NWP Practitioner Badge: Guidance Criteria

Summary:
The National Writing Project awards badges to educators who have organized, led and/or taken part in leadership development events focused on the teacher as practitioner. The guidance criteria for earning the Practitioner Badge are detailed on this page.

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

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NWP Practitioner Badge: Public Criteria

The National Writing Project’s Practitioner Badge indicates that the recipient has shared their teaching practice as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as a teacher-leader with expertise in teaching and learning at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.

NWP Teacher-Researcher Badge: Guidance Criteria

The National Writing Project’s Teacher-Researcher Badge indicates that the recipient has completed teacher research as part of a leadership program at a local Writing Project site or through an initiative of the National Writing Project and is recognized as a teacher-leader with expertise in this topic at their local Writing Project site and/or by the national network.

NWP Teacher-Researcher Badge: Public Criteria

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