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NWP Social Practices: Learn
For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.
Wrestle Together with Ethical Implications of Teacher Inquiry
What does it mean to study the students you are teaching? What ethical dilemmas arise, and how can we navigate these spaces in trustworthy, ethical ways?
Share Findings
How can teachers’ study of their own classrooms create an impact beyond their own classroom or school? These resources encourage publication of teacher-research in order to converse with and impact the profession.
Use Findings to Transform Practice
For practicing teacher-researchers, these resources help readers think about how to move from studying their practice to making changes in their practice, and in their schools, based on their findings.
Start a Reading Group
Useful for teams interested in planning teacher inquiry programs, this set of resources includes resources for hosting book groups, protocols useful in book group discussions, and some readings about other successful study/book groups.
Learn About Inquiry Programming
The resources here provide a great starting place for learning and thinking about teacher research as well as a few stories of teacher research collaborations.
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NWP Social Practices: Lead
Summer institutes provide an important opportunity for teachers to develop leadership skills. Through study of research and the act of going public with one’s practice, teachers develop a confidence in their expertise which they then apply in various ways throughout the rest of their…
Lead Programs for Students, Parents, and Communities Outside the School
Leadership can be put to work beyond teacher-to-teacher professional development opportunities. The collections of resources below provide models for thinking about leading work with people other than teachers.
Plan Professional Development
The National Writing Project’s model is most known for teachers teaching teachers. These resources offer visions of beginning and growing professional development, with an emphasis on creating school partnerships.
Effect Change in Schools/Districts
Teacher-leadership should be developed to do work in the worlds where teachers live, mainly schools and districts. So, how do teacher-leaders effect change? These resources offer stories and models to help site leaders think about how to put teacher-leadership to work.
Develop Leadership Within Writing Project Sites
For site directors wanting to develop local site leadership, resources in this collection offer visions of what NWP leadership looks like, directions for how to get out of the way to make sure there is work for teacher-leaders to do, and tools for strategic planning and site growth.
Learn about NWP’s Foundational Beliefs about Teacher Leadership
Teacher-leaders new to the National Writing Project (NWP) may enjoy a newfound sense of authority, agency, and leadership, but desire more words to explain these ideas and how they are enacted at NWP. The resources here help unpack NWP teacher-leadership.
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.