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

presented by: National Writing Project

Steven Zemelman’s newest Heinemann title, From Inquiry to Action, combines two of his education passions: Choice-based inquiry approaches and ci...

presented by: National Writing Project

Annotate Steven Zemelman’s introduction for his latest book, From Inquiry to Action, and check out the archive of an NWP Teachers Teaching Teach...

presented by: National Writing Project

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...

presented by: KQED

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this Media Make examined the elements of influential politi...

The News Literacy Project launched its new and exciting checkology™ e-learning platform on May 2, 2016. Simply register to get access to the platf...

Mikva Challenge was founded on the premise that youth voice and participation matter, and that our civic and political life will be stronger when yout...

presented by: Educator Innovator

Join host Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project for a conversation with Chicago Sun-Times reporters, Chris Fusco and Tim Novak. Fusco and Novak d...

presented by: Mozilla Foundation

How can today’s youth get started in civic engagement at home and in the world? After discussing that question during the latest Mozilla Curriculum ...

presented by: National Writing Project

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

presented by: Youth Radio

One of many resources for teachers at Youth Radio, this toolkit includes a series of activities for students to identify parts of a commentary, brains...

presented by: KQED

No one ever said the presidential nominating process was simple. But it’s a whole lot more convoluted than you might think. In this illustrated gui...

presented by: KQED

As part of a special series designed for Letters to the Next President 2.0, this Media Make how-to hangout focused on the power of data visualizatio...

presented by: Youth Voices

Find 10 steps students can follow to prepare for writing a letter to the next President. These classroom and out of school activities from Youth Voice...

presented by: National Writing Project

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...

presented by: National Writing Project

This mini-unit created by Linda Denstaedt of the Oakland Writing Project supports students as they plan and organize a purposeful argument.  

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If you’d like to read some of the student letters from the first iteration of Letters to the Next President in 2008, this document is the place ...

presented by: Teaching Channel

Teaching Channel recently partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about digital literacy tools and their effective use by educat...

presented by: Teaching Channel

This video from Teaching Channel contains an in-depth conversation on lesson planning for a High School English Language Arts class. Using a popular t...

Learn how climate scientists are engaging with climate journalism across the web by using the online annotation tool from Letters to the Next Presiden...

presented by: KQED

They pay taxes. They have to abide by the same laws as everyone else. And many are old enough to work and get behind the wheel. But for teens under 1...

These workshops for in and out of classroom contexts were authored by organizations and individuals in the Media, Activism and Participatory Politics ...

Learn more about how educators and young people are using the election to tell their stories with digital media and learn about the political process ...

presented by: Educator Innovator

In this Educator Innovator hangout, representatives from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University discussed the development...

presented by: Educator Innovator

Join the News Literacy Project for a special conversation with national political reporters Matea Gold and Abby Phillip from The Washington Post. In t...

presented by: KQED

This radio segment produced by KPCC for the California Report examines the impact young people can have at the polls in upcoming primaries—par...