Writers Lifeblood

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Berkeley, CA, May 28, 2009 – More than 3,000 kindergarten through college teachers across the country will dedicate four weeks of their summer break to learning new strategies to improve their students’ writing skills.
These teachers will study the latest research and effective classroom practices in summer institutes at more than 200 National Writing Project (NWP) [...]

NWP began in 1974 in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where, James Gray and his colleagues established a university-based program for K–16 teachers called the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP).
Gray, a teacher educator and former high school English teacher, was motivated to create a different form of professional development [...]

The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nation’s schools.
A Network of University-Based Sites
The more than [...]

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This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with
interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction…keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than “programs.” If this book could become a prerequisite to [...]

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NWP began in 1974 in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where, James Gray and his colleagues established a university-based program for K–16 teachers called the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP).
Gray, a teacher educator and former high school English teacher, was motivated to create a different form of professional development [...]

The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nation’s schools.
A Network of University-Based Sites
The more than [...]

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RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know
by Mary Howard
Response to Intervention (RTI) is here, but what do teachers need to know about it? As Mary Howard investigated that question, she was surprised: the more she knew about it, the more this “teacher’s teacher” was excited by it. That’s because RTI promises to [...]

Everyone’s talking about Tom Newkirk’s Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones! Tom will lead a discussion of the book during July on Jim Burke’s EC Ning http://englishcompanion.ning.com. Buy the book now to join the discussion and get free shipping. Use code TN09P1.
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  Everyone’s talking about Tom Newkirk’s Holding On to Good Ideas
in a Time of Bad Ones! Tom will lead a discussion of the book during July on Jim Burke’s EC Ning http://englishcompanion.ning.com. Buy the book now to join the discussion and get free shipping. Use code TN09P1. Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of [...]

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Writing is the single most important skill for students’ academic and professional success. Yet in the last twenty years, it has received little attention in our nation’s schools, and national assessments show that just one in four American students is able to write proficiently. [...]

How has the teaching of writing changed in the 21st century? In this innovative guide, teachers share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students’ creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more.
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