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February 21 2017
‘Read Brave’ Fosters Passionate Reading and Intergenerational Dialogue
Read Brave is a city-wide one book project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, facilitated by a small but passionate group from...
January 13 2017
A Lab That Grows Young Writers
An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon completing a warm-up writing exercise.
February 04 2015
Defining a Participatory Critical Literacy
In this post from DML Central, educator Antero Garcia discusses defining a participatory critical literacy, using Nicole Mirra and Danielle...
January 30 2015
Empowering Mentors, Empowering Youth: Remembering Brother Mike
March 19 2015
Developer Diaries: Meeting Learning Objectives
Take a look behind the scenes at the collaborative design process between content experts and game developers in this post...
January 29 2016
Immigrant Teens in the South Bronx Learn the Art of Online...
Teachers in the South Bronx extend opportunities for student-driven online writing projects through the Youth Voices platform. The work was...
May 05 2013
Learn to program with ScratchEd
July 22 2015
CLMOOC Heats Up—Join KQED and the National Park Service for the...
As the 2015 CLMOOC continues through a fifth Make Cycle, we’re excited that our partners, KQED and the National Park...
June 04 2018
The Digital Civics Toolkit: 5 Resource Modules for Educators
The Digital Civics Toolkit organizes resources for engaging youth in the civic potential of digital life.
May 25 2018
Engaging Community, History, and Civic Dialogue in Charlottesville
Charlottesville students dig into the stories, told and untold, that make up their community's history, and prepare to engage as...
May 21 2018
Write Out with Us this Summer: Place-Based Making with NWP/NPS
Learn all about Write Out, a summer open online adventure being sponsored by the National Writing Project and the National...
May 15 2018
YOUmedia Spotlight: Kansas City Digital Media Lab
The YOUmedia Learning Lab in Kansas City gives teens space, time, and support to “hang out, mess around, and geek...
May 03 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures (May): Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in...
The final Marginal Syllabus annotation of the school year takes on Steven Zemelman's From Inquiry to Action.
April 26 2018
Literature, Identity, Agency: Civic Engagement in the Classroom
High school ELA teacher and NWP teacher leader Janelle Bence explores how civic engagement forms the essential “why” of her...
April 23 2018
Students Tap into Passions to Serve Community With New Making Skills
Students connect out-of-school passions, new maker skills, and rigorous design thinking to identify a community need and construct a solution,...
April 13 2018
KQED Learn – A Platform for Collaborative Investigations
Science teacher Mariana Garcia Serrato introduces KQED Learn, a new online platform that supports student investigation and inquiry, and allows...
April 05 2018
Student Choice and Agency Let Superpowers Shine
Grass Valley Elementary’s maker ed program, supported by an LRNG Innovators Challenge grant, is letting students shine by giving them...
April 02 2018
Is it Working? Measuring Students’ Civic Learning
Resources for deeply and meaningfully assessing students' civic learning from Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) scholars Erica Hodgin and Joseph...
March 29 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures (April): Educating Youth for Online Civic and...
April's Marginal Syllabus reading tackles online civic dialogue, conceptualizing five stages of opportunity for students to engage in online dialogue...
March 19 2018
Writing Our Future: American Creed has Launched!
The National Writing Project is thrilled to announce Writing Our Future: American Creed, a youth publishing project in partnership with...
March 05 2018
Student Passion Projects Push for Connections with Local Community and Environment
Social Innovation Leadership Sabbaticals, a 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantee, provides the space and resources for students to connect to...
March 02 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures (March): Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing, and...
March's conversation explores how Black youth use social media as counterspaces and how critical media literacy tools support young people...
February 12 2018
Writing Our Future: American Creed, A New Youth Publishing Opportunity
Join the conversation sparked by the new PBS documentary AMERICAN CREED through the National Writing Project's youth publishing platform.
February 09 2018
Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom
In a world of nearly ubiquitous YouTube viewership, teaching video essays is not only a great platform for close reading...
February 07 2018
2018 Inventor’s Challenge Invites Youth Creativity and Problem-Solving
Do you know a budding young builder, maker or scientist? Encourage them to submit their best and brightest ideas for...
February 01 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures (February): Educating for Democracy in a Partisan...
This month, Writing Our Civic Futures explores research about the impact of media literacy education on how young people judge...
January 26 2018
Get Ready for the State of the Union
Engage your students in dissecting and speaking back to the State of the Union Address with resources from KQED Education,...
January 22 2018
10 Connected Learning Lesson Plans from the Remake Learning Network
Ten members of Remake Learning, a network of innovative educators and organizations in Pittsburgh, have created lesson plans capturing their...
January 09 2018
Educating for Democracy: What We Can Do
In a challenging time for our democracy, how can we help students prepare for civic and political life in the...
January 08 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures (January): Defining Political Equality
In October, we launched Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus that supports...
December 01 2017
Writing Our Civic Futures (December): Bringing Students’ Lives to the Fore
Our December edition of Writing Our Civic Futures, our annotation collaboration with Marginal Syllabus, explores critical literacies that center students'...
November 09 2017
Teachers Are the Catalyst: John Legend Highlights LRNG Innovators in (a...
LRNG Innovators co-founder John Legend highlights the work of educator teams who are building the future of connected learning.
