Teach Students How to Advocate for Themselves

How do we prepare youth to challenge injustice and work for equity to improve their lives and the communities in which they live?

Resources here provide research on the role of writing in community literacy, webinar conversations and planning resources for teachers who want to take this step, and blog posts about the shape such work might take in the classroom and in digital spaces.

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Civically-Engaged

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Build Curriculum That Supports Student Advocacy

Advocate and Take Action

Move Advocacy Outside of the Classroom

Chief Red Cloud and James Cook: An Agate Friendship

This video - designed as a three-part interview accompanied by writing prompts - focuses on the friendship and cultural sharing between Chief Red Cloud and homesteader James Cook of Agate Ranch.

NWP Social Practices: Learn

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

Wrestle Together with Ethical Implications of Teacher Inquiry

By National Writing Project

What does it mean to study the students you are teaching? What ethical dilemmas arise, and how can we navigate these spaces in trustworthy, ethical ways?