Project Outreach Resources
Featured Resources
Reflections on Race in the Urban Classroom
The Quarterly,
2004
Janice Jones
Jones describes her mishandling of her encounter with the only white student in a class of primarily African American and Latino students. Because of the experience, Jones has grown as a teacher and a person.
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Voces del Corazón: Voices from the Heart
The Quarterly,
2005
Dolores S. Perez
NWP Project Outreach member Dolores Perez was committed to facilitating, in her low-income community, the project's goals of "access, relevance, and diversity." Her pursuit of these goals led to Family Literacy Night.
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Southside Elementary Writing Focus: Site-Based Leadership Reforms the Writing Curriculum
National Writing Project At Work,
March 2005
Nancy Remington, Robert McGinty
The story of an inquiry-centered approach to professional development, designed and led by teachers, that could be a model for any school.
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Additional Resources
The Family Writing Project Builds a Learning Community in Connecticut
The Quarterly,
2004
Valerie Diane Bolling
Connecticut teacher Bolling describes how, through NWP's Project Outreach, she learned of the Family Writing Project in Nevada and used this structure to help her school strengthen literacy and increase parent involvement.
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No More Fear and Loathing: The Family Writing Project in Las Vegas
The Quarterly,
2004
Arthur Kelly
Kelly, who created a family writing project to involve busy parents in their children's education, answers questions about starting a family writing project and describes activities he uses to get families writing together.
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Oklahoma's Marshall Plan: Combining Professional Development and Summer Writing Camps
National Writing Project At Work,
March 2005
Eileen Simmons
How writing project teacher-consultants and site-based teachers collaborated to plan professional development before, during, and after a summer writing camp.
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The Saginaw Teacher Study Group Movement: From Pilot to Districtwide Study Groups in Four Years
National Writing Project At Work,
March 2005
Mary Weaver, Mary Calliari, Janet Rentsch
The authors describe a districtwide approach to teacher-led study groups that resulted in significant changes in teacher practice and student learning as well as leadership development among teacher facilitators.
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The Professional Leadership Development Project
National Writing Project At Work,
March 2005
Zsa Boykin, Jennifer Scrivner, Sarah Robbins
The authors describe a flexible model for promoting teacher leadership within urban schools. This monograph outlines both the individual inservice projects and the framework for leadership development that emerged from the inquiry.
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The Johnston Area Writing Partnership
National Writing Project at Work,
November 2002
Ruie Pritchard, Sandra O'Berry, Patsy Butler
Authors Butler, O'Berry, and Pritchard recount how they have established and maintained a district-based satellite writing project an hour's distance from the NWP site.
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Tolerating Intolerance: Resisting the Urge to Silence Student Opinion in the Writing Classroom
The Quarterly,
Winter 2003
Sarah Rider
Encountering one student's white supremacist views, a teacher realizes that the expression of diverse opinions in class mustn't be restricted to those that please the instructor. A Society of National Association Publications Gold Award winner.
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How Our Assumptions Affect Our Expectations
The Quarterly,
Spring 2003
Jan Hillskemper
Hillskemper reminds us that teachers can drift into a set of misguided assumptions when they mistakenly believe that parents have the same values and expectations that they have.
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Theory, Politics, Hope, and Action
The Quarterly,
2003
Carole Edelsky
In this article Edelsky employs the arguments of theory and the techniques of case study to make a plea for rationality in the education of English language learners.
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