//podcastplus.net/feed/educator-innovator~3f174bf8 NWP Radio is a podcast of the National Writing Project that features a wide array of guests discussing education-related topics like teaching writing, Connected Learning, Writing Project site development, out-of-school education, science and writing, maker ed, and more. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:31:45 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159939583-nwpradio-pushing-back-against-slow-violence-in-traditional-english-curriculum.mp3 NWP Radio visits with Jessica Rubin, author of “Embracing gentle resistance to the slow violence of traditional English curriculum.” The article explains how a secondary English teacher, Kristen, maintained a commitment to nonviolence in her teaching through “gentle resistance” to the subtle violences embedded in her school’s curriculum and practices. By making purposeful, small-scale changes over time—such as omitting certain texts, reordering content, and elevating student voices—Kristen was able to push back against the slow violence of traditional English instruction without risking her job or professional relationships. Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:00:42 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159939583-nwpradio-pushing-back-against-slow-violence-in-traditional-english-curriculum.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2131218576-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-catherine-con-morse-and-educator-katherine-shizuko-suyeyasu.mp3 Catherine Con Morse’s debut novel, The Notes, is a 2025 Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Honorable Mention for Young Adult Fiction, a 2026 Panda Book Award nominee, and was shortlisted for the CRAFT First Chapters contest. Her newest book is The Summer I Remembered Everything (April 2025). A Kundiman fellow, Catherine received her MFA from Boston University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing for several years. Her work appears in Joyland, Letters, HOOT, Bostonia, and elsewhere, and has been a finalist for the Beacon Street Prize and the Baltimore Review fiction prize. While writing The Notes, she was one of the inaugural Writers in Residence at Porter Square Books, where she enjoyed writing in the back office and eating croissants with her cafe discount. In high school, Catherine attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, a public arts boarding school, where she was as intrigued with her teacher as Claire is with Dr. Li. Catherine continues to... Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:22:13 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2131218576-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-catherine-con-morse-and-educator-katherine-shizuko-suyeyasu.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2118915192-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-rob-cameron-and-educator-max-limric.mp3 Cameron Roberson, who writes under the pen name Rob Cameron, is a teacher, linguist, and writer. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and founder of Constellations Mentorship for the Octavia Project. He has poetry, stories, and essays in StarLine*, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com, New Modality, Solarpunk Magazine, Apex, Clockwork Phoenix Five, Lightspeed, and others. Daydreamer, his debut middle grade novel, is a finalist for the Andre Norton, the Nebula award for middle grade and YA.Max Limric is a pre-service teacher in elementary education entering a co-teaching year at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut. He became interested in the power of children and young-adult texts while taking classes at Fairfield University, and further learned the power of literature when attending and presenting at the annual conference of the National Council of English. He grew up with speculative stories, being brought into the world... Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:17:17 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2118915192-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-rob-cameron-and-educator-max-limric.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2111234412-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-ellen-oh-and-educator-melissa-thom.mp3 Ellen Oh is an award-winning author and editor of middle grade and young adult books such as The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee, YOU ARE HERE, Haru Zombie Dog Hero, Finding Junie Kim, The Dragon Egg Princess, The Spirit Hunters series (Books 1, 2, and 3), and the Prophecy trilogy (Prophecy, Warrior; and King). She is also the editor of WNDB's middle grade anthology Flying Lessons and Other Stories, and the YA anthology A Thousand Beginnings and Endings. Ellen is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books (WNDB), a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in children's literature. Originally from New York City, Ellen now lives in Rockville, Maryland, with her husband, three children, two dogs, and has yet to satisfy her quest for a decent bagel.Melissa Thom, MA, (she/her) is a teacher librarian at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford, CT. She has been an educator for 22 years and is the immediate past President of the Connecticut Association of School Librarians (CASL). She was a 2019 AASL Soc... Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2111234412-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-ellen-oh-and-educator-melissa-thom.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2087385375-nwpradio-empowering-youth-to-confront-the-climate-crisis-in-english-language-arts.mp3 This special episode of NWP Radio features many of the educators behind Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts, a co-published book from Teachers College Press and the National Writing Project. Recorded in three parts, you won't want to miss this comprehensive overview of this important book. (https://shop.nwp.org/products/empowering-youth-to-confront-the-climate-crisis-in-english-language-arts)00:00 – Introduction/Systems Thinking with Richard Beach and Fawn CanadyRichard Beach and Fawn Canady discuss chapter two of the book, focusing on how to engage students in critiquing and transforming systems impacting the climate crisis. Learn how students can use writing to examine how fossil fuel energy, capitalist economic structures, agriculture, transportation, urban design, and political systems need transformation to address our changing climate.26:52 – Critical Media Literacy with Jeff Share, Andrea Gambino, Amber Medina, and Noah Asher GoldenThis segment explores the inte... Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2087385375-nwpradio-empowering-youth-to-confront-the-climate-crisis-in-english-language-arts.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2079343584-nwpradio-041525-the-write-time-cane.mp3 Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and, from 2016-2024, served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane established her state’s first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, and brought the Poetry-in-Motion program from the New York City Transit System to Rhode Island’s state-wide buses. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Books, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books 2017), Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019), and Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books, 2022). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She was also a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in September 2021.... Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:50:30 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2079343584-nwpradio-041525-the-write-time-cane.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2076565488-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-mahogany-l-browne-and-educator-yolanda-sealey-ruiz.mp3 Mahogany L. Browne is a Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow, writer, play-wright, organizer, and educator. Browne received fellowships from ALL ARTS, Arts for Justice, AIR Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, and Wesleyan University. Browne’s books include A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe, Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for Steppenwolf Theatre), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner. She is the inaugural poet in residence at the Lincoln Center and lives in Brooklyn, New York.Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. (she/her), is a Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her poetry collections, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (2020) and The Peace Chronicles (2021), explore themes of love, healing, and growth toward liberation. She is co-author of the multiple award-win... Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:37:42 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2076565488-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-author-mahogany-l-browne-and-educator-yolanda-sealey-ruiz.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2070240364-nwpradio-teaching-is-inquiry.mp3 Ballenger shares her teaching journey and the core ideas in her book about the power of inquiry-based learning, which encourages teachers to honor students’ unexpected questions and ideas as opportunities for deeper exploration. Ballenger also discusses the challenges teachers face in maintaining time for reflection and collaboration, as well as the importance of fostering democracy and inclusion in the classroom. Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2070240364-nwpradio-teaching-is-inquiry.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2026129360-nwpradio-going-the-distance.mp3 In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World. This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic has a lot to teach us about creating a healthy, resilient teaching profession able to face future crises. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2026129360-nwpradio-going-the-distance.mp3 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1941235255-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-write-out-poet-ambassador-jermaine-thompson-and-educator-rich-novack.mp3 Born in Louisville, Mississippi, Jermaine Thompson learned language from big-armed women who greased their skillets with gossip and from full-bellied men who cursed and prayed with the same fervor. Jermaine earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 2018, and he currently teaches 9th–12th grade Humanities at Build Up Community School in Birmingham, AL.Jermaine is interviewed by Connecticut teacher and Writing Project teacher-leader, Rich Novack. Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1941235255-nwpradio-the-write-time-with-write-out-poet-ambassador-jermaine-thompson-and-educator-rich-novack.mp3