Educator Innovator—Meet the Innovators with Suzie Boss and Guests

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Type: Event
Join us on this live Hangout on Air as Educator Innovator visits with author Suzie Boss in part two of a conversation about innovation. Boss talks with Paula White, Chad Sansing, and Antero Garcia, some of the NWP teachers whose insights informed her new book, Bringing Innovation to School.

Educator Innovator—Bringing Innovation to School Author Chat with Suzie Boss

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Type: Event
Join us for the first of a two-part series on teaching innovation as Educator Innovator visits with Suzie Boss, author of Bringing Innovation to School. Boss will talk with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, the National Writing Project's Director of National Programs and Site Development, about practical strategies to jumpstart students' creativity and problem-solving capacities.

Writers at Work: Making and Connected Learning—A Connectedlearning.tv Webinar Series

Saturday, June 15, 2013
Type: Resource
As part of the Summer of Making and Connecting, the National Writing Project will host a series of webinars at connectedlearning.tv on Tuesdays in July, titled Writers at Work: Making and Connected Learning.

NWP and the Summer of Making and Connecting

Friday, June 14, 2013
Type: Resource
Summer is almost here and that means that the Summer of Making and Connecting is heating up! Listen to this episode of NWP Radio to hear about the summer's line-up and the various ways that educators around the country are writing, making, and sharing while putting Connected Learning principles into practice. Guests include Paul Allison (NYCWP), Karen Fasimpaur (P2PU), Cindy O'Donnell-Allen (CSUWP), Paul Oh (NWP), and Stephanie West-Puckett (Tar River WP).

Educator Innovator—Crafting Digital Writing with Troy Hicks and Guests

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Type: Event
With so many possibilities for creating and capturing students' digital compositions, how can we invite them to document all their learning? How can they design an effective website? Prepare an aesthetically pleasing presentation? Mix media to compose digital video? As part of the Summer of Making and Connecting, Educator Innovator sponsors a collaborative conversation via Google Hangouts on Air featuring the author of Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Genres and Media and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project, Troy Hicks. Troy will be talking with colleagues from other National Writing Project sites as they discuss the role of craft to support the teaching of digital writing.