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National Writing Project

Summary: The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nations schools.

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Podcasts:

 Rural Voices Radio, Vol. 1: Louisiana 16 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:36

Track 16 from Louisiana: Everyday Epiphanies: Listening to the Rhythms of Louisiana Life. Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project.

 Rural Voices Radio, Vol. 1: Louisiana 15 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:52

Track 15 from Louisiana: Everyday Epiphanies: Listening to the Rhythms of Louisiana Life. Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project.

 Rural Voices Radio, Vol. 1: Arizona 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:57

Track 1 from Arizona: Singing Down the Sun. Northern Arizona Writing Project.

 For Your Bookshelf: Inteview with Deborah Dean, author of Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:09

NWP interviews Deborah Dean, director of the Central Utah Writing Project and author of Genre Theory, which she wrote in response to an exigency in the community, a need for a broader more comprehensive theory of writing.

 National Day on Writing Remarks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:15

Dr. Sharon J. Washington, NWP Executive Director, comments on the 2009 National Day on Writing.

 For Your Bookshelf: Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:00

Donalyn Miller, teacher-consultant with the North Star of Texas Writing Project and author of the recently published The Book Whisperer, lends insight into her work in this interview with NWP.

 Calling America: Home | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:35

Home Sweet Home, By Elisa Sauceda, Read by Elisa Sauceda; Later when you have time, By Susanna Lang, Read by Tina Huang; What I Know, By Joshua Stephens, Read by Joshua Stephens

 Calling America: Immigration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Cierro Mis Ojos – I Close My Eyes, By Carol Brochin– Ceballos; Mistakes, By Rosa Rosales; Rio Grande, By Rosalie Sophie Berg, Read by Rosalie Sophie Berg

 Calling America: Lost | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:15

Lost In Old Man"s Cave, By Tiffany Beverly, Read by Tiffany Beverly; Disaster Averted, By Carol Dorf, Read by Antoinette Anders; The Fire Within, By Dylan Minor, Read by RoseAna Snow

 Calling America: What We Carry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:20

What We Carry, By Glenis Redmond, Read by Jager Weatherby; Setting Fire, By Barry Dunlap, Read by Dan Otero; Each Day, By Anna M. Carroll, Read by Patrick M. Scott; Packrat Blues, By Allegra Jostad Silberstein, Read by Deborah Begel

 Calling America: People Who Get Our Goat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:38

The Ex-Con, By Paula Parson, Read by Paula Parson; Fried, By Glennis Redmond, Read by Sarah Moisan-Thomas

 Calling America: Festivals and Foods | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:10

My Musubi, By Tiana Pedro, Read by Tiana Pedro; Foods We Like, By Alexandria Gomez, Read by Alexandria Gomez; Foods We Like, By Arturo Miras, Read by Arturo Miras; Foods We Like, By Cesar Pereya, Read by Cesar Pereya; Charro Days in the Valley, By Joshua Caldwell, Read by Joshua Caldwell; It"s My Birthday, By Kimberly Vielda, Read by Kimberly Vielda

 Calling America: On the Farm | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:27

The Accident, By Nan Byrne, Read by Calaine Schafer; Meeting the Farmer, By Donna Pucciani, Read by Alexandra Taffany; A Private Eden, By Judy Whaley, Read by Judy Whaley

 Calling America: Youth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:51

He is Six, By Leone Scanlon, Read by Annise Ventura; In Plain Sight, By Lucille Gang Shulklapper, Read by Nicolas Elter; Pictures of My Youth, By Jan Kwiatkowsky, Read by Jan Kwiatkowsky

 Calling America: War and Peace | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:41

An Arab Dreamer and I Dream the Same Dream, By Ernie Wormwood, Read by Sean Paul Gallegos; Offloading the Wounded, By Jeffrey C. Alfier, Read by Tina Huang; My Father"s War: 107th Field Ambulance, L"Abbayette, France - 1917, By Helen Ruggieri, Read by Will Spagnola; War Clouds, By Jim Barton, Read by Annie Chang

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