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Leaning Toward Light: A Conversation with Tess Taylor
<p>This episode of NWP Radio features a conversation with Tess Taylor, an avid gardener, the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, and the editor of <em>Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them</em>.</p>
On "digiship"
<p>Chad Sansing explores the concept of “Digiship” in this classroom and supports his students in using everyday technologies and materials to rapidly prototype, share, and reiterate solutions to the problems and opportunities they see around them and in their own lives.</p>
Why Civic Engagement Matters in Schools
<p>A post leading to an online discussion among educators about the implications of supporting their students’ civic engagement into the classroom.</p>
Social justice through STEAM: Making pop-up books to connect students, content, and community
<p>The story of what happened when an ELA and Science teacher collaborate on making with their students.</p>
Teaching Blogging Not Blogs
<p>In preparing for a workshop, teacher blogger Bud Hunt put together a summary of everything that he had learned about blogging, or, as he calls it “connective writing.”</p>
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>
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>
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>
Peer Editing: Choose Your Own Adventure
<p>Gary Pope creates a lesson plan to support kids in creating their own “Choose Your Own Adventure Books” using digital technology.</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.