I had a great day exploring some unfamiliar local trails. Got a little bit of writing done inspired by that ramble. Getting ready for #WriteOut Sign up for the newsletter: writeout.nwp.org Get outside and write in the gorgeous weather you can find. Take students #ITeachEnglish #NCTE #ELATeacher

Educators, #WriteOut, a two week online slow chat about teaching writing outdoors, starts Oct. 12. Get ready!

✋🌎🌵🎉🍂Write Out is around the corner! Here is a handy checklist if you want some help getting ready. Links at writeout.nwp.org #writeout #nwpwritenow

In celebration of #HispanicHeritageMonth this September 15 to October 15, we’ve curated a selection of #NCTE books authored or edited by Hispanic authors: https://ncte.org/blog/2025/09/hispanic-heritage-2/

There's a wonderful poetry group in the #nwpstudio where teachers can share and talk about poetry. Yesterday's prompt inspired by Naomi Shihab Nye's "Shoulders": Think of something you didn't think about much until it was gone. The rain. An ex. Your body pre-injury/illness. bit.ly/46P9DKv

It’s finally fall everybody! 🍂🍁🍎 🍃 🪾🎃 🍏🍁🪾 🍂 Happy equinox!

“Teachers know that diversifying the text that they put in front of students leads to the development of a lot of different literacy skills,” said Rex Ovalle, chair of NCTE’s Secondary Section. Read more from @edweek.org [paywalled]: www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... #DiverseBooks #NCTE

We're excited about our partnership with fan.school for #writeout this year! Fan.school is a student-publishing platform and they've created a space just for Write Out. Sign up to get started bit.ly/4oYyaUs

Teachers and friends, write with us and learn about outdoor teaching & learning #WriteOut Oct. 12-26, 2025 Online events Learn more: writeout.nwp.org

It’s ‘Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck

Who could disagree with Timothy Cook’s argument that “real critical thinking requires exploring genuine uncertainty,” and that the Canvas-OpenAI example that he skewers is problematic. We should find examples of students interacting with AI in deeper ways. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Fun workshop today with teachers. Thanks Bryan Ripley Crandall & CT Writing Project-Fairfield for the connection #Ramble #Rambling #WriteOut

Happy Fathers’ Day to all democracy loving dads across the country. We were happy to get out there in New Haven yesterday.

April is Poetry Month! In class today, students rambled across my anthologies to find, read, and share their thoughs on poems, as we’ve done for thousands of years. Welcome to the club!

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The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

Today, all of you helped shift the narrative. You can see it clearly in the wave of MAGA comments trying to drown us out, they’re rattled. Small towns across the Heartland drawing record-breaking crowds? That’s not something we’ve seen before.

A grassroots-led campaign has hundreds of protests and events scheduled across the U.S. on Saturday. Organizers say the momentum built on resistance against the Trump administration has not slowed.

The latest episode of The Write Time features two dynamic literary voices: Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow Mahogany L. Browne and Columbia University Professor and poet @sealeyruiz.bsky.social. Download, listen, or watch! #nwpwritenow #nwpradio bit.ly/4lkU5Ud

📢 This Wed, 4/16 at 6:30pm MT: Join @plthomasedd.bsky.social + @a4pep.bsky.social to expose the manufactured crisis behind the “failing schools” myth. 🧠 “NAEP helps perpetuate the crisis…” — Dr. Thomas 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/mtf2wxpa #PublicEd #A4PEP #ManufacturedCrisis

Join us for our first-ever #ClimateChange literacy summit in New Orleans! Develop classroom-ready strategies, connect with expert educators, and start building hope-driven climate curricula. #NWPClimateSummit #education bit.ly/2025-nwp-climate-summit

“When you allow yourself to break form, you allow wonder to bloom.” Yes! and thank you Mahogany L. Browne, @sealeyruiz.bsky.social @brcrandall.bsky.social @writingproject.bsky.social for sharing this brilliance and joy. We need it, today!

Macbeth sees a ghost, then doesn't, then sees it, then doesn't. And after that, Scotland just isn't all that stable.

What a great weekend of protest against tyrants. We won’t go quietly. New Haven & Hartford, CT saw thousands turn out.

🚨 📣 🚨 📣 🚨 📣 🚨 📣 🚨 I’m gonna swing by New Haven (see my comments) at 12p and Hartford at 3p. Who’s with me? Who am I gonna see and celebrate with? Like and comment to amplify my post (use the techbro’s algorythmic magic against them). www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Delighted to be joining Kazu Kibuishi in conversation later this month to discuss what graphic novels offer in literacy development. follettcontent.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our respect for the humanity of others no longer registers with their default settings— degradation, cruelty, and othering. Talk to your friends and loved ones. Those who’ve been sitting this out can no longer sit this out. There are more of us, so many more of us. We need them. We need them now.

Oh fun. Just discovered our second book was one of those stolen by Meta to train AI. It’s not like we make any money from an academic press, so this is even more infuriating.

A core principle of the Writing Project model! Download a free chapter from Pose, Wobble, Flow, Second Edition. #nwpwritenow bit.ly/4kMZS4A

BOSTON PEEPS! Get your tickets now for my REBELLION 1776 event Tue, Apr 1. 7 pm at The Marran Theatre, 34 Mellen St, Cambridge MA. Details below. Please help spread the word! @portersqbooks.bsky.social @sarageorgini.bsky.social @lizcovart.bsky.social @boston1775.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social

If you're looking for a free, private, supportive online community just for teachers, we got you! The Write Now Teacher Studio is a place to share what's working (and what's not) for you in your classroom/institution. These are interesting times, get some support! studio.nwp.org #nwpwritenow

I feel so very sad for the students most affected, and all students, staff, and faculty at Columbia right now. Teachers College is huge in my field. I have colleagues and several dear friends there. Thinking, thinking of all of you today and every day lately.

I'm leading a roundtable at #FairfieldUniversity discussing #UniversalDesign in college classrooms. I'm honored to be invited by a student to participate as a competent practitioner of universal design. If you're interested in attending and you're from outside the Fairfield U. community DM me.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

What a time to be teaching a senior English unit centered on environmental justice... Anyway, if you are looking for a great environmental justice documentary, I highly recommend "The Sacrifice Zone: Life in an Industrial Wasteland" about the garbage incinerator in Newark, NJ. thesacrificezone.org

This is such a beautiful description.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

If you're at #educonphilly, get a little taste of #writeout, a way to connect through place-based writing🌲

I haven’t read Beloved since I was a teenager in a survey of American Lit class! I’m so excited and nervous to read it with you all and @marcusluther.bsky.social. Join us here to discuss, laugh, cry, wonder, and share!

By talking about black language and expressing the contexts in which we see it in our daily lives, non-black educators can help uplift black language! #literacies

This chapter from When Teaching Writing Gets Tough offers three suggestions for changing your writing instruction to support student writers as independent decision makers. Check it out and join a discussion in the Write Now Teacher Studio on Jan 28! #nwpstudio #nwpwritenow bit.ly/3WkJiyc

Check-out my recent publication, "Ecocriticism as a Frame for Teaching Climate Change," about climate justice in ELA classrooms with literary theory in this book of essays. There are ways forward, folk. Let's get going. climatecrisisela.pbworks.com #NCTE #ClimateCrisis #WritingProject #WriteOut

Listen to Blues in the Anthropocene Listen: danielbachman.bandcamp.com/track/blues-... This kind of music composition reminds me of #writeout -- of using place to inspire art, in this case, the sounds of the place.

Read books! Act Up! Reading books is rapidly becoming an act of resistance. With Project 2025 already in effect and with this warped and misguided interpretation of the *science of reading* taking hold and taking over, reading books is rapidly becoming an act of resistance. Act Up! Read Books!

These kinds of efforts, along with contributing to legal defense funds, will prove really helpful in the coming months. If you have the skills, consider this work.

With the new semester just around the corner, I cant help but think of all the university courses focused on technology, society, education, design, and ethics that should feature this thread and it’s many screenshots, including this chatbot’s admission about “white as default or neutral identity.”

Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed, from BBC www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Publication alert! Please find my article with Nozipho Moyo and Ahmed Ahmed published today with the Journal of Language and Literacy Education. ✨ drive.google.com/file/d/1WcUP... #literacies

11 years after attending my first #NCTE13 in Boston, I’m back feeling more connected to #NCTE24 #WriteOut is growing. The Climate justice commission rocks. My sessions went well. Sheridan Blau was honored. And my original #NCTE13 buddy, Edith Middleton, is the future as a doc student @ TC. Wow!