Banned Books Week
September 27 - October 3, 2020
Click HERE for lists of the most frequently challenged books.
Click HERE for the Top 10 Most Challenged Book Lists.

For more information and resources:
ALA
Banned Books Week
Twitter: @BannedBooksWeek
Faceboook: @bannedbooksweek
Instagram: @banned_books_week
Write Out
October 11 - October 25, 2020
Write Out is a free two-week event—October 11-25, 2020—organized as a series of online activities where educators, students, and the public are invited to explore national parks and other public spaces to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. Write Out is in its third year and is sponsored by the National Writing Project and the National Park Service. The theme of this year’s event is Stories Around the Campfire which connects to the National Park Service theme for October.

Sign-up HERE for more information from NWP, and follow @WriteOutConnect on Twitter, Facebook, Flipgrid, or Padlet.
The KQED Youth Media Challenge: Let’s Talk About Election 2020 gives middle and high school students an opportunity to put their persuasive skills to work in front of a real audience. Each student will:
  • Choose an election-related issue that matters to them
  • Write an evidence-based commentary on the issue
  • Share their personal experience and authentic voice
  • Create their audio or video commentary
  • Publish their audio or video commentary on the Election 2020 challenge showcase page (launching in January 2020)
  • Practice critical 21st-century skills aligned with Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Civically Engaged Writing Analysis Continuum (CEWAC) Standards
The Election 2020 showcase opens January-November 2020 and will be hosted on KQED Learn. Students will be able to publish their video and audio commentaries to the showcase where they will be seen by the public. Select pieces will be featured on PBS and NPR member stations.
Learn more and participate HERE.
Learn more about the NWP / KQED partnership HERE.
Webinar Series:
Critical and Creative Strategies for Remote Teaching
September 2020 - April 2021
Presented by the Chippewa River Writing Project
  • September 15, 2020 - All About Hyperdocs
  • October 20, 2020 - Using Break Out Rooms Effectively in a Writing Classroom
  • November 17, 2020 - Synchronous Engagement Strategies in Online Learning
  • December 15, 2020 - Digital Writers Notebooks
  • January 19, 2021 - The New York Times Learning Network
  • Febuary 16, 2021- Diverse Reading in the Classroom
  • March 16, 2021 - Cross Curricular Writing in Science
  • April 20, 2021 - Poetry in a Remote and Physical Classroom
"In an effort to inquire into the world-building possibilities that Minecraft offers English Language Arts educators and young writers, teachers of the National Writing Project network have created 10 writing lessons related to world-building. These activities invite youth to play with the connections between creative writing and creative gaming."
Learn more about the activities HERE and view Minecraft resources HERE.

Middle and High School Writing Resources
with Write Center
The WRITE (Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation) Center for Secondary Students researches academic writing in middle and high school.  We are extending evidence-based practices learned in the English language arts classrooms from three nationally recognized interventions into history classes.  The WRITE Center is excited to provide middle and high school history teachers with the tools and strategies to improve their students' writing, a critical component not only of Common Core State Standards, but academic and professional writing. 

We partner with teachers and administrators to create professional development opportunities.  We use quantitative and qualitative research methods, including data mining techniques and automated natural language processing, to look at existing source-based writing samples from ELA classes to understand the longitudinal development of writers, which will then be compared to writing in history classes to understand the similarities and differences between the two contexts.

Learn more about Write Center, their Webinars and Resources HERE.

Looking for a new podcast?

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National Writing Project Radio
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Why I Write Podcast from NCTE
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Book Love with Penny Kittle and Julia Torres
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Heinemann Podcast
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Mind/Shift from KQED
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The Atlantic Interview
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Cult of Pedagogy
The Teaching Tolerance website, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides resources for kindergarten through high school teachers and students.
2020 Write to Win Contest ​have been UPDATED!

Where does OKWP work?

The Oklahoma Writing Project has provided professional development recently in all of the counties above that have been darkened.

Is OKWP effective?

Deb Wade is Director of Elementary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma and a graduate and former graduate and director of OKWP!
Brooke Meiller (left) is ​Executive Director of School Support & Improvement for Oklahoma and a graduate of OK Writing Institute. Jason Stephenson (right) is Director of Secondary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma and former graduate and director of OKWP!
Skye Spears (middle), Teacher of the Year, Eisenhower Elementary School (Norman) and former graduate of OKWP!
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Ray Robinson (left), Teacher of the Year, Highland West Junior High School (Moore Schools) and former graduate of OKWP!
Sandi Hebert, Teacher of the Year, Whitebead Public Schools, former graduate of OKWP and new co-director of OKWP!

Joshua Flores, former Director of Secondary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma.

To learn more about and register for upcoming events, visit our Eventbrite page!

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