Models and Programs
Teacher inquiry programs, study groups, professional reading groups, writing groups, and other types of learning communities keep teachers engaged in the writing project and support their continued learning. The resources below offer examples of approaches to continuity at selected sites.
Continuity in the Rhode Island Writing Project: Keeping Teachers at the Center
The Presenters' Collective Network (PCN) began as a support for teacher-consultants in developing workshops for inservice, but the Rhode Island Writing Project quickly discovered unintended purposes that strengthened the site's continuity program. Susan Ozbek, Marjorie Roemer, Keith Sanzen, and Susan VanderDoes detail how PCN functions along with the tools that help to sustain it. More ›
Supporting On-Site Teacher-Consultants: New York City Writing Project's Community of Learners
Ed Osterman demonstrates how sustained and regular professional development for on-site teacher-consultants not only benefits the teachers in the schools they serve, but also nurtures intellectual and personal growth at the New York City Writing Project. The monograph provides approaches and tools that can be adapted by local sites to support ongoing professional development for teacher-consultants. More ›
Working Toward Equity: Resources and Writings from the Teacher Research Collaborative
What is equity? What does it mean to work for equity in schools? What does it mean to make equity central in our work as teacher-researchers? Working Toward Equity explores these and other questions in 13 narratives from a broad spectrum of educators. More ›
Keep the Spirit Going
How can teachers create a space during the school year for the kind of collaborative work that happens at the summer institutes? Noting that structured collegial conversations about student work provide a way to sustain reflective practice, the NWP's Teacher Inquiry Communities (TIC) Network convened the LETSWork (Learning Essentials from Teacher and Student Work) Institute in 2003 to study the method. More ›
