NWP Radio

Join us for a discussion of the twists and turns of doing intensive professional development in high-need schools with facilitators from sites participating in NWP's College, Career, and Community Writers Program Professional Development in a High-Need School grant.

This is the second in a six-part series discussing a set of social practices embedded in NWP-style teacher leadership. This episode, which examines the practice of going public with our practice, looks at various ways that teachers can share their teaching practices with one another for purposes of learning, growing and leading in the profession.

Through its many stories—set in a range of big cities, small towns, and rural areas around the country—the documentary American Creed wrestles with key issues in America today, including opportunity for all, the meaning of citizenship, and the challenge of meaningful civic participation and dialogue. American Creed will air on PBS February 27, 9/8c, at which time your students can join the conversation and add their stories via a national youth publishing website designed and supported by the National Writing Project. Join NWP Radio to hear about this film, learn more about the youth publishing opportunity, and listen to the ways other educators have already been weaving this film and related discussions and writing opportunities into their lesson plans.

The National Writing Project's successful i3 College Readiness Writers Program is expanding. With a new name—College, Community, and Career Writers Program (C3WP)—the program now includes upper elementary teachers in advanced institutes for SEED and High-Need Schools grants. Over the next year, C3WP elementary teachers in advanced institutes will explore on-ramps to argument writing for 4th-6th-grade students. Join us for a conversation with elementary educators and site leaders as they share their thoughts on including argument writing skills in upper elementary curricula and their experiences with the new C3WP Upper Elementary resources.

This year, as sites are preparing for the 2017 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, we invite you to tune in to hear some of the highlights of this upcoming annual meeting. Join us as we talk with guests from Gateway Writing project who will share an overview of the meeting and highlight some specific events, including Friday’s writing marathons. We will also hear from a few session presenters to give you a taste of the many great sessions for you to choose from at this year’s annual meeting.

Shhhh.... We are going to tell you a secret, a top secret secret. Come listen in to hear about the Top Secret YA Story Box Project. We will talk to authors, teachers, and others who are excited to give you a peek inside the top secret story box.

Join us for a celebration of the National Day on Writing as we talk with Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month and Vicki Meigs-Kahlenberg, teacher and author of The Author's Apprentice about why they write, and why you should too.

Listen as teacher-consultants from around the network discuss the relationship between the quality of writing assignments and the quality of writing that students produce, and share the impacts of their own work collaborating with the Literacy Design Collaborative and NWP's Assignments Matter initiative to design creative, engaging writing tasks.

Get ready for this year's 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing, an online "teachers teaching teachers about technology" event that focuses on the research, pedagogy, and tools of writing in digital spaces in the K-12 classroom, hosted by the University of Michigan Schools of Education and Information and Oakland Schools, and engaging many Writing Project sites and teachers. This NWP Radio episode will look back at some of the conversations and resources that resulted from last year's conference, and get a preview of what to expect this coming October. We will also hear about the origins of this virtual conference, the ways it's inspired and supported Writing Project leadership and work, and think about the implications for the teaching and learning of digital writing at large.

The Marginal Syllabus was created during the 2016-17 school year to convene and sustain conversations with educators about issues of equity in teaching, learning, and education. The Marginal Syllabus embraces an intentional double entendre; partnering with authors whose writing may be considered marginal—or contrary to—dominant education norms, and online conversations with authors occur in the margins of their texts using web annotation. A collaborative and emergent attempt to create a new sociotechnical genre of educator professional development, the Marginal Syllabus leverages the web annotation platform Hypothesis, adding multiple voices to critical conversations about equity and education. Join us to hear from Marginal Syllabus organizers, including educators from Colorado working in the Aurora Public School District, about what we learned during this first year of annotation and learning in the margins. We will also discuss plans for a collaborative syllabus with the NWP for the 2017-18 school year.

How can looking at the movement of people, language, and things enrich our understandings of students and schools? Join us for an intriguing conversation with host Tom Fox and guest Brice Nordquist, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University and author of Literacy and Mobility: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College.

Join us on NWP Radio for a fun and lively discussion with teacher leaders and Writing Project staff, live from the NWP Resource Development Retreat, in Denver, CO. Guests Tanya Baker, National Writing Project (Host) Tom Fox, National Writing Project Jessica Early, Central Arizona Writing Project Bud Hunt, Colorado State University Writing Project Aram Kabodian, Red Cedar Writing Project Andrea Katz, San Jose Area Writing Project Luke Hokama, National Writing Project Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, National Writing Project

Join us for a conversation with George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman, hosts of the I Am From Project, about countering divisions of race, culture, and equity through poetry, artwork, videos, music and dance around where we are from as a nation.

The NASM Fellowship engages professionals in the out-of-school time field in a process of leadership development where they learn to reflect on, study, improve, and assess their work with a view toward improving its quality and impact. Join us for a conversation with fellows about their self-selected research topics.

Join us for a conversation with Fred Hamel, author of Choice and Agency in the Writing Workshop: Developing Engaged Writers, Grades 4-6, about why upper elementary children need ways to become literate as kids, not merely as prototypes of adults or teenagers.

Join NWP radio for a discussion about the importance of teacher-writers, just in time for this summer's invitational institutes. Our guests are the authors of two co-published books on teacher-writers, Christine Dawson (The Teacher-Writer), and Troy Hicks and Leah Zuidema (Coaching Teacher-Writers).

Teaching is a challenging profession. It is also incredibly rewarding. What brings teachers to teaching? What makes them stay, despite all the challenges? What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher brings together 20 teaching stories explore the range of possible answers to these questions. As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, join us as we talk with the editor of the book and several contributing teacher-writers about their stories

    How can your Writing Project site make money? Two experienced teacher leaders share their stories creating profitable relationships with administrators, creating flyers and materials, and learning to talk the talk of stakeholders who contract professional development for teachers.

In 2014, in partnership with The Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley, we launched the NWP Archives Project to ensure preservation and accessibility of NWP organizational records, publications, and resources, including more than 100 oral history interviews from founding Writing Project site directors, scholars, teacher-leaders, and funders. Hear about the archives' grand opening and learn a little NWP history from NWP leaders past and present.

Each year, five National Student Poets are chosen from a pool of outstanding writers, grades 9-11, who have received a national Scholastic Art & Writing Award for poetry. Listen as we celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation and some poetry reading with this year's National Student Poets.