WRITE TEACHERS.

We write together, read aloud if we choose, and revise gently. The work rests on the belief that teachers need protected time, shared presence, and permission to write without explanation or justification. Writing is held as a public, relational practice.

The studios prioritize sustained attention, shared listening, and writing to process thinking rather than to produce an outcome. What emerges here can be adapted for students across ages, but the focus remains on teachers writing for themselves.

Our studios are for educators working inside and outside of schools, and others who want to write, whether or not they identify as writers.

UPCOMING STUDIOS

Microstories

A two-session writing studio focused on short, precise narrative forms drawn from lived experience and the current historical moment.

Begins 7 March 2026.

  • Beginning 7 March, the Microstory Studio offers a shared time to write short, precise stories drawn from lived experience. We will work small. We work slowly. We will pay attention to language, memory, and what can be said when space is very limited.

    Microstories ask for restraint and care. They sharpen perception. They make visible what often goes unnoticed in classrooms, institutions, at home, and in daily life. In this workshop, writing is not a performance or a product chase. It is a practice of noticing, shaping, and listening on the page and to one another.

    Facilitator: Lisa Arrastia

  • We write together, read aloud if we choose, and revise gently. The work is grounded in the belief that teachers need protected time, shared presence, and permission to writewithout explanation or justification.

    What emerges in Write Teachers can be adapted for students across ages, but the focus remains on teachers writing for themselves.

    • 7 and 14 March

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm EST (all times Eastern)

    • Live online.

  • This is a small-group, live online workshop held on Zoom. Participants are encouraged to join from a quiet, private space with a reliable internet connection, using a laptop or desktop computer.

    • $100

    • Sign up by Valentine’s Day to receive 10% off.

  • Never hesitate to ask for what you need.

REGISTER FOR MICROSTORIES

Redaction

A one-day studio focused on redaction writing practices that reveal the essences and contradictions in school and civic texts.

Special Guest: documentary poet Mark Nowak.

Begins 4 April.

  • Special Guest: Documentary poet Mark Nowak

    A one-day studio for educators working with school and civic documents—textbooks, district and national policies, employee handbooks, and constitutional law.

    Redaction is commonly understood as the censoring or obscuring of text. In this studio, redaction operates differently. Drawing on the practice developed by visual artist Titus Kaphar and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, redaction becomes a way of revealing rather than hiding—making visible the language through which values, assumptions, and power relations are maintained.

    Participants work with existing materials to read closely, cut, rearrange, and reposition language across different surfaces and formats, paying attention to what official texts say, what they avoid, and what tensions they carry. Through redaction, participants surface the cultural contradictions that shape schooling and public life.

    Open to all teachers, this studio offers concrete, adaptable practices for working with language and history—approaches that can be carried back into classrooms as ways to read critically, teach thoughtfully, and engage students with the documents that shape their lives.

    Facilitator: Lisa Arrastia

    • Saturday, 4 April, 2026

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm EST (all times Eastern).

    • Live online.

  • You are encouraged to bring digital copies or photos of school and civic texts—such as textbooks, policies, handbooks, or public law—that contain language with the potential to reveal how values, assumptions, and power relations are held in place.

    Examples include licensure requirements, history textbooks, instructional materials, and scripted curricula, school and district rules, signage, employee handbooks, the Constitution, and recent federal executive orders. Identifying names (e.g., a school's name) may be removed.

    Simple materials for working with text at home (paper, scissors, adhesive, and a phone camera) will be useful.

  • This is a small-group, live online workshop held on Zoom. Participants are encouraged to join from a quiet, private space with a reliable internet connection, using a laptop or desktop computer.

    • $80

  • Never hesitate to ask for what you need.

REGISTER FOR REDACTION