presented by: Educator Innovator

Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about tea...

presented by: Educator Innovator

View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, p...

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In this blog post for Tchers’ Voice, Christina Cantrill of the National Writing Project discusses how Letters to the Next President 2.0 can hel...

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The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to channel our inner poet/inner performer to play with spoken word po...

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The third summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to embrace the power of argument as a means of supporting civic discou...

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The second summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to take a moment and reflect where you are in the midst of all the p...

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We kicked off the first summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 by encouraging us all to remix to speak back to media. Here is archi...

presented by: National Speech & Debate Association

This is a set of lesson plans for introducing students to Public Forum (PF) Debate, created by the National Speech and Debate Association. The 10 less...

presented by: National Writing Project

Trey Smith, Teacher Consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project and 2015-16 Science Teacher-in-Residence at the Library of Congress led a round...

presented by: Literacy Design Collaborative

These modules from the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) provide ideas and instruction for supporting students in completing informed, thoughtful l...

presented by: National Speech & Debate Association

In 1858, sitting Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas participated in a series of debates with his challenger, Abraham Lincoln, resulting in the now iconi...

The Teaching for Democracy Alliance is made up of organizations working together to equip teachers and administrators to talk about elections & v...

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Spoken word, or oral poetry, can help students critically examine dominant narratives to make sense of their own experience through language and expre...

presented by: National Writing Project

  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 be ...

presented by: KQED

KQED Teach is a fun and social online learning platform for educators to improve their media literacy skills. KQED Teach is dedicated to engaging edu...

presented by: National Writing Project

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

presented by: National Writing Project

This BloomBoard collection by the National Writing Project offers middle and high school teachers multiple ways to approach “creating a culture ...

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A spoken word letter can express a personal experience with an election issue in a way that a written letter cannot. Spoken word combines the power of...

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

At PBS News Hour Extra, find the full archive of information, videos, and lesson plans related to the 2016 Election, including news on election events...

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Summer is upon us and the 2016 political conventions are not far behind. While we have one eye on the campaign trail, we’ve got the other fixed on t...

presented by: Student Voice

This blog post for EdSurge by Andrew Brennen, Student Voice National Field Director and current student at UNC Chapel Hill, centers around engaging ...

presented by: National Writing Project

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...

presented by: BAVC

Lovina Okoronkwo, Rigo Valadez-Bigler and Alexis Hernandez are all part of a recent cohort to earn certificates in video post-production from BAVC’s...

This video from The Atlantic discusses the impact Facebook could have on electoral politics, citing the ways Facebook has dramatically changed how we ...

presented by: Educator Innovator

In the midst of the 2016 US President Election cycle, how can we support the youth we work with in being critical media creators and agents around to...

presented by: New York Times Learning Network

Election news will dominate the headlines all summer long. Here are a few ways students can keep up with the candidates, campaigns, conventions and co...