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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>
Dis-Placed Collaboration: Online Study Group Takes "Hidden History" into the Classroom
<p>Reflections from a Bay Area Writing Project led six-month study group on ways to connect the history of Japanese American Incarceration into the curriculum with teachers from across the country.</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>
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>
OneCity Stories: Connected Learning, Empowered Writers
<p>This post is about what was learned from the first year of the OneCity Stories: A St. Louis based writing program.</p>
The Great American Teach-In: Students Find Voice, Collaborate, and Make a Difference
<p>Teacher consultant Janelle Bence shares her experience supporting her students in composing and sharing Declarations of Education about what they value in education.</p>
Writing for Change
<p>Writing for Change was a concept created by the San Diego Area Writing Project that started by bringing together teachers, students and technology together to create a writing experience based on the overarching belief that words create and inspire social justice.</p>
Teaching Democracy Across the Curriculum
<p>Educators from the Boise State Writing Project studied together and created units of study across the curriculum that give students opportunities to be citizen historians.</p>
For the Sake of Argument: Teaching Evidence-Based Writing
<p>The instructional resources contained in this article are designed to develop specific argument skills and include text sets that represent multiple perspectives on a topic. The resources also emphasize iterative reading and writing practices, the recursive development of claims,…
Teachers Writing for Civic Engagement
<p>Based on an interest in better supporting youth writing for civic engagement, teachers of the Chicago Area Writing Project brought a focus on empowering teachers to create and share their own writing to make a social impact within and beyond their classrooms. </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.