Over the last year amidst the challenges of teaching throughout a pandemic, the Oregon Writing Project community continued their practice of writing.

“I can’t think of any teacher in America who has had such a wide and positive influence on the teaching of English to under-served students in American secondary schools.” - Sheridan Blau, Teachers College at Columbia University

Fall features from OWP Teachers and Coaches in Rethinking Schools magazine

A few recent highlights from OWP Teachers and Coaches

Summer features from OWP Teachers and Coaches in Rethinking Schools magazine

Over twenty Pacific Northwest teachers who have participated in Oregon Writing Project classes will present workshops at the upcoming Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Seattle.

Three educators featured in this summer’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine

Two educators featured in this spring’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine

Two educators featured in this winter’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine

Forty-three OWP educators presented at the 2018 Conference.

Two educators featured in this fall’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine

Three educators are featured in this Fall’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Three educators are featured in this Spring’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

A fully revised 2^nd edition offers essays, teaching models and student collections.

Three educators are featured in this Fall’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Thirty-six Pacific Northwest teachers who have participated in Oregon Writing Project classes presented workshops at the recent Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Seattle.

Tree educators are featured in this Fall’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

All three local educators are featured in this Summer’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Two local educators are featured in this Spring’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

All four local educators are featured in this Fall’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Rebecca Henkleberry, and Jeff Waters, OWP Teacher Consultants, have been featured in Rethinking Schools Magazine

Chris Hawking and Martha Sanstead have recently been published in Rethinking Schools and Educational Leadership, respectively.

Two Oregon Writing Project (OWP) educators have been featured in the fall 2015 issue.

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

With the events in Ferguson as only the most recent example, it’s clear that understanding and confronting racism are critical aspects of education—for both students and teachers.

OWP Director Linda Christensen has a new article in the latest issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

OWP Participant and Teacher Elizabeth Thiel writes to the Oregonian about school quality.

In a two-part article on “Stealing Home,” OWP DIrector Linda Christensen shares a unit about ways the homes of people of color and poor people have been stolen through “race riots” and urban renewal.

A second grade assignment around civil rights reveals surprising wisdom and raises thought-provoking issues.

OWP Teacher Consultant and Madison High School teacher Michelle Kenney rethinks Steinbeck’s classic.

Professors Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson are co-editors of Rethinking Elementary Education, which was given top honors in the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Awards.

The Oregon Education Association awarded Katharine Johnson with the Ed Elliott Human Rights Award in April.

OWP coach Brady Bennon, and director Linda Christensen contribute to the latest issue of Rethinking Schools.

Third grade teacher Sam Leach publishes a blog to show parents the daily happenings in their kids’s classroom. The results: Students work harder, parents are more involved and the community has rushed to boost the school.

OWP receives $5,600 to support SlamBoo, a contest designed to unite students from rural, urban, and suburban Oregon around slam poetry.

2009 Oregon Writing Project Fellow and Lincoln High School social studies teacher Tim Swinehart writes about reclaiming “the commons” in the latest article in the Zinn Education Project’s column If We Knew Our History. 

Professor Kim Stafford talks about suicide, memory, and family—the topics of his new memoir, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do.

Amy Lindahl, Oregon Writing Project teacher consultant, teaches biology at Grant High School in Portland. Her article, “Facing Cancer: Social Justice in Biology Class,” is the cover story for the summer issue of Rethinking Schools.

The Spring 2012 edition of Rethinking Schools features writing from Dyan Watson, Assistant Professor of Education at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and OWP Teacher Consultant Mark Hansen. 

Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark, reflects on being a veteran teacher who still sometimes fails to connect curriculum to her students’ lives—and about the dire consequences of that failure for her students.

Elena Garcia-Velasco, Spanish Literature and Language teacher at Roosevelt High School, OWP Teacher Consultant and Lewis & Clark alum, has been named Oregon Teacher of the Year.