Reading Time: 2 minutes Donald Graves once said that you can’t really teach a kid until you know ten things about them. I think even one thing can make
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Why do I write? Aside from the obvious / required writing (lesson plans, assignment prompts, reports), I find I write to make sense of how
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve often had people find out what I do and ask, “What’s it like to be a teacher?” There’s not a way to really help
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear NeWP Network, The Nebraska Writing Project advisory board invites you to relax and reconnect with other NeWPers across the state. Throughout the 2023-24 school
Reading Time: < 1 minute This summer, the National Writing Project’s digital writing marathon series – Write Across America – invited the Nebraska Writing Project to host a marathon stop.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Author’s Note: This is the second part of the garden saga, introduced in this post. I hope this gives a little encouragement to engage with
Reading Time: 3 minutes Author’s Note: This writing came from a virtual writing marathon, where we were encouraged to write around our place of residence. Since the day was
Reading Time: < 1 minute Introduction: “I Listen” is a series of poems about “sleeplessness”. Lupe Mier wrote most of The 15 “I Listen” poems in 1969-70 on site “over there”
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bystanders and their complicity Some men and their women And the children they raise Politicians and legislators and Those who oppress us. They would steal,
Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t recall the names of the towns that we drove through that afternoon. We stayed clear of the freeways, traveling on two-lane back highways