Guest Blogger and Michigan Middle School English teacher, Jeremy Hyler, describes the multigenre research project and provide tips for engaging in these projects with students through remote learning. He also offers insights from his instruction on ways to support all students with low-tech options.

Inspired by teachers’ creative uses of Minecraft, Denver Writing Project educator Joe Dillon wondered “how can educators use Minecraft space for young writers to write, revise, and create while they play?” So, Joe and a team of teachers and youth designed 10 writing lessons and related worlds using Minecraft: Education Edition inspire innovative lesson planning and playful teaching. As young people give these lessons a try, NWP hopes they inspire creative writing and awesome Minecraft builds.

TRUE JUSTICE Wins Emmy

If you joined NWP and the Kunhardt Film Foundation for the special educators’ screening of HBO’s documentary film True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, you’ll understand why it would win the Emmy for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. True Justice features the work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and shares the story of Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row for a crime he did not commit. Check out NWP’s show page for updated links EJI’s resources for teachers, including an Engagement Guide.

Our Democracy invites everyone in the U.S. to document their local democracy experiences with words, images, and videos using NWP’s Writing Our Future platform. Tune into NWP Radio and check out this overview to learn about the upcoming project toolkit and NWP’s companion youth composing project that explores the concept and experience of democracy in local communities.

The WRITE Center, funded by ​the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, is a national center focused on researching and sharing best writing practices in secondary ELA and History classrooms. The WRITE Center pursues its goal of improving secondary students' writing by:

with writing researchers, school leaders, and secondary teachers to address the national concern related to student writing

a focused plan of research to inform resources for teachers' source-based argument writing instruction

to the national conversation about Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation

For questions, please contact The WRITE Center at thewritecenter@gmail.com