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Information About the National Writing Project
Now in its twenty-seventh year, the National Writing Project is a professional development program dedicated to improving writing and learning in our nation’s schools. To accomplish this goal, the project looks to successful teachers. Each of the 185 National Writing Project sites offers an intensive institute every summer and invites distinguished local teachers of writing from all grade levels, K-university, to attend. More than 100,000 teachers across the country participate in NWP programs every year. The institutes focus on these teachers, helping them examine their exemplary classroom practices, supporting their work with research about teaching and learning, and encouraging them to develop their own writing. When it is possible, these teachers become teachers of other teachers during the school year, credible as mentors because they come directly from their own classrooms to lead professional development workshops. Numerous evaluation studies from writing project sites across the U.S. demonstrate the success of NWP institutes in improving the teaching of writing and student writing achievement. The research results are available in Profiles of the National Writing Project on the NWP website at www.writingproject.org
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