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American Creed DBI: What is a Creed?

By Heidi Renk, Boise State Writing Project
A document-based inquiry (DBI) unit created to support the American Creed Educational Initiative.
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What Makes an American Creed Photo Essay a Strong Piece of Civically Engaged Writing?

By Stan Pesick, Bay Area Writing Project
Using the National Writing Project’s Civically Engaged Analysis Continuum (CEWAC), I have highlighted the composition choices of two photo essays from the American Creed project and created annotations about what makes these photo essays strong pieces of civically engaged writing.
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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…
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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…
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NWP Social Practices: Advocate

For National Writing Project teachers, advocacy serves as a way to take all their new learning and understanding about education, particularly the teaching of writing, public in powerful and productive ways. Advocacy allows us to take good theories and practices beyond our classroom, and to…
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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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