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Professional Development - NWP Model - Continuity

A Reunion and a Patchwork Quilt: Taking the Directors Retreat Home

June 2008
Nick Coles
Site leaders who attended the 2007 Directors Retreat reunite to talk about the programs and changes they've implemented at their sites. The Directors Retreat experience continues to live on in unexpected ways. More ›

Maine’s Laptop Initiative Improves Student Writing

February 2008
Anne Miller
The Maine Department of Education is providing a laptop to every middle school student and teacher. And, through programs offered by Maine Writing Project teacher-consultants, teachers learn to use the laptops effectively to improve student writing skills. More ›

Technology Teams Take Different Paths Toward the Same Goal

July 2007
Technology teams at local sites can serve a variety of purposes, from developing the site's website to bringing technology into its teachers' practices. And, although a Technology Liaisons Network minigrant may help fund the team, it can also be created from resources already available at the site. More ›

After the Summer Institute: Opportunities for Teacher Leadership

The Voice, 2005
Linda Friedrich
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 ›

Lafayette Reads Ernest Gaines: One Book, One Community

The Voice, January-February 2003
Elizabeth Nehrbass
Nehrbass tells how the town of Lafayette, Louisiana, read and discussed Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying as a community, and learned about how to talk to each other, how to listen, how to be together. More ›

Writing Workshop and Contest for Students and Teachers Helps Site Achieve Goals

The Voice, May-June 2002
Janis Cramer
Cramer describes how the Oklahoma Writing Project's writing workshop and contest attracts talented teachers and students, and helps the site achieve its goals. More ›

No Classroom, or Project, Is an Island

The Voice, September-October 2000
Janet A. Swenson
The director of the Red Cedar Writing Project explains some of the challenges the participants at the NWP Directors Retreat discussed, including the many facets of creating successful school-year programs. More ›

Tulsa Writing Camp

The Voice, November-December 1999
Eileen Simmons
Simmons describes how the Oklahoma State Writing project developed a summer writing camp at two elementary schools in which the schools' teachers served as faculty after two weeks of professional development work with OSUWP teachers. More ›

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