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A Newsletter of the National Writing Project / MARCH 2018 / View this email in your browser

Writing Our Future: American Creed

Our youth publishing website that accompanies the PBS documentary American Creed, is now live. Teachers, librarians, and youth mentors are invited to engage young people as they work towards responding to the film through writing, media, or art using any of the five invitations created by educators. Adults at schools and learning centers can create accounts for youth to publish their work to a national, or even international, audience. The American Creed youth publishing project is part of NWP's broader initiative, Writing Our Future.

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NWP Spring Meeting

NWP teacher leaders will visit the nation's capital March 14–16 for an opportunity to share their classroom successes with members of Congress and with each other. Registration Deadline: March 2

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Bad Ideas About Writing: Dead But Still Walking

Stephanie West-Puckett and her graduate students name and defeat persistent zombie ideas with help from Bad Ideas About Writing, a free, open-source textbook outlining 61 bad ideas about writing and writing instruction that just won’t go away. Stephanie has also created a companion collection in Educator Innovator's The Current.

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Andy Myer is a member of NWP’s Writers Council and has been in the business of creating humorous words and images his entire career. His most recent and joyful endeavor is as a children’s book author/illustrator.

"My assignment, when I choose to accept it, is to find elegance whenever I place words next to each other. I don’t mean elegance in a highfalutin sort of way. I’m talking about the exquisite and elusive spot where simplicity meets beauty."

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Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age

View this conversation with Joseph Kahne and fellow educators about his recent article, “Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation,” co-authored by Benjamin Bowyer. Guests discuss the study that informs the article, which investigated youth judgments of truth claims tied to controversial political issues, and media literacy strategies educators can use to improve judgments of accuracy.

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Upcoming Educator Innovator Events

Becoming Comfortable with Failure in the Writing Process

A reflectionn from graduate student/educator William Bowden, part of a collection at The Current, our open publishing platform via Educator Innovator.

"When I was in middle and high school, I wasn’t concerned with failure because I didn’t push myself outside of the academic boundaries that I was made comfortable with. As an undergraduate, I had more flexibility to explore what I was passionate about, and failure became a big part of my success."

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Reimagining Literacy in the iPhone Age

Another reflection from The Current, by Lydia Beller-McKenna.

"In my undergrad program, and even as far back as high school, there had always seemed to be a general underlying disdain for recent generations of students’ writing and literacy skills. ... These kinds of attitudes always struck me as concerning on a number of levels, not the least of which being how these accused bad writers could possibly be blamed for their supposed lack of writing proficiency when the very institutions designed to provide them with these skills have already labeled them as insufficiently prepared."

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