NWP Authors

Patricia McGonegal

National Writing Project in Vermont

Patricia (Tish) McGonegal, director of National Writing Project in Vermont, has worked with students in several grades and currently teaches English at Mount Mansfield Union High School in Jericho, Vermont. Energized by literacy courses and the teacher networks she encountered at University of Vermont and the Bread Loaf School of English, she began thinking of herself as a teacher researcher. A network leader for Vermont's Portfolio Assessment Program, Tish also served as a state network coordinator for the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network and co-founded, in 1996, the National Writing Project in Vermont. Now dividing her day between teaching high school and directing NWP in Vermont, she continues to involve herself in the examination and revision of teacher development and school reform across the state.

By Patricia McGonegal:

• NWP Speaks: 30 Years of Writing Project Voices
  The Voice, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004
• Through the Looking Glass: A Site Director “Visits” Sites at the Annual Review
  The Voice, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2003
• The Fledgling Years: Lessons from the First Four Years of the NWP in Vermont
  National Writing Project at Work, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2002
• Book Review: Today You Are My Favorite Poet, by Geof Hewitt
  The Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1999