My NWP—Collaboration, Audience, and Discovery
Last year I helped facilitate the Making Learning Connected Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC). We seven facilitators, supported by the team from NWP, aimed to remix the idea of a Massive Open...
View ArticleFlights of Fancy
I love to fly. Not only does flying get me where I’m going faster, but airplanes have been important sites of development for me as a writer and a teacher leader. In fact, I am flying as I write this,...
View ArticlePush and Embrace
Over my 36-year history with the National Writing Project, I have participated in a number of cross-site leadership teams for NWP initiatives. Each time I was so grateful (and surprised) to have been...
View ArticleLearning to Listen: A Call for Support of the Writing Project’s Intensive...
The small but heavy cardboard box had been opened, closed, and put aside—part of a larger project to plow through the accumulated debris of twenty-eight years of marriage. Its moving label read “Home...
View ArticleNWP: Where Teachers Meet True Grit
There are so many stories I could tell of my twenty years with NWP: losing power on my first day of directing a summer institute in a room without windows, sitting next to Mary Ann Smith at my first...
View ArticleWhat is My NWP? Thoughts From the Red River Valley Writing Project Leadership
NWP means the world to us. Literally. As three leaders in the Red River Valley Writing Project, located in what was once the tall grass prairie region of eastern North Dakota and northwestern...
View ArticleTeacher as Poet. Poet as Teacher.
Flickr photograph by Steve Johnson I began with poetry. My entry into writing started with rhymed couplets, with Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss. And I wrote reams of poems, spiral notebooks filled with...
View ArticleA Life That’s Good
I am 30,000 feet above somewhere between Chicago and San Francisco, making my way back from two days of a complete geek out with my Writing Project colleagues. My brain is tired, and the work that has...
View ArticleMy NWP—One Big Idea, One World
“How did I get here?” It was a thought that both arrested and intrigued me just one month ago, on June 30, a day after getting off of a 19-hour flight from Chicago. I stepped into one of the...
View ArticleThank You, Jim Gray
My NWP began in 1986 at the invitation of Susan Lytle at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and with the founding of the Philadelphia Writing Project. As I reflect on Our NWP...
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