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Youth Writing Camp - Manuscript Day

By Janet Neyer
Thinking of developing a youth program? Looking for creative ideas to recruit more young writers to your summer camp offerings? If so, then this blog post describing an exciting one-day free youth event the Chippewa River Writing Project (CRWP) hosted could be the spark you need. This…
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Launching a Comprehensive Fundraising Plan for Your Writing Project Site

The new reality for site sustainability is the need for fundraising. This overview of the Hudson Valley Writing Project's strategy focuses on the need for ongoing discussion, cultivating university relationships, documenting programs, and identifying tools and actions. This document is…
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Planning for Young Writers Camps

Many writing project sites count on young authors' camps to reach out to the community and bring in revenue. This resource is a planning tool that illustrates how the Fox Valley Writing Project thought through the decisions involved in launching a summer youth camp. Those looking to expand,…
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What Does Teacher Leadership Look Like at Writing Project Sites? (NWP Radio)

This hour-long radio episode features several NWP sites whose TCs discuss their experiences as leaders of site programs, leadership teams, and professional development. This resource may be useful for individuals and groups who are exploring models of teacher leadership and ways to support…
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Envisioning Leadership Transitions as Moments of Opportunity

By Karen Hamlin
This article describes the Oregon Writing Project's visioning retreat and includes links to their retreat invitation, their annotated list of online resources, retreat agenda, and newsletter. This resource will help in building site capacity when challenges and opportunities of transition…
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Evaluating the Impact of Professional Development Programs

By Sheridan D. Blau, Rosemary H. Cabe, and Anne Whitney
While there is significant research behind the NWP model, there is also a need for sites to evaluate their local professional development programming. This research study of the South Coast Writing Project's IIMPaC (Inquiry, Inservice workshops, Models, Practice, and Coaching) program…
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Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students

By National Writing Project
In this CoLab, author Latrise P. Johnson is joined by colleagues Joe Dillon, Remi Kalir, and Hillary Walker to discuss her award-winning article "Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students" co-written with Hannah Sullivan and published…
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Introducing New Pages, the Resources You've Been Looking For

By National Writing Project
Have you scoured the web for writing contests for your students? Have you worried over which publishing opportunities have students’ best interests at heart? Tune in to this show to hear about the resource you’ve been looking for.
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The Story of a Poem with Patrice Vecchione

By National Writing Project
For National Poetry Month, NWP Radio has launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features author, poet, artist, and teacher, Patrice…
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The Story of a Poem with t.l. sanders

By National Writing Project
For National Poetry Month, NWP Radio has launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features performance professional and poet, t.l.…
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The Story of a Poem with Dan Zev Levinson

By National Writing Project
For National Poetry Month, NWP Radio launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features Dan Zev Levinson.
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Julia Torres and #DisruptTexts

By National Writing Project
In this segment from the network, Julia Torres talks with Noah Waspe of the Ohio Writing Project podcast Write Answers about the first steps that teachers might take when introducing literature by BIPOC authors into their teaching.
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Write Now Teacher Studio

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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.

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