Reading Time: 4 minutes“Do You Even Like Being a Teacher?” “Why would Mr. So-and-So have chosen to be just a high school teacher? He’s so smart.” “I can’t
Reading Time: 2 minutesDonald 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy 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 minutesI’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 minutesDear 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: 3 minutesBy Cynthia Ybarra I remember him and when I close my eyes, I can see myself, standing in his room, looking down at him. This
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthor’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 minutesAuthor’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 minuteIntroduction: “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 minuteBystanders 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 minutesI 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesEditor’s Introduction: In this EQuIP, NeWP co-director Shelby Schmidt guides her students into an exploration of photojournalism ethics using the practices of the College, Career
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Melissa Legate, Pierce High School, Nebraska Writing Project The research paper. It’s a staple in so many classrooms across grade levels and subject areas.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Summer Day at Noontime (July 27, 2022)* I had been sitting in my car thinking, talking to self: old man, you’ve locked yourself outside
Reading Time: 2 minutesby Brenda Larabee Summertime Series: Post 1 Editor’s Note: As the season turns to fall and winter, the Nebraska Writing Project is sharing some summer
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe air was cool, the Niobrara River was running smoothly, some places shallow, some deep, when 13 high school students accompanied by National Park Service
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Not Perfect, but Good” By Rae Carlson Author’s Note: This poem reads two ways. Read it straight down as usual, then take a moment and
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Terry A. McCarl The most memorable experience of my one-year tour in Vietnam from December 68-November 1969 was on March 4, 1969. A couple
Reading Time: 3 minutesby Donald Dingman I’m only three months into my 72nd year, yet I can honestly say I have personally known a veteran from every U.S.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePissing in pairs before stringing the wire for our night camp perimeter as evening comes nearer, we’re pissing in pairs while passing the grass,
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Reading Time: 2 minutesBill Smutko The green glow of the radium number on my watch show it’s three A.M. The rough sheets smell of laundry detergent and bleach.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’d been close friends once, he and I. But I’d gone off to have the Marines make a man out of me, and he’d stayed
Reading Time: 4 minutesby Jan Knispel Slowly you enter the double doors of this old building and step up the stairs where numerous students have stepped before. You
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy Introduction to Conspiracy Theories I was 15 years old when 9/11 happened. Like many others in the U.S. I can remember exactly where I
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDid you know that Weeping Water School uses the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) to teach critical reading and writing to
Reading Time: 4 minutesEmptiness through Isolation Isolated. Exhausted. Depleted. The three feelings which most accurately portray my physical and emotional state at the end of my fourth year
Reading Time: 4 minutesJonas typically sat in silence throughout my entire class period, a downtrodden look on his face. He made it crystal clear he did not want
Reading Time: 5 minutesAnother email, another professional development meeting, another day of planning lost. When I was first introduced to the College, Career, and Community Writer’s Project (C3WP),
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Stephanie Hurt, Greater Madison Writing Project Getting student voices out into the world is something many teachers strive to do. An immediate, highly-visible way
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn November 17, 2021, six veterans read their writing, featured in a newly-published anthology, to an assembly of family members and supporters at UNL’s East
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was the end of the period in English 9. My students and I were wrapping up day four of a mini-unit on argument writing,
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOxbow’s Fall Writing Marathon is scheduled for Saturday, November 20 from Noon to 3:00 at the Joslyn Art Museum. The members of Oxbow are extending a
Reading Time: 4 minutesCrossing the state line to see my grandparents meant crossing into a new world. It required a mental shift, shelving the knowledge I’d accumulated from
Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthor’s Note: Much of this writing began on a writing marathon at St. Benedict’s Retreat Center in Schuyler, Nebraska in late July, 2020. While out
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperience what it’s like to dig into a poetry experience based around the features of Agate Fossil National Monument with Agate Rangers, Writing Project teachers,
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have written in the city and in the country, in kayaks, buses, bars, restaurants, cafes, bookstores, art galleries and museums, next to rivers –
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Emily Fisher I open my eyes to the quiet murmurs down the hall – slippered feet pad upon the tile floor. The coffee aroma
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom pedagogy to digital platforms, educators have switched our focus in much less time than imagined throughout remote/hybrid/in person learning during this time of Covid
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Mrs. Schmidt, did you know that the budget issues in the district stem from a bill in the Nebraska Legislature? I think I’m going to
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver 35 Years In Nebraska Writing Project I came to Nebraska Writing Project in 1984, as a new professor fresh from a doctoral program focused
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy brother and I are three years and one day apart. He, the older, was and still is considered by his siblings as “The Golden
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis summer, the National Writing Project’s digital writing marathon series – Write Across America – invited the Nebraska Writing Project to host a marathon stop.
