Student Voices and Public Writing

A Chapter from Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts

Summary:
Publishing is an important stage of the writing process, and writing for audiences beyond the teacher makes writing more meaningful and can inspire students to do their best work. This chapter supports English teachers to help young people find ways for their voices to be heard, with a focus on student writing about the climate crisis.

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“Public writing not only helps students better understand, connect, and clarify the issues, but it also establishes their stance, empowers them to speak out, prepares them for activist leadership, and gives them hope for the future.”

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Content-Area Literacy

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By National Writing Project

In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World. This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic has a lot to teach us about creating a healthy, resilient teaching profession able to face future crises.

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