An invitational institute experience hopefully creates a desire for more. Teacher-leaders can continue to improve and share their practice by participating in cycles of inquiry. These resources can support new teacher-leaders in taking up teacher research in their own classrooms and participating in teacher-inquiry communities. In these resources you will find definitions and examples of teacher inquiry, and resources for planning your own teacher-inquiries and/or starting a teacher inquiry community.
Open up your classroom, share your work via demonstration, or coach other teachers, as ways to go public with your practice via teaching. These resources provide philosophy, stories, and demonstrations of such practices.
Sometimes teacher-leaders return from Writing Project experiences to find that their new philosophies and practices do not fit well with their school or district writing curriculum. Another way to take one’s practice public is through collaborative work on curriculum development or revision. These resources tell stories and offer models for taking your practice public through curriculum development work.
Probably the most obvious way that NWP teachers take their practice public beyond teaching demonstrations is by writing about their work for each other as well as other audiences. The resources below examine why, what, and how we write about our teaching practice.