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What would it look like to “write your community”?
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CELEBRATE NCTE’S SIXTH ANNUAL NATIONAL DAY ON WRITING – Monday, October 20, 2014
To draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing Americans engage in and to help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) established October 20 as the National Day on Writing. On this day we invite everyone to:
-Share your knowledge about writing.
-Organize events around writing in your schools and/or communities.
-Help transform the public’s understanding of writing and the role it plays in society today.
NCTE, the National Writing Project, and The New York Times Learning Network invite you to celebrate writing in all its forms: through photos, film, and graphics; pens, pencils, and computers; in graphs, etchings, and murals; on sidewalks, screens, and paper. This year we encourage you to focus your writing on your community in any way you see fit.
To draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing Americans engage in and to help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) established October 20 as the National Day on Writing. On this day we invite everyone to:
-Share your knowledge about writing.
-Organize events around writing in your schools and/or communities.
-Help transform the public’s understanding of writing and the role it plays in society today.
NCTE, the National Writing Project, and The New York Times Learning Network invite you to celebrate writing in all its forms: through photos, film, and graphics; pens, pencils, and computers; in graphs, etchings, and murals; on sidewalks, screens, and paper. This year we encourage you to focus your writing on your community in any way you see fit.
What do people need to know about your community? And how can you communicate about it?
Post your writing during the National Day on Writing Tweet-Up on October 20 with the hashtag #writemycommunity.
Lisa Storm Fink has been the Project Manager for ReadWriteThink at NCTE for over 10 years. After teaching grades K-4 for almost 9 years, she brought her varied experiences (multi-age classrooms, looping, cooperating teacher for preservice teachers, plus a specialization in Remedial Reading) fulltime to the ReadWriteThink site. Lisa feels lucky to have worked on all parts of the ReadWriteThink site: as a writer and reviewer, curriculum developer, and now as Project Manager. She enjoys sharing the site with others during professional development opportunities as well as with her preservice students at the University of Illinois. Lisa also sits on several board and advisory committees. Lisa’s favorite job is as a mom to Kelsey, a high school sophomore active in marching and concert band, JV volleyball, JV softball and Scholastic Bowl; and to Kaitlyn, a 7th grader busy with softball, basketball, volleyball and Student Council.
