Teacher Resources

Writing to Change the World: Teaching Social Justice through Writers Workshop

These books pair well with a Social 

Justice themed Writers Workshop

• Being the change: Lessons and strategies to teach social comprehension - Sarah Ahmed (Social Comprehension)
• Changing the World: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials - Lucy Calkins & Kelly Boland Hohne
• Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre - Matt Glover (choice)

Writing instruction - General

The Essentials of Writing Instruction

From NYCore.org - New York Collective of Radical Educators:

WE build classroom relationships that value democracy with a little "d", supporting voice and context. 

WE choose critical texts to support the content of our writing. 

WE find insight in power dynamics. 

WE create empowerment in the belief that change is possible. 

WE value students' lived experiences. 

WE foster connections with real people and real audiences. 

WE reflect on how we participate in a system that does not empower young people. 

WE ask how do we create the same experiences in our own working environments

• We Got This - Cornelius Minor (listening & equity)
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too - Christopher Edmin (urban education)
• Teaching for Black Lives -  Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian and Wayne Au
• Disrupting Poverty - Kathleen M. Budge & William H. Parrett
• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World 
• Social Justice Books - a list
• Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• The Classroom Index
• Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture 
• Equity Issues in Parental and Community Involvement in Schools
• The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America
• Gendered Harassment in Secondary schools:  Understanding Teachers' (non) Interventions 

Social Justice

• Teaching Tolerance
• Educators for Social Justice
• Choose Org
• POC Online Classroom
• Pirette McKamey - Educator 
• Teaching for Change.org
• Literacy and Social Responsiblity Special interest Group - ILA
• Beautiful Trouble.org
• Elizabeth Kleinrock - educator
• Rethinking Schools
• Edu Color
• Teachers College group

Writing

• National Writing Project
• California Writing Project
• Los Angeles Writing Project
• 826 National 
• 826 Los Angeles

Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans

• Tolerance.org
• Project Implicit
• Disrupt Texts
• University of Iowa
• NEA
• The Knotted Line
• Cult of Pedagogy
• Global Oneness Project

• Teaching Hard History
• Democratic Classrooms
• School Climate
• The Long-Term Effects of Social-Justice Education on Black Students
• Why Social Justice in School Matters
• Principles of Social Justice Education: The Social Justice Education in Schools Project
• Creating Classrooms for Social Justice
• Making Our Stance on Social Justice Education Explicit
• Disrupting the Teacher Hero Narrative with This Story Instead
• How to Make Students Care about Writing 
• NCTE.org - list of resources
• Who’s Doing the Work?: Letting Students Guide the Process in a Writing Workshop
• How to Engage Students with a Writer's Workshop
• Two Heads are Better than One, Mentors and coaches can be anti-bias allies
• Two Writing Teachers Blog
• Harvard EdCast: Schooling for Critical Consciousness

There are many components of writers workshop, with a wealth of information available on each area. This site specifically explores Writing Projects & Genres and Unit Themes & Mini Lessons.

Here is some info on Writer's workshop and the basic components, for further info see the articles posted on the Home page under the "What is Writer's Workshop?"

Main Components:

Mini Lessons

Independent Writing

Sharing

Other Components:

Conferring

Publishing

Publishing Celebration

Goal Setting

Paper Choice

Pre-Writing

Classroom Environments

Journals

Quickwrites

Writing Terrritories

Feedback

Genre Study

Author's Chair

Reflection & Self Evaluation

Risk Taking

Choice

What is Writing Workshop? - We are Teachers

A Journal Can Be Anything - Teaching Tolerance

Creating a Writer's Workshop in a Secondary Classroom - Edutopia

Writing Process Learning 

Progression level 1- 8

Throwout classroom Rules! 

Write a solidarity statement with your class. Together. 

Pre-teaching on solidarity will need to take place, there are not many examples of statements for use in K-12 classrooms. Please send examples if you have them!

Examples 

Statements from Organizations

Ingraham High School Solidarity Statement

Commitment of Support for all Water Protectors

Educators for Social Justice

Black for Palestine