WELCOME TO THE
OKLAHOMA WRITING PROJECT
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There is No Apolitical Classroom:
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Click here to read the statement from NCTE's Standing Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English and explore the resources they have assembled to help teachers and students combat racism and bias in the classroom.
The Teaching Tolerance website, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides resources for kindergarten through high school teachers and students. They state:
Our mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.
Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.
Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project's family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.
Writing Our Future: American Creed invites...
Youth (13+) and young adults: Add your voice to the conversations sparked by the PBS documentary film American Creed. You can learn more about the film at americancreed.org.
Educators—teachers, librarians, and youth mentors: Engage young people as they work towards responding to the film through writing, media, or art using any of the invitations to write included on this site. Educators can create accounts for youth at their school site or learning center to publish their work to a national, or even international, audience.
Note: The documentary aired on PBS in February 2018 and remains available for educators to stream on the PBS website. The youth publishing website will remain open through 2019. A promotional toolkit is also available to help spread the word about this exciting project.
For more information and to view responses from around the United States, please visit the National Writing Project.
Writing Our Future: American Creed invites...
Youth (13+) and young adults: Add your voice to the conversations sparked by the PBS documentary film American Creed. You can learn more about the film at americancreed.org.
Educators—teachers, librarians, and youth mentors: Engage young people as they work towards responding to the film through writing, media, or art using any of the invitations to write included on this site. Educators can create accounts for youth at their school site or learning center to publish their work to a national, or even international, audience.
Note: The documentary aired on PBS in February 2018 and remains available for educators to stream on the PBS website. The youth publishing website will remain open through 2019. A promotional toolkit is also available to help spread the word about this exciting project.
For more information and to view responses from around the United States, please visit the National Writing Project.
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!
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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!
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Skye Spears (middle), Teacher of the Year, Eisenhower Elementary School (Norman) and former graduate of OKWP!
Ray Robinson (left), Teacher of the Year, Highland West Junior High School (Moore Schools) and former graduate of OKWP!
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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.
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