What’s Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning (NWP Radio)

Summary:

This NWP Radio show captures the conversation among planners, presenters and participants in the 2010 National Reading Initiative Conference in New Orleans. The conference captured learning from NWP sites engaged in the National Reading Initiative. Of particular interest to teacher leaders looking at the reading/writing connection and disciplinary literacy, the conference examined the intersection of adolescent literacy and content area learning by addressing the following questions: What is a text and what should we know about reading and writing texts in different disciplines? What does strong interdisciplinary work look like? What is discipline-specific in reading and writing? How can writing project sites and schools organize to work toward deeper understanding and new practices?