NWP Radio

Each year the National Writing Project and over 200 local writing project sites across the country welcome new Teacher Consultants (TCs) as members of the site’s community of professional educators. This episode of NWP Blogtalk Radio features a discussion of how TCs can connect to NWP through online opportunities and national events along with conversations with several site leaders who share how they engage TC leaders in learning and leadership opportunities after the Summer Institute through continuity and inservice programs.

The Holocaust Educators Network (HEN) conducts an annual summer institute that looks at how carefully designed reading and writing activities can help young people deal with challenging material. We'll visit with teachers who just participated in the 2010 Institute to hear their reflections and insights.

We are halfway through the NWP Summer Institute season, so what better time to check in with writing project sites through their work in the NWP e-Anthology. We'll be visiting with members of the e-Team to hear what trends and delights they are seeing in in the writing they've been reading in the e-anthology.

During the first year of President Obama's administration, the Department of Education, led by Secretary Arne Duncan, embarked on a "listening tour" of America to surface ideas about education and reform. But many educators have argued that teachers' voices are insufficiently present in discussion about education, and that teachers need to strategize to bring teaching and learning back into the center of policy. Join us as we hear from Kelsey Krausen, who is with NWP's Public Affairs, about NWP's advocacy efforts. We'll also meet with three educators from the Teachers' Letters to Obama Facebook group who mounted a campaign that culminated in a discussion with Secretary Duncan and has led to a summer's worth of activities for discussing policy issues as educators.

We'll be airing this segment on teachers as researchers later during one of our regular Thursday broadcasts.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization, identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, it is the oldest, longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for student achievement in the visual arts and creative writing in the United States. Join us as we visit with the Alliance as well as some of the NWP sites working with the Alliance to identify our most talented young writers.