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Facilitating Digital Discourse: Teachers as Learners in a Digital Age

We are examining how secondary English teachers learn to facilitate digital discourse in their classrooms, focusing specifically on one digital discourse practice demonstrated to improve student learning: online discussions. Over the course of a five-year teacher inquiry project between partners affiliated with the National Writing Project (NWP), we are studying how ​teachers and literacy education researchers co-design and use a set of discourse moves to deepen learning through online literature discussions in secondary English classrooms. We are also studying how these tools are taught and scaled to a cohort of novice ELA teachers learning to facilitate high-quality online literature discussions.