NWP Radio

About NWP Radio

NWP Radio is a podcast of the National Writing Project that features a wide array of guests discussing education-related topics like teaching writing, Connected Learning, Writing Project site development, out-of-school education, science and writing, maker ed, and more.

Publisher

National Writing Project

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Dec 2012

Latest episode

14 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 514 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Apr 2026

   A Teacher's Guide to Using AI

   This NWP Radio conversation features Writing Project teacher-leader Meenoo Rami and her recently published book A Teacher’s Guide to Using AI. Offered as a companion for teachers in support of their agency in the classroom, this book offers interviews and stories from teachers across the country, important questions to consider when bringing AI into the classroom, along with clear guidance for how to teach students how to use AI.

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   17 Dec 2025

   Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction

   In this special episode of NWP Radio, Stephanie Jones interviews Cara Furman, author of Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction, about bringing ethics, philosophy, and body-centered practices into teaching. They explore how children’s literature can expand students’ ethical thinking, the importance of care and love in teaching reading and writing, and how educators can honor their professional values while meeting institutional demands. This conversation offers teachers practical wisdom for nurturing both their students’ and their own wellbeing in the classroom.

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   2 Dec 2025

   A Visit with the Authors of Wondrous Words: Reimagining Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom

   NWP Radio sits down with Katie Wood Ray and Stella Villalba to discuss the new edition of Wondrous Words, Katie’s landmark 1999 book on responsive writing instruction. Twenty-five years later, the authors explore how teaching has changed—and why their message about writer agency, teacher decision-making, and the joy of teaching is more urgent than ever. In an era of mandated curricula and scripted lessons, they argue for a pedagogy of listening and kidwatching that treats students as writers making real choices, not just students completing assignments.

Inside a recent episode

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Published 4 Mar 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Turner said really important for me to think about how they could create a collage because to some aspects, right, everyone's not, everyone's not an artist. And so it can be hard sometimes to draw all of those images in. But when you bring in these multiple modes of communication, when you allow students to search for images on Google, which is also limiting to some extent, right? But it opens up more opportunity for them to imagine and dream and to create these larger futures. I think what would we did not print off the images, but I think it would even be interesting if we had the girls to print it to think about, you know, the size of the eight by 11 piece of paper that maybe they started on as opposed to what the size of this collage would be and how this being in the digital allowed for just the expansion for them to think more thoroughly about all of the different ways they saw their future. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

188,527

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

30

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.