Support for New Directors

New directors will find useful information here to guide the work of leading a site.

Five Steps for New Directors

A key concern of new directors is finding the support they need. Here are five first steps to get connected and find resources. More ›

Resources of Interest to New Directors

The following resources take a variety of looks at what happens after the summer institute, from teachers thinking about how to take the summer institute experience back to their school to directors planning for inservice development and ongoing leadership opportunities for teacher-consultants.

After the Summer Institute: Opportunities for Teacher Leadership

The National Writing Project, along with Inverness Research Associates and Ann Lieberman of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has launched a study on the nature of teacher leadership developed through the writing project. This article, drawing on interview data from the study, highlights TCs' descriptions of how they contribute to their students, their peers, and their writing project sites, and how their connection with their local writing project nurtures them as teachers and leaders. More ›

(Re)Visioning Site Work: Extending the Reach and Relevance of NWP Sites

This monograph captures how two sites who are at different points in their institutional lives use visioning retreats to take stock of their sites and look forward, to align programs with capacity, to distribute leadership, and to engage teachers beyond the summer institute. More ›

Getting a Jump on the Work of a New Site

The director of the Live Oak Writing Project at the University of Southern Mississippi describes how she launched the site's programs. She learns that when she taps into the energy and expertise of the teacher-consultants, the potential for the site is unlimited. More ›