NWP Radio

For National Poetry Month , NWP Radio launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features Shirley McPhillips .

Matt de la Peña is the first author to make his second appearance on The Write Time! Matt is a #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author. He has penned six critically acclaimed YA novels, including Mexican WhiteBoy and The Living, which was a Pura Belpré Author Honor Book. Matt’s picture book Love was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Last Stop on Market Street was awarded a...

For  National Poetry Month , NWP Radio launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the  NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features H.K. Hummel .

Ann E. Burg worked as an English teacher for many years before becoming a full-time writer. Flooded, Requiem for Johnstown is her fourth verse novel published by Scholastic Press. Her books have received numerous awards and commendations, including most recently, the Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award. Ann is interviewed by Amy Bouch, a reading-obsessed 8th grade English teacher at Chartiers...

For National Poetry Month , NWP Radio has launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features performance professional and poet,  t.l. sanders .

In this CoLab, author Latrise P. Johnson is joined by colleagues Joe Dillon, Remi Kalir, and Hillary Walker to discuss her award-winning article "Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students" co-written with Hannah Sullivan and published in Research in the Teaching of English in May 2020. This article is the featured article for April 2021 in...

For National Poetry Month , NWP Radio has launched a special limited series called “The Story of a Poem” where we interviewed poets from the NWP Writers Council about their poems, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. This episode features author, poet, artist, and teacher, Patrice Vecchione .

Have you scoured the web for writing contests for your students? Have you worried over which publishing opportunities have students’ best interests at heart? Tune in to this show to hear about the resource you’ve been looking for. Guest Denise Hill, Editor-in-Chief, NewPages

After a full year of COVID, and the overlapping pandemics of violence against Black lives and attacks on Democracy, a group of educators and writers come back together at Beyond Storytime CoLab to share and consider what we have made, why we have made it, and the stories these objects carry for ourselves and others. See what we have learned, what we chose to carry forward, and how these objects an...

This NWP Radio CoLab features the authors of our March reading for LEARN: Marginal Syllabus. Jennifer Turner and Autumn Griffin, two Black woman literacy scholars, discuss their article and their work learning alongside two adolescents, Tamika and Malia, over a six-year period. This is the first month’s reading from the  LEARN Marginal Syllabus, Spring 2021 co-developed with the National Writing P...

Kwame Alexander ’s newest novel Becoming Muhammad Ali , co-authored with the best-selling novelist, James Patterson, is about the childhood of Cassius Clay, and therefore set in Louisville, Kentucky. This episode of The Write Time features Tyler Jones, a teacher-consultant with the Louisville Writing Project, interviewing Kwame about this knockout novel.

Join NWP Radio for a conversation with artist Rob Shetterly and educator Connie Carter. For more than ten years, Rob has been painting the series of portraits: Americans Who Tell the Truth . Connie works on education initiatives connected to the work. In this episode of NWP Radio, Rob and Connie talk about the role of art in truth-telling, the resources Americans Who Tell the Truth have amassed fo...

What does it look like, sound like, feel like to teach for a “living democracy”? This episode of NWP Radio features Philadelphia educator Joshua Block talking about his book Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom . In this book Joshua unpacks the ways he works to make school a place where students can reconfigure understandings of themselves, t...

Our Adapting Instruction series continues with four NWP teachers, working in different contexts and with different designs for virtual and hybrid learning. They share the tools and strategies they have found most useful in adapting their instruction for young writers.

Join teacher, author, and NWP Writers Council member Kim Culbertson , along with fellow educators, for a dive into 100-word stories. Kim will share how she has found short-form work a great test for herself as a writer and its applications for her work with students. (Also, check out her post about 100-word stories and the related handout .)

This episode of The Write Time features educator and author Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad . Dr. Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Georgia State University and is the author of the best-selling book, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy . She works with teachers and young people across the United States and South Afr...

In this episode of The Write Time we visit with award-winning author Lamar Giles and middle-school educator Kearstin Jacobs. Lamar writes for teens and adults across multiple genres, with work appearing on many "Best Of" lists every year. He is the author of the acclaimed novels Fake ID , Endangered , Overturned , Spin , The Last Last-Day-of-Summer , Not So Pure and Simple , and The Last Mirror on...

In the second of two NWP CoLabs with Katherine Schulten of the New York Times Learning Network, four fabulous National Writing Project teachers discuss how their students responded to the editorial contest-winning argument essays. The arguments are from Student Voice , a new collection of student writing published by Norton and edited by Schulten. This show is a treasure chest of compelling and re...

Celebrate powerful student argument writing in this NWP Radio CoLab featuring contest-winning student arguments. Katherine Schulten—a former a high school English teacher, New York City Writing Project teacher-leader, and the editor of the New York Times Learning Network — collected one hundred essays that were winners or runners up in the New York Times Learning Network’s argument writing contest...

Candace Fleming awarded herself the Newbery Medal in fifth grade after scraping the gold sticker off the class copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond and pasting it onto her first novel—a ten-page, ten-chapter mystery called Who Done It? She’s been collecting awards (her own, not Elizabeth George Speare’s) ever since. Today, Candace is the versatile and acclaimed author of more than forty books for c...

NWP leader Michael Thompson and his wife Tina Deschenie join us on NWP Radio to share two new anthologies they’ve contributed to this year. Join us for an intimate conversation and powerful poetry. Related Links T he Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Wet (available in November through the Montezuma Food Coalition and Sharehouse Press)

On this episode we will talk about why and how working educators should take a more active role in thinking about retirement funding. Listen in to a conversation about the relationship between underfunded pensions and school quality and climate. And learn about resources available if you want to learn more or get involved in the conversation in your school or district. Related Links Equable.org Te...

Join Writing Project colleagues and educators associated with the National Geographic Educator Network to learn about the Geo-Inquiry process developed to support students in developing the skills, knowledge, and tools of a geographer and provide pathways for investigating, understanding, and taking action through a geographic lens. We will hear from teachers who have explored geo-inquiry with the...

Mike Caulfield and NWP teacher-leaders using the SIFT curriculum approach have had their eyes out for electoral misinformation. See this wrap-up of Mike’s October look at electoral misinformation and find resources for better information for your students.

Check out this NWP CoLab with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Program Director Marya Brennan and high-school teacher Sean Krazit for an orientation to NaNoWriMo, tips and strategies for making it work in the classroom or online, and pointers to resource collections covering everything from curriculum ideas to approaches to assessment.