Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Type: In the News
In partnership with LRNG Innovation—an offshoot of John Legend’s Show Me Campaign—and the MacArthur Foundation, the National Writing Project and Educator Innovator will be sponsoring a LRNG Innovation Challenge, investing in teams of teachers who are working to expand the time and space students have to create, explore, and follow their interests and passions.
Category Archives: NWP News
Experience Poetry in the 21st Century—An Educator Innovator Webinar
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Type: Event
There is no such thing as “getting” or “not getting” poetry. There is simply experiencing poetry—and so many new ways to do so in the 21st century. Join National Student Poet Program poet Louis Lafair and others to learn about the new face of poetry in this Educator Innovator webinar.
Rhode Island Writing Project Partners with Local Middle School to Host Writing Camp
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Type: In the News
Western Hills Middle School served as a satellite location for one of Rhode Island Writing Project’s annual writing camps. RIWP has hosted camps in the past, but this is the first year they have partnered with a school district to host at satellite locations.
Reading, Thinking, And Writing About History
Monday, July 21, 2014
Type: NWP Book
Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History is a practical guide that presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials and tools that have improved the historical thinking and argumentative writing of academically diverse students.
Nonprofit Formed at Northern Virginia Writing Project Hosts Summer Workshops
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Type: In the News
Project Write, a nonprofit incubated at the Northern Virginia Writing Project, hosted several days of writing workshops that pushed young participants to explore different genres. Published authors were also invited to share their experience and lead sessions.
Transforming Talk into Text
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Type: NWP Book
STEM Learning in Afterschool: What’s the Impact on Youth?—An Educator Innovator Webinar
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Type: Event
Tune in to this webinar to learn more about a new paper, “Examining the impact of Afterschool STEM programs,” in which the Afterschool Alliance looks at evaluation data of strong afterschool STEM programs to examine the types of impacts these programs are having on participating youth.
Uncommon Core
Friday, August 22, 2014
Type: Resource
Jeff Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and Deborah Appleman discuss Uncommon Core, their book about the misunderstandings surrounding “standards-aligned” instruction, and strategies for avoiding them in service of meeting the intent of the Common Core.
NERA Conference Coming
New England Reading Association’s
presents its 2011 conference
“Teaming for Literacy”
September 29-30, 2011
at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center
Sturbridge, MA
This conference is loaded with talented presenters, including Massachusetts Writing Project Teacher Consultants Dr. Floris Wilma Ortiz-Marrero, Kevin Hodgson, and Bruce Penniman. It also marks a return to New England for Dr. Ernest Morrell, keynote speaker from the recent NWP Urban Sites Network Conference. Other notable presenters include Dr. Lucy Calkins, from Columbia University’s Teachers College and another Massachusetts DESE Director of Humanities and Literacy Susan Whettle.
NWP Launches New Digital Is Website
NWP launches Digital Is website in November 2010
In addition to November being the month of NWP’s Annual Meeting, this month also ushered in the new NWP Digital Is website. Part knowledge base, part professional community, and part teaching provocateur, the Digital Is website explores the art and craft of writing, as well as associated teaching and learning of writing practices. However, this site is also designed to spark innovation and thought regarding education and culture in the new digital landscape.
A joint effort of NWP and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative, Digital Is culminates years of research and work. Focused on the art and craft of digital composition, the site is divided into four areas of focus, including a deep collection of curated work and projects from the NWP teacher network and drawing from community resources.
Teacher Consultants and more are encouraged to join the community, discuss, and participate.