NWP's Current Feed Content

New York Times Features Teacher's Oil Spill Infographic Project

Thursday, September 02, 2010
Type: In the News
Diana Laufenberg of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia details in a New York Times blog her inquiry-driven student design project, as discussed on the National Writing Project-affiliated show Teachers Teaching Teachers.

Congressional Briefing: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age

Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Type: Event
On September 30, NWP and the College Board are sponsoring a special briefing in Washington, DC, highlighting the work of teachers who are using technology in innovative ways in the classroom.

Katie McKay: Changing the World Starts with Just a Few Words

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Type: Resource
Katie McKay, a teacher-consultant with the Heart of Texas Writing Project, exemplifies teacher leadership in action: an inquiring mind, a focus on creative classroom strategies, and the desire and skill to work with other teachers and her community.

Resources for Teaching Hispanic Heritage Month

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Type: Resource
September marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage month, so NWP has collected these resources and lesson plans from NWP teacher-consultants to support learning about Hispanic history and current issues.

New York Teacher at the Center of Teaching in the Digital Age

Friday, August 27, 2010
Type: In the News
Joel Malley, a teacher-consultant with the Western New York Writing Project, was profiled for his teaching methods using digital media in Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age.

Nichole Pinkard and the Digital Youth Network

Thursday, August 26, 2010
Type: Event
Join us as Nichole Pinkard from the Digital Youth Network shares the work and stories of the organization and its young participants.

Arkansas Teachers Explore Digital Writing

Monday, August 23, 2010
Type: In the News
The Northwest Arkansas Writing Project helps teachers and students connect through technology in the classroom by creating digital lessons.

(Re)Imagining Content-Area Literacy Instruction

Friday, August 20, 2010
Type: NWP Book
Today's teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre.

How Teachers Become Leaders

Friday, August 20, 2010
Type: NWP Book
This book is a unique insider's look at the process that teachers experience when they assume leadership positions in their schools, districts, states, or Writing Project sites.

Prominent Feature Analysis: What It Means for the Classroom

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
The authors present an argument for and a guide to prominent feature analysis, which, unlike rubric-based scoring that assigns numerical values to abstract concepts, derives numerical values from the presence of rhetorical features.

Helping English Teachers Thrive and Lead

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
This profile of the practice of Bruce Penniman, former co-director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, focuses on Penniman's ideas regarding planning, assessment, flexibility, curricula, technology, "paper load," and professional development.

Teacher Inquiry for Equity: Collaborating to Improve Teaching and Learning

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
This article argues that while inquiry is a necessary tool for focusing on learning, collaborative structures are essential if this work is to be focused on equity and improving learning for underserved students.

Teachers Must Be Confident with Technology to Effectively Employ It in Their Lessons

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
Epstein argues that teachers who use technology must have a familiarity with the tools of the new media. He suggests that the NWP model of teachers teaching teachers be put to work toward this end.

Preserving the Cultural Identity of the English Language Learner

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
The authors suggest techniques for fostering cultural identity among ELL students, including encouraging the use of native language in classroom activities and establishing cooperative learning groups that allow students to use their native languages to maximize learning.

ELLs at the Center: Rethinking High Stakes Testing

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Type: Resource
The authors propose ways to ameliorate the tensions of high stakes testing of ELL students by fostering high expectations for all students while honoring the home languages of English learners.

Foreword to Bring It to Class

Monday, August 16, 2010
Type: Resource
Students' backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. Bring It to Class is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning.

Foreword to DIY Media in the Classroom

Monday, August 16, 2010
Type: Resource
This book shows teachers how to bring students' do-it-yourself media practices into the classroom (grades 6–12). In one accessible resource, the authors explain DIY media, identify their appealing features for content area instruction, and describe the literacy skills and strategies they promote.

NWP Radio -- After The Summer Institute, What's Next?

Monday, August 16, 2010
Type: Resource
This episode of NWP Radio features a discussion of how teacher-consultants can connect to NWP through online opportunities and national events after the invitational summer institute.

Teachers Head Back to School with New Tools to Teach Writing

Monday, August 16, 2010
Type: Press Release
As the 3,300 teachers who attended National Writing Project (NWP) professional development institutes this summer start school this fall, they will be returning with new ideas to help students improve their writing.

NWP Radio: Parents as Partners in Literacy Education, August 26

Thursday, August 12, 2010
Type: Event
With the new school year upon us, two new books by Writing Project colleagues push us to think anew about the role that families can play in powerful literacy education.