Summer Reading: A Conversation with Colleagues in the NWP Network

Date: July 20, 2017

Summary: A lively and wide-ranging discussion with teacher-leaders and Writing Project staff, recorded live at the NWP Resource Development Retreat in Denver, CO.

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Tanya Baker, NWP Director of National Programs:

The other thing that I thought was really fascinating about Troublemakers...is the way that we institutionalize the other young people to enact this vision of kids. It's not just the institutions, it's not just the adults, how quickly the other children get incorporated into this vision of what is good and what is bad, and what school is for and who school is for."

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Books Discussed in this Episode

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder
• Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School, by Carla Shalaby
• Choice and Agency in the Writing Workshop: Developing Engaged Writers, Grades 4-6, by Fred Hamel
• Personal Narrative, Revised: Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom, by Bronwyn LaMay
• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
• The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
• Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
• Stars Go Blue, by Laura Pritchett
• Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón
• Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O'Nan
• LaRose, by Louise Erdrich
• Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
• An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
• Off to be the Wizard, by Scott Meyer
• We Are Legion, We Are Bob, Dennis E. Taylor
• The Secret History of Las Vegas, by Chris Abani
• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaikin
• The President's Vampire, Christopher Farnsworth
• The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon
• The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
• Fish Girl, by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
• Owl Diaries, by Rebecca Elliott
• Drama, Ghosts, Smile, Raina Telgemeier
• Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai
• The Social Life of Books, by Abigail Wiliams
• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, by Neil Gaiman
• Dragons Love Tacos, by Adam Rubin