It seems like the trees in CT are almost done shedding their leaves this season, just as we wrap up #WriteOut. As the song goes, “The leaves have fallen all around. Time I was on my way. Thanks to you. I’m much obliged. Such a pleasant stay.” Thanks @writingproject.bsky.social for a great year.

NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/n...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Female Cardinals don’t get enough love #WriteOut

Great day for some 🍁outdoor rambling📝 The weather was perfect. The colors spectacular. Great bunch of students, too. #WriteOut

We're honored to have journalist, author, teacher, and Write Out Ambassador Rob Walker join us for a special edition of The Write Time, tomorrow at 4p PT/7p ET! Rob will be interviewed by WMWP teacher-consultant, @dogtrax.bsky.social. #writeout youtu.be/JZo99GjH3Mk

Happy National Day on Writing! Where’s what my students had to say on the matter of #WhyIWrite Interesting

Sound Maps at night inspired by John Muir Laws’ video youtu.be/qVRrhK9Q8LA?... From the #WriteOut Choice Board writeout.nwp.org/2025-choice-...

We put Milford on the map for democracy, again 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸#NoKings Good crowd today. We’re still in this!

Here’s my photo/poem from tonight’s Park & Write #WriteOut event. Can you find the satellite in my picture?

inter folioj, nur duone falintaj… malhelaj nuboj / between leaves, only half fallen… dark clouds #hajko #haiku #esperanto #writeout

This is such a gorgeous song! @dogtrax.bsky.social #WriteOut

This feels so #WriteOut

I love this idea of wonder walkers. Here’s my rainy wonder walk. My wonders: 🍁Is the wind leaf’s transportation? 🐜Is a puddle an ant’s ocean? 💧Is the rain a drought’s just response? #WriteOut

Some sensory ecopoetry for a rainy Sunday. Happy #WriteOut

Write Out is a free two-week celebration that will run today through the 26th. The goal is to be inspired by the world around us and to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. You can do #writeout for an hour, a day, or all week long! Learn more at writeout.nwp.org #writeout

#writeout kicks off tomorrow. Check out all of these events snd activities and more writeout.nwp.org/events/ #EduSky

#WriteOut 2025 event invites everyone to connect through #outdoor #writing experiences from October 12-26, promoting creativity inspired by #nature. #clmooc

Check out my article, “Critical Rambling for Climate Justice across Literature and Landscapes,” in #ncte‘s English Journal doi.org/10.58680/ej2... Also, check out #writeout from #nationalwritingproject #teachingenglish #elateacher #climateeducation @ncte.org @writingproject.bsky.social

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This development in Leander, Texas, follows a letter to the ISD from @ncacensorship.bsky.social, NCTE, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and more.

Learn more about #WriteOut writeout.nwp.org #NationalWritingProject #NCTE #ELAteacher #WritinTeacher #Teaching

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!

New Haven, CT

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.