August 31, 2015

Summer 2015: OWP Educators Featured in Rethinking Schools Magazine

Four Oregon Writing Project (OWP) educators have been featured in the summer 2015 issue.

The 2015 summer issue of Rethinking Schools Magazine featured articles by four Oregon Writing Project (OWP) educators. Visit the links below to view each piece on the Rethinking Schools’ website.

Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice by Linea King

A middle school teacher tries to implement restorative practices in her classroom. It’s harder than she thought.

Blood on the Tracks by Amy Lindahl

“Why are there so few Black students in our science classes?” Lindahl writes about science colleagues in a Portland high school asking how they can make their science classes more welcoming to Black students.

Colonizing Wild Tongues by Camila Arze Torres Goitia

The author vividly describes her own experience in English-only speaking classrooms.

Learning About Inequality—A poem for two voices by Linda Christensen, OWP director

Christensen uses dialogue poems to develop empathy between people of divergent backgrounds and to connect history to literature.