Index

Programs for Students:
Many writing projects provide summer writing programs for young people. Below you will find resources that push on the traditional summer writing program in order to imagine more possibilities for putting teacher leaders to work with young people outside the classroom.

• The Ubuntu Academy: An Immigrant and Refugee Youth Writing Camp
• Scaling Up Youth Programs (NWP Radio
• Reimagining Learning in Libraries and Museums

Programs for Parents and Families:
Teacher leaders often return to their schools and classrooms eager to connect more with their students, but also with their students’ families. Resources on this list are for teacher leaders who might want to try t start a family literacy program with young people and their families.

• The Family Writing Project: Creating Space for Sustaining Teacher Identity
• The Family Writing Project: No More Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Writing Retreats:
Finished your summer institute and miss your writing group? How can new teacher leaders extend their favorite part of the invitational institute. Use these resources to imagine, and lead a writing retreat at your writing project site.

• A Weekend of Writing Isn’t a Weekend of Work

• The Work Will Teach You How to Do It: A New Director Learns How to Begin and Grow Inservice
• Planning a Cohesive, Year-long Program with a Partner School: The ‘Arc’ of Professional Development
• School Partnerships: A Year of Professional Development
• Michigan Network Learns Together About 21st Century Literacies

• Writing to Transform: Teacher-Consultants Lead Change in Their Schools
• Site-Based Leadership Reforms the Writing Curriculum on the Other Side of the Tracks
• Teacher Study Group Movement: From Pilot to Districtwide Study Groups in Four Years
• Teaching in the Connected Classroom

• The Journey of an Emerging Site Leader
• Epilogue from How Teachers Become Leaders
• What Does Teacher Leadership Look Like at Writing Project Sites?
• Knowing When to Make the Coffee: Lessons in Leadership and Change for a New Site Leader
• Directors Retreat Strategic Planning Tools

Teachers Teaching Teachers
Learn more about NWP’s keystone experience, the invitational leadership institute.

• Empowering Teachers Through the Summer Institute

Developing “Author-ity”: The Transformative Power of Writing:
If you’ve heard people say (or said yourself) “The writing project changed my life” and wanted to understand what exactly that means, resources in this section help unpack this “transformation.”

• Teacher Transformation in the National Writing Project

Amplify Others:
For new teacher leaders interested in “paying it forward” these resources help us move beyond thinking about the development of ourselves as teacher-writers and move to thinking about how to support new teachers into the NWP community.

• James Gray on Coaching: An Excerpt from Teachers at the Center
• One Director’s Role as Leader, Contextualizer, Researcher, Enabler, and Site Conscience