National Writing Project

Site Leadership Support in Action

The Role of Early Recruitment in the Year-Round Work of a Site

Drawing on lessons learned at the New-Site Leadership Institute, Katherine Frank, director of the Southern Colorado Writing Project, reflects on how her site developed successful models for summer institute recruiting. More ›

Featured Resources

Moving from Testing Writing to Assessing Writing

This collection of resources shifts the focus from test results to improving learning and writing, and explores important questions about writing assessment. More ›

Site Leaders Explore Continuity—Enacting the Culture of the NWP Model Year Round

Directors Retreat Strategic Planning Tools

These strategic planning tools—a strategic planning template, timeline, and collaborative review of action plans—will help site leaders generate collective vision and set priorities for future development. More ›

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 ›

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