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How to Search for Openly Licensed Media for your L2P 2.0 Submission

This document explains how to utilize the Creative Commons search to ensure that images you add to your L2P 2.0 letter or video submission are license...

How to Use Tagging at the Letters to the Next President 2.0 Publishing Site

See this document for an explanation of how tagging works at L2P 2.0 and why authors should tag their letters. You'll find helpful tips for how to tag...

It’s Elementary! Writing letters to the next president in the primary grades

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Primary Sources, Problem-based Learning, and L2P 2.0: Stimulating and Supporting Youth Learning in Science

Trey Smith, Teacher Consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project and ...

L2P 2.0 “Focus on Audience and Purpose” Mini-Unit from NWP’s College-Ready Writers Program

  A key element of the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project is an authentic audience and purpose. These letters will be public, able to ...

Arguing the CRWP Way: Establishing a Classroom Climate for Inquiry and Generosity

Join members of the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) leadership team for a discussion of how CRWP materials and principles encourage students to ...

Creating a Culture of Argument

This BloomBoard collection by the National Writing Project offers middle and high school teachers multiple ways to appr...

L2P 2.0 “Finding a Topic” Mini-Unit from NWP’s College-Ready Writers Program

When students are faced with the challenge of writing a letter about an issue to an audience they have never met, roadblocks such as what is included...

Growing L2P 2.0 Into a Project That Can Have Impact Beyond the Classroom

Steven Zemelman's newest Heinemann title, From Inquiry to Action, combines two of...

Teachers Teaching Teachers: From Inquiry to Action with Steven Zemelman

Annotate Steven Zemelman's introduction for his latest book, ...

NWP Radio—Design Thinking for Letters to the Next President 2.0

Over the last couple of months, Writing Project colleagues have been thinking and talking about the opportunity of Letters to the Next President 2.0 t...

NWP College-Ready Writers Program

The central goal of the College-­Ready Writers Program (CRWP) is to help students become skilled at writing arguments from nonfiction sources. The pr...

Opinion Writing in Primary Grades: What qualities Do We Want in Our New President?

Jean Wolph, the director of the Louisville Writing Project, offers an opinion writing mini-unit on qualities of the next president. It culminates in s...

Mini-Unit: Making the Case in an Op-Ed

This mini-unit created by Linda Denstaedt of the Oakland Writing Project suppo...

NWP Digital Is: Persuasion through Public Service Announcements

Kristyna Brewer from the Central Texas Writing Project shares how digital writing reignited a passion for writing in her classroom and how the creatio...

Why is Argumentation a Critical 21st Century Skill?

In this brief video, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing Project (alongside Argubots from Glasslab Games), makes a case a...

Screencast: Creating a Culture of Argument

Beth Rimer of the Ohio Writing Project shares a screencast about supporting st...