Who Are We?
We are Teacher Consultants in the North Star of Texas Writing Project--a local site of the National Writing Project (http://www.nwp.org). We work with diverse learners in a range of contexts, and we are committed to working and playing together as we pursue complex and challenging literacy goals for our students and for ourselves.
Like other literacy educators across the U.S., we face overwhelming challenges. We try to comply with bureaucratic mandates, even though those mandates often work against authentic and supportive literacy practices for our students. We continue this work in spite of strong influences beyond our control--standardization and high stakes testing, budget shortfalls, immigration, poverty, mental health issues, economic instability in families, violence, political polarization, racism, sexism, and more. We work as professionals who continually balance our teaching duties with our responsibilities in graduate school, our communities, and our families. We work to stay healthy and productive, and we try to have fun along the way!
Like other literacy educators across the U.S., we face overwhelming challenges. We try to comply with bureaucratic mandates, even though those mandates often work against authentic and supportive literacy practices for our students. We continue this work in spite of strong influences beyond our control--standardization and high stakes testing, budget shortfalls, immigration, poverty, mental health issues, economic instability in families, violence, political polarization, racism, sexism, and more. We work as professionals who continually balance our teaching duties with our responsibilities in graduate school, our communities, and our families. We work to stay healthy and productive, and we try to have fun along the way!
