers with an opportunity to explore the world of blogging in urban and rural towns in Western Massachusetts so that students could better understand the world outside of…
Leading a Make Cycle in CLMOOC
A resource created to support the coaching of "Make Cycles" that were part of a professional learning offered by NWP called Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration.
Be The Change in Northern Michigan and beyond
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.
Transforming Gamers into Game Designers: Game Design as Connected Learning with Rural Youth in Challenging Times
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.
Student-Run Middle School Broadcast Media Program
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.
Fostering Community to Support Individuality: an Interdistrict Collaboration
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.
Writing on the Roof: Students embrace art as inspiration for thinking and writing
“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.
Evolution of Empowered Teen Voices at OneCity Stories
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.
Document and Share Process-Based Teaching and Learning
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.
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.