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The third in a six-part series discussing a set of social practices embedded in NWP-style teacher leadership, this episode examines the practice of writing. NWP teacher leaders know that when teachers write for others in their profession they are taking on a form of leadership and embracing a means for advocating for the value of teacher classroom inquiry and reflective practice. In this episode we will talk to teacher-writers and look at various ways that Writing Project sites can support writing teachers in becoming teachers who write. Guests Shelbie Witte, Director, Oklahoma State University Writing Project Anne Whitney, Professor of Education, Penn State Jason Griffith, Teacher/Author Jennie Brown, Teacher/Author Shelly Durham, Teacher Christina Cantrill, Associate Director, NWP Links from the Show NWP's Knowledge Base: Write/Learn/Lead Open Publishing Platform for Educators: The Current Voices from the Middle, December 2017 Related Shows: Part 1: Advocacy; Part 2: Going Public with Our Practice

Meet colleagues and partners involved in engaging youth and community conversations emerging from the documentary American Creed. Educators from Facing History and Ourselves and #shareyourlearning join us to talk through resources and support materials they have created to support dialogue and youth publishing in diverse classrooms and communities across the country. Guests: Michelle Clark, Share Your Learning KC Kourtz, Facing History and Ourselves Links from the Show: Writing Our Future: American Creed (youth publishing site) American Creed (documentary) Share Your Learning Resources for American Creed Facing History and Ourselves Resources for American Creed Facing History and Ourselves Student Writing

How can we rethink writing instruction to support students in writing authentic pieces about real world issues that matter to them? How can we move beyond the "old school essay" and invite students to write compositions that reflect what we see in real world writing? These are the questions the authors address in the book Real Writing: Modernizing the Old School Essay. Join NWP Radio to hear about this book and the practical strategies the coauthors have used to engage their students in civically engaged writing. Guests Include: Rachel Bear (Host) Mitchell Nobis Carrie Nobis Dawn Reed Dirk Schulze

Writers reside inside internal landscapes. They traverse the contours of stories and poems, learning and understanding. They turn pen on paper and characters on screens into art. They write for themselves as much as for the world. This summer, we hope to encourage you to take your writing and teaching self outside, into the natural wonders of the open and historical spaces, and explore through the eyes of connected teachers and connected learners. Join us for this episode of NWP Radio to learn more about Write Out and imagine with us ways we can connect. Guests: Christina Cantrill, Host, National Writing Project Cris Constantine, Education Program Manager with the National Park Service, Northeast Region Susan Cook, Chief of Interpretation and Resource Management, Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska Dorothy Luongo, Hudson Valley Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, 5th Grade Teacher at the Poughkeepsie Day School Bethany Silva, Philadelphia Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, director of the Community Literacy Center at the University of New Hampshire. Links from the Show: Write Out website More about Write Out at Educator Innovator

The most important writing assessment that happens in any school is the assessment that goes on in students' heads when analyzing the quality of their own writing. The College, Career and Community Writers Program's Student Using Sources Tool (UST) empowers students to own their learning of argument writing. Join site leaders, teachers, and students as they share their experiences using the Student UST to advance student learning. Links from the Show Student Using Sources Tool Teachers Using Sources Tool College, Career, Community Writers Program (C3WP) Assessment for Learning Project Guests Lynette Herring-Harris, Host, Senior Program Associate with the National Writing Project Heather Payne, Ozarks Writing Project, Thinking Partner for NWP’s Assessment for Learning Project Susan King, Ozarks Writing Project, Practicing Teacher at Lebanon County Middle School in Missouri Maddie (8th Grade), Missouri Jana Moore, Upstate Writing Project Teacher Leader, Practicing Teacher at Union County High School in South Carolina Madeline (9th Grade), South Carolina

Join Writing Project colleagues who have been working at the intersections of the Writing Our Futures: American Creed project and the development of the Civically Engaged Writing Analysis Continuum (CEWAC). They have been exploring how we might use CEWAC to support youth in preparing their writing for public audience and dissemination. This episode also includes video with screen-sharing to show student work. Guests for this show include: Paul Allison, New York City Writing Project Janelle Bence, North Star of Texas Writing Project Stan Pesick, Bay Area Writing Project

Join us for another installment of our poetry mini-series as part of the 2018 National Poetry Month with interviews of NWP Writers Council members who will talk with us about their poetry, their writing, their process, and more. This episode features Cyrus Armajani, author of Benefits of Doubt.

Join us for the final installment of this poetry mini-series as we close out the 2018 National Poetry Month with interviews of NWP Writers Council members who will talk with us about their poetry, their writing, their process, and more. Part three features Shirley McPhillips, acclaimed poet, author, and educator.

Join us for two of three NWP Radio episodes, as we close out the 2018 National Poetry Month with interviews of NWP Writers Council members who will talk with us about their poetry, their writing, their process, and more. Part two features Jimmy Santiago Baca, an award-winning American poet and educator of Chicano descent.

Join us for one of three NWP Radio episodes, as we close out the 2018 National Poetry Month with interviews of NWP Writers Council members who will talk with us about their poetry, their writing, their process, and more. Part one features George Ella Lyon, a poet, teacher, and the 2015-2016 Kentucky Poet Laureate.

Each year, five National Student Poets are chosen from a pool of outstanding writers, grades 10-11, who have received a national Scholastic Art & Writing Award for poetry. Help us celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation and some poetry reading with this year's National Student Poets. Guests Camila SanMiguel Annie Castillo Kinsale Hueston Juliet Lubwama Ben Lee

For this episode of NWP Radio we speak with organizers and participants of the upcoming NCTE Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning Annual Summer Conference, this year focusing on Learning to Go High: Re-Awakening Hope through Education. We discuss what to expect at the conference, and talk about what Writing Project teachers and teams can do to deliberately generate hope in their own schools and communities.

How can we create "relevant, engaging, and affirming literacy instruction" to "assist adolescent English learners in developing their literacy skills in ways that honor and leverage their native languages and cultures?" Join us as we discuss the book Keep It R.E.A.L: Relevant, Engaging, and Affirming Literacy for Adolescent English Learners. We will be talking with the author of the book, Mary Amanda Stewart, along with her teaching colleagues Seth Ross and Kim Garcia, and two of Seth's students.

In preparation for this year's Spring Meeting, we're revisiting this discussion on a set of social practices embedded in NWP-style teacher leadership. Guests examine the practice of advocacy, analyze three case studies to explore what teacher leadership through advocacy can look like, and how teachers can take up the practice of advocacy.

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.