Safely Publishing Student Writing:

Requirements for Publishing:

Our goal is to celebrate students who have taken a WritingFix-inspired lesson all the way through the writing process. In doing this, student safety is foremost in our minds.

When we publish students and their photos as part of our on-line lessons, we only share their first names and last initials. We do not mention what school they come from or even what city they reside in. No information is shared that would allow someone to find or contact the student writers.

Once a student is published as part of the WritingFix collection, the student's teacher is sent the direct link where the student's writing can be found. We encourage the teachers to share this link with the student's parents and family.

Be advised that WritingFix's published student writing will be seen in classrooms everywhere; each lesson at WritingFix encourages the showing and discussion student samples as part of the teaching process. If published, your student's writing will be seen by thousands and thousands of students from all over the globe.

But no one will be able to contact/locate your published students with information we post.

Our goal is to celebrate pieces of student writing that have made it through the entire writing process. Submissions must show evidence of student revision, and they must be edited before being sent to us.

If you have a student sample that you believe we might be able to use, please send it electronically to us at publish@writingfix.com. Include the name of the mentor text or the assignment in your e-mail's subject field. We will let you know if we would like to include your submission as part of the WritingFix on-line lesson.

If we accept a teacher's submission, we will ask the teacher to do two things: 1) obtain a signed permission slip from the student's parents or guardians, and fax that permission slip to our NNWP office; and 2) obtain a digital photo of the student writer that we can publish alongside the student's writing.

A gift for teachers who submit student samples: As our thanks for helping us obtain publishable student samples, we will happily send teachers who submit one of the NNWP's print publications. Teachers may choose from the following publications: The Writing Across the Curriculum Guide, The Reading in the Content Areas Guide, The Going Deep with 6-Trait Language Guide, and The Going Deep with Compare and Contrast Thinking Guide.

In 2008, we added a technique for teachers and their students to independently publish student writing inspired by WritingFix's lessons. Each lesson now comes with its own "blog" space for these independent submissions.

In the left-hand column of each on-line lesson, you will see a section called "Join our on-line WritingFix community." By clicking on the link for students, you will be taken to the blog space for that specific lesson.

At the blog, you will see a box where students' work can be typed (or pasted in from a word processor). By pressing the "submit" button, the student work will be sent to us. Work is not officially posted until it has been approved by us for content and for evidence of the entire writing process.

Submitting student work in this way is easy, and although teachers who submit to the site in this way are not eligible for earning a free guide from us, we hope they will see the value of publishing student writers in this manner.

Our long-term goal is to publish one excellent student sample from every grade level for each lesson we feature.

In the left-hand column of each on-line lesson, you will see a section called "Navigating this lesson." By clicking on the Student Writing Samples link, you will see what grade levels (if any) we already have samples for. If you do not see your grade level represented, contact us to begin the process mentioned above in the Requirements for Publishing section. If you grade level is already represented, please feel free to independently publish your students at our blog (directions at left).

Look below to see some student samples that have been published at WritingFix by authors who are very proud to be featured at this website. Would your students like to be featured as well? We hope so.

Just a Few of our Student Authors who are Proud to be featured at WritingFix
(Click on the sample to be taken to the assignment that inspired the writing)