Don’t miss award-winning author/#NWP Writers Council member Renée Watson + OWP director Linda Christensen talk about teaching and writing poetry, creating generative spaces for students to take risks as writers, and revising and grading poetry. bit.ly/3ePZ9jy

💥 I have been accepted to the SJVWP ISP at Fresno State! I am super excited and eager to further develop my abilities to teach writing. Thanks you @ca_keypal for the recommendation. Lifelong learner! 🙋🏻‍♀️ #Education #BetterTogether

We’re super excited too, Emma Nalchajian

How do you plan to finish out this school year?

Since it's my week to be the writing fellow of the week, I figured I should share some of my best stuff for teaching writing. This trick for surfacing student generated mentor texts is a classic: litandtech.com/2014/08/how-i-…

My Sophomores are doing a TED Tok (A mash up of a TED-style talk and Tik Tok editing) for their final project. Here are the details in a 🧵. (Shout out to Natalie Vardabasso for the inspiration on this one!)

Congratulations to Teacher Leader Floridia Cheung who was promoted to Principal at Design Science Middle College High School! 📝

For more information & to register for the New (0-4 yrs experience) Teachers Writing Collaborative: forms.gle/6XtZheFbomsurH…

What year did you go through a Summer Institute at a local Writing Project site? #nwp #writenow

Join us next Thursday, June 24 for a special webinar with Gholdy Muhammad! Details and registration through Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/158022588817

Teaching two more weeks/ summer school/ I long for no plans

July's guest bloggers are Panda Fellows Program participants, sponsored by @NWP. Panda Fellows share info about experiences, Family Literacy Nights they held, & impact the program had on them, their students, and their students’ families. Read here: sanjoaquinvalleywp.org/whats-the-word/

The power of a teacher-writer:

Teen writers can still sign up to attend. First session: Aug 4!

Love the Stoplight Checking for Understanding strategy! I use it for so many temperature check purposes!

The word "text" has the root meaning of weaving, as in "textile." When we write, we weave--past, present. and future; formal and informal; story and argument; mixing genres and even media. Nothing is ever one thing.

Help spark learning that values all participants in our diverse communities through the #USvsHate challenge. @USvsHate will be hosting two challenges this year and the deadlines are December 17 and April 8. Plan ahead to amplify your students’ voices! usvshate.org/getting-starte…

The house of literacy has a thousand doors. Our job is to help students find one that will let them in.

Who better to offer up a quote for #MotivationMonday than Tom Newkirk? #NHLit #UNHLit #NHLI #SLI #LTT #COLAstrong #UNHGradSchool