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Art of Persuasion and Craft of Argument

presented by: Teaching Channel

Watch how teachers can review rhetorical devices with students in preparation for a writing assignment. This video from Teaching Channel delves into t...

Minneapolis Mayor Learned Political Sparring from Teacher

presented by: Teaching Channel

Effective teachers are the ones who usually encourage students to speak their beliefs and what they stand for. In this resource from Teaching Channel,...

In Philadelphia, Fourth Graders Cope with Gun Violence Through Poetry

This article from The Trace, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to expanding coverage of guns in the United States, focuses on a We...

Engaging Gen Z With Video Journalism for Students by Students

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

In this hangout, participants discussed PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs and described their experiences working with its video journalism curr...

Letters to the Next President 2.0 Blog at Edutopia

presented by: National Writing Project

Ellen Shelton, Site Director at the University of Mississippi Writing Project and former high school teacher in Tupelo, Mississippi, reflects on her e...

Developing a Global Perspective on Under-Reported Challenges

presented by: Educator Innovator

In this Educator Innovator hangout, participants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and theNational Writing Project discuss the importance ...

How Should Educators Respond to Mean-Spirited Politics?

Check out this episode of “We Lead Ed Radio” on BAM!radio for a discussion between educators on what their role is in addressing the negat...

From Inquiry to Action

The forthcoming book, From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based learning in All Content Areas, by Steven Zemelman (with a foreword b...

Thinking Across Civic Education Work

presented by: Educator Innovator

Watch an Educator Innovator discussion with educators and researchers from Educating for Participatory Politics (EPP) and the Council of Youth Researc...

Educators’ Experiences Educating for Participatory Politics

presented by: Educator Innovator

In this Educator Innovator hangout, teachers from Los Angeles, Oakland, and Chicago shared their experiences implementing curriculum exploring the ex...

Media Make: #WhatsMyIssue Video (How-to Hangout)

presented by: BAVC

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this “Media Make” how-to hangout offered an invitation fo...

NPR’s Morning Edition Live from Youth Radio

presented by: Youth Radio

Host David Greene and the NPR crew partnered with Youth Radio’s local young reporters to co-produce and co-host stories covering Bay Area and natio...

Letters to the Next President 2.0 Kick-off Webinar

presented by: Educator Innovator

In this hangout, educators described the power of participating in the previous iteration of L2P and highlighted the growing set of opportunities and ...

How Washington Post used Instagram to tell the stories of first-generation voters in Miami

On March 9th, the Washington Post hosted a debate in partnership with Univision and Facebook that took place at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus...

Why the Classics Matter in Today’s Political Landscape

In this blog post for KQED Education, educator Chris Sloan talks about how books and movies that have stood the test of time can provide natural segu...

L2P 2.0 Media Make: Developing and Discussing Diverse Political Views In the Classroom and Beyond

presented by: KQED

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this kickoff “Media Make” featured Writing Project educat...

New Hampshire Teen Tells Young People to Get Out and Vote

Encouraged to “go out and meet a candidate” by her social studies teacher, New Hampshire high school student Allison Perkins describes att...

Letters to the Next President: Literacy and Elections

In this post for the International Literacy Association, high school English and media teacher Chris Sloan talks about his experiences participating ...

Developing and Discussing Diverse Political Views In the Classroom

presented by: KQED

In this post for KQED Education, Janelle Bence discusses some of her strategies for supporting students in discussing and developing a diverse range o...

#StuVoice Twitter Chat with KQED on Letters to Next President Campaign

presented by: Student Voice

This storify collection captures tweets from a Student Voice Presidents’ Day twitter chat with KQED Education on February 15, 2016. Participant...

Letters to the Next President (webinar, Teachers Teaching Teachers)

presented by: Youth Voices

Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly hangout hosted for and by educators. This archive was hangout with @seecantrill @Annelise_KQED @janelle @dawnr...

Teaching the Art of Civil Dialogue

presented by: KQED

In this blog for KQED Education, teacher Chris Sloan reflects on using resources from KQED’s Do Now, a weekly activity for students to engage and re...

The News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project is an innovative national educational program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to work with educators to teach students h...

Jumping Into the Deep End: Preparing Students for Meaningful Social Media Discussions

presented by: KQED

This resource from writing project teacher Joel Malley is the first post in a three-part series explaining how uses KQED’s Do Now to take his studen...

NWP Digital Is: Persuasion through Public Service Announcements

presented by: National Writing Project

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?

presented by: National Writing Project

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