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The Saugatuck StoryFest—Behind the Scenes of a Literary Collaboration Oct 20, 2018

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For the National Day on Writing, we celebrate the success of the Saugatuck StoryFest, a 4-day literacy event in southern Connecticut that brought together teachers, writers, students, and members of the community to discuss the power of stories in our lives. Event organizers—including CWP-Fairfield teacher leaders, Westport Public Library, and the Saugatuck StoryFest Youth Board—highlight the history behind the festival, the writers who came, and the wisdom that resulted from the event.

Guests

Kim Herzog, English Teacher, Staples High School
Rebecca Marsick, Literacy Coach, Staples High School
Alex Giannini, Westport Public Library
Chunjang Bruynder, Central High School
Kemoy Blair, Central High School

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Celebrating Writing Oct 18, 2018

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In honor of the National Day on Writing (October 20), we’ll talk with Writing Project leaders in St. Louis and Chicago about projects that have people writing about, and all across, these cities.

Guests

Steve Zemelman, Co-Director, Illinois Writing Project
Cathy Griner, Gateway Writing Project
Diana Hammond, Gateway Writing Project

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Writing as Making MOOC (wmMOOC) Oct 08, 2018

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Our guests for this episode discuss the Writing/Making Massive Open Online Collaboration (wmMOOC), an online professional learning experience for teachers that tackled digital composing last summer, specifically the idea that writing is a form of making.

Guests

Vicki McQuitty, Director, Maryland Writing Project; Elementary Ed Dept., Towson University
Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Middlebury, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media
Joe Runciman, Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology, Towson University
Stacey Scheper, Volunteer, Youth Theater
Christina Cantrill (host), National Writing Project

Related Links

"Generative Principles for Professional Learning for Equity-Oriented Urban English Teachers"

Poet, Author, Educator: A Visit with Zev (Dan) Levinson Aug 23, 2018

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Zev (Dan) Levinson visits with us to discuss his poetry, outreach, and connection to education through the Redwood Writing Project and California Poets in the Schools. In addition to being a poet and author, Levinson has also recently joined the NWP Writers Council.Links from the Show

Summer Reading: A Conversation with Colleagues from Around the Network Aug 09, 2018

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A lively and wide-ranging discussion with teacher-leaders and Writing Project staff, recorded live at the NWP Resource Development Retreat in Albuquerque, NM.

Books from the Conversation

Pure Drivel by Steve Martin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Drivel
Bearstone by Will Hobbs: https://www.willhobbsauthor.com/books/bk_bearstone.html
Shifting the Monkey by Todd Whitaker: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13265535-shifting-the-monkey
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover: https://tarawestover.com/book/
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580056779/
Ayiti by Roxane Gay: https://groveatlantic.com/book/ayiti/
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Bullshit_Night_in_Suck_City
Doc Savage Novels/Comics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
Poetry from: Avery Guess, Brett Gafney, Bianca Spriggs, Frank X. Walker, Crystal Wilkensen, Jeremy Paden
Money to Burn by James Zagel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/916313.Money_to_Burn
Dragonfly Dance by Denise Lajimodiere: https://tribalcollegejournal.org/dragonfly-dance/
Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich: http://msupress.org/books/book/?id=50-1D0-3FCC#.W1EhGNhKjxs
We Are Growing by Laurie Keller and Mo Willems: http://pigeonpresents.com/books/we-are-growing/
The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_at_the_End_of_This_Book:_Starring_Lovable,_Furry_Old_Grover
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi: http://www.tomiadeyemi.com/books/
Chemistry by Weike Wang: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549723/chemistry-by-weike-wang/9780525432227/
The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062694058/future-home-of-the-living-god/
Room by Emma Donoghue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_(novel)
Bear Town by Fredrik Backman: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beartown/Fredrik-Backman/9781501160769
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseinis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns

Celebrating the New Orleans Writing Marathon Jul 26, 2018

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Join writing project director Richard Louth, and teacher-writers from the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project, to celebrate the rich, deep history of the writing marathon, and the most recent issue of the literary journal Louisiana Literature, which celebrates the New Orleans Writing Marathon.

Guests:

Richard Louth
Tracy Cunningham
Kimberly Stuart
Susan Martens
Michelle Russo
Ellen Steigman
Jack Bedell
Tanya Baker, Host

Unpacking the NWP Social Practices Framework: Write Jul 12, 2018

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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

Resources to Support Youth Engagement with Writing Our Future: American Creed Jun 21, 2018

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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

Modernizing the Old School Essay Jun 07, 2018

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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.

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