I’m writing this weekend from the New Pathways Design Challenge meeting, an add-on meeting to the National Writing Project’s Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C.
It’s the third stool to the Building New Pathways work I’m involved in with the NWP, where I’m co-facilitating a team thinking hard about micro credentials that might be useful for thinking about what experiences people need to have to be a “writing project leader.”
Twelve local writing project sites have received small grants to help them approach the practical problems of reaching new folks in their service areas, and connecting those folks to writing project experiences. They’ll be designing in a big hurry, and the badges team and the knowledge base teams are hoping that we can provide resources and support while getting some on the ground feedback on our pieces of the work. Their designs will be pitched at the NWP Annual Meeting in November, and many of those designs will turn into actual work with teachers not yet in the NWP network. ((Boy, I wish everybody that wanted to be was in the NWP network. The network is better with more voices, and new voices.))
Today is all about the twelve teams thinking through the work ahead and learning more about each member of the cohort and their hopes for their designing, prototyping and tinkering.
I’m facilitating some discussion of their plans, moving from proposals to bigger visions for what leadership in the National Writing Project might look like in the future. What an honor to get to dream big with teachers and teachers of teachers who want to create better opportunities for the students and teachers that they serve.
What a responsibility to attempt to steward the network that has done so much for me so that it’s there for the next folks who are coming along to teach my children, and theirs.
I sure hope there’s room in your world to dream big for the teachers and students that you serve. I sure hope there continue to be opportunities to remember that things don’t have to be as they are, and that we can all do better.
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Do that good work, Bud! Is it posted somewhere which sites got the grant? I helped review applications and would love to know.
Thanks. I dunno about a public list. I’ll look for one and let you know.
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RT @budtheteacher: New blog post: New Pathways to Leadership – A Design Challenge within the NWP https://t.co/igrpQgVcL6
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New Pathways to Leadership – A Design Challenge within #NWP https://t.co/Z4fnd8cTX9 @budtheteacher (may be of interest to @cogdog)
RT @budtheteacher: New blog post: New Pathways to Leadership – A Design Challenge within the NWP https://t.co/igrpQgVcL6
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Very interesting! Good luck to you in the National Writing Project and I look forward to reading more about your work in the NWP!