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A Civic Imperative for Media Literacy: Moving Teens From Consumption...
Partners highlight the need to combine media literacy and civic education efforts, in order to...
Philly School Media Network Creates Authentic Platforms for Philadelphia Youth
The Philly School Media Network is building partnerships with local teachers and journalists to create...
Another Cause of Inequality: Slow Internet in Schools
By Heidi Moore Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s...
Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring...
A partnership wtih a nearby vintage auto shop creates opportunities for students to reconnect with...
Behind the Camera, Students Document Life and Learning
At Philadelphia’s Workshop School, students are developing media production skills to shape their school community...
Immigrant Teens in the South Bronx Learn the Art of...
Teachers in the South Bronx extend opportunities for student-driven online writing projects through the Youth...
A Lab That Grows Young Writers
An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon...
Designed Equity: Reflection on Youth-focused Game Jam in South Central...
Educator innovator Antero Garcia shares his observations about a game jam in LA and some...
Grapple Series #4: Humanity. What Does it Mean to be...
This blog is long overdue. We needed to take some time to grapple with the...
National Writing Project and Kunhardt Film Foundation Present True Justice
On June 25, in collaboration with the Kunhardt Film Foundation, the National Writing Project is...
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Beyond Storytime: A Colab Series
Writing Project teachers and interested authors and illustrators are getting set to launch a series...
Connected Learning and Play All Summer Long
The National Writing Project has put together a set of summer playlists designed with the...
New Distance-Learning Student Support for Youth Media Challenge
Our partner KQED Education has made it easier for teachers to lead students through the...
Performative Youth: The Literacy Possibilities of De-essentializing Adolescence
Our May Marginal Syllabus reading and author discussion asks, "What is possible when youth are...
#ThroughMyWindow: Reflecting on the Current Moment
Conceived by grad students at USC, the #ThroughMyWindow project asks people to connect with themselves—their...
The motto of the 2020 Census is EVERYBODY COUNTS!
Lessons to civically engage K-12 youth at the most fundamental level of being counted through...
Grapple Series, Session 3: Economics of AI
By Beatrice Dias, Michelle King, and Laura Roop Our third session in the Grapple Series...
Make with Me: Poem Pockets
April is National Poetry Month and the National Writing Project invites you to make a...
Let’s Give Them Something to Talk (And Act!) About: Privilege,...
Join our exploration of how two middle-school teachers established trust in their classrooms to set...
Teachers Supporting Teachers at the time of COVID-19
Educators with experience teaching and learning online have been supporting their colleagues in making thoughtful...
Join the Marginal Syllabus for Social Reading in a Time...
Join other educators in four synchronous social reading opportunities—or annotation "flash mobs"—with a focus on...
Writing Together, at Home and Online
A sojourn at home can be the occasion for lots of creativity around topics and...
The Grapple Series, Session 2: Algorithms & Justice
Educators explore and discuss algorithms and their relationship to justice. Part of a collaboration between...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (March)—“Untold Stories”: Cultivating Consequential Writing with a...
Learn about one teacher's pedagogical approach to literacy, writing, and metaphor that can help others...
Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship–The Final Report from...
This new report describes the connected learning approach and research in the context of broader...
The Grapple Series Session 1: AI…What?!
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity is organized by educators...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (February)—Praisesongs of Place: Youth Envisioning Space and...
Our February reading for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus...
Become an “Exhibitionist” of Student Learning!
The Share Your Learning campaign advocates for public presentations to give students an authentic audience...
Gen Z Talks About Election 2020
The Let’s Talk About Election 2020 youth media challenge showcase officially opened January 20, 2020—exactly one year...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (January)—Revising Resistance: A Step Toward Student-Centered Activism
Our January reading describes how one teacher helped students design their own learning, study issues...
Rating News Sources Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation
Study shows that expert ratings of news sources had stronger effects on belief than ratings...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the...
Our December text for Marginal Syllabus examines how a book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason...
