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Teaching Democracy Across the Curriculum
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.
For the Sake of Argument: Teaching Evidence-Based Writing
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, organizing…
Teachers Writing for Civic Engagement
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.
Voices in Our Classrooms and Communities
This project engaged local teachers and students in the creation of educational resources highlighting Flint’s history through a partnership with a local museum.
Supporting Place-Based Student Inquiry in Tulsa, Oklahoma
This project shed light on the tragic and often overlooked history of the Tulsa Race Massacre by engaging hundreds of students in studying this period and then creating artifacts and displays to showcase what they uncovered.
Creating Spaces of Refuge, Learning, and Leadership for Students
Writing Boston's Future engaged the local community with the Museum as a site for public education. Partners share how they designed a youth-centered approach alongside a reparative, liberatory justice framework.
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Teachers Writing for Civic Engagement
Funded by a Building A More Perfect Union grant from The National Writing Project via The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan.
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.