School Partnerships

An NWP site often establishes partnerships with schools, school districts, or county offices as part of its inservice work. A partnership is a formal collaboration between a writing project site and a school or district with the intent to offer a variety of learning opportunities, often over a number of years. It includes shared goal-setting, planning, and reflection/assessment.

The following resources include descriptions of partnerships designed by a sampling of NWP sites.

Developing and Sustaining Long-Term School Partnerships

The following case studies offer an in-depth look at high school and elementary school partnerships at several Writing Project sites. More ›

School Partnership Leads to "Exciting Writing Week" in Little Rock

A partnership between an Arkansas elementary school and the Little Rock Writing Project has greatly advanced the school's writing culture, especially through its annual Exciting Writing Week. More ›

NWP at Rutgers: What We've Learned About School Partnerships

NWP at Rutgers director Kim Lanza shares some lessons learned at the site as it developed inservice partnerships. More ›

Writing Project Partners with Denver High School for Six Years and Counting

Just as they have for five years, Northglenn High School teachers left "The Reading/Writing Connection," offered by the Denver Writing Project, with a bounty of new ideas about how to use writing to stimulate learning in their classrooms. More ›

On-Site Consulting: New York City WP

Nancy Mintz and Alan L. Stein, teacher-consultants from the New York City Writing Project, describe their experiences with weekly on-site consulting in teaching writing at a middle school and with literacy-based school reform at a high school. Introduction by Marcie Wolfe. More ›

The Saginaw Teacher Study Group Movement: From Pilot to Districtwide Study Groups in Four Years

Mary Weaver and Mary Calliari, teacher-consultants at the Saginaw Bay Writing Project in Michigan, describe a districtwide approach to teacher-led study groups that resulted in significant changes in teacher practice and student learning as well as leadership development among teacher facilitators. More ›

Southside Elementary Writing Focus: Site-Based Leadership Reforms the Writing Curriculum

Nancy Remington and Robert McGinty from the Great Basin Writing Project in Nevada describe a long-term school partnership that gave teachers at Southside Elementary the opportunity to redesign curriculum and reshape the writing culture of their school. More ›

Johnston Area Writing Partnership

Patsy Butler, Sandra O'Berry, and Ruie J. Pritchard recount how they established and have maintained a district-based satellite writing project site an hour's distance from the NWP parent site. More ›