Discover Content
Results for “Professional Learning”
Continuity in the Rhode Island Writing Project: Keeping Teachers at the Center
The Presenters’ Collective Network (PCN) began as a support for teacher-consultants in developing workshops for inservice, but the Rhode Island Writing Project quickly discovered unintended purposes that strengthened the site’s continuity program. Susan Ozbek, Marjorie Roemer, Keith Sanzen,…
Supporting On-Site Teacher-Consultants: New York City Writing Project's Community of Learners
Ed Osterman demonstrates how sustained and regular professional development for on-site teacher-consultants not only benefits the teachers in the schools they serve, but also nurtures intellectual and personal growth at the New York City Writing Project. The monograph provides approaches and…
Oklahoma's Marshall Plan: Combining Professional Development and Summer Writing Camps
How Writing Project teacher-consultants and site-based teachers collaborated to plan professional development before, during, and after a summer writing camp.
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.
The Fledgling Years: Lessons from the First Four Years of the NWP in Vermont
Authors Patricia McGonegal and Anne Watson, founders of a new Writing Project site, chronicle their first five years, focusing on the development of school-based inservice. They document the first years of their site, describing the role the site filled in the state, the first summer…
The Johnston Area Writing Partnership
Authors Butler, O'Berry, and Pritchard recount how they have established and maintained a district-based satellite Writing Project an hour's distance from the NWP site.
Developing Citizen-Teachers Through Performance Arts in the Summer Institute
The authors describe their integration of the arts, particularly process drama, into the summer institute as a vehicle for providing equity, supporting educational reform, and promoting the concept of the citizen-teacher.
Writing Outside the Classroom: A Guide to Getting Started
For many years now, James Fester has supported Write Out via features at <em>Edutopia</em> and in The National Park Classroom. This year he has compiled a white paper to support teachers in thinking about taking their students outside to write.
Everyday Advocacy Playbook
Teachers often feel their expertise is ignored in discussions about education policy and curriculum. Everyday Advocacy is an approach that empowers teachers to take small, day-to-day actions to influence the public narrative around schools and teaching. This Playbook provides guidance and…
Collection
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.