Our NWP

[...] . My new colleagues were, for the most part, welcoming and helpful, […] The post The National Writing Project is 40 appeared first on Our NWP. [...]

[...] When I think about the National Writing Project, the image that comes to mind is a small group of teachers talking and listening to one [...]

[...] When I think of the National Writing Project, my work with a teacher-consultant for the Central Arizona Writing Project, Tracey [...]

[...] Forty years of National Writing Project? Wow. It seems such a short time ago… Almost 20 years ago—half a lifetime for NWP—I was [...]

[...] With regard to professional development in general, I’m neither an optimist nor a cheerleader. I choose to participate in [...]

[...] than on paper. I helped plan and facilitate some of the first nationally organized professional development in our network related to digital literacies. I’ve […] The post An Invitation appeared [...]

[...] the Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates. Later, still early in my teaching career, I attended the summer institute (SI) at UConn in 1999. Mary […] The post NWP—Changes [...]

[...] In 1987, I began my teaching career at Kelso High School, located in a lumber town on the Columbia river in southwest Washington [...]

[...] of doing significant work together bonding us, but also leading us into shared […] The post NWP is Family: Now I am home! appeared first on Our NWP. [...]

[...] retreat, my first Maker Faire with Patty Koller, but instead of focusing on beginnings, […] The post NWP: Where Teachers Meet True Grit appeared first on Our NWP. [...]

[...] ’m struck first and foremost by the camaraderie and connectedness of it all. I attended my first summer institute at the Central Virginia Writing Project, hosted by the University of Virginia in [...]

[...] An excerpt from the opening journal of my first summer institute in 2008, page one: So I bought this journal a few weeks ago, knowing I needed a place to [...]