Blog Posts

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...

Graphic novels help teens learn about racism, climate change and...

by Karen W. Gavigan, University of South Carolina and Kasey Garrison, Charles Sturt University Teen...

How We Invest: Connecting Pensions and Thriving Schools

Our visit with Equable illustrates why educators should take a more active role in thinking...

Elevating Student Voice: Environmental Justice and Redford Center Stories

The Redford Stories Project is designed to provide flexible and thought-provoking learning experiences and projects...

Ready, Set, Go! It’s Time for NaNoWriMo

Jumping into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in classrooms or online.

A Celebration of Write Out 2020

Highlights from Write Out 2020 and links to all the great resources for educators that...

Our Democracy: A Civic Journalism Project for Youth

Our Democracy is a civic journalism project started by award-winning photographer Andrea Bruce, in partnership...

Creative Writing and World-Building in Minecraft: Education Edition

With support from Minecraft, NWP educators created 10 ELA writing lessons related to Minecraft world-building...

National Writing Project and Kunhardt Film Foundation Present True Justice

In collaboration with the Kunhardt Film Foundation, the National Writing Project hosted a special online...

Grapple Series #4: Humanity. What Does it Mean to be...

By Beatrice Dias, Michelle King, and Laura Roop When do we feel most human? Is...

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...