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Place-Based Writing in Action: Opportunities for Authentic Writing in the World Beyond the Classroom
Based on the insight that "places are everywhere," this NWP Radio show explores how educators are using place to support students in having authentic opportunities to learn, grow, and connect. Join this team of teacher-editors and -authors from <em><a…
Young Writing Camp: The Community Continues
Two months ago after a young writing camp ended, students were still writing, editing and commenting on each other’s writing. <span data-sheets-root="1">Adela Arriaga</span> reflects on the summer and asks herself why students are still writing and what is motivating them to continue.…
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.
Students Predicting the Future
This project is a part of a read/write component in a Computer Applications classes. Through this unit, students explored the context of literacy learning with technology. Please note that the original media shared is no longer available.
This I Believe Goes Multimodal - The Project
A teacher and her students explore using <em>This I Believe</em> as the foundation for the multi-modal presentation which merge oral essays with music, images, video, text, and enhancing design features. Please note that the original media shared is not 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…
Leaning Toward Light: A Conversation with Tess Taylor
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>.
On "digiship"
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.
Why Civic Engagement Matters in Schools
A post leading to an online discussion among educators about the implications of supporting their students' civic engagement into the classroom.
Social justice through STEAM: Making pop-up books to connect students, content, and community
The story of what happened when an ELA and Science teacher collaborate on making with their students.
Teaching Blogging Not Blogs
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."
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.
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.