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Southside Elementary Writing Focus: Site-Based Leadership Reforms the Writing Curriculum
The story of an inquiry-centered approach to professional development, designed and led by teachers, that could be a model for any school.
Teach What You Love—Chapter 5 from When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom
In 2023, the National Writing Project copublished <em>When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom</em>. In this collection of compelling narratives, high-school and college teachers show us how they have taken on issues such as faculty and student…
Teaching is Inquiry
This episode of NWP Radio features an insightful conversation with Cynthia Ballenger, author of the new book <em>Teaching Is Inquiry</em>.
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…
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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.
Wrestle Together with Ethical Implications of Teacher Inquiry
What does it mean to study the students you are teaching? What ethical dilemmas arise, and how can we navigate these spaces in trustworthy, ethical ways?
Share Findings
How can teachers’ study of their own classrooms create an impact beyond their own classroom or school? These resources encourage publication of teacher-research in order to converse with and impact the profession.
Use Findings to Transform Practice
For practicing teacher-researchers, these resources help readers think about how to move from studying their practice to making changes in their practice, and in their schools, based on their findings.
Start a Reading Group
Useful for teams interested in planning teacher inquiry programs, this set of resources includes resources for hosting book groups, protocols useful in book group discussions, and some readings about other successful study/book groups.
Learn About Inquiry Programming
The resources here provide a great starting place for learning and thinking about teacher research as well as a few stories of teacher research collaborations.
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NWP Social Practices: Collaborate
For National Writing Project teachers, collaboration is central to building both individual and collective capacity.
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.