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Embracing Your Inner Writer: What it Means to Teach as a Writer
In this chapter from the second edition of <em>Pose, Wobble, Flow</em>, Garcia and O'Donnell-Allen make the case for teachers to "take on the pose" of teacher as writer and discuss how to establish a practice of writing.
The Write Time with Educator-Authors Kelly Wissman, Christina Pepe, Matthew Pinchinat, Amy Salamone, and Leah Werther
Our guests today discuss their book, <em>Teaching with Arts-Infused Writing Pedagogies</em>, which features the work of a multigenerational collective of K–12 educators, students, and teaching artists seeking educational justice.
MAPS Planner for Writing to a Public Audience
The MAPS planner, inspired by the work of Dawn Reed and Troy Hicks, was created as part of a collection of resources for NWP's College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP). The planner is designed to support students in thinking about the specific rhetorical situation for going…
The Write Time with Author Keenan Jones and Educator Ali Adan
This episode of The Write Time features Keenan Jones, author of <em>Saturday Morning at the Shop</em>. Keenan is interviewed by Delaware elementary teacher Ali Adan.
Student Voices and Public Writing
Publishing is an important stage of the writing process, and writing for audiences beyond the teacher makes writing more meaningful and can inspire students to do their best work. This chapter supports English teachers to help young people find ways for their voices to be heard, with a focus…
Starting Small: Growing Literacy-Based Climate Pedagogy by Enhancing Existing Curricula
This chapter supports elementary teachers who want to develop literacy-based climate pedagogy by enhancing existing curriculum—for example, by adding interactive read-alouds of literature or multimodal texts, topical word work, or mentor texts for writing.
Going the Distance
In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/17775/9781682539439" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World</em></a>. This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19…
Positioning Writers as Decision Makers
This short chapter from <em>When Teaching Writing Gets Tough: Challenges and Possibilities in Secondary Writing Instruction</em> offers three suggestions for changing your writing instruction to support student writers as independent decision makers.
Chief Red Cloud and James Cook: An Agate Friendship
This video - designed as a three-part interview accompanied by writing prompts - focuses on the friendship and cultural sharing between Chief Red Cloud and homesteader James Cook of Agate Ranch.
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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.
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.