NWP Practitioner Badge: Guidance Criteria

What does it mean to be micro-credentialed as a practitioner at the National Writing Project (NWP)? Sharing your teaching practice is one of the core social practices of National Writing Project teacher-leaders. This badge recognizes the ability of teacher-leaders to teach writing and to make their teaching practice public for sharing, inquiry, and iteration.

Connection to Core Principles: This badge affirms the efforts of teacher-leaders who have studied and shared their own teaching practices with other teachers to improve the teaching of writing. Teacher-leaders who earn this badge provide leadership and model professional commitment in their willingness to be vulnerable by putting their teaching practice forward for review, discussion, and reuse.

NWP Micro-credential: Practitioner

Someone who earns this badge has had a substantial engagement in sharing their teaching practices with other teachers. This educator likely participated in experiences like:

• teaching and learning
• using protocols to look at teacher lessons and student work
• studying pedagogical research
• working with a thinking partner to unpack one’s one practice and think about the best
  way to share it with others
• sharing their own lessons/teaching strategies through teaching demonstration