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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...
September 20 2018
A Civic Imperative for Media Literacy: Moving Teens From Consumption to...
Abby Kiesa, Director of Impact for
September 05 2018
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 authentic platforms for students to...
August 30 2018
Back to School with American Creed
This fall, communities across the country will continue conversations about what it means to be American today, inspired by the...
August 20 2018
Writing Our Civic Futures: The 2017-18 Marginal Syllabus Recap
Joe Dillon summarizes the eight texts, author partnerships, and annotation conversations that comprise “Writing Our Civic Futures,” the 2017-18 Marginal...
The Connected Learning Summit 2018: Thoughts on Making
David Cole brings together key insights and resources on maker education from the 2018 Connected Learning Summit. This text originally...
August 09 2018
The World In Your Classroom with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis...
Educator Innovator's newest partner, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, provides educational resources for students and teachers to engage with...
August 01 2018
Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring Classic...
A partnership wtih a nearby vintage auto shop creates opportunities for students to reconnect with the world of passionate pursuits.
July 11 2018
Sharing Student Work Beyond the Classroom
The Share Your Learning campaign highlights the value of having students present their work to authentic audiences.
July 03 2018
Connected Learning and 21st Century English Teacher Education
From Connected Learning to Connected Teaching examines the need to bring the transformative principles of Connected Learning into teacher education.
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.
